How Do You Know When It Is Time to Repaint Your Parking Lot? - Arnold Asphalt

Determining if it is time to repaint your parking lot is not that difficult. The signs make themselves fairly clear. Nevertheless, here are a few things to be mindful of if you’re questioning whether you need it.

Sloppy Parking is an Increasing Problem

Along the same lines is sloppy parking. Parking lot lines are arranged to allow the maximum number of people to park neatly next to each other. Those bright parking lot lines act as visual cues, helping us line a car up tightly into a spot while still leaving room to get out without scraping neighboring car doors. When your parking lot lines start to fade, so too does that guidance. Increasingly worse parking habits may not be the fault of your building employees. It could be that they just can’t see the lines.

Handicap Spots are Not Being Respected

You painted your original handicap spots for a very good reason: Handicapped people need them. It’s the law to provide sufficient handicap-accessible parking. It’s also the law to enforce handicap parking by penalizing anyone who parks in a handicap space without a tag. Most of the time, people are very respectful of handicap spaces, using them without a tag only in emergencies and comparable situations. However, if you’ve noticed that the people in your building have started violating handicap spots on a more regular basis, chances are the percentage of inconsiderate people has not risen significantly. More likely, people simply can’t make out your handicap symbol anymore and don’t realize that they are violating a handicap reserved spot.

Fender-Benders are a Common Occurrence

Just as your parking lot lines and stencils help everyone get where they’re going, they also keep cars from hitting each other. The lines say where to drive carefully, the stencil say where to stop and wait, and they hold everyone to the same standards. Without lines and parking lot stencils, people’s natural driving manners and situational awareness comes through. Which can mean a lot more fender benders. If you’ve been dealing with an unusual number of little bumps and dents in the parking lot, especially involving not-quite-parked cars, your striping could easily be the true culprit. After all, this is part of what striping is designed to prevent.

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