We cover Greenville from Fillmore

Older Greenville houses need careful prep

Greenville is the county seat, and a lot of its houses have been standing a long time. The streets near the courthouse and the university hold older frame houses with wood siding and many coats of old paint on it. Toward the edges of town the houses get newer, and more of them are brick or vinyl. Past that it is farm country, with steel sheds and equipment that stay outdoors all year.

Old paint on wood siding fails in a pattern here. Humid summers swell the boards and hard winter freezes shrink them. Every swing opens the paint a little more at the joints and around the window sills. Water gets in behind it, and the paint starts to lift and peel. New paint put over that holds for a short while, then comes off in flakes along with the old layers it was stuck to.

So on an older Greenville house the work starts with a power wash, then moves to every spot where the paint has let go. Loose paint gets scraped off and bare wood gets primed before any finish coat goes on. Metal on the house gets the same attention. A rusted railing or a steel door gets the rust taken off first, because paint over rust just lifts again. You will know what prep your house needs before the job starts.

• Power wash the siding before any paint goes on
• Scrape loose paint and prime bare wood
• Take the rust off railings and metal doors
• Repair water damage before we repaint
• Coat concrete garage floors

Road salt rusts Greenville trucks and equipment

Greenville sits right on the interstate, so trucks and work equipment here spend every winter running through salt and brine. Salt does its damage where you cannot see it. It packs into seams and under brackets and stays damp there long after the roads are dry. By spring a truck frame or a dump body can have rust spreading under paint that still looks fine from a few steps away.

The farms around Greenville add their own wear. Fertilizer is hard on bare steel, and a lot of farm equipment sits outside through humid summers and hard freezes with no cover. Tanks and steel buildings take the same weather with no break. Once a coating has cracked or chipped, water gets to the steel and rust starts spreading under the paint that is left. A quick touch-up with a spray can hides it for a while and does nothing to stop it.

That is why rusted steel gets sandblasted before it gets painted. Blasting takes the metal down to clean, bare steel, so the rust is removed rather than covered. It also leaves a rough surface the new coating can grip. The protective coating goes on while that steel is still clean. Skip the blasting and the rust keeps growing under the fresh paint, and you end up paying for the same job again.

Some Greenville work comes to our shop

Our paint shop in Fillmore is temperature controlled, and that makes a real difference to how a coating turns out. Paint needs the right warmth and humidity to go on smooth and cure hard. A muggy Greenville afternoon in summer can be too damp for it, and a winter morning can be too cold. Inside the shop we control both. A truck or a piece of equipment that can be hauled up to Fillmore gets coated in good conditions in any season.

A lot of work cannot travel, and that is what our field work is for. Tanks and structural steel usually get blasted and coated where they stand, and we also line tanks on the inside. The same goes for pipe and for storage containers that are already set in place. On a Greenville site we plan the prep around the weather. We also plan around whatever else is going on there, from a working business to a farmyard.

Marley Industrial Services is a women owned business. We hold a 5.0 rating from 4 Google reviews. Robb Spear had us paint a large piece of equipment. The paint and paperwork steps were complex. He wrote: "Very high quality work, very professional, on time and clear communication." If your Greenville job has a set paint process, we have done that kind of work before. The same goes for paperwork you need to keep.

Getting a price in Greenville

Call us at (217) 538-2025, Monday to Friday from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, or send us the details through the estimate request on this page. Tell us what the piece or building is and where it sits in Greenville. We look at the job and give you a free free quote that lays out the prep and the coating before you agree to anything.