How To Paint A Soccer Field

Field Lining

Why exercise it? The watering, sunshine and use article of clothing down the lines on the soccer fields, simply it's generally the grass growing and the mowers cutting off the painted tips of the blades of grass that makes the lines disappear. In 2 weeks' fourth dimension the lines will be nigh gone: that's why the fields need to be repainted every week of the season.
Virtually locations accept about 45 minutes to one hr for ane repainter. If even one calendar week is skipped, the lines may well-nigh have disappeared by the second week, and laying out a field anew will take a team of six at least an 60 minutes, probably longer.
Every week (30 minutes to an hour, depending on size and feel).
Shake spray cans vigorously for nearly thirty seconds to a infinitesimal.
Walk at a tiresome but steady footstep.
But push the machine frontward. Trying to brand trivial course corrections will outcome in a wiggly line.
Wear dress & shoes that don't matter. Paint may not come up off.

Paint Use

Most fields apply between 4 - 6 cans, depending on size.

When to Pigment

Check the field yous are painting for the mowing schedule. Most Grass Valley schools mow between Tuesday and Thursday. Ideally, paint later on the field has been mowed but before Sabbatum,
Painting lines Saturday morning time is non a good idea. Paint may get on the uniforms, and the lines may smudge as the pigment is spread when the players pace on information technology. Withal, Sat morn repainting is improve than no repainting at all!
Check on your field'south lines early on in the week. If they're already faint you could ask the league for cones to mark the field, or yous could mark spots with field paint to guide the later repainting. Repaint over again by the cease of the week, and think to walk slower, utilise more pigment next time.
Halfway through the flavour we can lower the amount of paint used. The ongoing painting will have discouraged the growth of the grass.
Pelting : It doesn't brand sense to pigment when there is an expectation of rain. Y'all tin successfully paint a moisture field if no pelting is expected for the next hours. If in that location is no other way, you lot can even paint during a drizzle or mild rain, if information technology doesn't concluding too long.
On dry out grass the paint will dry out more quickly, but painting lines on a wet field sometimes has to exist washed.
Check the weather forecast often. If rain is expected for Friday, try to pigment on Th
If you painted simply before or during rain, go dorsum subsequently to check on the lines to brand sure you lot tin find them.

Tips

Shake paint spray tin can vigorously for about a minute. You can hold i in each manus. Take off cap and put spray can in machine; the latest nozzle slides into the right position almost by itself. Sometimes the nozzle comes off when you remove the cap, just put information technology back on.

Nearly every fourth dimension, the nozzle slides into the slot correctly by itself, simply with the hundreds of cans we use, occasionally the nozzle hits the slot reptacle exactly perpendicularly, and ends up on superlative of it. This will give you a narrow line of paint, not the nice wide line nosotros are seeking.

Walk the machine slow but steady, with the spray can nozzle right on summit of the old line, pull lever to apply a skilful layer of paint that will penetrate to the roots of the grass. Your walking speed determines how thick the pigment is laid on. A can of pigment should last about 100 yards. You'll also detect the audio change and clouds of white vapor when your can is almost empty. Supervene upon cap and put empty cans upside-down in box.
Resist the temptation to "oversteer" the auto when going in a straight line. The 4 wheels do a very proficient task of keeping you going straight if you've started out heading in the correct management. Just pull the lever and push the machine forward. If you lot try to "micro manage" the steering (making little course corrections), you will invariably cease upwardly with a squiggly line.
You may attempt shaking a can in one hand while pushing the motorcar with the other hand. Some repainters do and tell me their lines are directly. The instructions indeed say "just push the machine forwards," - simply it's not for everyone.
Slightly lifting the machine off of the rear wheels makes it much easier to paint the tight curves in the corner arcs and for post-obit the centre circle and penalisation arcs lines.
Having the sun at your back will requite you a clearer view of the old lines.
Nearly of the small-scale fields (Scotten, Gilmore) are laid out parallel to each other. It is nigh efficient to repaint the brusk lines here in one straight walk (with interruptions of paint spraying), that should take less time than making the many turns of repainting each of these fields separately.

Be conservative with the paint, the paint volition build up from calendar week to week.
Don't spend extra pigment on dirt! It volition scatter with the sand when the kids run over it.
If you do brand an error in painting that yous desire to correct, the bottom of your shoe makes a wonderful eraser while the paint is nonetheless fresh!
Do not forget to repaint:
- corner arcs,
- mid-goal line
- mid-point on center line
- and penalty spot
Halfway through the season we tin lower the amount of pigment used. The ongoing painting volition have discouraged the growth of the grass.