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Experience

Fifty years on the job —
from offshore platforms to your front door.

Rick Valdez has been preparing and coating surfaces since 1974 — running crews on power plants, refineries, water-treatment facilities, bridges, and high-rises across the country before founding RV Painting. This is the work behind the company.

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50yrs
In the trade
4Mft²
Concrete coated
100%
Work guaranteed
UT★
Licensed & insured
Career history

A project history.

Every role below built the standard RV Painting holds today: thorough surface preparation, the right coating system for the job, and a finish that lasts — at any scale.

2005 – Present Owner

RV Painting, Sandblasting & Specialty Coatings

Payson, Utah · serving Utah, Wyoming & Colorado

  • Painting custom homes throughout Utah, Wyoming, and Colorado.
  • All types of wood and oil treatments — cabins, timbers, and fences.
  • Floor coating systems for commercial, industrial, and residential projects. Certified applicator of USDA coatings for food-handling and dairy facilities.
  • Membrane roof coatings statewide.
  • Certified Speed Liner dealer and applicator in 14 colors, with bedliners available.
2000 – 2004 General Superintendent

FD Thomas

Micron — Lehi, Utah

  • Micron, Lehi UT — Plural-component coatings; over 2 million sq ft of epoxy floor systems and clean-room coatings.
  • Micron, Boise ID — Complete coating of 3 FAB building.
  • Intel, Portland OR — Complete coating of D1C FAB.
  • Intel, Chandler AZ — Complete coating of chemical storage facility.
  • Gilbert AZ — Complete coating of satellite system test facility.
  • Containment storage, Big Piney WY — Membrane and polyurea coating; 400,000 sq ft of pond liners for the Jonah oil field.
  • Six-mile penstock, Northern CA — Sandblast and poly-coat to interior of penstock, plus 3 miles of exterior pipe.
  • Intake chamber powerhouse, Northern CA — Sandblasting, coating, and waterproofing.
  • SLC Water Treatment Plant — Blasting and spray-foam membrane coating to digesters.
1999 – 2004 Painter

Del Monte Fresh Produce & Kiewit Pacific

Hawaii

  • Del Monte — Kunia Processing Plant — Power-washed and prepped buildings inside and out; latex paint system, alkyd primer, and industrial finish. Airless, conventional spray, brush, and roll.
  • Wailuku Pump Station (Kiewit Pacific) — Sandblast and power-wash; penetrating corrosion inhibitor and Uni-Crete patching system; concrete spalling repair, epoxy injection, and a full elastomeric system.
1992 – 1999 General Superintendent

Jess B. Worthington, Inc.

Hawaii & the Western U.S.

  • Lahaina Wet Well Rehab (Kiewit Pacific) — Sandblast, power-wash, full concrete system over new rebar, and Blome 100%-solids reinforcing epoxy to interior wet wall.
  • Wailuku Septage & Receiving (Kiewit Pacific) — Surface prep and T-Lock PVC liner; epoxy and aliphatic urethane systems.
  • Holualoa Pump Station (Kiewit Pacific), 1997–98 — Below-grade waterproofing membranes, T-Lock PVC liner, Tnemec epoxy, and full elastomeric exterior color-coding with interior architectural painting.
  • Four Seasons Waste Water Treatment Plant (Kiewit Pacific) — Sandblast, power-wash, and specialty coatings: epoxy, aliphatic, urethane, and architectural painting.
  • Kailua Waste Treatment Plant, Wet Well Rehab (Kiewit Pacific), 1996–97 — Chemical clean, Sewerguard lining, urethane injection, trowel-on concrete rebuild, and 100%-solids epoxy.
  • Ewa Pump Station (Kiewit Pacific) — Below-grade waterproofing, T-Lock PVC liner plate, epoxy and latex systems, elastomeric deck coating.
  • Fort Kamehameha WWTP, #1 & #2 Digesters (Kiewit Pacific) — Prepped two new digester roofs; Rustoleum high-build epoxy and aliphatic urethane, Sika epoxy seam sealer.
  • Fort Kamehameha WWTP (Alaka'i Mechanical), 1995–96 — Below-grade waterproofing, epoxy coating, and 100%-solids urethane via plural-component pumps.
  • Kihei WWTP Expansion (F&H General Contractor) — Epoxy system, color-coding and labeling, plus interior/exterior architectural painting.
  • Hilo WWTP Phase #2 (Sonomura Company) — Complete waterproofing, sandblasting, interior epoxy systems, and full exterior architectural paint.
  • Las Vegas WWTP — Full epoxy and urethane system, interior and exterior, plus architectural painting.
  • San Francisco / Oceanside WWTP (Olsen Ohbayashi) — Complete prep, specialty coating, and architectural painting of all structures.
  • Blythe, CA WWTP (Stetten Construction) — Complete prep and coating of plant, tanks, and piping.
  • Henderson, NV WWTP (Stetten Construction) — Fiberglass lining, waterproofing, masonry sealer, and plant-wide pipe color-coding.
  • Waianae WWTP (Kiewit Pacific) — Waterproofing, T-Lock, interior/exterior coatings, masonry sealers, elastomeric deck coatings, and Crandall 100%-solids urethane.
1988 – 1992 Superintendent

