The catch-all service for jobs that sit outside the standard car park, road, warehouse, court, or school brief. Line removal, helipads, ports, airports, anti-slip, EV retrofits, and one-off custom stencils.
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Specialist and industrial marking is everything that sits outside the five well-defined service categories. Line removal on a surface that can not take shot-blasting. A helipad on the roof of a regional hospital. A container yard that has to keep running while the lanes get re-laid. An airport apron that has to be ready by 6am because the first flight is at 6:45. A pool surround that needs grip without ruining bare feet. These are the jobs where spec errors cost real money, and the crew doing the work needs to have done it before.
We work with the line marking contractor in your region who handles the complex briefs, so your quote goes straight to a crew that has the shot-blasting trailers, the hot-applied thermoplastic kit, the cold-plastic mixing gear, and the overnight scheduling experience to pull it off. One quote, one crew, one invoice, one point of contact for scope changes on the day.
This page covers the sub-services we provide, the systems and removal methods we use, an indicative price guide, the process we follow from site walk to handover, and the most common questions property managers, airport operations teams, port ops managers, and hospital facilities managers ask before signing off.
Most specialist jobs combine two or three of these. A full site re-layout will often hit four.
Old lines, arrows, hatching, and full layouts lifted cleanly. Shot-blasting for thick thermoplastic, water-blasting for gentler removal that preserves the seal, chemical strip for softer paint systems. We pick the method to the surface, not the other way around.
Touchdown point, perimeter, identification letters, and approach markings for hospital pads, rescue landing zones, and private rural sites. Hot-applied thermoplastic for durability and high night-time visibility, with reflective beads where the pad sees after-dark use.
Container stack grids, heavy-vehicle lanes, exclusion zones, and numbered bay layouts for ports, intermodal yards, and freight forwarders. Cold plastic (MMA) is the workhorse here because it survives forklift, reach-stacker, and straddle-carrier traffic for years.
Apron safety lines, parking stand outlines, taxiway centrelines, and identification characters on regional airfields, private strips, and aeroclub aprons. Hot-applied thermoplastic with glass beads for retro-reflectivity, scheduled into overnight windows.
Aggregate-grit and textured topcoats for industrial ramps, marine loading areas, swimming-pool surrounds, dairy and food processing floors, and any wet zone where people walk. Grit size matched to the job so it grips without shredding shoes or biting into wheels.
EV bay symbols and charge-cable cut-outs, motorbike-only stencils with corralled bay outlines, and one-off custom stencils (logos, wayfinding, site numbering). Handy when a car park retrofit needs a handful of new bays without redoing the whole layout.
Five systems cover almost every specialist brief. Two for getting old paint off, three for putting new marking down. The right choice is about the substrate, the traffic, and how long the new marking has to last.
Fast and aggressive. Strips thermoplastic, MMA, and heavy epoxy down to the substrate in a single pass. Best for concrete and dense asphalt. Not recommended on soft or thin chip-seal where it can tear the binder.
Ultra-high-pressure water at 30,000+ psi. Gentler on the substrate, preserves chip-seal and newer asphalt. Slower than shot-blasting on thick thermoplastic, so it is a trade-off between speed and surface care.
Methyl methacrylate cures in an hour and shrugs off forklift, reach-stacker, and straddle-carrier wear. Wrong coating for heavy-vehicle yards is the single most common spec mistake. Acrylic paint gets shredded in months.
Screeded or sprayed at around 200 degrees, cools in minutes. Glass beads embedded for retro-reflectivity. The go-to for aviation markings because it stays visible at night under landing lights and reads cleanly from the air.
Epoxy or polyurethane base with graded aggregate broadcast into the wet coat. Grit size is everything. Too fine and it is slippery when wet, too coarse and it cuts shoes, tyres, and wheels. Matched to the traffic on the day.
Indicative ranges to set expectations before a site walk. Actual pricing depends on substrate, removal method, specialist system, access, and scheduling constraints.
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Figures are typical NZ market ranges for 2025 and a guide only. Final pricing is locked in on a written quote after the site walk.
The first call on any specialist job is remove or overpaint. Thin acrylic on a fresh asphalt car park that is keeping the same layout? Overpaint wins. Thermoplastic three coats deep on a hospital car park being re-laid for EV bays? Remove, every time. Between those two extremes it is a judgement call, and it comes down to three things. How thick is the existing paint, does the layout change, and is the old colour bleeding through. Thick paint builds up and eventually cracks. Layout changes mean the old lines show through as shadows. Colour bleed is the most common reason property managers call us in for a redo after someone else overpainted.
