Warehouse Striping for Laguna Costco Location

This week the Costco located on Laguna Niguel California called Empire Parking Lot Services looking to get some warehouse striping done in their shipping area. The striping was installed to clearly mark out the area of the store where customers should not be, stand, etc.  Although the project was small in nature the precautions taken on these projects are massive.

About the Warehouse Striping installed

What Costco needed from Empire Parking Lot Services was to get these areas painted in a coating that would last for more than the typical year or two. Many warehouses we work in will paint warehouse striping and warehouse floor markings, using standard water base paints or oil base products. These products are almost guaranteed to fail under harsh warehouse floor environments. They just cannot hold up to the forklifts and pallets that get pulled and dragged over them day and night. The answer to the problem is warehouse striping using 2 part epoxies over a shot blasted surface. With this combination lines go down and stay down. Empire Parking Lot Services have striped lines in over 50 warehouses in 2011 alone. Companies such as Vons, Coca Cola, Fed Ex and Costco have been using our services for years, they know that they will get a product that goes down and stays down.

About Empire Parking Lot Services

When it comes to asphalt and concrete construction, no one can offer your company a better combination of value and service. Our employees share over a hundred years of combined knowledge in asphalt repair, concrete repair, sealcoating, and warehouse striping. All of the services we offer are guaranteed. Other warehouse services we offer include concrete repair (indoors) warehouse floor coatings, Warehouse floor cleaning (sweeping), warehouse sign hanging, and bollard installation. When it comes to warehouse maintenance we have you covered.  Call Empire today toll free  877-760-2757

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New Safety Warehouse Striping for Costco Laguna Niguel

Empire Parking Lot Services Can do More than Just Pave Parking Lots

So as you may know Empire Parking Lot Services does a lot of asphalt paving and maintenance services such as sealcoating, striping etc but did you know we also offer a whole list of warehouse services. Services such as warehouse striping, warehouse sign hanging and warehouse surface treatments. Though these services are much different than parking lot maintenance services we still do them with the same quality we put towards our asphalt paving projects. This week we performed one of these projects in Carson California. This city is on the south end of LA in an area known as South Bay. Surrounded by the cities of San Pedro, Torrance, Gardena, and Long Beach, Carson is probably most famous for California State University, Dominguez Hills. The Home Depot Center Sports Complex is also located there. This week Empire Parking Lot Services was called out to do some warehouse floor striping there, and the job went great.

About This Job:

This project was for an international tile company that specializes in very high-end products. They needed to move their distribution company to a new location, but before they moved into that new location it needed to be cleaned and striped for their product staging. That’s where we came in. We were hired to clean the warehouse floor using our mechanical scrubbers and brooms. Basically these machines are like small street sweepers that can sweep up the dirt or mop up the dirt and grime that builds up in a warehouse over time. They cover large areas quickly and this job was over 30,000 linear feet so they came in handy. Once we swept and cleaned the warehouse floor we started the line painting process. The work actually consisted of 4400 linear feet of 4” yellow line in 2 part epoxy. After the lines where painted we also painted number stencils on the concrete using the same paint type. We installed 510 (8”) number stencils that indicated where there pallets belonged. Warehouse manager have been using these systems to track and manage product for years now. The technology we use to organize your product and inventories has become very easy to afford. Many companies have been using our warehouse maintenance services as well as our asphalt paving services at their facilities. One call gets it done and that convenience can save you time and money, while getting a truly superior product.

About This Asphalt Paving Company

Empire Parking Lot Services has been maintaining asphalt and concrete surfaces for only a short time, but our team here is made up from industry veterans. Our experts have come from very diverse backgrounds. They are some of the best asphalt paving experts, concrete experts, sealcoating experts as well as parking lot striping & warehouse striping experts. Most of our employees have been employed in there industry for over 15 years. If you have a warehouse striping project, paving project or any project that involves asphalt or concrete give Empire Parking Lot Services a chance.

You won’t be disappointed!

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Not Just an Asphalt Paving Company

Fontana Warehouse Gets New Industrial Floor Lines Painted

This month Empire Parking Lot Services has completed one the largest Industrial Floor Line Striping projects in the history of the company. This project took place in a distribution facility in Fontana California and lasted approximately 2 weeks. Our customer called us in the early phases of the project and new exactly what they wanted. They where looking for an strong paint product that could hold up to heavy forklift traffic but at the same time something that could later be removed if needed.  Not only did Empire Parking Lot Services handle all facets of the floor markings, but we also installed over 1000 signs installed using conduit and airplane grade wire to hang them from the rafters.

Warehouse Sign Hanging Services as Well

Empire Parking Lot Services was asked to install over 1000 bar code signs while on this Industrial Floor Line striping project. These are the signs that are used by large distribution facilities to keep track of their inventory. Our crews finished the entire project a week ahead of schedule. Look for  a blog next week outlining that process.

About Empire Parking Lot Services

Empire is not just about your parking lot anymore. We can and do repair asphalt and concrete throughout out California, however if you have a warehouse that needs any types of concrete repair or maintenance, we have the crews, equipment and know how to get that done as well. Call Empire Parking Lot Services today for a free estimate and learn how much you can save using us. We would love the opportunity to work with you. On this Industrial Floor Line striping project we also painted columns. Many of our customers are not aware of some of our other services. Below is a partial list of warehouse related services.

• Warehouse Floor Striping
• Concrete Sealers
• Concrete Specialty Coatings (ie acid resistant, urethane, epoxy flooring etc.)
• Column Painting
• Wall Stencils (markings)
• Sign Hanging
• Concrete Repair
• Bollard Installation
• Wheel Stop Installation
• Sign & Pole Installation
• Pressure Washing
• Scrubbing & Cleaning
• Shot blasting (floor prep)

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Industrial Floor Lines Painted in Fontana California

Berlin Packaging Gets Safety Warehouse Striping

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.

About Empire Parking Lot Services

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.

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Safety Striping For Santa Ana Local Business

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.

About Empire Parking Lot Services

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

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Warehouse Floor Painting in Santa Ana California

Best way to Prep Your Concrete for Paint

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.

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877-760-2757

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Preparation of Concrete for Painting Lines

Best Type of Prep for Concrete Surfaces

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 is shot blasting.

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Shot Blasting Explained

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.

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Concrete Preparation for Painting Lines

Costco LA Gets Some Warehouse Striping Done

Warehouse Line Painting in 2 Part Epoxy

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.

About Empire Asphalt Repair Services

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.

Call us at: 714-633-0300

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Los Angeles Warehouse Floor Striping For Costco

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.

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

About Empire Parking Lot Services

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.

Give us a call today

714-633-0300

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Warehouse Floor Striping in San Bernardino, Ca. Again…

December 16th, 2009

Warehouse Striping Can Save You Money

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.

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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.

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Warehouse Striping Creates Space, Saves Money