Empire Parking Lot Services Fill Some Potholes in Anaheim
This month Empire Parking Lot Services was asked by one of our oldest customers to get some potholes repaired on their parking lot in Anaheim, California. Since Empire-PLS services all of Southern California from Los Angeles, to San Diego we said no problem. With the economy being what is lately, our customer was looking for an economical fix this time. Like so many others, they are searching for less expensive services such as pothole repair, and sealcoating, knowing that they only last for a year or two. We always recommend to our customers to patch their potholes at the bare minimum. This will stop water from penetrating your asphalt and destroying your base surface. These basic and inexpensive repairs can buy you time until better economic conditions return.
About This Pothole Repair Project
We arrived to the job at about 9 in the morning per our customers request. Once there our crews started prepping the areas of broken asphalt for pothole repair. The main distinction of a pothole type of repair versus a asphalt patch is that with potholes the area are pretty small and there is no removal of old asphalt material. On this project we basically just had to clean off the areas that needed repair and then apply some tack coat to them. Once they were prepped, we shoveled the asphalt on to the areas of repair, and raked them into neat square and rectangles. All in all the potholes came out pretty clean and the customer was very happy. Have a look below for the project photos.
About Empire Parking Lot Services
When it comes to pothole repairs in Orange County, & Los Angeles there is only one company name you need to know and that’s Empire Parking Lot Services. Empire-PLS understands the needs of their customers, and we are sensitive to keeping your business running even while repairs are being done. That s why we offer affordable paving solutions such as pothole repair, asphalt skin patching and basic overlays. Call Empire Parking Lot Services today for a free estimate on your next paving project and find out how much you can save.
Call us toll free at 877-760-2757 or come see us online at our official web site at www.empirepls.com
Empire was asked to do some asphalt repair including, removing 12 areas of broken & damaged asphalt throughout the center, and replacing it with new asphalt. In addition to that, the customer was looking for some additional skin patching in 4 other areas, and then asked us to re-stripe the lines and legends wherever the new asphalt affected the old parking lot striping layout. In total the work was to be completed in just one day.
The Challenges:
The biggest challenge Empire Parking Lot Services faced on this project was timing and safety. Getting as much of the asphalt removal & asphalt replacement done as quickly as possible while maintaining public safety was our chief concern. The golden rule for us is to try and keep businesses open during the construction process. This center had many small restaurants in it and for them even losing one lunch day can cost thousand of dollars. Although some projects require us shutting parking lots down overnight, this was one we were confident we could do the pavement repairs in one day safely. The amount of asphalt repair were large but no impossible.
How the Job Went:
As we predicted the shopping center was very busy. By 5 am cars where already pouring into the center from every direction. With a fitness club and a bank on the property, our project site was a first stop for many of the local early morning commuters. We quickly laid out the areas of asphalt repairand started the asphalt removals on the shopping center by saw-cutting and using a backhoe to remove them. In total the removals were completed in about 2 hours. Not bad considering there was over 100 tons of asphalt removed and hauled away. Once the old and broken asphalt was hauled off we started prepping the areas to be patched by compacting the surface and tacking the edges of the existing asphalt. By 10 am the hot asphalt started showing up and the asphalt paving process started. We off loaded the new asphalt into the newly prepped patches and spread it with a skip loader. The asphalt is always installed in two lifts when you hire Empire Parking Lot Services. Some contractors skip this step and just toss the new asphalt in hole and roll it. While this will work some times what more often happens is low spots will form where asphalt was compacted poorly. By installing the new asphalt in multiple lifts better compaction is achieved and a longer lasting product is whats created. Once the second lift of asphalt was installed the areas where rolled and opened as soon as they cooled to an acceptable level. Empire Parking Lot Services tries to strike a perfect balance between installing a superior paving product, and getting a parking lot open fast for the tenant and customers affected. Once rolled the project was finished and the entire lot was opened up.
