TAI’s site safety and maintenance services were deployed to surface prep, seal and coat the exterior surface of two bulk storage silos for a client in New Castle, DE. After considering options that including assembling scaffolding or utilizing lifts or ladders to perform the work on the vertical walls’ tight confines alongside the building, the TAI team proposed an economical option utilizing specialized scaling equipment of climbing body harnesses, climbing ropes as lanyards, rappel devices (descenders) and carabiners.

TAI’s trained technicians and assigned subcontractors proceeded with the following:

Power washing the silos’ surfaces;
Applying spot coatings of epoxy mastic to all silo assembly fasteners;
Applying epoxy primer mastic coating to the entirety of the silos’ exteriors; and
Applying a catalyzed urethane gloss topcoat finish to the silos.
The teams’ approach to professionally and safely design the work approach and execute according to plan resulted in the completion of this project within six working days, incident-free.