Glenn Oakes, Maintenance Coordinator, Nottingham Express Tram
Rhinoceros completed the remedial painting of 33 overhead powerline poles on the Nottingham Express Tramways line to Station Street.
The work was carried out at night during engineering hours and the project was completed within the 18 nights as scheduled.
Our operatives worked from self propelled booms supplied by Nationwide Access Hire. We removed all of the existing failed coatings and prepared the surface to clean metal coating. The new coating system consisted of T-wash etch primer, HA item 115 Epidac 2 HB high build epoxy aluminium primer, HA item 116 Epidac 2 HB epoxy undercoat followed by Marguard Easyclean AGS a high solids two pack polysiloxane finish in NET silver.
The original coating system had failed on the 10 metre high galvanised steel power line supporting poles. We removed the existing coatings with a methylene chloride based paint stripper. This eliminated contamination of the environment and operatives from dust enabling our operatives to clean the poles back to bright metal coating.
The completion of this project on time and within budget was appreciated by the client who has promised more work of this type for 2011.