Once the call is made to remove, the next decision is method. Shot-blasting is fast, strips thick thermoplastic and MMA cleanly, and leaves a profile the new coating will grip. It is aggressive though, and on tired chip-seal or soft asphalt it can pluck aggregate out of the binder and leave the surface worse than it was. Diamond grinding is a halfway option on concrete, gentler than shot-blast, faster than water-blast. Water-blasting at ultra-high pressure preserves the seal coat on newer asphalt and is the go-to where surface integrity matters more than speed. Chemical strip is the niche pick for softer acrylic paints where mechanical removal would destroy the substrate.
Helipad markings are their own discipline. A pad needs a clearly defined touchdown point, a lit perimeter if it sees night use, identification characters that read from the air, and anti-slip treatment where rain and rotor-wash make a painted surface slick. We design and mark the pad geometry to the dimensions the operator specifies, match the identification characters to their call requirements, and use hot-applied thermoplastic with retro-reflective beads for the visibility that night-time landings need. We describe our capability and work to your operational brief without making claims about specific aviation standards we are not certifying against.
Port and container yards are the other discipline where system choice matters most. Reach-stackers, straddle carriers, and top-loaders put forces through a marked line that no road paint survives. Cold plastic MMA is the answer because it has the tensile strength and adhesion to hold up under those loads, and because it cures in under an hour so a zone can be handed back to operations the same shift. Using acrylic paint on a container yard is the classic spec mistake. It fails within months and costs twice as much across the life of the yard.
Anti-slip is the quiet specialism. Swimming pool surrounds, marine loading areas, dairy wash-down floors, food processing wet zones, and helipads all need grip without shredding anything that moves across them. The trick is aggregate size. Too fine and it is slippery when wet, too coarse and it cuts shoes, feet, and tyres. We match the aggregate to the traffic and the environment, and we tell you when anti-slip is not needed so you are not paying for grip you will not use.
Seven steps. The first three happen during the quote phase, the last four in the shutdown or overnight window.
Start a quoteWe walk the whole area with you and work through three lists. What gets removed, what gets re-marked, and what stays as it is. Specialist jobs usually combine all three, and the split drives the quote, the prep schedule, and the shutdown window.
Shot-blast, water-blast, chemical strip, or diamond grind. The choice depends on substrate (concrete, asphalt, chip-seal, epoxy-coated slab), paint system (thermoplastic, MMA, acrylic), thickness, and what surface finish you need underneath. We pick on the walk so it is in the quote.
The wrong prep method can destroy the sub-surface. Shot-blasting old chip-seal can pluck aggregate out of the binder. Ultra-high-pressure water on a tired seal can blow holes through it. We test a small patch first on anything older or uncertain so we know the surface survives the removal.
Shot-blasting runs with a vacuum shroud that captures swept media and debris in one pass, so there is nothing loose left behind. Water-blasting gets swept, vacuumed, and bunded. On ports, airports, and food-adjacent sites debris management is as big a job as the removal itself.
After removal, we assess what is left. Fresh concrete exposed by shot-blasting is ready to go. Scarred asphalt may need a tack coat. Epoxy-coated slabs exposed by removal need a bond promoter before anything new goes down. Primer choice locks in adhesion and cure.
Thermoplastic screeded or sprayed hot, MMA mixed and applied within its open time, anti-slip aggregate broadcast into the wet base, stencils laid and sprayed. Whatever the system, the application window is tight and there is no time on the day for hesitation.
Cure times range from 40 minutes (MMA) to overnight (anti-slip polyurethane). We inspect with you, snag anything that is not right, and hand over before we leave. For aviation and port work we supply photographic handover and a scope-of-works document for your records.
Each site type has its own constraints. Shutdown windows, documentation requirements, night-time access, and the difference between a crew who has done it before and one guessing on the day.
Hospital car parks are constantly being re-laid to handle EV bays, drop-off zones, and staff/public separation. Plus the helipad itself. Line removal for old layouts, fresh thermoplastic on the pad, anti-slip on ambulance bay approaches.
Regional airfields and private strips refreshing apron safety lines, parking stand outlines, taxiway centrelines, and identification numbers. Work scheduled overnight so the field is back open by morning, with photographic handover for the operations team.
Container stack grids, heavy-vehicle lane marking, reach-stacker lanes, and exclusion zones at container terminals, intermodal yards, and freight forwarders. Cold plastic because nothing else lasts under straddle-carrier and reach-stacker traffic.
Existing car parks adding a bank of EV chargers. Line removal for the old bays being repurposed, fresh EV symbols and cable cut-outs, new signage stencils, and often a few accessible bays re-laid to current practice at the same time.
Landlord changes, new tenants, revised traffic flows. Entire car park layouts lifted and re-marked to a new plan. Shot-blasting or water-blasting the old layout, then a clean slate for the new one.