Robert McMullan & Sons, Inc.

Hawaii

  • Admiral Thomas Condominium — Water-blast, complete caulking, and full elastomeric repaint of a 35-story high-rise.
  • State of Hawaii schools — Complete repainting and water-blasting.
  • Kahe Power Plant (Hawaiian Electric) — Specialty coating, blasting, and deck coatings; repaint of upper sections of Units 3, 4, 5 & 6 in operation with a full Carboline epoxy and urethane system.
  • Primary Clarifier Tank, Honolulu — Complete re-blast and three-coat Plasite system.
  • Shell Oil Refinery, Honolulu — Water-blast and repaint of all piping and tanks.
  • Maui District Base Yard (DOT) — Water-blast and repaint of several buildings.
  • Transoceanic cable ship Charles L. Brown — Full sandblast, repaint, and containment of freezer section and fresh-water tank in dry dock.
  • Hawaiian Electric — Water-blast and full epoxy repaint of Turbine #9 during shutdown.
  • Tripler Military Hospital (Corps of Engineers) — Complete repaint, waterproofing, and plaster repair of all exterior surfaces.
  • Pearl Harbor, Ford Island (Corps of Engineers) — Sandblast and epoxy system on camel & separator structures for nuclear-sub mooring.
  • Pearl Harbor 36" main drinking-water line — Sandblast, containment, and full epoxy system on pipe exterior.
  • Manele Bay Hotel (Hawaiian Dredging) — Interior paint, wallpaper, and texture coating of 280 units.
  • Aloha Stadium (State of Hawaii) — Sectional containment, full sandblast, three-coat system, elastomeric deck coating, and epoxy injection.
1988 Superintendent

Robert McMullan & Son

Oregon

  • Yaquina Bay Bridge (State of Oregon) — Complete sandblast and three-coat paint system.
1987 General Foreman

JL Manta

Utah

  • Intermountain Power Project (McDonnell Douglas) — Sandblast and full paint job of a two-unit coal-fired power plant.
1986 Superintendent

Donald Brothers Coating

California

  • Vandenberg Air Force Base — Specialty coating on the first Space Shuttle launch facility.
  • Titan Missile Project (McDonnell Douglas) — New paint and repaint of all buildings.
1985 General Foreman

Murphy Industrial Coatings

California

  • Chevron (Bechtel) — Complete sandblast and repaint of offshore oil platforms.
  • Quaker State Tank Farm & Bulk Plant, Long Beach CA — Complete repaint and sandblasting.
1982 – 1984 Foreman

Lundeen Coatings

California, Oregon & Wyoming

  • Sandblasting and painting of bridges throughout California and Oregon.
  • 660' smoke stacks, Jim Bridger — Wyoming — Plasite system.
1974 – 1982 Foreman / General Foreman

Clark Painting Company

Western U.S.

  • Sinclair Oil Refinery, Rawlins WY — Sandblast and paint of 54 storage tanks.
  • Jim Bridger Power Plant, Rock Springs WY — Complete paint job and specialty coatings.
  • Henderson Steel Plant, Las Vegas NV — Unit #9 complete repaint and specialty coatings.
  • American Bridge Iron Ore Plant, Atlantic City WY — Stainless-steel painting; airless and conventional spray.
  • Brownlee Dam, Halfway OR — Complete new paint job.
  • Union 76 Sweetwater Uranium Project, Rawlins WY — Painting, fiberglass, and specialty coating.
  • Phillips 66 Main Terminal, St. Louis MO — Whole tank farm: blasting, painting, and fiberglass.
  • Chevron Tank Farm, Tahiti — Fiberglass tank bottoms across the whole tank farm.
  • Sultan River Project, Monroe WA (Bechtel) — Six-mile penstock: complete white-metal blast and six-coat vinyl system inside 12' pipe.
Half a century of finish

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