Parking Lot Striping
In NW Chicago, IL

Parking lot striping needs two things: a clean, dry surface and a plan. Before any paint goes down the lot has to be swept or washed so the paint bonds instead of sitting on dust and oil film, and the layout has to be settled — how many stalls, where the accessible spaces and access aisles go, where fire lanes and drive aisles run. On a repaint the existing lines are the plan. On a new or reconfigured lot we lay it out first, against the 2010 ADA Standards for Accessible Design and your municipality’s own parking-area rules.

Usually not for a like-for-like repaint of an existing layout, but this is decided by your municipality, not by the state — Illinois has no single statewide answer, and the forty-six towns we serve each run their own code. Changing the layout is the case that most often triggers a review: adding stalls, moving drive aisles, or altering accessible parking counts can require sign-off from the village. We will tell you which side of that line your job falls on before we schedule it.

Most commercial lots in this climate need refreshing every one to three years, and the spread inside that range is mostly traffic and winter. A quiet office lot holds its lines longer than a grocery or medical lot that runs full every day and gets plowed and salted all winter. Rather than working to a calendar, look at whether drivers still park square to the lines, whether the accessible symbols and access-aisle hatching are still obvious, and whether fire lane markings are still legible.

Forty-six towns across fifty-eight ZIP codes in Cook, Lake and McHenry counties. That includes Arlington Heights, Schaumburg, Des Plaines, Evanston, Skokie, Niles, Mount Prospect, Palatine, Park Ridge, Northbrook, Glenview, Wilmette and Rosemont in Cook; Buffalo Grove, Deerfield, Highland Park, Barrington, Lake Zurich, Mundelein and Lincolnshire in Lake; and Crystal Lake, Cary, McHenry and Fox River Grove in McHenry. We are based at 301 W Hintz Rd in Wheeling, so most of the territory is a short drive.

That is the normal way we run a job here. Customers describe us working around their operating schedule repeatedly in our Google reviews, and on a live property we usually stripe in sections — half the lot at a time, or after hours — so parking stays available while the paint cures. Warehouse and distribution floors are the same idea indoors: we mark around live operations and phase the work aisle by aisle rather than stopping the building.

It depends on the size of the lot, its condition, how much of the layout is changing, and whether prep work like pressure washing is needed first — so we do not publish a figure that would be wrong for most properties. Call (847) 449-8501 for a free estimate and we will price the actual lot. Estimates are free, and we will tell you honestly if a full restripe is not what your property needs yet.