Brokers

Hello everyone. I was looking for suggestions on how you go about getting rid of watered down latex paint after cleaning your paint machines? Do you have a particular place where you take it? Where is the best/cheapest way to get rid of it? Thanks.

put in a bucket and let it evaporate take the chips out and toss them -Dean

Try to safely minimize the frequency of cleaning. Become more efficient in cleaning by using less water and letting the pump chase most of the paint out, wipe the tube down by hand, then add water. And with whatever wastewater you have, you could simply add a little bit to every five you spray. Soon you will have no waste water laying around.

Clean it at the local car wash, just kidding prolly shouldn't do that might get into trouble. Water it down good and dump it

The wash water from cleaning your white machine can be sprayed on the front lawn for that "just snowed" look.

I concur with BTS I have a tree in my front yard I pour all my waste onto....it doesn't seem to mind. My neighbors have reported me twice. I just assume they don't like my friends all parked in front of my house every night. I think they are upset I haven't sealed there driveway yet is all ...go figure. Sean Paramount Asphalt

BTS: I am going to have use that idea during the winter for them people to have snow covered trees in south carolina oh another striping niche thanks -Dean

Does anyone have any information on brokers for our line of work in the Charlotte N.C. area?

What do you mean by brokers ? Are you looking for a national service provider?

I work almost exclusively with brokers, you won't find them in the yellow pages as such, they tend to be paving sellsmen that made a go at it on there own. If there are any around, they will find you in time.

We have had these type calls to do this type of contracting. We just like to know who our customers are and who we are dealing with. Not for some of us.

contact Claud Dill in Concord, NC [phone removed]. I've worked with him,always pays and pays on time.

Let the filter and the plastic top sit in the sun for a little bit . Dump as much of the liquid out as you can and put it in the sun for a day . If it's waterbase paint you can put it in your local transfer station. As long as it is dry.

You might be a striper if you're house is blue, your shop is yellow, and the inside of your garage is white. Seriously I introduce all my liquids back into the paint stream, I keep my fluid colors separate and poor them back into a slightly used new bucket of paint as needed. anything left is set out to dry and disposed of in the local land fill as dried paint is not toxic. I only use oil base paint but see no reason it would not work for water base paint also. If for some reason (bad paint, or wrong color,) it can be sprayed on a piece of cardboard, wait for it to dry and dispose of it with the weekly trash.

I am putting a bid on sealcoating and striping a large hotel and office building and was asked by them to give a price for putting down 70 spring-loaded posts on the Asphalt. Many of the stripers that I have meet install these signs and I was wondering if anyone could give me some advise on the price and installment. Our material costs are $52.50 post, $14.75 sign, $2.60 epoxy, $2.00 nails for a combined material cost of $71.85. We figured that we would charge $58.15 to install each sign for a total price of $130 per sign. Also how long do you think it will take to apply the signs. Is this way out of the ballpark? Also would you install these before or after sealcoating and striping? Thanks for your help

I am going to work on mixing ours back in this year, we have been paying $150 per drum to an enviromental company to incinerate...

Thank you all so much. I'm going to contact them. In the last 22 years I've started 2 businesses, lawn maint for 12 years, and pressure washing for 10 years, from the ground up and even though I enjoy doing the work, (striping) getting out,drumming up work isn't in me anymore. I'm beginning to think doing this was a mistake. Probably need a shot in the arm, sort of a booster. Encouragement

I hate sales too.

After, no point in getting paint or sealer on them.