How To Line Mark A Car Park

Maintaining a safe, clear and easy to navigate car park is essential for the safety and convenience of both your staff, customers and anyone else using your car park. As, poorly maintained car parks do not allow safe, adequate movement of cars and pedestrians around your premisis. Clearly marked, well maintained car parks help to maintain order - as parking bays, signs and symbols are clear and visible.

Aerosol line marking systems provide an extremely easy to use, cost effective car park line marking solution. Hiring a professional company to line mark your car parks can be extremely costly; using an aerosol line marking system, you can line mark your own car parks, without training, at a fraction of the price of hiring a professional.

Before line marking your car park, you should prepare the area to ensure proper adhesion of the paint and a long-lasting, high quality finish. Sweep the area thoroughly, removing any debris, loose stones etc, and carry out any necessary repair work on pot holes and cracks in the concrete. This is to ensure the best base for the aerosol line marking paint and to give you the highest quality, professional car park lines. All line marking should be carried out after a period of dry weather, to ensure moisture-free ground, as the line marker paint may not cure properly on damp ground.

Aerosol line marking systems typically consist of a simple to operate car park line marking machine, such as the Sharpliner 4 Wheel Applicator, used in conjunction with aerosol car park line marking spray paint.

Car park line marking machines usually feature two to four wheels, a sturdy construction and a lever handle. A can of car park line marking paint is inserted into the machine and, when the handle is squeezed, the machine sprays the paint on to the ground in precise strips. As you walk along with the machine, continuing to pull the handle, the machine continues to spray, so you can quickly create accurate and precise car park lines.

You can also use many line marking aerosol spray paints free hand, or with a small hand-held applicator, to spray a range of number letter and symbol stencils on to the ground. This allows you to create signs, numbered parking bays and disabled parking bays.

A standard parking bay is usually measured as 2.4m x 4.8m, and a typical disabled parking bay is 3.6m x 4.8m, which includes the 1.2m transfer zone for the disabled parking bay logo. The bays need to be clearly advertised and promoted to other car park users, as well as being easy to differentiate from the standard parking bays. Aerosol car park line marking systems provide a really easy to use, convenient and cost effective way of marking these bays in your car park.

There are a number of online retailers which sell a whole range of different aerosol line marking products, from a bunch of different brands. Look out for 'Car Park Line Marking Kit Deals' which typically include a line marking machine and a selection of car park line marking paint to get you started. These tend to be good value, and there are usually a range of options to suit different budgets and applications.