BASE Painters

Climbing High Stadium Towers

contact@basepainters.com (The BASE Group) — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 00:12:00 +0000

This month, Coatings Pro Magazine highlights our company and team. We are on the front cover and have a six-page feature. To read the article, click here

This narrative details our month-long venture into stadium painting on one of South Florida's most visually iconic symbols.

By employing climbing and rope access techniques, the team tackles the 4 pillars of the Hard Rock Stadium, converting them into a striking visual masterpiece.

Base Painters. Painting the icons of America.

Painting Under The Reno Sun

contact@basepainters.com (The BASE Group) — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 16:31:00 +0000

Our Award Winning Project, Reno Dome Rehabilitation, is featured in this month's CoatingPro Magazine. Written by Karen D Ostrander, this article depicts the process of painting one of the most giant domes that house 3 hotels and casinos in Reno, Nevada.

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Go to our website to learn more about our iconic structures painting services: www.basepainters.com

The Best of the Best

contact@basepainters.com (The BASE Group) — Sat, 25 Mar 2023 10:47:00 +0000

On March 22, 2023, we won our 5th award for rehabilitating the dome at the Silver Legacy Hotel in Nevada. Coatings Pro Magazine gave the award at the annual AMPP Conference in Denver, CO. We are honored and proud to be the 2nd place recipient in the "Specialty Structure" division and amongst the other award-winning painting contractors raising the bar each year with coatings applications and complicated structures.

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Sales & Marketing Positions Now Hiring

contact@basepainters.com (The BASE Group) — Sat, 26 Nov 2022 23:09:00 +0000

Interested in using your sales and marketing skills together? We are looking for honest, hard-working salespeople eager to help protect the iconic structures of America.

guaranteed salary
paid vacation
health and dental insurance
opportunity to travel
cell and clothing allowance


If you are on top of your sales game and want to join a passionate team, contact us.
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We Are Hiring Rope Access Techs

contact@basepainters.com (The BASE Group) — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 16:43:00 +0000

Are you interested in using your rope access skills?WE ARE HIRING ROPE ACCESS PAINTERS!We are looking for honest, hardworking rope techs to learn and paint the iconic structures of America.

gear
travel per-diem
clothing allowance
cell phone allowance
paid vacation
h&d insurance

Apply at https://www.basepainters.com/access-painter

Having A Blast Skydiving

contact@basepainters.com (The BASE Group) — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 00:18:00 +0000

As goes for a long project we needed to vent some steam and have fun. No better way to do so than to jump out of an airplane at 10,000 feet. Some of the crew went skydiving at Miami Skydiving over the Everglades. What a blast of fresh air it is to reach terminal velocity falling to earth and landing like a leaf.

- Are you adventurous?
- Do you like a challenge?
- Do you like accomplishments?
- Are you able to set and follow through with goals?
- Do you have a keen eye for detail and aesthetics?
- Do you want to be part of a team environment that is fun, dynamic, and fast-paced?

If so maybe you should think about working at BASE Group.  We spend an amazing amount of time traveling the country painting the iconic structures of America.  
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Dome Painting Rope Access

contact@basepainters.com (The BASE Group) — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 11:46:00 +0000

Recently the crew was in Reno Nevada rehabilitating the giant dome for the Silver Legacy Casino. The dome had been built by a radome construction contractor. Over the years the panels had deteriorated to a point they needed some rehabilitation. The only problem any contractor was going to have with the job is how to get to the top of the dome. The builder did not install a ladder on the exterior or on the interior of the structure. Luckily for the client, we are always up for a challenge thus found a way to the top. Now the dome is freshly painted and could stand another 20 years shining bright in the Reno skyline.

We power washed the dome, primed it with an adhesion primer, and applied 1000 gallons of Sherwin Williams Sherloxane 800.

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Airway Beacon Tower Painting

contact@basepainters.com (The BASE Group) — Wed, 16 Jun 2021 23:36:00 +0000

Airway Beacons

Recently we were in Pueblo Colorado donating our time to repainting the state's last standing Airway Beacon.

History

In the early days before Foreflight and GPS, beacons were used as a guide to pilots during the night. Each beacon stood atop a 70' concrete arrow pointing the pilots to the next station.

