This month Empire Parking Lot Services was hired by Berlin Packaging to do safety striping at there new warehouse facility located in Santa Ana California. This warehouse is approximately 150,000 square feet and the customer was to be moving in soon. Santa Ana is one of the oldest cities in Orange County and is neighbors to Tustin, Orange, Costa Mesa and Fountain Valley. Berlin Packaging was increasing there warehouse in this expansion and they hired us to maximize there warehouse floor space by having us install warehouse safety striping. Also known as warehouse floor striping or markings this service is basically us installing durable high end two part epoxy paints that will last a very ling time. Warehouse safety striping is just one component in a solid WMS (Warehouse Maintenance System) plan. For this project they had us paint lines on there floor to not only increase safety but also increase the efficiency of there warehouse storage space.
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Empire-PLS is one of Southern California best safety striping and warehouse maintenance companies around. We are located in Orange County, California and service the entire Southern California area’s warehouse safety striping needs. Please call Empire today to discuss your project. Empire offers asphalt repair, concrete repair, seal coating, line painting and many other parking lot and warehouse maintenance related services to Southern California. Empire can be reached toll free at 877-760-2757 or you can visit our main website at www.empirepls.com.
Santa Ana Warehouse Floor Striping Gets Completed for Berlin Packaging
With everything in place the only thing Berlin Packaging needed was to get some lines on their warehouse floor painted to help control product and efficiency. Berlin made the right move by calling us because Empire Parking Lot Services knows warehouse floor striping. Although Empire Parking Lot Services main service is in asphalt & concrete repair, we have spent enough days working on concrete warehouse repair and construction projects to know a thing or two about warehouse floor maintenance & line painting. When Berlin called us they needed the job done now, the job done right, and all within their budget. Our estimators got on the project with a quick response and we hashed out a plan to meet their needs. The project consisted of one warehouse needing about 60,000 Linear feet of white lines and numerical stencils for their tracking system. Take a look at the finish project below. The job came out great and the customer was very pleased.
Berlin Packaging Santa Ana, Ca. warehouse Striping June 2010 (80)
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When it comes to warehouse maintenance and coatings no other contractor cares about you and your facility the way Empire Parking Lot Services will. We give you more quality and value than any other 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 warehouse contracting project that we take on. If you have an warehouse striping, warehouse floor coating or a warehouse floor 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
As a contractor we have several ways we can prep concrete to accept paint. Poorly prepared concrete surfaces can result in complete paint failure or partial paint failure. Nearly all paint failures can be blamed on the lack of surface preparation, which insures paint adhesion. To guarantee adhesion of the paint coatings to concrete surfaces and extend the life of the paint or coating your installing, be sure to select and proper surface preparation. At the bare minimum, a concrete surface should be clean and free of dust and contaminants such as; mildew, rust, or chemicals. In some cases we have had paint stay down on projects, with doing nothing more than sweeping and scrubbing the surface before paint application. The only problem is there is no way of knowing if your concrete floor will be one of them. The best thing you can do is to perform a test area on your concrete floor. First start off by cleaning and painting a small test spot of your coating in a high traffic area. Leave the test area down for a week, and see how the paint reacts. However keep in mind that concrete can be very tricky. You may get a good test result back from your test area and still have areas of massive failure appear later on down the line. That’s why we suggest shot blasting.
Shot Blasting For the Best Bond
For a truly solid bond of paint and concrete Empire Parking Lot Services uses shot blasting. This method of concrete prep has allowed us to put lines and coatings down that have lasted as long as 10 years. Shot blasting creates a mechanical profile for other applied materials including paint to bond to. Its a self contained vacuum that uses a “shotgun like” shot, that pings the ground, opening the surface allowing paint to adhere.Take a look at the video below. In this shotblasting video you will see our shotblasting techs using a shot blasting machine to profile a (5) inch area to allow painted lines to adhere to a concrete surface. Costco hires Empire Parking Lot Services to install these lines on many of their services areas and tire centers. Even though the process takes time to install Costco loves it because its solves security and safety issues for them, for a long time.
About Empire-PLS Shot blasting Services
Empire Parking Lot Services is Southern California’s premier parking lot & warehouse maintenance company. Every day we help our management customers, contractors as well as our direct owners with all of their parking lot & warehouse maintenance needs including shot blasting. 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-PLS is a fully licensed & fully bonded shot blasting contractor company.
