A customer asked recently about field marking equipment/U/420/Userfiles/Blog/>To prepare a custom stencil price quote we need a better quality image to work from. We suspect there may be a lot of detail in the logo and it may be difficult to replicate all this detail and still maintain a reasonable cost. We would appreciate a good quality image from the graphic art department if at all possible (.jpg, .eps, .pdf).
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Both the Model E-100 and the Graco FieldLazer allow for the use of the Paint Boom Accessory for wide boundary painting and your checker board end zone painting.

The Model E-100 is a walk-behind 12 volt diaphragm pump technology, low pressure, low volume unit, while the Graco FieldLazer S100 is a gasoline power high pressure, high volume striper.

You can download some product information on the Model E-100 field striper from our web site.

For a standard field paint operation you will use on the order of 15 to 25 gallons of paint. This includes the standard boundary lines, yard lines, hash marks, and sideline numbers.

For field stencils our rule of thumb is 1 gallon of diluted paint per 100 square feet. By adding the 3 foot border you'll use on the order of another 10 gallons. For the end zone checker board paint you will typically use about 0.5 gallons of paint (on 1 to 1 dilution ratio) per 100 square feet. Each end zone has 4500 square feet (150 x 30) for a total of 9000 square feet or approximately 45 gallons required.

Adding a custom logo, say 25' x 25' will add an additional 3-5 gallons of paint.

The total diluted gallon usage based on the number of linear and square footage you'll produce 150 gallons of diluted paint.

For each full field painting operation you'll need a total of 70 gallons or 14 5-gallon pails of a SwitchBack Cheap Seats paint formulation. A Columbia Blue will be a custom paint requirement.
For the field marking paint are you planning to purchase all the paint at one time?

To reduce on the cost of shipping and provide more diluted gallons of paint per gallon shipped we would suggest the SwitchBack TrailHead MVP formulation which will provide up to a 8 gallons of water to 1 gallon of paint dilution. This would be approximately 4 5-gallon pails of TrailHead MVP ($100 per pail of white + S&H ).

A very good quality product that has been well received is the SwitchBack Ground Boss formulation (4 to 1). This would be approximately 8 5-gallon pails of Ground Boss ($50 per pail of white + S&H).

For a football season with 6 home games you are looking at between 30 to 50 5-gallons pails of paint. For the custom color you'll need to add about $50 per pail to the white color pricing.

Please refer to our 4 page Field Marking Strategies tutorial (PDF format) on some tips and tricks.

Check out some pointers on using Sport Field Stencils.