Why equipment that lives outdoors keeps coming back rusty
Trailers, construction equipment, playground equipment and boat-bottoms spend their lives in weather. The coating on them chalks first, then blisters, then lets go in sheets, and the steel underneath starts to rust. A brush touch-up in the yard covers what you can see and never gets behind the rust you can't, so the same spot is back a season later.
Structural steel and machinery fail the same way, just more slowly. Edges, welds, bolt heads and corners are where a coating is thinnest, so that is where it breaks down first. Painting over a surface that was never opened up only hides the problem for a while.
That is the reason a controlled shop beats a parking lot. Out of the wind and the damp, the metal can be cleaned back to something a coating will actually hold to, and the paint goes on in conditions the paint was made for.
What gets rolled into the shop on Highway 151
The in-house shop facility at N8003 US Highway 151 has the capability of preparation and painting on just about anything mobile. Preparation and painting or refinishing are done on structural steel, playground equipment, trailers, machinery, small parts, construction equipment, boat-bottoms and much more. Coating of metal chairs is a shop specialty too: one customer dropped off a set of chairs and had them back in two days.
Work arrives in the shop and leaves finished, which is why Spies Painting also offers pick-up and delivery. You do not have to rent a hauler or park a rig on a customer's lot to get a trailer or a piece of machinery coated. Call (920) 921-7107 and the shop will tell you how it fits in.
Past jobs have included a blue and white Peterbilt tractor, a polished bulk trailer, a fabricated steel platform, a fire engine and a tank truck in the paint shop. Different sizes, different shapes, the same approach: prepare the surface properly, then coat it with top-branded products.
No job too big or too small, and the campus to back it up
The line on the Spies Painting website is that no job is too big or too small, and the aerial view of the property bears it out. The campus off US Highway 151 holds an office building, several large steel shop buildings and a silo, so the company has real indoor space to work in rather than a rented corner.
Spies Painting has been family owned since 1933, and four generations have worked through that shop. The company is a member of ABC and SSPC, the Society for Protective Coatings, which is the group that sets the standards for protective coatings on steel. That matters when the thing you are painting has to survive years of rain, road salt and sun.
Tell the shop what needs coating, how big it is and whether it can be driven or has to be hauled. A representative will call you back within the next business day, and the FREE estimate means you find out what the job involves before you commit to anything.