About Empire Parking Lot Services
When it comes to asphalt repair, no other contractor cares about you and your property the way Empire Parking Lot Services will. We give you more quality and value than any other asphalt contractor hands down. We always leave our customers happy and satisfied or we don’t leave at all. It is absolutely imperative for us to do the best we can do on every asphalt repair project that we take on. If you have an asphalt repair, concrete repair, seal coating, or parking lot maintenance project that we can assist you with than please give us a call. We would love to serve you today.
Call us toll free at 877-760-2757 or check us out online at www.empirepls.com
New Speed Bumps for Private Driveway in Murrieta California
This month Empire received a call from the owner of a private residents in Murrieta California. They had a long asphalt driveway in need of seal, as well as needing some new asphalt speed bumps installed. They called several asphalt contractors and apparently Empire Parking Lot Services was the only company that called them back. They hadn’t told us that until after the project was finished, but it really wouldn’t have made a difference to us. Thats because Empire-PLS offers the same great service and price each and every time. The owners needed to slow vehicles down because they were using his road not realizing it was a private driveway. On several occasions cars even went off the road causing damage to their property. Speed bumps where the perfect cure for this situation.
First New Speed Bumps, and Then New Sealcoating
So the first thing Empire did was to install the new asphalt speed bumps. That part of the project actually happened about 6 months ago so that the seal coat would not lift or peel once sealed. As any good asphalt contractor knows, asphalt needs time to cure and dry well before you apply sealcoat to it. With the asphalt fully cured, we showed up this week to apply the sealcoat and stripe the new speed bumps. We used a good thick coat of seal on the driveway and once dry, our striping crews showed up and applied the striping to the speed bumps. If you were not aware speed bumps actually go by a half a dozen names. These names include speed bumps, speed humps, speed berms, speed retardants, speed abatement and speed tables. There are probably more than that so speak up I missed one. Speed Bumps can be installed in several different ways. There are the most permanent choices of asphalt & concrete, than there are newer less permanent options in rubber or plastic.
About Empire Parking Lot Services
Empire-PLS is one of Southern California best asphalt contractors. When it comes to speed bump construction, repair, or maintenance Empire is the best choice. We are located in Orange County and service the entire Southern California area including Los Angeles, San Bernardino, San Diego, Ventura, and Riverside. Please call Empire today to discuss your project. Empire offers asphalt repair, concrete repair, seal coating, line painting and many other parking lot maintenance related services to Southern California. Empire can be reached toll free at 877-760-2757
When it comes to concrete and asphalt repair there are four distinct types of maintenance considerations. The Seen, the Unseen, Emergencies, and Code changes. In this blog we will discuss the differences in the different types of maintenance planning and how they should be used in creating, managing and building your asphalt parking lot maintenance budget. Read more below about these 4 specific considerations.
The Codes AKA | Ongoing Code Changes to Parking Lot Maintenance
Lastly there are code changes such as the ADA and MUTCD. These codes are constantly changing and can cost a property owner a lot of money if forced to deal with correcting them all at once. The ADA codes that need to be met alone can require some pretty serious expense if a business or property owner tries to do them all at once. To further aggravate the problem every year thousands of lawsuits are filed against property owners and business owners over many times frivolous ADA lawsuits. The lawsuits are filled to force you to comply all at once, or pay a settlement amount of X amount of dollars typically around ten thousand dollars. Business would be wise to create a budget plan to tackle the ADA a little bit at a time instead of waiting for a lawsuit or code enforcement agency from forcing you to tackle the whole thing at once. Some of the items that could be budgeted for over time in regards to ADA changes would include the following.