When it comes to paint adhesion and concrete, there is one thing you can count on. No Guarantees! Paint will almost never adhere to concrete unless concrete is prepared utilizing one of a few different choices. These choices used to limited to sand blasting, acid etching and mechanical etching such as grinding. Though these methods of surface prep worked, they where highly inefficient. Sandblasting leaves a terrible mess known to clog sensitive systems and left the surface pitted and un even. Acid etching is extremely dangerous as well as acid can not be controlled to a limited area like shot blasting can. Mechanical etching like grinding works but it is a slow process that its very labor intensive. Only shot blasting offers control in terms of both depth of removal and area of removal. Also shot blasting is the only method of removal that
Incorrectly prepared concrete surfaces can result in a reduced paint and sealer coating integrity and lifespan. Nearly all coating failures can be closely attributed to poor surface prep, which affects a coatings ability to stick to concrete surfaces.
To guarantee proper adhesion of coatings to the surface and extend the life span of your paint or coating,we recommend proper surface preparation. The method of surface preparation we recommend the most isshot blasting.
Shot blasting is a process of preparing a concrete surface with steel shot (small steel balls) at a high velocity. This surface prep process removes contamination as well as laitance to leave behind a precise mechanical profile for improved adhesion. Shot Blasting is a self contained process. The machine literally works like a vacuum in that, as it profiles the concrete, it removes the dust and recovers it by a powerful dust collection vacuum.
The Shot Blasting Advantage
As the preferred method of surface prep recommended by most paint manufacturers, shot blasting has many advantages over the older methods. Unlike these older methods, shot blasting is cleaner, faster and environmentally safer. Here are a few other reasons why shotblasting is superior to the alternatives.
Eliminates the need for chemicals and leaves concrete with a precise minimal profile usually only 4-5 mil thickness.
Is known for fast removal rates and High output removal
Very Eco- friendly (Green) in terms of environmental impact.
Versatility of interior & exterior uses.
Almost zero secondary mess created from the surface preparation process
About Empire-PLS Shot blasting Services
Empire Parking Lot Services is Southern California’s premier parking lot & warehouse maintenance company. Every day we help our management customers, contractors as well as our direct owners with all of their parking lot & warehouse maintenance needs including shot blasting. 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 shot blasting contractor company.
One of our best customers are the Costco stores of California. Costco uses Empire Parking Lot Services for a number of services including warehouse striping, parking lot painting, and basic parking lot maintenance. This week we was line painting in the warehouse, also known as warehouse floor painting. Costco uses warehouse floor painting in there receiving areas and tire service areas to help designate employee walk ways or customer access control lines. When a Costco store needs to get a line painted on concrete that will last for years, they call us. Empire-PLS offers a top notch product & installation service that can last under the most abusive of environments. Our system is called a Macro Poxy System. This is a 2 part paint application. When it comes to warehouse floor striping and line striping systems there is none better.
About the Warehouse Line Painting Job
When it comes to warehouse line painting there is a very important time line that needs to be adhered to. Furthermore, when it comes to Costco there is a very narrow time line that Costco has as well. This is where Empire-PLS really shines. We understand the complexities of these projects and we can foresee almost all factors that come down the line on a warehouse floor striping job. Some of the variables that we deal with on a day to day basis are factors like time constraints, paint product pot life’s, security and safety concerns, layout and painting issues as well. This job was really no exception. The moment we got there we stage all of our shot blasting and striping equipment in the warehouse because on a Costco project you can be coming and going. With millions of dollars of merchandise in there warehouse security is a real concern. So once the equipment was staged we moved on to the layout stage. This stage is critical because it allows our customer to see the warehouse striping layout one last time before it goes down permanently. Once and last minor layout changes agreed upon the next step is to move onto to the painting process. Though this job was fairly small it takes a tremendous amount of communication between our crew and the surrounding employees. With some projects including this one, we try not to close off all access to the painted areas until it its absolutely necessary. This allowed our customer to wrap up their final duties of the day like re stocking and trash clean up.
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Empire Parking Lot Services is Southern California’s premier parking lot maintenance company. Every day we help our management customers, contractors as well as our direct owners with many of their parking lot maintenance needs including warehouse floor striping. 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.
The Return to Warehouse Floor Striping in San Bernardino Ca.
