Parking Lot Striping in Altoona, Wisconsin.

The interesting thing about Altoona for pavement is the age gap. The 1970s subdivisions are at the point where their original surfaces are long gone and the question is whether the base is still worth building on. The River Prairie construction is the opposite problem: those drives and lots are new enough that leaving them alone for another year or two is usually the right call.

We get asked to seal brand new asphalt here more than anywhere else, and the answer is usually no, not yet. New asphalt wants six to twelve months to cure first.

Parking Lot Striping specifically in Altoona

The intermediate, middle and high schools share one site on Bartlett Avenue, which makes it the single largest institutional parking cluster in town and the kind of layout worth measuring rather than repainting blind. A campus that empties and fills three times a day lives or dies on where the lanes run, and a lot that has been restriped over itself a few times has usually drifted from whatever it was laid out as.

Repainting existing lines is the easy half. The half that matters is whether those lines were right in the first place, and on a lot that's been restriped three or four times by different crews, they usually have drifted. Stalls narrow by an inch each time somebody paints beside the old line rather than over it, drive aisles shrink, and eventually a delivery truck can't make the turn. We measure before we paint. Sometimes that means telling you the layout you have fits fewer cars than the layout you could have, which is a conversation worth having before the paint goes down rather than after.