Capabilities & Services
elevated work platforms | surface prep |
painting |
coatings |
specialty services
What can McCahill Painting Company do for you?
ELEVATED WORK PLATFORMS:
McCahill Painting Company is educated, experienced, and equipped for working
with swing stages, aerial lifts, and temporary tower scaffolding, which
means that there is no structure or substrate that we can't access. Whether
your building is forty stories high, has a pedestrian bridge over a retention
pond, or the ceiling over very important manufacturing equipment needs
work, McCahill Painting Company can engineer the proper aerial system to
safely handle it.
A swing-stage is an elevated work platform that is supported by suspension lines, and
is used primarily on high-rise buildings. Safety beams and canter weights are used to
suspend our scaffold from the roof, and the platform is then raised and lowered with
automatic hoisting equipment. We have required our technicians to be trained and licensed
in this capacity long before the City of Chicago required such certification by law.
This method is extremely safe for the painters, as well as the integrity of structure.
Aerial lifts can have articulated swing arms, telescoping elevation devices, and moveable
bases, enabling them to reach nearly any part of a building. When positioning the lifts,
we lay down a 1" thick plywood path to protect any landscaping from the weight of the
equipment.
We can erect temporary tower scaffolding structures for elevated work. This option
is available for large indoor and outdoor projects where, due to obstruction or architectural
inaccessibility, aerial lifts cannot be used. For this type of work, we require an OSHA
certified foreman to be present.
Safety and OSHA compliance is of paramount concern to
McCahill Painting Company. All of our painters are trained and certified in proper maintenance
and operation of elevated work platforms. Please feel free to contact our office and
request a copy of the certification for any of our painters dedicated to your project.
Please contact us to make an appointment.
SURFACE PREPARATION: 
The most important aspect of any coating project...
- Power Washing
- Interior & exterior with the capabilities of cleaning using environmentally safe
chemical treatments
- Removal of dirt, atmospheric contaminants, manufacturing contaminants, loose paint,
rust, and graffiti removal.
- Hand Tools: Scrapers, sandpaper and wire brushes
- Power Tools: Sanding disks, needle guns, rotopeening machines
- Wet Abrasive Blasting
- Abrasive Blast Cleaning (also called Sandblasting)
- Waterjetting
PAINTING:
In order to provide the best quality work, we take extra steps to ensure that our spray application equipment is properly maintained. Our painters are well trained in and have a great amount of experience with the following spray application equipment:
- Conventional Air Sprayers
- Airless Sprayers
- Air-Assisted Airless Sprayers
- Electrostatic Spray Paint
- Plural Component Spray Equipment
- HVLP (High Volume / Low Pressure) equipment
After our proper, professional preparation work - especially on exterior jobs, we make sure
all necessary conditions for applying the coatings follow the paint manufacturer's specifications
such as:
- Air Temperature - The air can not be too cold or too hot, even though latex now
has house paints that can be applied with temperatures as low as 35°F
- Surface Temperatures
- Humidity - deals with the amount of moisture in the air
- Dew Point - when the air has too much water in it
- Wind - Even when using roller applications, overspray is always a concern. To
ensure a professional paint job, we sometimes have to delay a job until the winds die down.
While applying the paint, our experienced painters are constantly monitoring the above-mentioned
weather related conditions. Even more important than monitoring the weather, our painters
must ensure that the paint is applied at the proper film thickness. Our painters are equipped
with wet film gauges, and take regular readings to ensure the paint is being applied at the
manufacturer's specified film thickness. Too thin of a film provides much less protection
while too thick can cause problems including, but not limited to cracking.
COATINGS:
Using
the proper coating system on a specific substrate such as concrete, metal and drywall, is
extremely critical to the lifespan of the coating system, especially when considering the
environment that the substrate is in (interior, exterior, manufacturing facilities, hospitals,
nursing homes, food processing, chemical plants, etc.). Types of coatings we regularly use
are:
- Latex Paints (including Acrylic Elastomerics)
- Alkyds / Oil Base Paints
- Epoxies (including Epoxymastics)
- Polyurethanes
- Polyureas
- Zinc-Rich Coatings
Many paint jobs still require us to use the original paintbrush and roller method. We want
to assure you that we always use the proper high-quality roller sleeves (mohair, ½ inch, ¾ inch,
all the way up to 1 ¼ inch sleeves), depending on the particular type of paint being
applied.
SPECIALTY SERVICES:
- Repaint work in commercial,
manufacturing, institutional & industrial facilities
- Spray applications
- Wallcovering (removal, repair and installation)
- Polomyx and Zolatone Applications (Multi-Spec Coatings)
- Swing Stage Work
- Water sealing of concrete buildings and structures
- Plant holiday shutdown painting projects
- Power Washing: Restorative Work
- High-Rise Work: Cleaning & Painting
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