This past weekend Empire Parking Lot Services returned to San Bernardino to do more warehouse floor striping. The line striping was performed at the same project we wrote about before. From what I hear It seems like warehouse floor striping is similar to tattoos in that once you get some done you keep finding more you want to get done and we like that. Are project again is located in San Bernardino County. San Bernardino County is Located to the east of Los Angeles and Orange County and to the North of Riverside County.
Warehouse Floor Striping San Bernardino California
More Warehouse Floor Line Striping
This go around what our customers needed from Empire PLS is to do the second half of their 150,000 sf warehouse distribution facility. Their facility is a large industrial distribution unit that serves the entire Southern California area. The last time we worked in their distribution center we laid out and painted the north side of the center which basically made up half of the entire facility. This time you guessed it we did the other half. This warehouse floor striping project was painted using very strong 2 part epoxy paint. This was a particularly difficult layout that we needed to do for them so it took awhile to get all the lines laid out 100% perfectly. But once the lay out was complete we got the job done and the customer loved it.
San Bernardino Warehouse Services
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Empire Parking Lot Services is Southern California’s premier parking lot maintenance company. Every day we help our management customers, contractors as well as our direct owners with all of their parking lot maintenance needs including warehouse floor striping. 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.
Organization is the key to any well-run business. Warehouse striping can help your company achieve success in that area. With warehouse striping, you can really increase the amount of productive space within your warehouse. Maximizing the space is only one way warehouse striping will improve your warehouse. Warehouse striping can also improve the safety and appearance of your warehouse area. Let Empire Parking Lot Services, with over 20 years of experience, help you maximize the potential in your work area, improve your productivity, and safety with warehouse striping.
Uses of Warehouse Striping
When Empire PLS is hired to install striping in a warehouse, it’s typically pallet staging, numbering, and stenciling. These types of concrete painted lines are designed to help your employees organize your inventory to get the maximum use from your facility.
Another popular use of warehouse striping includes acid resistant floor coatings at forklift battery charging stations to prevent leaked acid from destroying the concrete. Another common request we get is to install OSHA related safety lines. Lines like these are designed to create safe walking zones throughout the warehouse for visiting guest or employees from other areas of operations that may not realize that they are in a dangerous work area. The lines create borders and zones that can be color coded or stenciled with a message or warning.
Another typical Warehouse Striping application would be rat run striping lines. These lines are installed on the border edges or walls of the facility and are required by law whenever food of any kind is stored in a facility.
Warehouse Floor Striping Products & Options
When considering warehouse floor striping, it is important to also consider what type of paint you are going to want to use. At Empire PLS, we have the experience to assess your situation and make appropriate recommendations. With warehouse line painting, there are many choices. Take a look below at a few of your options and their suggested uses.
Water Based Paint: Best used for exterior line painting applications, such as truck stall parking, parking stall striping, stencils, and markers (ie. stop, arrow, and handicap parking).
Oil Based Paints: Oil based paints are one of the best paints to use to gain more durability over typical water based paint. Oil based paints are also known for their drying characteristics. A great place we recommend oil base paints would be in shopping centers and parking situations that need to open their parking lots to traffic quickly. Here at Empire PLS, we like to use oil based paints to repaint curbs and fire lines in shopping centers and home owner associations. They are stronger than water based paints and last longer, as well. When you add in the fast drying time, you can see why they are so popular with parking lot striping companies and property owners.
Urethane Enamel: Urethane paints are designed to stand up to harsh weather conditions, such as long term exposure to sun, rain, and other exposure issues. This paint product is highly recommended for metal bollards, guard rails, loading docks, hand railings, and sign posts.
Epoxy Coatings: This type of coating is a very durable coating. This coating is best used in heavy commercial and industrial applications. It’s a 2 part paint system that is designed to be used indoors and holds up under the harshest conditions. This paint product is ideal for warehouse floor striping and also floor coatings, like battery acid resistant applications.
If you have and questions or comments please feel free to contact us direct or post something below. We would love to hear your thoughts or ideas regarding these specialty applications. Empire Parking Lot Services specializes in the applications of the paint listed above and would love to provide you with any information that you may need regarding those applications.
Whether you are looking to change your warehouse striping layout, to remove your warehouse striping because your lease is over or you want to re-stripe your existing layout with something more permanent, you will have to remove your existing warehouse lines. Several methods may be used to remove these lines with varying results. Typical removal techniques are chemical paint removal, scraping/grinding, and shot blasting.
