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‘Old Glory’ Tank Painting Up for Bid
Painting contractors have nine days to submit proposals for cleaning and coating the beflagged 1.5-million-gallon elevated water storage tank of Cocoa, FL.
Bids are due June 19 for the tank, which wore an old-fashioned silver alkyd coating when it was built in 1957. In 1976, the city accepted the design and services of Demetrios Dourakos, a Greek-born painting contractor, to paint a huge American flag on the tank for the bicentennial year. The city contributed the paint.
Dourakos, owner of Royal Painting Company in Merritt Island, also painted a flag on the Vehicle Assembly Building at the nearby Kennedy Space Center.
Scope of Work
For the current project, contractors will prepare the structure by masking, removing, or otherwise protecting all hardware, machined surfaces, nameplates and other surfaces not intended for painting. Surfaces will require abrasive blast cleaning to SSPC-PA 1 standards.
Containment will be required for the entire blast and painting operation for the tank’s exterior.
Exposed metal will require detergent washing, followed by abrasive blast cleaning to near-white standards. The metal will then be coated with an organic zinc-rich primer, a high-build epoxy, and a fluoropolymer finish.
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The 1.5 million-gallon water tank dates to 1957. Containment will be required for the entire exterior blasting and painting operation. |
Concrete surfaces will be coated with semi-gloss acrylic latex paint. All masonry structures will receive a high-pressure water wash to remove loose coatings and coated with a primer and a semi-gloss acrylic latex finish.
Following coating and rehabilitation, the contractor will be responsible for disinfecting the structure using a concentrated chlorinated water system.
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