Farm helipads for ag operations, tourism pads at lodges and wineries, and private rural sites for property owners who fly. Touchdown point, perimeter, identification, and anti-slip on the pad itself where rain makes painted surfaces slick.
We cover specialist and industrial marking jobs across all 16 regions of Aotearoa. Pick yours for the local contractor and regional context.
Retail car park re-marks and accessible bay roll-outs across store sites.
Retail 5S factory floor marking, forklift lanes, and pedestrian walkways.
Manufacturing Brewery floor marking and loading dock anti-slip coatings.
Industrial Dealership yard layouts, showroom floor marking, and service bays.
Automotive Multi-branch auction yard bay marking and numbering.
Automotive Retail and distribution centre car park and floor marking.
Retail Sugar refinery floor marking and forklift hazard zones.
Manufacturing Food production plant 5S marking and hygiene-grade zones.
Manufacturing Construction yard, site compound, and commercial car park marking.
ConstructionStill have a question? Send it through with your quote request and the local contractor will get back to you.
For a standard 50-bay commercial car park, expect roughly $9,000 to $22,000 plus GST for full removal of the old layout and a fresh re-mark. The range comes from surface condition, removal method, and whether any bays get restructured (accessible, EV, motorbike). Submit the quote form with your site details and the regional contractor walks the site and gives you a firm number.
Overpainting looks cheap on day one but builds up thickness over successive re-marks, bleeds the old colour through, and eventually needs to be removed anyway. If the existing paint is more than two or three coats thick, if the layout is changing, or if the old colour is bleeding, removing first is cheaper over the life of the surface. Straight refresh of the same layout on thin paint is the one case where overpainting wins.
Shot-blasting is faster and strips thick thermoplastic and MMA cleanly, best on concrete and dense asphalt. Water-blasting is gentler on softer surfaces and preserves chip-seal and newer asphalt. Chemical strip is for softer acrylic paints on surfaces that can not take mechanical removal. Diamond grinding is the alternative on polished concrete where shot-blast is too aggressive. The contractor picks on the site walk based on substrate, paint system, and what finish you need underneath.
A single pad with touchdown point, perimeter, identification letters, and approach markings is typically $3,800 to $9,500 plus GST, depending on pad size, surface condition, reflective bead upgrade, and whether removal of old markings is part of the scope. Rescue and private rural pads are usually on the lower end, hospital pads toward the top because of access, night-time visibility requirements, and documentation.
Yes. Airport apron and taxiway work is almost always scheduled into an overnight window between last flight and first flight, with hot-applied thermoplastic that cools in minutes so the apron is ready by morning. We coordinate with airport operations, plan the sequence to keep critical areas usable, and supply photographic handover before we leave.
Port work is scheduled around the shipping schedule and yard operations, usually across a long weekend or in a staged sequence where we take one zone offline at a time. Cold plastic is the system here because the one-hour cure lets us hand a zone back in the same shift. We work with your yard ops team on the sequence so the yard keeps running.
An EV bay symbol and cable cut-out marking, retrofitted over an existing painted bay, runs roughly $145 to $280 per bay depending on complexity and access. If the existing bay lines need removing first, add the removal cost. For a block of six to eight bays being added as a unit the per-bay cost drops because mobilisation is shared.
Five to ten years depending on traffic and exposure. Industrial ramps with forklift traffic sit at the lower end because tyres chew up the aggregate over time. Pedestrian-only surfaces like pool surrounds and cafe kitchens sit at the upper end. The aggregate eventually polishes or pulls out, at which point a re-coat rather than a full strip brings the grip back.
A few. Very old chip-seal where the binder has perished is risky because mechanical removal pulls aggregate out of the surface. Polished decorative concrete can be marked permanently by shot-blasting. Surfaces that were already failing will often continue to fail after the paint comes off. We flag these on the walk and give you the options (overpaint, partial removal, full reseal) rather than guess on the day.
Yes. Our contractors carry public liability insurance (typically $5M or higher), SiteSafe accreditation where required, and supply hazard IDs, SWMS, site inductions, SDS for all chemicals, and scope-of-works documentation for aviation and port clients. We supply the paperwork your operations or property team needs to tick the box without us making claims about specific codes or standards we are not certifying against.
Typically around $1,200 to $1,800 minimum for mobilisation, because specialist prep and materials are less forgiving than standard paint work. Shot-blasting gear, hot thermoplastic melters, and MMA kits all carry set-up costs. Very small one-offs (a single EV stencil or a spot of line removal) are often bundled with other nearby jobs to keep the price down, so let us know if timing is flexible.
Rarely. Specialist work is geared for commercial, industrial, aviation, marine, and hospitality sites. If you need a private driveway marked or a small residential job, the car park or road marking services are usually a better fit. For a private helipad or a rural pad on a working farm or lodge, that is squarely specialist work and we do it regularly.
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