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Parking Lot Striping in Augusta

Parking Lot Striping in Augusta, Wisconsin.

Parking lot striping and line painting in Augusta: restripes, new layouts, ADA stalls and fire lanes.

4.7 from 18 Google reviews

About 25 minutes southeast of Eau Claire on Highway 12. Free estimates, and a straight read on whether it needs doing yet.

An overhead view of a freshly sealed parking lot with new yellow stall lines and marked ADA stalls.
1,495 People in Augusta
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2-3 yrs Reseal cycleIn Augusta
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What a Parking Lot Striping Job Looks Like in Augusta

Lincoln Street is the commercial spine, carrying Highway 12 east and west through town, with the bank, the hardware store, the pharmacy, the clinic and most of the food and drink strung along it. Stone Street is the secondary cluster.

Industrial Drive at the west end is where the square footage is. Augusta has a genuine industrial base for a town of 1,567, including the plant where Bush's baked beans were first made, and that's loading dock and truck yard surface rather than parking lot. It fails differently and it gets specified differently.

Parking Lot Striping specifically in Augusta

The clinic, the school campus and the Lincoln Street lots are the measured jobs. Accessible stalls on a medical lot have to be right rather than repainted where they used to be: the stall width, the access aisle beside it and the route to the door are all checkable, and a lot that has been restriped over itself a few times has usually drifted from whatever it was laid out as.

The Driveways and Lots in Augusta

Augusta sits in southeastern Eau Claire County where Highway 12 runs east and Highway 27 crosses it, about ten miles north of the interstate. Bridge Creek and Diamond Valley Creek run through town, both trout water, which is a nicer way of saying there's more groundwater under this town than under most.

Augusta has the oldest building profile of any town in the southern half of the service area. A third of its houses were built before 1940, more than three quarters before 1980, and just seven units went up in the entire 2010s.

So the honest starting question here is rarely what color sealer. It's whether the drive under it's still worth protecting. On a good number of Augusta drives it very much is, because a well-built old surface outlasts a badly built new one. On others the base gave out years ago and no coating changes that.

Augusta

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

Around Augusta: Lincoln Street, Dells Mill, Augusta Wildlife Area.

Standard 48-inch frost depth, with more shallow groundwater than the norm because of the two creeks. Wet subgrade heaves harder than dry subgrade does.

From our jobs

Job Photos

Fresh yellow stall lines crossing a newly sealed parking lot, deep black surface
Yellow layout, back on over fresh sealer
A freshly sealed and striped commercial lot from above, the company flatbed parked on it
A commercial lot, sealed and striped
Freshly sealed and striped school parking lot
A school lot, sealed and striped

All job photos

Layout first, then paint

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.

What Decides the Price in Augusta

Priced per stall for straightforward restripes, or as a lump sum where there's layout work, ADA work or a lot of detail.

New layout

Per stall, measured and set out

Measured on site

  • Where the layout has drifted or the use has changed

ADA stall with access aisle

Each

Measured on site

  • Stall, hatched access aisle and symbol
  • Signage and post priced separately if needed

Detail work

Arrows, fire lanes, numbers, crosswalks

Measured on site

  • Priced per item
  • Stencils and custom legends available

Striping done at the same visit as sealcoating costs less than striping done on its own, because the trip is already paid for and the surface is already right. If both are due, do both.

How the Work Goes in Augusta

Planned with you before the first stripe goes down.

Measure what's there

Stall widths, aisle widths, the accessible stalls and their aisles. This is where drift shows up, and it's a five-minute job that avoids repainting a layout that has quietly stopped working.

Clean the surface

Blown down. Paint over grit is paint that comes up with the grit, usually the first time a plow goes over it.

Lay out and chalk

Anything other than a straight restripe gets set out and chalked first, so you can look at it before it's permanent.

Paint

Traffic paint at the right film thickness. Thin paint looks the same on the day and is gone in a season, which is the striping equivalent of a thin seal.

Open it back up

Traffic paint is dry to walk on in under an hour. How long before cars go back on it depends on the paint and the weather that afternoon, so you get the real number on the day.

Questions We Get in Augusta

What Augusta calls us about, answered straight.

More questions answered
The ground here is wet. Does that change what we should do?
It changes what matters. Augusta has two creeks through it and shallower groundwater than most towns we work in, and wet subgrade heaves harder in a freeze than dry subgrade does. That makes crack sealing worth more here than average, because keeping surface water out of an already damp base is the whole game.
Can you work the Industrial Drive properties, or is that a different contractor?
Same contractor, different job. Dock aprons and truck yards take loading that a parking lot never sees, so they fail as rutting along a repeated wheel path and as edge break-up rather than as a hole in the middle. Those are full-depth repairs and they want walking before a number goes on paper. Start that conversation ahead of the season rather than during it.
Is Augusta far enough out that the drive costs us something?
Augusta is about twenty-five minutes southeast on Highway 12 and it is inside the area we work rather than at the edge of it. The estimate is free, and the number you approve is the number you pay.
How much does it cost to restripe a parking lot?
It is priced per stall, and the thing that moves it most is whether the old lines can be followed. A straightforward restripe over a layout that is still visible is the cheap end. A new layout costs more per stall because it has to be measured and set out from scratch. ADA stalls cost more than standard ones: they are wider, they carry an access aisle and they need the symbol and the signage.
How often does a lot need restriping?
Every one to three years in Augusta and the surrounding area, depending on traffic, plowing and sun. Lots that get plowed hard lose lines fastest, because the blade takes the paint with the snow. If your accessible stalls are hard to read from a car, it's due.
Do you handle ADA compliance?
We mark accessible stalls, access aisles and symbols to the required dimensions and can advise on stall counts and signage. We're a paving contractor rather than a compliance consultant, so for a formal audit you want a specialist, but for getting the markings right we do this constantly.
Should we seal before striping?
Yes, and in that order, at the same visit. Sealer covers existing lines, so striping first wastes the paint. Doing both together also costs less than two separate visits.
Can you do stencils, numbers and custom legends?
Yes. Arrows, fire lane markings, no parking, loading zones, reserved stall numbers, crosswalks and custom text.
Do you stripe anything other than parking lots?
Yes. We stripe running tracks and sports courts, which is measured layout work at a different level of precision. It's on our athletic surfaces page.

Get a Free Estimate in Augusta

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

(715) 450-9897
  • 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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