Parking Lot Restriping
In Orlando South, FL

When Your Parking Lot in Orlando South Needs Restriping

A parking lot needs restriping once drivers can no longer read it: a stall boundary has to be guessed, an accessible space looks like any other, or a drive aisle arrow has worn to a smear.

Central Florida is hard on paint. Strong sun year-round breaks down pigment, summer heat softens asphalt, and heavy commercial traffic wears the lines where tires turn and brake. Entrances, drive aisles and the stalls nearest the front door fade first because they carry the most vehicles.

Property managers usually call us after one of these:

• A tenant says customers are parking across two spaces.
• An inspector or a fire marshal comments on faded accessible spaces or fire lane markings.
• A new owner wants the lot to look cared for before the first tenant tour.
• A paving or sealcoating contractor just finished and the old lines are gone.

Walking the property after the busiest part of the season, with a tape measure and a camera, shows which areas need attention first, and it tells you more than a calendar interval does.

Restriping Timing in Central Florida: Rainy Season and Dry Windows

The best time to restripe in Central Florida is a stretch of dry weather, so the rainy season is the main thing to schedule around. Summer brings frequent afternoon thunderstorms, and traffic paint needs a clean, dry surface to bond, then time to set before rain or tires reach it.

Summer work is still possible when the schedule follows the forecast, and a section a storm interrupts simply waits for the next dry day. Morning starts, smaller phases and flexible dates help, and a lot that stays damp in a shaded corner may wait for the next clear day. Drier stretches of the year usually give steadier windows, and we use them when your calendar allows.

Heat matters too, since a very hot surface can change how paint goes down. Time of day counts as much as time of year. Tell us your busy periods and we will fit around them; commercial restriping is often phased so part of the lot stays open while another part cures.

Sealcoat Cure Before Paint: Coordinating With Your Paving Contractor

If your asphalt is being sealcoated, the stripes go on last. 1-800-STRIPER does not sealcoat, repair asphalt or resurface. Those services belong to your paving or sealcoating contractor, and we work in sequence with them.

A sealcoat has to cure before it can take traffic paint, and paint applied too early can bond poorly. The right wait depends on the product, the weather and the manufacturer’s instructions, so we ask your contractor for their release instead of guessing a number of days. The order protects both jobs: repairs made after striping would cut through new paint, and striping before the cure puts the bond at risk.

The usual order on a lot that needs everything:

1. Pothole repair and crack repair. Your paving contractor repairs potholes and cracks first, so the lines are not painted over damaged pavement.
2. Sealcoating. The contractor applies the coating and lets it cure.
3. Layout. We re-measure and mark the layout from your plan or from the existing lines.
4. Striping. We paint the stalls, aisles, arrows, accessible spaces and fire lanes.
5. Cure and reopen. Fresh lines are coned off until they are ready for traffic.

If the sealcoating is already done and the old lines are covered, we can rebuild the layout from the approved plan or your measurements, or redesign it with our layout service.

The Blue Outline, the Sign and What Florida Requires of Accessible Spaces

Florida wants accessible spaces outlined in blue and kept that way. Florida Statute 553.5041, subsection (6), says each space must be “prominently outlined with blue paint, and must be repainted when necessary” so it stays clearly distinguishable as a space for people with disabilities.

The statute also fixes the geometry: every accessible space at least 12 feet wide, and the access aisle at least 5 feet wide and striped diagonally as a no-parking zone. The aisle has to be part of an accessible route to the entrance, which the statute sets at no less than 44 inches wide, so we look at the path as well as the paint. Tracing whatever is left of old lines can lock in a stall that was already too narrow, so we measure first and correct what has drifted.

The sign carries as much weight as the paint. Under Florida Statute 316.1955, subsection (1), only a warning may be issued for unlawfully parking in an accessible space if there is no above-grade sign as provided in s. 553.5041. A faded outline and a missing sign together leave the space hard to enforce. We check both while we are on the lot, and our sign installation service can replace what is missing.

MUTCD and Your Parking Lot: What the Federal Rule Actually Says

Federal rules do not require the MUTCD in your parking lot. The regulation that gives the manual its force is 23 CFR 655.603, and subsection (a) leaves parking areas and the driving aisles within them out of the definition of roads open to public travel.

We still mark arrows, stop bars and crosswalks the way drivers expect, since familiar markings keep traffic moving safely. A local ordinance, a lease or your insurer may ask for a particular standard, and we follow it when you tell us. If someone says your lot is out of compliance with the manual, ask which section of which law says so.

What Changes the Scope of a Restriping Job

Two lots of the same size can need very different amounts of work. Scope depends on linear feet of line, how much of the old layout carries over, how many accessible spaces and fire lane sections are included, and how many arrows, symbols and legends the lot has.

Surface condition matters too. Lines over a freshly repaired or sealcoated surface need the cure wait described above, and a lot with standing water in low spots may need phasing. Whether the lot can close or must stay partly open changes the schedule as well. Accessible parking adds its own work, because each space needs the blue outline, a diagonally striped access aisle and a sign check, all covered by the statutes above.

A site walk shows all of this; a photo shows almost none of it. We measure before we quote, and the estimate is free.