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Track and Athletic Surfaces in Cadott

Track and Athletic Surfaces in Cadott, Wisconsin.

Track and court resurfacing for schools in and around Cadott, scheduled into the summer window.

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About 30 minutes northeast of Eau Claire. Free estimates, and a straight read on whether it needs doing yet.

A resurfaced asphalt running track with crisp white lane lines, painted lane numbers and colored exchange markings, playing field beyond.
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2-3 yrs Reseal cycleIn Cadott
400°F Crack fillerDirect-fire rubber

What a Track and Athletic Surfaces Job Looks Like in Cadott

Main Street carries Highway 27 through the village and holds the hardware store, the bakery, the library, the dental and chiropractic offices and the funeral home. Tower Drive on the Highway 29 side is the industrial street, with a plastics extruder in a building of 66,000 square feet and a maple syrup operation next door.

The thing that makes Cadott unusual is what happens in summer. The festival grounds on County S bring two very large music events through a village of fifteen hundred, and for those weeks every lot in town takes traffic it was never designed for. If you run a business here, that's when your surface ages, and June is the wrong month to be starting the conversation.

Track and Athletic Surfaces specifically in Cadott

Cadott runs an elementary and a junior/senior high on separate sites, so court and track work is quoted per campus and scheduled into the summer window. Two sites in a village this size means the district is usually choosing which surface goes this year rather than doing both, and that is a conversation worth having in winter with real numbers rather than in May with a guess.

The Lots and Surfaces in Cadott

Cadott sits in Chippewa County where Highway 27 crosses Highway 29 and the Yellow River, halfway between Chippewa Falls and Stanley on the four-lane. The village has advertised itself since 1955 as the halfway point between the equator and the North Pole, and the sign in the park is honest enough to add that the actual line is three miles north.

Cadott

We work the whole village rather than a named handful of neighborhoods.

Around Cadott: Main Street, 45th parallel marker, Yellow River.

Standard 48-inch frost depth. Far enough from the Chippewa valley floor that spring opens a few days later than it does in town.

From our jobs

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A resurfaced running track with fresh white lane lines, painted lane numbers and yellow exchange marks
Lane lines and numbers, back on after resurfacing
A resurfaced running track curve with white lane lines and colored relay exchange zone markers
Relay exchange zones, measured and marked

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What makes track work different

The surface work is the same trade. Clean it, fill what has opened up, seal it, and it lasts. What's different is everything downstream of the paint gun. Lane lines are set from a measured stagger so that every lane runs the same distance. Exchange zones and acceleration zones have defined lengths and have to be marked in the right colors to be read at speed. Get the layout wrong and you have a facility that looks finished and can't host a meet, which is a problem nobody notices until the day it matters.

What Decides the Price in Cadott

These are ranges. Anything at this scale is walked and measured before it is quoted, because condition and layout move the number far more than square footage does.

Restripe only

Existing layout, surface sound

Measured on site

  • Lanes, exchange and acceleration zones, numbers
  • Layout taken from the existing measured stagger

Crack repair, seal and restripe

The usual maintenance cycle

Measured on site

  • Hot crack filling, surface seal, full relay of lines
  • The cycle most asphalt tracks want every few years

Courts

Tennis, basketball, pickleball

Measured on site

  • Per court, depending on condition and color coating
  • Multiple courts on one visit come down per court

Public bodies usually need a bid they can put against a budget line, often a season ahead. Ask in the fall for work the following summer and you'll get a better number and a better slot.

How the Work Goes in Cadott

Track work happens in the summer window between seasons.

Walk it, measure it, write it

Condition survey and a measured check of the existing layout before anything is quoted. If the stagger has drifted from an earlier restripe, that gets found now rather than after the paint is down.

Crack repair

Hot rubber at 400 degrees into anything that has opened up. On a track this matters more than on a lot, because a crack across a running lane is a trip hazard as well as a leak.

Clean and seal

The whole surface, edge to edge. This is the step that buys the years and it is the one that gets deferred, because a faded track still works.

Lay out the lines

Chalked from measurements, checked, then painted. Lanes, exchange and acceleration zones, start lines, and lane numbers.

Hand it back clean

Cured, swept, and ready for the season.

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Questions We Get in Cadott

What Cadott calls us about, answered straight.

More questions answered
Our lot gets hammered in festival season. When should we get work done?
Ahead of it, not after it, and that means booking in spring rather than calling in July. Sealer needs the lot clear and dry for about a day per section, which is impossible on a festival weekend and easy in May. If the damage is already done, September works too and the surface goes into winter protected.
How far out is Cadott, and does the drive change the price?
About thirty minutes northeast, and it is well inside the area rather than at the edge of it. The estimate is free, and the number you approve is the number you pay.
When can track work be done?
Summer, between seasons. Sealer needs warm dry weather and a proper cure, and a track needs to be closed while that happens, so the window is roughly June through August in Cadott and the surrounding area. Book in the winter for the following summer.
How often does an asphalt track need resealing?
Every three to five years for the seal, and crack filling as often as it needs it, which in Cadott and the surrounding area is usually annually on an older track. Lines get relaid with the seal, because sealing over them removes them.
Can you restripe a track without resurfacing it?
Yes, and it is often the right call when the surface is sound and only the lines have faded. It buys a few years before the surface work is genuinely due. What it costs depends on the layout: lane count, whether the exchange zones and the field events are being reinstated, and whether the existing lines can be followed or have to be set out again.
Do you do tennis, basketball and pickleball courts?
Yes. Same trade, smaller and simpler layout. Multiple courts done on one visit cost less per court because the trip is already paid for.
Can you put track and court work out as a formal bid?
Yes. Written scope, measured quantities and a firm number, in whatever format your district needs it, and early enough to sit in next year's budget.

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Tell us what it looks like and we'll come measure it. You get a written price before anything starts.

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  • Free on driveways and lots anywhere in the service area
  • A photo of the problem helps, and it can go in the message
  • Surfaces that are not ready yet get told so at the estimate

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