Service Areas / UTC

Railings, bike racks, gates and rims for University City homes, HOAs and campuses.

• Commercial and residential powder coating for railings, pool gates, fencing and site furniture.
• Bike racks and site amenities for campuses, HOAs and office parks.
• Sandblasting to strip rust and old paint down to bare metal.
• Rim powder coating with same-day service Monday through Friday.

The 92122 zip code packs a lot into a few square miles. Westfield UTC anchors the retail core, UC San Diego sits just to the west, and the Blue Line trolley now links the UTC Transit Center and the campus to the rest of the city. Around them are research campuses, Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla and a dense ring of condos and apartments along Genesee Avenue and Regents Road.

All of that means bike racks, handrails, benches and pool fencing that see heavy daily use. Once the paint chips, the rust spreads, and HOAs end up with patchy touch-ups that never match.

On the south side, Rose Canyon Open Space and the older single-family streets near Standley Park bring us patio furniture, gates and bikes. We also serve neighboring La Jolla and Sorrento Valley.

Commuters who ride to campus or the research park bring us bike frames and e-bike parts, too. A frame that has been chipped by years of locking up at a rack can be stripped and recoated in almost any color.

For University City property managers, the challenge is scale. A complex might have hundreds of feet of stair rail, a dozen pool gates and several bike racks, all fading at different rates.

We can take those pieces in phases so residents are never without a gate or a railing for long. Each section is sandblasted to bare metal, coated electrostatically so the powder reaches welds and inside corners, and oven-cured into a single hard layer. Because we match color across batches, phase three looks like phase one.

For big or repeat jobs, our high-volume coating service keeps finish and film thickness consistent across every piece.

Most University City complexes were built in the 1980s and 1990s, which means a lot of the original iron has been painted over three or four times. Every one of those layers comes off in our blast booth. Starting from bare steel is the only way to stop rust that has already crept under old paint, and it is why a powder coated railing keeps its finish long after a paint job would have started flaking.

• Close by. About 10 to 15 minutes from Westfield UTC via I-805 and Nobel Drive.
• Institutional experience. We have restored metalwork for Rady Children's Hospital and coated city benches and receptacles.
• Phased scheduling for HOAs and property managers who cannot shut down a whole building.
• Same-day rims for University City drivers, Monday through Friday.

More on who we are is on our about page.

The full breakdown of each step is on our powder coating process page.