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Football pitch marking

I have been offered a contract which includes the marking out of football pitches. The lines are already there of course, so it is a case of re-applying the paint. I have no knowledge of this and would be grateful of any advice on time and the amount and cost of paint to do a full size pitch. Also, the small spray [aerosol] type line markers are very cheap, but the aerosols are going to be much more expensive to use than the paint used in the roller type machines, but these machines are much more expensive. Advice please.

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  • Hi spoke to my mate who does line marking round schools in Liverpool .He uses bowcom machine line markers and the line marker you can get in 10 litre drums.

    http://www.bowcom.com/products/marking-applicators/gm/

    The spray line markers in the can are normally used for hard surface marking he says

  • is this a decent sized contract?

    you can get the basic line marker

    http://www.newitts.com/product/IT001626/Harrod_UK_Line_Marker.htm?g...

    you can get electric machines aswell, you can water your paint down or you'll go through gallons of it, you can even use 10ml of primo maxx in it to slow the grass down and make your lines last a bit longer

    give me a shout if you need anymore advice, ex football groundsman

    • We used to use these sort of markers for years when I worked for the council...... pretty indestructible, cheap and never get blocked.  The only negative we found was if the ground was really wet and boggy, the front marking wheel would tend to sink in the ground slightly and leave a rut in the line. Perhaps with better drainage these days, pitches don't end up so boggy.

  • I should imagine that following on from someone else's markings are easy enough, but marking out from scratch in August maybe a different matter.

    • We used to be on a bonus scheme where you were allowed 20 minutes for overmarking..... 2 hours for an initial mark. In the early days, we used creosote for the initial marking.......... then we "progressed" to putting Paraquat in the mix.

      • two hours? were you running?

        the intial marking out is not as hard as it looks, i was dumped on a training pitch with the instructions, transfer wheel and strings and left to it....

        4 hours later i had a pitch !

        • ...... the bonus scheme certainly made us speed up.  There were actually 2 of us on the initial mark for about an hour. Of course the goal post sockets were already in position so that also made it a lot quicker.  Really needed 2 people though to do the circles.

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