Bilge Painting
Professional Florida Yacht Bilge Painting
Coastal Tank offers bilge coating touch-ups and comprehensive painting services to maintain your bilge areas and tanks, ensuring they are properly protected. Bilge painting is an essential maintenance step that should be performed after the bilge steam cleaning process is completed, every two to five years, or as needed, depending on the vessel’s age and condition. Trust the experts at Coastal Tank to keep your bilge areas and tanks cleaned and protected.
Bilge Painting Service Capabilities
The team at Coastal Tank has the expertise to provide bilge coating touch-ups and painting services in various bilge areas on a yacht or vessel, with a primary focus on the main engine room bilge. Our team has experience providing comprehensive bilge painting services for all vessels’ bilge areas including:
- Generator Room Bilge
- Engine Room Bilge
- Sewage Treatment Plant Bilge
- Steering Gear Bilge
- Tank Alley Bilge
- Machine Space Bilge
- Cofferdam Spaces
- Lazarette Bilge
- Bow Thruster Bilge
- Forepeak Bilges
- Anchor Locker Bilges
- Anchor Chain Bins
Bilge painting protects bilge area structures, ensuring they are covered and coated to reduce corrosion, which can lead to costly welding repairs or replacement of steel or aluminum hull plates. Regular bilge painting can help extend the life and quality of your bilge areas, ensuring they continue to function optimally.
Our Bilge Painting Process
Due to the sensitive equipment located in bilges, such as engine and generator rooms, our team takes precautions during the bilge cleaning, preparation, and coating process to keep those components and equipment cleaned and protected. Once the bilge area is thoroughly cleaned, our team will conduct an in-depth inspection to identify any exposed bare metal areas, assess the condition of the bilge coating, and recommend any necessary repairs.
If coating repairs are needed, a gas free certification is obtained by our team from a marine chemist to verify the safety of working conditions. Our team will prepare the surface using a variety of tools including mechanical power tooling, air tooling, and sanding to remove loose coating and corrosion. All dust and debris are vacuumed from the space to maintain the cleanliness of your vessel. Next, we will wipe down all surfaces to be painted with denatured alcohol to ensure they are clean and free of oil prior to coating. All bare metal surfaces are then coated with an immersion service two part epoxy coating, which will provide protection to the metal and prevent future corrosion. Good-adhering paint will be sanded and etched to ensure a good mechanical bond with the new coating.
We use immersion service surface tolerant, two part epoxy coatings on bilges as per OEM and USCG specifications. We also have the ability to spray apply 100% solid epoxy tank coatings, polysiloxanes, and surface tolerant epoxy coatings, depending on your application and desired finish.
How Long Does the Bilge Painting Process Take?
Our team provides professional and efficient bilge painting services. On average, bilge prep and painting may take between two to three days to complete, for localized areas, or two weeks or more, depending on the size of the bilge space.
What’s the condition of your yacht’s bilge areas? Request a quote today to get started!