Seal & Striping for Placentia Local Business

September 7th, 2011

Empire-PLS Performs Seal & Stripe for Placentia Business

Sealcoating & Striping in Placentia Ca.

This week Empire-PLS performed some Seal & Striping for a local Placentia California business called Lincoln Imports.  They are an importer that has been in business for over 31 years. Lincoln Imports is an importer of seasonal items and home décor items. When they called us they were in the process of getting multiple quotes for seal & striping and crack filling services. Empire-PLS provided them with a quote and we were awarded the project based on both price, and presentation. They basically said that they felt more at ease with us and that is some great feedback.

Seal & Striping Makes Asphalt Last Longer

One of things savvy property owners such as Lincoln Imports understands is that if you don’t take care of your parking lot with annual maintenance, it will cost you much more over time. Annual or semiannual maintenance is the key to keeping your asphalt intact and lasting much longer.

At Empire-PLS, we strictly adhere to what the experts recommend, and those experts are the manufacturers of the sealcoat materials we use.  We work with several major manufacturers including Diversified, Western Emulsions, & Western Colloid.  These companies recommend that sealcoating is done about every three to four years, but also recommend that at that time length, you install (2) coats of seal and not just one.

Many California businesses opt for sealing their parking lots every 2 years with a (1) single coat to spread out the cost of maintenance, as well as keep their parking lot looking blacker for longer.  Some parking lots however will require sealcoating and striping more often that based on their own particular reasons.

For Lincoln Imports it had been about three years and was defiantly time for the new Seal & Striping.  Sealcoating helps protect your asphalt by sealing the asphalt pavement, thus preventing much of oxidation and erosion of the top layers of your asphalt. On older asphalt pavements, seal coating helps by replacing many of the fine particles that get lost from the top of the asphalt surface due to the oxidation process that naturally occurs.

Here are Some Other Benefits you get From Sealcoating:

  • Sealcoating seals the smaller hairline cracks that can eventually turn into larger cracks. Sealing these helps to reduce water from seeping down to the base material and doing damage.
  • Sealcoating also helps protects the asphalt from the sun, as well as the harmful effects of chemical spills such as oil, gasoline, and other petroleum products.
  • Sealcoating allows your parking lot to have a deep dark color allowing your parking lot markings to stand out more.
  • Sealcoating leaves a smooth, clean surface ideal for sweeping, potentially lowering cleaning costs.
  • Sealcoating costs pennies a square foot compared to the dollars needed to repair or replace damaged asphalt.

 

For more information about sealcoating check out this website here, it is the Asphalt Sealcoating Manufacturers Association and has lots of information about sealcoating materials as well as what it means when your sealcoating goes bad.

 

About Empire Parking Lot Services

Empire Parking Lot Services is a company with just one goal. Our goal is simple in that we want every customer we work with to be 100 % satisfied with our asphalt maintenance services. We believe by meeting this goal, all other goals will happen naturally.  Please keep Empire Parking Lot Services in mind for your next Seal & Striping project, and put our words to the test. Have confidence that in that last few years thousands of our customers have used our seal and striping services without regrets or complaints.  Empire-PLS is located in the Southern California area and services the entire southland area. Please call us toll free with any questions or project that you may have.

Empire Parking Lot Service 877-760-2757

 

Crack Repair: The Basics

May 14th, 2010

Crack Repair The Basics in Getting it Done Right

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.

Call us at: 877-760-2757

Or look us up on the web at www.Empirepls.com

1080 Batavia Unit N

Orange, Ca. 92867