Handicap Ramps
Truncated Domes
Handicap Sign and Poles
Asphalt Grade and Fall
Trip Hazards
About Empire Parking Lot Services
When it comes to asphalt repair and concrete repair no other contractor cares about you and your property the way Empire Parking Lot Services does. We give you more quality and value than any other asphalt contractor hands down. We always leave our customers happy and satisfied or we don’t leave at all. It imperative for us to do the best we can do on every asphalt contracting project that we take on. If you have an asphalt repair, concrete repair, seal coating, or parking lot striping project please give us a call. We would love to serve you today. Call us toll free at 877-760-2757 or check us out online at www.empirepls.com
When it comes to asphalt parking lot maintenance there are four distinct types of maintenance considerations. The seen, the unseen, the emergency damage, and code changes. In this blog we will discuss the differences in the different types of maintenance planning and how they should be used in creating, managing and building your asphalt parking lot maintenance budget. Read more below about number 3 discussing the emergency damage considerations.
The Emergency AKA |Unplanned Parking Lot Maintenance
Parking lot maintenance emergencies should be expected throughout the course of a year. With that being said budgeting for them should be done as well. Now whether this comes in the form of a general emergency fund or a specific parking lot maintenance emergency fund doesn’t really matter. What is most important is that something is set aside for the little unexpected things that happen in life. What can go wrong in parking lots is typically going to be plumbing or electrical by nature. Also, you may have a fire or flooding that ends up requiring some asphalt or concrete repair. A typical example of this is this, would be when we had one of our customers call after a fire was set in a parking structure that not only destroyed a vehicle, but ended up doing a tremendous amount of damage to the structure. The customer ended up spending nearly 15 thousand dollars getting the structure restored to its safe and clean original appearance. The accident was unforeseeable, but you can almost always count on something to this degree happening. Here are a few surprising scenarios that can crop up and end up costing you money.
Irrigation Leaks: Irrigation leaks contribute more to damaging asphalt and concrete than any other scenario listed here.. Every property manager and owner should take annual walks through their parking lot to look for irrigation problems. One broken or leaking sprinkler can lead to tens of thousands of dollars worth of damage.
Structural Damage: Sometimes caused by vehicles and sometimes more natural causes. IE earthquakes, etc. structural damage to asphalt and concrete can cost property owners and managers a lot of unforeseen expense.With California being built on
Trench Work: When there are problem with plumbing and electrical issues they can often result in a need to run a trench through the parking lot. Regardless of asphalt or concrete the repair can be a large cost that is unplanned.
Fire: This is not a common issue that property owners and managers need to deal with but it does come up. And when it does it can be very costly.
Flood: In California floods and fires have a season. When the seasons hit you can almost always expect to see business in California affected by it. Mudslides, washouts, and flooding can cause a tremendous amount of damage in a matter of minutes. In many parts of Southern California the infrastructure is aged and in need of repair and rehabilitation.
Tree Root Damage: After sprinklers tree roots can be the most costly factor in emergency damage. Trees root systems can be amazingly difficult to control. Every year they tear up thousands of acres of asphalt and concrete in Southern California alone. The best defense against tree roots is a proactive defense.
Chemical Spills: This is another one of those “once in awhile” scenarios. Chemical and solvents that pour on to our roads and parking lots literally eats away at the asphalt and concrete like sugar does to our teeth. Oil, transmission fluid, and chemicals can dissolve asphalt and concrete and are often the beginning factor in parking lot break down.
Graffiti: Graffiti on asphalt and concrete is rare but when it happens it can be expensive. The only reason it is even listed here is that we have had to remove graffiti from curbs and parking lot roads before. So much that it forced the customer to have to spend thousands of dollars on curb painting that wasn’t in the budget.