This beacon was #8 of the National Airway Beacon Systems Amber Line. 1500 towers were constructed by the Post Office in the late 1920s and stood every 10nm miles along the route.

Before the painting, the museum asked that we paint the tower "orange and white". As we prepped the steel we found this beacon was in fact originally yellow and black with 3 bands.

In the 1930s beacons were painted chrome yellow and black. It was not until 10 years later someone had the bright idea to paint towers with the aviation orange and white that we see today.

Here at BASE, we love projects with historical significance such as these airway beacons and, there was much more we would discover. Under some flakey paint near the bottom of the tower a name was inscribed; Rosalie Chrisman Castle Rock, Colo 1930. A google search seems to confirm she was 13 at the time and lived nearby.

If you know of a charitable organization that has an elevated structure in need of rehabilitation, let them know about us. Each year we offer our services to select organizations at little or no cost.

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Before Paint

After

Airway Beacon

Airway Beacon Layout

Rosalie Chrisman

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Gold Leaf Application To Capitol Dome

contact@basepainters.com (The BASE Group) — Wed, 09 Jun 2021 16:07:00 +0000

Gold Leaf Repair

Recently the crew has been regilding the 24k gold dome of the Colorado State Capitol Building. During the Summer of 2019, we sandblasted the domes' copper ribs to bare metal and repainted them using a Fluorokem product from Sherwin Williams. This work was done because the original coatings applied by other contractors had failed entirely during the initial restoration in 2014. During the sandblasting in 2019, the gold-leafed roof was damaged in a few spots so we have been spending some time regilding the dome with Manetti Gold Leaf from Italy. Applying the thin gold leaf sheets to a dome 300' in the air with no wind protection is a daunting task because the sheets of gold are lighter than air and can be blown with any gust of wind.

Top Ball, After

Top Ball, Before

Gold Leaf Panel

Box of 24k Gold Leaf From Italy

Gold Leaf Repair

Gilding Repair Work

Gold Leaf Repair Around Windows

Gold Leaf Before Brushing

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Rope Access Gilder Gold Leaf Repair Work

Painting Towers In The Wilderness

contact@basepainters.com (The BASE Group) — Sun, 06 Jun 2021 21:50:00 +0000

Painting Towers In Alaska

We had the amazing opportunity to spend 2 months in Kodiak Alaska during the Fall of 2020 painting a Loran tower for the United States Coast Guard. The work consisted of removing lead-based loose and flaking paint with HEPA vacuums while recoating the entire tower with a product called Rust Grip. The tower went from aviation orange to silver within 3 weeks after prep work.

What's not to love about spending time in Alaska? On the off days, the crew went deep sea fishing in the Pacific, flying floatplanes to Katmai National Park, and lots of site seeing. The Kodiak Island bears are big and abundant and everywhere you turn. We saw the bears almost every day leaving the house for the job site, what a wild adventure we had in Kodiak Alaska.

At 300' painting

What's up!

Bears of Kodiak

Local Russian Architecture

Floatplane to Katmai

Jobsite Fox

The Tower

Deep-Sea Fishing

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Tower Painting

contact@basepainters.com (The BASE Group) — Thu, 20 May 2021 16:57:00 +0000

Recently one of our crews was in sunny southern California painting communication towers. Towers are one of the hardest structures to paint thoroughly because of all the corners, crevices, and bolts. You have to be sure to apply all the paint to all the surfaces to the manufactures specifications all the while dealing with the weather. We do this by taking our time and thoroughly preparing and applying the coatings then we spend many hours or even days doing touch-ups of spots we had missed. It's not easy, especially with rattlesnakes and condors lurking about the job site but the end results are why our clients keep coming back to us for their tower painting needs.

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BASE PAINTERS WINS 1ST PLACE AT THE 2020 COATINGS PRO CONTRACTOR AWARDS PROGRAM

contact@basepainters.com (The BASE Group) — Fri, 19 Feb 2021 17:20:00 +0000

Award winners were announced during a virtual presentation on June 17, 2020

Arvada, CO – 6/9/20 – On June 17, 2020, BASE Painters was awarded 1st place in the Specialty Project category for CoatingsPro Magazine’s fourth annual Contractor Awards Program. The program was designed to showcase and recognize the projects and crews that demonstrate excellence in the field of high-performance commercial and industrial coatings.

