Schools, districts and municipalities
Running Tracks and Athletic Surfaces
A track is asphalt, so it fails like asphalt: it oxidizes, it cracks, and the lines fade until nobody can tell lane four from lane five. The difference is that the striping has to be measured rather than eyeballed, because the lanes have to be the same length when they're run and the exchange zones have to be where the rules say.
Booking now. Sealer needs warm pavement to cure, so the season closes well before the year does.
What makes track work different
The surface work is the same trade. Clean it, fill what has opened up, seal it, and it lasts. What's different is everything downstream of the paint gun. Lane lines are set from a measured stagger so that every lane runs the same distance. Exchange zones and acceleration zones have defined lengths and have to be marked in the right colors to be read at speed. Get the layout wrong and you have a facility that looks finished and can't host a meet, which is a problem nobody notices until the day it matters.
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What decides the price.
These are ranges. Anything at this scale is walked and measured before it is quoted, because condition and layout move the number far more than square footage does.
Restripe only
Existing layout, surface sound
Measured on site
- Lanes, exchange and acceleration zones, numbers
- Layout taken from the existing measured stagger
Crack repair, seal and restripe
The usual maintenance cycle
Measured on site
- Hot crack filling, surface seal, full relay of lines
- The cycle most asphalt tracks want every few years
Courts
Tennis, basketball, pickleball
Measured on site
- Per court, depending on condition and color coating
- Multiple courts on one visit come down per court
Public bodies usually need a bid they can put against a budget line, often a season ahead. Ask in the fall for work the following summer and you'll get a better number and a better slot.
How the Work Goes
Track work happens in the summer window between seasons.
Walk it, measure it, write it
Condition survey and a measured check of the existing layout before anything is quoted. If the stagger has drifted from an earlier restripe, that gets found now rather than after the paint is down.
Crack repair
Hot rubber at 400 degrees into anything that has opened up. On a track this matters more than on a lot, because a crack across a running lane is a trip hazard as well as a leak.
Clean and seal
The whole surface, edge to edge. This is the step that buys the years and it is the one that gets deferred, because a faded track still works.
Lay out the lines
Chalked from measurements, checked, then painted. Lanes, exchange and acceleration zones, start lines, and lane numbers.
Hand it back clean
Cured, swept, and ready for the season.
Where We Do This
School and municipal athletic surfaces across northwestern Wisconsin. This is work worth traveling for, so the radius on it's wider than on driveway work.
When can track work be done?
How often does an asphalt track need resealing?
Can you restripe a track without resurfacing it?
Do you do tennis, basketball and pickleball courts?
Can you put track and court work out as a formal bid?
Get it on next summer's list.
We'll walk the facility, measure what's there, and give you a bid you can put in front of a board. No charge for the assessment.
(715) 450-9897Call and describe it. On a driveway we can usually tell you what you're looking at while you're on the phone.
Get an estimate
Send the form and we'll call you back. The estimate is free.