About Empire Parking Lot Services
When it comes to asphalt repair and concrete repair no other contractor cares about you and your property the way Empire Parking Lot Services will. We give you more quality and value than any other asphalt contractor hands down. We always leave our customers happy and satisfied or we don’t leave at all. It is absolutely imperative for us to do the best we can do on every asphalt and concrete contracting project that we take on. If you have an asphalt repair, concrete repair, seal coating, or parking lot maintenance project that we can assist you with than please give us a call. We would love to serve you today. Call us toll free at 877-760-2757 or check us out online at www.empirepls.com
Orange County Asphalt Contractors Do Small Skin Patches In Stanton
This week Empire Parking Lot Services was hired by ” The Dream Zone” located in Stanton Ca. They sell mattresses and supplies to Stanton residents as well as surrounding cities such as Westminster, Cypress, Buena park, & other surrounding cities in Orange County California. The Dream Zone chose Empire Parking Lot Services as their chosen Orange County asphalt contractors. They called us to find out what it would cost to get some skin patching done on their parking lot. They had a small budget to work with this year and they are small business to begin with. After a quick consulting with a salesmen the contract was signed and the work was scheduled. Many people call empire and ask us if we do small jobs? The fact of the matter is that small jobs make up about 1/3 rd of our annual work load. At Empire we have positioned ourselves to be competitive at all size projects. This projects was no exception to that rule. Asphalt pricing can be all over the place and sometimes for small business it easy to get burned. The Dream Zone needed the repairs but they needed them done as competitively as possible.
About this Asphalt Patch & Repair
We showed up on this asphalt repair project at about 1:30 pm in the afternoon. The customer informed us that it was a good time for them. The 3 areas where cleaned off and then tack coated for proper asphalt adhesion. We use tack coat to guarantee that the new asphalt will stick well to the older asphalt. Once the three areas where tack coated and cleaned we started the asphalt installation. We spread out a few tons of asphalt 1 patch at a time and we raked and feathered the edges so that they where nice and clean. Once we had that done there was nothing left to do other than compact the asphalt and iron the edges. The patches came out clean and will get The Dream Zone through there tight spot until the economy gets better. The Dream Zone gave us a great feedback and said that they will make us their first choice when it comes to Orange County asphalt contractors.
About Empire Parking Lot Services
When it comes to asphalt contractors in Orange County no other contractor cares about you and your property the way Empire Parking Lot Services does. We give you more quality and value than any other hands down. We always leave our customers happy and satisfied or we don’t leave at all. It imperative for us to do the best we can do on every asphalt contracting project that we take on. If you have an asphalt repair, concrete repair, sealcoating, or parking lot striping project please give us a call. We would love to serve you today and be your Orange County asphalt contractor of choice. Call us toll free at 877-760-2757 or check us out online at www.empirepls.com
This week we had a small asphalt patch back that our customer needed done. The project basically consisted of 1 area of (4 “) asphalt that needed to be installed. The owner of the building was moving in this week and he was making some last minute repairs. One of those repairs was a bad pipe behind the building. They had dug up and replaced the pipe and now they just needed to get the asphalt replaced. The total size of the patch was about 50 square feet and the asphalt was in great shape around it. The customer had given us specific directions about building the asphalt up a bit to avoid water puddling against the building in the rain. Take a look at this basic asphalt paving
Asphalt Paving Irvine Califonria
How the Asphalt Patch Was Installed
We arrived at the project at about 12 noon. It was a vacant building so we knew we had the luxury of scheduling it in the middle of the day. Once we arrived we compacted the soil and base. We do this to be sure we have proper compaction. We do this to avoid air holes and voids that can go onto to eventually form low spots, or worse sink holes. After compaction was completed we poured the first lift of asphalt into the area and compacted it manually. Again multiple lifts are the best way to avoid getting low spots in your asphalt. Once that was compacted we installed the second and final lift into the hole and raked it properly per the customer’s request. Once all of the asphalt was raked in to place we rolled it and used an iron to seal all of the edges. Ironing is critical in having seams that don’t unravel. Strangely enough you hardly ever see other paving companies do this anymore. Once the ironing and rolling was finished we roped off the area and performed a cleanup of any loose asphalt and or mess.
