Company Paints Pavement for Customers Across Vancouver Island
The Fineline team painting lines on street
VICTORIA/NANAIMO – Accuracy and exactness are the hallmarks of Fineline Road Marking Ltd. work across Vancouver Island.
Owner Paul Skalenda has invested heavily in state-of-the-art measuring and painting technology in order to provide quality parking lot, road, highway and airport pavement markings, as well as an increasing number of game lines for courts such as the popular pickleball.
“The quality of the work is what keeps our customers coming back, and that’s something that we keep drumming into our employees,” he says, adding the firm now has 18 employees.
“If we do make a mistake it’s there for 30 years, so we endeavour to not make any mistake at all.
Fineline Road Marking Ltd.’s Work is everywhere
“We are seeing lots of demand from municipalities for durable coatings such as MMA (methyl methacrylate) and thermoplastic marking for parking lots,” he adds. “For example, the new Westwood Lake parking lot in Nanaimo now has durable thermo-plastic or MMA. Customers are looking for long-term investments in their lines, and sometimes they can last for 10 to 15 years.”
Fineline started in Nanaimo in 1994, and Skalenda bought it a year later. Their Nanaimo office at #8-2535 McCullough Road handles work north of the Malahat, and their head office has been in Victoria for the past 10 years, and is centrally located at 635 Queens Avenue for Greater Victoria clients.
They recently added new electric pavement marking machines that enables their crew to work quieter at night, with less pollution, and Skalenda says their goal is to have all their machines fully electric by the end of next year.
A downtown Victoria puzzle crosswalk painted by Fineline
“We’re also going green with more electric machines, which are quieter for when we’re working at night,” he states. “We are committed to only using electric blowers, which are getting quieter and quieter all the time.”
“We do high quality work for every customer, from a $500 small parking lot to a $300,000 roadway project,” Skalenda notes. “Fineline does the ‘icing on the cake’ of a new project. While there might be millions of dollars of infrastructure buried under ground or in the new building, we do the final details that make a new road or building stand out.”
Skalenda notes that parking lot appearance can be the first impression that a business gives to potential customers. With that in mind, worn-out, faded pavement markings, poor layouts and bent sign posts can all give the impression that a company is not successful.
Fineline Road Marking Ltd. paints rainbow crosswalks
“The overall appearance of a property is im-proved by well-painted markings,” he says. “If someone takes pride in their business, they’ll make sure their parking lot reflects this.”
Other services requested by customers include layouts of new parking areas as well as restriping of existing parking areas, Preliminary design and consultation for parking areas, stenciling and signs (letters and numbers, signs and custom multicoloured logos), rainbow crosswalks, parking curbs, sign installation, and reflective paint and “Cat’s Eyes.”
By Mark MacDonald