Several arguments can be made to the ineffectiveness of chemical line removal in a warehouse environment. Chemical paint removal is possible when the type of material used to paint the warehouse striping is known. Several different paint stripper chemicals should be applied to test areas to evaluate their effectiveness. More often than not the painting material is not known, and procuring many different chemicals may not be realistic. The existing paint may also be chemically resistant – an ideal application in warehouse painting, so all that money spent on strippers is wasted. Furthermore, chemical removers are typically not that environmentally friendly.
Scraping the warehouse floor striping is possible when the underlying concrete warehouse floor is smooth and sealed prior to warehouse striping. In this case it should be easy to remove any type of material with a sharp scraper and some elbow grease. If the concrete is porous and /or unsealed prior to painting, scraping will not be possible. Hand grinders may be used in this circumstance and the aggressive approach here may not leave an attractive finished product.
Arguably the best method of paint removal is a process called shot blasting. In this process steel beads or “shot” are blasted through a self contained machine. The finished result is a uniformly removed surface to varying depths and widths depending on machine setup. Typically, acrylic, urethane or epoxy sealers are applied to the freshly blasted surface if they are not marked for fresh paint.
Regardless of the method you choose for striping removal, don’t forget to call Empire Parking Lot Services for recommendations on your new paint, sealer, or coating applications.
Properly installed warehouse floor painting may seem to be an expensive proposition, especially when it is overlooked during the construction budgeting process. Among the measures Empire Parking Lot Services recommends you take to protect your new epoxy warehouse striping are proper training and keeping your floor clean.
Improper equipment operation is not only important for your workers’ safety but for your epoxy warehouse floor striping’s safety as well. Keeping a moderate speed will reduce the number of burn outs and rubber marks left on the epoxy paint. Avoiding sharp turns will reduce the amount of rubber left behind on your epoxy paint as well. Properly stacked loads will not fall (or worse cause your lift to fall) on the epoxy warehouse paint. Damaged pallets.can scrape and scuff the surface of the epoxy warehouse paint. Although many of these examples will not cause noticeable damage on a day to day basis, over the course of years and thousands of forklift hours the cumulative effects will become very evident.
Keeping your warehouse floor free of dirt. debris, an unnecessary obstructions will extend the life of your epoxy paint as well. Imagine dragging a screw or a misplaced tool across a concrete floor. We have all seen the effects here – scratched concrete. Dirt and sand by their nature are abrasive, and when fork truck tires get dirty they tend to act like sandpaper and erode the epoxy warehouse paint.
Anything that can cause damage to the concrete warehouse floor will potentially damage the epoxy warehouse floor paint.
By following safety guidelines that are most likely already in place and by keeping up with your daily maintenance routine, the life expectancy of your epoxy warehouse floor striping can be considerably extended – stretching that initial investment over the duration of your operation and allowing that budget money to be spent on more important stuff like beer!
Have you ever looked around your warehouse and said I could get more use from more this space. I am guessing yes and its true. Empire Parking Lot Services has the experience and knowledge to help you get more from your warehouse floor utilizing warehouse floor striping. Known as Staging, warehouse floor striping dramatically increases that amount of space on your warehouse floor by organizing it into painted lined sections of managed space. Imagine everything from product to tools could know have a space laid out just for it so that nothing is left in the wrong area. Our customers take advantage of this every day.
What is Warehouse Striping
When Empire Parking Lot Services is hired to preform a warehouse floor striping project its typically pallet staging, numbering and stenciling. What we essentially do is paint down (4″) Lines throughout your facility to section off areas for specific purposes. Another warehouse floor striping application we perform is forklift floor coatings. This is a floor coating designed to withstand the harsh chemicals that come form owning and operating a fork lift in a warehouse. We can paint these coatings down under your forklift charging areas to help maintain the concrete underneath those areas. Another request Empire gets is to paint OSHA mandated safety lines. These lines are designed to outline a safe pedestrian walk area throughout the facility for visiting guest or employees. The lines create safe outlines area lines that can be painted any color and coded with custom stenciled messages such as keep away, hard hat required, and so on. Another warehouse striping service we offer is Sign installation. Empire can not only stencil a code or number scheme on the ground but also hang sign in the air to help you organize your warehouse inventories.
Contact Us About Warehouse Floor Striping
Empire Parking lot Services offers a wide variety of Parking lot and warehouse related services. If you have any questions or comments please feel free to contact us. We would love to hear from you today to discuss your warehouse related project.
