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Parking Lot Striping in Lake Elmo

Parking Lot Striping in Lake Elmo, Minnesota.

Parking lot striping and line painting in Lake Elmo: restripes, new layouts, ADA stalls and fire lanes.

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About an hour and a half west of Eau Claire on I-94. The estimate is free.

An overhead view of a freshly sealed parking lot with new yellow stall lines and marked ADA stalls.
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ADA Stalls and aislesMarked to the required dimensions
24 hrs Back in serviceTypical restripe

Working in Lake Elmo

The lots here are small enough that the layout decides how many stalls the property actually gets, because the drive aisle takes its width first. Bridgewater Village platted a bank and a preschool on Upper 40th Street, and on a lot that size the aisle and the entrance decide whether the stall count on the plan is real. ADA stalls and access aisles go in at the federal dimensions, and on a small lot the accessible route from the stall to the door is the part that gets missed. On a lot this size the whole layout gets chalked out and walked before any paint goes down.

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Job Photos

Fresh yellow stall lines crossing a newly sealed parking lot, deep black surface
Yellow layout, back on over fresh sealer
A freshly sealed and striped commercial lot from above, the company flatbed parked on it
A commercial lot, sealed and striped
Freshly sealed and striped school parking lot
A school lot, sealed and striped

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Layout first, then paint

Repainting existing lines is the easy half. The half that matters is whether those lines were right in the first place, and on a lot that's been restriped three or four times by different crews, they usually have drifted. Stalls narrow by an inch each time somebody paints beside the old line rather than over it, drive aisles shrink, and eventually a delivery truck can't make the turn. We measure before we paint. Sometimes that means telling you the layout you have fits fewer cars than the layout you could have, which is a conversation worth having before the paint goes down rather than after.

What Decides the Price in Lake Elmo

Priced per stall for straightforward restripes, or as a lump sum where there's layout work, ADA work or a lot of detail.

Restripe, existing layout

Per stall

Measured on site

  • Single line stalls, straight over the existing layout
  • Priced per stall, restripe or new layout

New layout

Per stall, measured and set out

Measured on site

  • Where the layout has drifted or the use has changed

ADA stall with access aisle

Each

Measured on site

  • Stall, hatched access aisle and symbol
  • Signage and post priced separately if needed

Detail work

Arrows, fire lanes, numbers, crosswalks

Measured on site

  • Priced per item
  • Stencils and custom legends available

Striping done at the same visit as sealcoating costs less than striping done on its own, because the trip is already paid for and the surface is already right. If both are due, do both.

How the Work Goes in Lake Elmo

Planned with you before the first stripe goes down.

Measure what's there

Stall widths, aisle widths, the accessible stalls and their aisles. This is where drift shows up, and it's a five-minute job that avoids repainting a layout that has quietly stopped working.

Clean the surface

Blown down. Paint over grit is paint that comes up with the grit, usually the first time a plow goes over it.

Lay out and chalk

Anything other than a straight restripe gets set out and chalked first, so you can look at it before it's permanent.

Paint

Traffic paint at the right film thickness. Thin paint looks the same on the day and is gone in a season, which is the striping equivalent of a thin seal.

Open it back up

Traffic paint is dry to walk on in under an hour. How long before cars go back on it depends on the paint and the weather that afternoon, so you get the real number that day.

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Questions We Get in Lake Elmo

What Lake Elmo calls us about, answered straight.

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How far is this from Eau Claire? Do you actually come out here?
About 75 miles and an hour and a half, straight out I-94. For commercial lots we come out. Send the address and what the lot needs and we'll set up a time to walk it. The estimate is free.
We're a single commercial building on the frontage. Is that too small to quote?
No. A small commercial lot gets walked and measured the same way a campus does, and you get quantities and a fixed number rather than a figure off a satellite picture.
How much does it cost to restripe a parking lot?
It is priced per stall, and the thing that moves it most is whether the old lines can be followed. A straightforward restripe over a layout that is still visible is the cheap end. A new layout costs more per stall because it has to be measured and set out from scratch. ADA stalls cost more than standard ones: they are wider, they carry an access aisle and they need the symbol and the signage.
How often does a lot need restriping?
Every one to three years in Lake Elmo and the surrounding area, depending on traffic, plowing and sun. Lots that get plowed hard lose lines fastest, because the blade takes the paint with the snow. If your accessible stalls are hard to read from a car, it's due.
Do you handle ADA compliance?
We mark accessible stalls, access aisles and symbols to the required dimensions and can advise on stall counts and signage. We're a paving contractor rather than a compliance consultant, so for a formal audit you want a specialist, but for getting the markings right we do this constantly.
Should we seal before striping?
Yes, and in that order, at the same visit. Sealer covers existing lines, so striping first wastes the paint. Doing both together also costs less than two separate visits.
Can you do stencils, numbers and custom legends?
Yes. Arrows, fire lane markings, no parking, loading zones, reserved stall numbers, crosswalks and custom text.
Do you stripe anything other than parking lots?
Yes. We stripe running tracks and sports courts, which is measured layout work at a different level of precision. It's on our athletic surfaces page.

The Lots and Surfaces in Lake Elmo

Lake Elmo sits in Washington County with Highway 36 along its north edge and I-94 along the south, about 14,000 people and roughly 75 miles from Eau Claire. Much of the land inside the city limits is still farmland and the city keeps a rural look, so the commercial ground is in two places: the interstate frontage along Hudson Boulevard and Inwood, and the old village center on Lake Elmo Avenue. It's growing fast, and the city projects more than 21,000 people by 2040.

What commercial fabric there is clusters at the interstate. Lake Elmo Business Park is in the northeast quadrant of I-94 and Lake Elmo Avenue, offered as build-to-suit, lease or land, with frontage on a road carrying more than 80,000 vehicles a day. Inwood Commercial is a five-lot commercial subdivision finishing the Inwood master plan, and Bridgewater Village platted a bank and a preschool on Upper 40th Street. The medical center on Hudson Boulevard has an approved expansion, and a storage center on the same road runs drive-up units and outdoor vehicle parking.

The rest is the old village and the public land. Lake Elmo Avenue carries a short retail row rebuilt around a pizzeria, a creamery and a boutique. Lake Elmo Airport is a Metropolitan Airports Commission field with a fixed-base operator, aircraft maintenance, fueling and flight training, and it opened a new 3,500-foot runway. Three school districts split the city, 622, 832 and 834, with Lake Elmo Elementary and Oak-Land Middle School inside the limits. The city is also putting in new wells, connecting homes to city water and designing a treatment plant under the PFAS settlement, which means trenched and restored pavement in places.

Where we work in Lake Elmo

  • Hudson Boulevard North
  • Lake Elmo Avenue North
  • Lake Elmo Business Park
  • Inwood Commercial
  • Bridgewater Village

Around Lake Elmo: Lake Elmo Park Reserve, Lake Elmo Airport, The old village center on Lake Elmo Avenue, Royal Golf Club.

14,161 people, 2024 Census estimate.

MnDOT publishes frost and thaw depths for Washington County, and those readings are what set the spring load limits on the roads out here.

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Tell us what it looks like and we'll come measure it. You get a written price before anything starts.

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  • Free on commercial lots and properties in Lake Elmo
  • A photo of the problem helps, and it can go in the message
  • Surfaces that are not ready yet get told so at the estimate

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