Project and individual submissions were rated by the CoatingsPro Editorial Advisory Group, composed of industry experts. Due to the novel coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) the magazine was unable to present the awards in person during NACE International’s annual conference. They were celebrated instead in the magazine’s first virtual award presentation.

BASE Painter’s winning project: Colorado State Capitols Dome Painting Warranty Project. During the summer of 2018 & 2019, the company removed failed coatings on the golden dome down to bare copper with vapor blasters and repainted with a long-lasting Sherwin Williams Fluorokem HS product The failed coatings were initially installed by a third party during the 2016 multimillion-dollar rehabilitation of the State Capitols building exterior and dome.

ABOUT BASE PAINTERS

AN ARVADA, CO COMPANY WHOM SPECIALIZES IN PAINTING OF STRUCTURES USING ROPE ACCESS METHODS. BASE HAS PAINTED ICONIC STRUCTURES THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY SINCE 2007.
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Painting Magazine Front Cover

contact@basepainters.com (The BASE Group) — Tue, 16 Feb 2021 17:41:00 +0000

We made it! One of our team members was selected to be on the front cover of inPaint Magazine. We spend all year traveling to different cities whilst climbing and painting some of the most iconic structures in the country. Utilizing mostly rope access methods we apply thousands of gallons of paint to elevated steel of stadiums, roller coasters, towers, and buildings.

On this cover, you will see Brandon painting a baseball stadium's roof in the Midwest of the USA.

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Check out inPaint magazine here. or click the photo.

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Our Painters Keep You Cool On A Hot Summers Day!

contact@basepainters.com (The BASE Group) — Fri, 16 Feb 2018 03:44:00 +0000

Water Slide Painting

Not only do we paint steel but from time to time we are called upon to coat other things such as this water slide at the Pirates Cove Water Park in Denver, Colorado.

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You won’t fly into the radio towers we paint!!

contact@basepainters.com (The BASE Group) — Sun, 07 Jan 2018 02:11:00 +0000

Painting self-support towers is one of our specialties. With this tower, we teamed up with Anchor Paint to use their proprietary Flexi-Coat Aviation Coating Series to paint the orange and white bands to FAA color and gloss standards.

Hundreds of Turkey Vultures and Black Vultures regularly roost on this tower so prep work was of the utmost importance to establish a good foundation before the application of the coating. Prep work consisted of pressure washing, hand and power tool cleaning to remove built-up dirt and rust (SSPC 1, 2, 3).

Tower banding was first introduced to towers back in the 1930s to provide a contrasting background from the tower and sky so aviators could easily see them and gauge how tall they might be. Towers are divided into bands depending on their height, for example, a tower less than 700' will have 7 bands, and towers up to 900' will have 9 bands and so forth.

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How does an elevated water tower get painted?

contact@basepainters.com (The BASE Group) — Sat, 21 Oct 2017 16:37:00 +0000

Elevated water tank painting is something we pride ourselves in. Tnemec is the supplier of the Hydroflon V700 paint that protects this 1.5 million gallon water tank. Hydroflon is a fluoropolymer which is an excellent choice if the client wants a coating that will last 20 years. This tank supplies water to well over 100,000 residents of its fair city. It stands proud with its new paint job and is ready to take on the next 20 years of its service life.

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Certified FAA/FCC compliant tower painting

contact@basepainters.com (The BASE Group) — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 19:35:00 +0000

Check out a few before and after shots of a tower we painted with aviation orange and white in California. Sitting atop an Art Deco building on Nob Hill in San Francisco, designed by architect Albert Larsen this tower was one of the first in the area. This structure was originally an RCA broadcast radio tower built around the 1930's to deliver clear reception to the city. We used PPG's PSX One on this tower with excellent results to preserve the old strap steel. Turning a dilapidated tower into a beacon that shines for miles and lights up the San Francisco skyline is truly rewarding.

