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When it comes to your annual silo maintenance calendar, it's always the best bet to get things on the schedule sooner, rather than later. The best plan will get all your maintenance booked at once. Doing so allows you to plan for necessary silo maintenance like cleaning, silo inspection, and silo restoration or repairs when you have a naturally lighter schedule.
| Silo Cleaning | Silo Inspection | Silo Repair and Restoration | Silo Construction | |
| January | Off Season | |||
| February | ||||
| March | Exterior Silo Repairs | |||
| April | Exterior Silo Repairs | |||
| May | Exterior Silo Repairs | |||
| June | Off Season | Warm/Dry Weather | ||
| July | Off Season | Warm/Dry Weather | ||
| August | Off Season | Warm/Dry Weather | ||
| September | Off Season | Exterior Silo Repairs | ||
| October | Off Season | Exterior Silo Repairs | ||
| November | Off Season | Exterior Silo Repairs | ||
| December | Off Season | |||
Silo Inspection
Regular silo inspections and routine silo maintenance help you increase the useful life of your silo, reduce unplanned downtime, and uphold production goals. In fact, professional inspections are the most effective, preventive method to ensure concrete and steel structures, surfaces, and silos remain safe and fully operational. Best practices recommend professional inspections at two- to five-year intervals to help identify any issues that could lead to silo failure.
Silo Restoration and Repairs
Consistently monitoring the exterior of the silo can assist facilities in identifying emerging or escalating problems, potentially requiring more frequent or timely inspections. With proper design and construction, a significant portion of this damage can be avoided or reduced through regular inspections, maintenance, and a thorough knowledge of appropriate protocols. Any silo that experiences sudden deterioration or displays signs of new damage should be inspected by a professional immediately. While the end of the year is often chaotic, it's a good time to make sure silo maintenance services like restoration and repair. Minor exterior silo repairs that have been identified in a professional silo inspection earlier in the year can be scheduled during temperate times of the year, like spring and fall, as they should have little to no impact on production schedules.
Silo Construction
Jumpform and slipform silo construction methods are two of the most flexible in the industry today. So, what determines the construction approach? Jumpform construction is not as time-sensitive as slipform because it is completed in stages, rather than a continuous pour. When looking at the best time of year to schedule your silo construction project, it's often wise to book dryer times of the year, such as the summer, to help prevent weather-related delays.
Don't delay. Get your annual silo maintenance scheduled today.
No matter the industry, some seasons are busier than others. Take advantage of a lighter production schedule by booking your next silo cleaning.
Regular professional silo cleaning is a necessary tool that helps maximize your production while protecting employee safety. All too often, however, when silo cleaning is postponed, it can lead to production delays that can create heavy economic effects.
USA Silos provides silo cleaning services for all types of silos and materials. Some of our jobs include cement buildup on silo walls, slag silo wall buildup, fly ash silos, cement storage silos, air pad repair, and hardened cement in silos. We also offer vacuum truck services.
While we understand the benefits of preventive cleanings, we are also equipped to respond quickly to emergency silo cleaning needs. In addition to preventive cleanings, it's also hugely beneficial to bundle your silo maintenance services into one mobilization. When all of your silo maintenance services are conducted during planned downtime, you reap the greatest benefits.
Our sister company Marietta Silos has more than 50 years of experience in silo restoration. Read the latest Marietta Silos blog to learn how to Make the Most of Planned Downtime.
Some seasons are busier than others regardless of the industry. Take advantage of a lighter production schedule by booking your next silo coating.
Applying a protective exterior coating to concrete silos, silo roofs, and steel bins is an excellent way to maintain structures. When applied preventively, coatings can fix minor issues like cracks and corrosion of galvanized steel hoops. Industrial coatings used for silos and bins can be painted on or sprayed and come in different varieties, including polyurethanes, acrylics, or epoxies. The most durable coatings are a mix of one or more of these components and are designed to bond directly to the surface.
Industrial coatings or paints used for silo exteriors should extend a silo or bin's usable life. The coating should be able to withstand the heavy foot traffic necessary on roofs. It should also tolerate harsh environmental conditions and provide thermal stability, UV protection, and resistance to acids, alkalis, and salt.
Coatings should provide excellent waterproofing and tolerate pooling water typical of a flat roof surface. Water resistance before and after drying should also be considered. Throughout the year, silo surfaces expand during warmer temperatures and contract when cooled. High-elasticity coatings can easily tolerate this normal expansion and contraction throughout the year without cracking or peeling.
Roof-top coatings should fully adhere to the surface material, not act as a floating membrane. The smallest hole in a non-bonded, floating membrane allows water to pass throughout the entire silo's surface. This water becomes trapped between the roof membrane and the top of the slab or travels down silo walls. In times of frost and thaws, trapped water expands and contracts, causing unseen, yet detrimental damage. This unseen damage can lead to unexpected safety issues despite regular inspections.
The most effective, monolithic barrier against moisture is the rubberized coating offered by USA Silo Services. Our rubberized coating bonds directly to various surfaces to repair cracks and seal penetrations, laps, and fasteners. Rubberized coatings have a high elasticity coefficient that moves with silo vibration caused by roof-mounted equipment or loading and unloading.
Our rubber coating reduces costly reapplications of surface protectants and can be applied to many surfaces. As a silo roof coating, our rubber coating can fix both metal silo roofs and concrete silo roofs. In addition, our silo roof-top coating has the flexibility to maintain its integrity through the changing seasons and protects against oxidation, humidity, and corrosive environments.
Our roof-top silo coating method is a proven industrial roof coating system that keeps elements out and stored materials dry.
