1600 Little 1 foot lines!

I am biiding a lot that has two pedestrian walks. Both have double lines on each side of the walkway. The lines are spaced about 1ft apart and are about 400' long. they have cross hatching evey foot and the PM wants it the same wqay again... ANy recomendations? even drivin my 3900 with the lazy liner would make me dizzy... as well as hard to stop and start in a short distance. I was thinkin that maybe one of those cheap 4 wheel little push carts that spray cans would work. Has anyone seen this before and any suggestions on how to do it quickly. I also thought about a roller but ive used then before for touch ups and they dont usually have good edges.. also this is old pavement... Any help would be appreciated..

If you can shoot with 2 guns it might go faster, otherwise take some sea sick pills.

Strongly discourage the use of spray cans. Labor intensive, inferior results and impossible to match colors.

Only use spray cans for very small stuff like getting that handicapped under the car or the bits of line behind the wheel stops where you don't have room for a trim board and such. Remember those cans are about six bucks each and only the black and white are worth having, the other colors will never match anything.

The other day I was driving in the central part of the metro and I wish I had my camera there was a crew sealcoating a large motel with buckets of sealer but to top it off these nasa guys were using masking tape to layout this lot and it was a good size lot at that and they were painting the lines with spray cans had to have been cheap or the customer was a real bozo if they made money on that.

Cheap do it your self job. The lines will turn in a few days and mabe flake off.

you should have stopped and told them that DUCK tape olds better..and to use red chalk...

good luck charge for it....

....and instead of spray cans, Roll out CR, works best in full Sun.

I like collored duck tape myself.

I've been there and I feel for you.two words UP CHARGE

Just a thought if you get the job. It may be more trouble than its worth but here goes. Get enough heavy cardboard to make at least 100 one foot x 4 inch stencils to paint the 1600 little lines. You will need less if using oil paint. Use a circular saw and sabre saw to cut out 20 stencils at a time. Get a 3/8ths x 10' piece of flexable copper tubing. Bend it so looks like a furniture dolly. Here is a side view: L You may have to reinforce it with a horizontal piece of tubing or dowel to help make it work Have your helper place the stencil on the base of the holder and move the stencil as you paint it. You should have an extension for your gun so you don't have to bend over. When the stencil can't take any more paint without making a mess, switch. It should take you all of 10 seconds per stripe or about 2 1/2 hours and about 3 - 4 gallons of paint. After rereading my post, you may want to first try striping with the machine alone and see how long you can last. Good Luck.

Ware-Ever has a good idea. When I first saw this post, I thought of the hash marks on a football field. After the first field I painted, I bout a hash mark stencil and it made the job easier and neater. The hash mark stencil covers 5 yards and lets you paint 5 lines. Much faster and a lot easier than trying to hit all those starts and stops accurately. http://www.parkinglot.bigstep.com/item.jhtml?UCIDs=597077…

Thanks for all the feedback! I submitted the bid and now the owner says he is looking at resurfacing a great deal of the area so I will have new layout to do but hopefully talk him out of all the little cross hatch marks which are overkill IMO.. I really like the jig idea ware-ever.. Ill let ya all know how it goes when I get it.

$20.00 each, Plus $1.00 per 8" pin.