May 13th, 2010
Empire Understands the Importance of Quality Parking Lot Stenciling
Many companies need to identify parking stalls for employees or departments of their operations. Often times, they will try to do it themselves only to find out that its not as easy as it looks. The problem is that they view stenciling from nothing more than an overhead view of the stencil. Because of this they usually end up with a poor stenciling job. Why, Because the only person who looks at a stencil from a perspective directly over the stencil is the guy painting the stencil. Everyone else views a stencil not only from a distance, but from a shallow angle. That means you need to “line up” your stencils from at least two other vantage points.
Using multiple vantage points, or reference points will produce a more satisfactory “balance” to the stenciling project- particularly if there are many stencils that will be sprayed close to one another.
Many inexperienced painters have a tendency to view their project as painting a onetime stencil within each individual parking space. That mindset usually produces disappointing results. Instead, professional stripers view such stencil projects as continuous, repetitive act in which each stencil is
- 1) Painted on a even line with each other stencil
- 2) Is centered within each stall at exactly the same point
These are the main factors that are what gives your parking lot stencils a clean and orderly appearance. We call that “The Empire Way”
Alignment is First Key Factor for Perfect Stenciling
“Alignment” is a crucial factor in multiple stenciling and “centering” is equally important. That applies to every type of stall whether straight-in or angled. When stenciling angled stalls, the individual “alignment” of the stencil may be parallel to the Base Line or may be at 90 degrees to the parking stall stripes.
About Empire Parking Lot Services
Empire Parking Lot Services is Southern California’s premier asphalt paving and concrete repair contractor. Every day we help our management customers, contractors as well as our direct owners with many of their parking lot striping needs, including stencil painting. Empire Parking Lot Services offers top notch parking lot striping services to the entire Southern California area. Our parking lot striping 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 parking lot striping projects you may have upcoming. Empire Parking Lot Services is a fully licensed & fully bonded concrete and asphalt contracting company.
Call us at 877-760-2757
Or look us up on the web at www.Empirepls.com
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May 11th, 2010
Understanding The Importance of Parking Lot Stencils
Many companies have a need to have “name or operation title” stencil on their parking lots. They often use them to identify reserved parking areas for tenants and departments. When painting the stencils on their asphalt or concrete parking lots they sometimes will hire maintenance contractors to install them in house. Many times we get calls to fix these types of projects because the painter failed to install the stencils from several perspectives. Instead they install them from the overhead perspective and end up with a bad stencil layout giving your parking lot a sloppy unprofessional look. By hiring Empire Parking Lot Striping you get a layout that takes not only a centered stall appearance but a single file appearance as well. Using multiple vantage points we will produce a more pleasing “balance” to the stenciling project- particularly if there are many stencils that will be painted on the ground close to each other.
Stencils Done Wrong!
Parking Lot Stencil Done Wrong!
Alignment is the First Key factor In Perfect Stencil Painting
Many inexperienced contractors and handymen tend to view stenciling as painting a single stencil within each individual parking stall. That type of thinking almost always produces an unsatisfactory finished job. Sure it looks great as you paint it but like many trades the mistakes don’t show till you’re too far into the project. Instead, quality parking lot striping contractors view such stenciling as a continuous, repetitive act in which each stencil is painted in relation to the last.
- Stencils are painted in alignment with the others
- Stencils should be centered within each stall
“Alignment” is a critical consideration in multiple stall stenciling and “centering” is equally important. That applies every stall type including the typical straight-in stall or angled stall. When stenciling an angled stall, the individual “alignment” of the stenciling should be parallel to the lineup line or may be at 90 degrees to the parking stall lines.
Stencils Done Correctly!
Parking Lot Stencils Done Correctly
About Empire Parking Lot Services
Empire Parking Lot Services is Southern California’s premier parking lot striping and marking contractor. Every day we help our management customers, contractors as well as our direct owners with many of their parking lot maintenance projects including the service of parking lot stencil painting. Empire Parking Lot Services offers top notch parking lot striping services to the entire Southern California area. Our parking lot maintenance 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 concrete project you may have upcoming. Empire Parking Lot Services is a fully licensed & fully bonded C-12 earthwork and paving contractor. This allows us to handle almost any repair done in your parking lot.
Call us at 877-760-2757
Or look us up on the web at www.Empirepls.com
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February 18th, 2010
Chase Bank Stencil Striping for Ventura County
About The Stencil Striping Project
Chase Banks called Empire PLS this week for a parking lot stencil marking job. The job was located in Ventura, which is near the Thousand Oaks, Camarillo, Oxnard area just north of Los Angeles, California. Chase has asked us to do dozens of these small projects as they convert old Washington Mutual Banks to their design standards and styles.
Parking Lot Stencils For Chase Banks
Chase also contracts with us to do asphalt repair, seal coating, and especially handicap upgrade issues.
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December 23rd, 2009
Pavement Markings In Torrance CA,
Empire Parking Lot Services works with some of the biggest companies in the state of California. These companies include large corporations such as Sony Studios, Donahue Schriber and Jone Lang LaSalle. At the same time we work with smaller companies such as the mom and pop shops, small restaurants and hotels. Empire Parking Lot Services tries to have the right product and right price for your budget. This means if you want to get something that will hold you over for one year we can do that. But, if you need the very best in pavement markings we can offer you that service as well. Empire offers a full range of parking lot repair services through out Southern California so call us today and let us help you get your asphalt maintenance up to date.
The Pavement Marking Job Details:
This weekend Empire Parking lot Services performed a pavement marking project in Torrance California on a CB Commercial property. Located in Los Angeles we drove there and arrived at 6 am to make sure there where no vehicles allowed to pull into the driveways that had fresh seal coat on them. Since the seal coat was dry the first thing we did was begin the layout process of the pavement markings. Its a fairly straight forward process that involves us using chalk lines to snap the line where the existing striping shows through the sealcoat. We snap lines for the parking stalls, the handicaps any stencils that need to be re striped. This job had unique striping in that they had double round end stalls(see photo below).
After the layout was completed, we painted the project which consisted of about 500 double lines, 50 parking stall stencils including compact stencils, handicaps, and custom “hand center” stencils for one of the tenants in the park. The job took approximately 8 hours for our 6 man crew. The parking lot line striping came out great and seal coat looked great as well. The customer is thrilled and so are we.
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December 17th, 2009
Removing Old Pavement Markings Options
Sometimes, it is necessary to remove old pavement markings without resealing or replacing the parking lot’s asphalt. This may be done to change the width of the parking stalls, especially when implementing ADA requirements or changing from straight-in stalls to angled stalls.
Fixing the pavement markings done incorectly by the customer.
The quickest and easiest way to conceal old pavement markings is to use “blackout” (asphalt) paint or “Grey-out” (concrete) paint. This involves simply painting over the lines with a paint matched to the color of the parking lot. Of course, that only delays the eventual reappearance of the offensive stripes and just doesn’t look good. There are three methods used to permanently remove old stripes.
1. Pressure Washing
2. Shot Blasting
3. Sand Blasting
As with most services, each type used in removing pavement markings has advantages and disadvantages. Call Empire Parking Lot Services today when you need to get answers in regards to which method is best for you and your parking lot striping needs. Whether your pavement markings needs to be painted or removed Empire-PLS has the ability to get the project done quickly, inexpensively and on time. Call Empire Parking Lot Services today for a free proposal. We have Southern California covered. 714-633-0300
Parking Lot Repair Services
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