About Empire Parking Lot Services
When it comes to asphalt repair and concrete repair no other contractor cares about you and your property the way Empire Parking Lot Services does. We give you more quality and value than any other asphalt contractor hands down. We always leave our customers happy and satisfied or we don’t leave at all. It imperative for us to do the best we can do on every asphalt contracting project that we take on. If you have an asphalt repair, concrete repair, seal coating, or parking lot striping project please give us a call. We would love to serve you today. Call us toll free at 877-760-2757 or check us out online at www.empirepls.com
Recently, I read an article in the Pavement Maintenance Magazine about how the Manual on UniformTrafficControl Devices (MUTCD) was updated in 2009. Basically, the article stated that like the ADA and the opportunities it provided for contractors, the MUTCD would also provide contractors with opportunities to support their customers managing things such as “private roads that open to public travel,” including roads within shopping centers, malls, airports, parks, sports arenas, and many other privately owned properties open to general public. Is your asphalt contractor keeping up with this? Read on and learn more.
Overview of the MUTCD changes in 2009
As pointed out in this article, asphalt contractors have another similar opportunity because of the 2009 update. Some examples of the changes that are affected by this are parking lot striping in regards to the way roads are striped and marked and traffic sign installation and the way traffic signs are installed. Because property managers don’t have time to be on top of each new change as it occurs they need to rely on a quality asphalt contractor who stays on top of these changes in real time. Keep in mind that ultimately property managers are responsible for keeping their properties up to date with all codes including the ADA and the MUTCD.
About Empire Parking Lot Services
Empire Parking Lot Services is one of Southern California’s leading asphalt contracting companies. We specialize in asphalt repair, concrete repair, seal coating, and parking lot striping. Empire PLS services Los Angeles as well as Orange County, Riverside, and San Bernardino every single day. With specialty services like ADA repairs, Asphalt Pulverization, and Petromat overlays we have all the services required to completely rehabilitate your parking lot. Empire Parking Lot Services is a fully capable asphalt contractor that keeps a close eye on your needs including the ever changing ADA and now the MUTCD.
Crack repair preparation procedures are the techniques used to clean and/or dry crack channels to attain the best conditions possible for the material to be placed by paving contractors. It is the most important aspect of sealing and filling operations because a high percentage of treatment failures are adhesion failures that result from dirty and/or moist crack channels. It is important to keep in mind that cracks that have formed will continue to form. So from that logic consumers must realize that cracks treated or not treated can and will continue to grow. crack filling is a good way to expand the time in between asphalt replacement by treating areas that would other wise start to become large liabilities to pedestrians using the parking lots.
The five primary procedures used in preparing crack channels are as follows:
1. Airblasting
2. Hot airblasting
3. Sandblasting
4. Wirebrushing
5. Heat Lance
Airblasting may be done either with a portable backpack or power driven blowers or high pressure air compressors with hoses and wands.
Hot airblasting is performed with a hot compressed air lance, or heat lance, connected to a compressed air unit. This form of crack preparation is quite effective at removing dirt, debris, and laitance.
Sandblasting is a labor intensive operation that is quite effective at removing debris, laitance, and loosened AC fragments from the sidewalls of most cracks. This equipment consists of a compressed air unit, a sandblast machine, hoses, and a wand with a venturi type nozzle. A second air compressor is often necessary for follow-up cleaning after the sandblasting operation.
Wire brushing is quite effective at removing debris lodged in the crack reservoir, but not as effective at removing laitance and loosened AC fragments from the crack sidewalls. Some paving contractors will do nothing at all before sealing cracks and this cost consumers a lot of money over time. Recently motorized wire brush tools have come to the market that can also be quite affective.
Heat lances are the new kids on the block when it comes to crack preparation. They basically burn the debris out of the cracks allowing for the repair materials to adhere to the sidewalls better.
About Empire Asphalt Repair Services
Empire Parking Lot Services is a Southern California paving contractors that specializes in parking lot and warehouse maintenance. Every day we help our property management customers, contractors, facility maintenance technicians, as well as our direct owners with many of their parking lot maintenance needs including Trench Paving. Empire Parking Lot Services offers top notch parking lot repair and warehouse maintenance services to the entire Southern California area. Our service area includes Orange County, Los Angeles, Riverside County, San Bernardino, San Diego, as well as parts of Ventura. Contact us today if you have any questions about any project you may have upcoming. Empire Parking Lot Services is a fully licensed & fully bonded asphalt contractor company.