Tower painting San Francisco California

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The logos on water tanks are the best advertisements.

contact@basepainters.com (The BASE Group) — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 19:19:00 +0000

Tank logo repainting We repainted the logo on this 1.5 million gallon elevated water storage tank. Using Tnemec's Hydroflon 700 was an excellent choice for longevity and gloss retention. The exterior first had to be cleaned with 5000PSI water and bleach to remove all the mold and mildew before we could repaint the logo. The job also consisted of removing bio-growths on the wet interior of the tank before cleaning and disinfection per AWWA 652 standards

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Award Winning Steel Protective Coatings

contact@basepainters.com (The BASE Group) — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 19:58:00 +0000

SAN DIEGO – March 21, 2017 – On March 17, 2017, CoatingsPro Magazine announced the winners for the inaugural Contractor Awards Program, designed to showcase and recognize the projects and crews that demonstrate excellence in the field of high-performance coatings.

The BASE Group, inc is receiving a 3rd place award in the Specialty Projects division for their work on the Pencil Smoke Stack on the 16th Street Mall in downtown Denver.

Winners will be announced during an awards ceremony at NACE International’s CORROSION 2017 Conference and Expo in New Orleans, Louisiana, Tuesday, March 28, 2017.

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• Specialty Project:

First place: “Parking Garage Restoration at Maggie Daley Park” by Western Specialty Contractors – Chicago Concrete Division

Second place: “New Britain Stadium Renovations and Finish Upgrades” by Scholar Painting

Third place: “Pencil Smoke Stack” by Base Group Inc.

How does an amusement park paint its roller coasters?

contact@basepainters.com (The BASE Group) — Sat, 18 Feb 2017 01:20:00 +0000

BASE Group coating the new Star Flyer amusement park ride in Denver Colorado. Amusement park ride re-coating and re-conditioning is a part of the coating business we throughly enjoy. This new ride was speced out with Sherwin Williams Acrolon 218 polyurethane paint. Preparation work consisted of degreasers and hot water to remove all oil and containments before applying the Acrolon 218 in custom RAL colors so ever present on amusement park and carnival rides.

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PLAY BALL!! Miller Park Steel Painting

contact@basepainters.com (The BASE Group) — Fri, 16 Dec 2016 14:25:00 +0000

BASE Groups work at Miller Park is once again the center piece for an article on Durability & Designs D&D In Depth Magazine. Written by Rich Purnell the article features an in depth look at BASE Groups work prepping and painting the retractable roofs truss'.

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Elevated Water Tank Painting

contact@basepainters.com (The BASE Group) — Sun, 28 Aug 2016 14:11:00 +0000

In Colorado we serviced an aging tanks exterior and recoated with Sherwin Williams Acrolon 218. This 1 MG elevated water tower over coat painting was completed while the tank was in service. Using a combination or lifts, swing stage and rope access this project came in on time and under budget and ready for the next 20 years of harsh Colorado weather.

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tower painting

contact@basepainters.com (The BASE Group) — Tue, 19 Jul 2016 15:29:00 +0000

BASE Group tower painting for all your elevated steel tower painting needs.

We coat and paint monopole towers, self support towers, guyed towers, stealth towers.

We use a variety of coating products based on your specific needs such as epoxies, high solids polyurethane, moisture cured urethane, water based acrylic, cold galvanizing compounds. All colors comply to FAA specs either in aviation orange and white, galvanized colors or the USFS colors. Our methods of steel painting are site dependent either spray or brush and roll for a clean proper site.

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Our Founder Flying High Above For A Television Documentary.

contact@basepainters.com (The BASE Group) — Sun, 08 May 2016 04:21:00 +0000

BASE Groups Rich purnell is featured in the upcoming One Day in America documentary now airing on PBS. Check below for links to PBS for air times and check out the Denver Post article for more info.

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Protective Coatings

contact@basepainters.com (The BASE Group) — Wed, 10 Feb 2016 17:25:00 +0000

In 2014 we partnered with Techno Coatings of California to do the field tie-in of the superstructure in Anaheim, CA dubbed the ARTIC. The ARTIC is Southern California's transportation hub.

coatingspro.com magazine released this article in Jan/2016.

article link: coatingspro.com ARTIC 2016