Warehouse Striping Creates Space, Saves Money

December 23rd, 2009

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 Removal “Knowing Your Options”

December 14th, 2009

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.

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Protecting your Warehouse Striping Investment.

December 10th, 2009

Protecting your warehouse striping investment.

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.

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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!

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Saving Space & Money With Warehouse Striping

October 6th, 2009

Using Warehouse Striping to Save Space and Money


Warehouse Striping To Maximize Your Space.

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.

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Warehouse Floor Striping Check List

October 1st, 2009

The Warehouse Floor Striping Guide

A quick guide to prepare you for the project.

(Part One of a Five Part Series:)

When you cross the complexities of warehouse floor striping with the urgency of warehouse staging, distributing and management, you come to realize that a lot can go wrong quickly.  That’s why it is of the utmost importance to be prepared for working with and choosing the correct striping contractors.  In an effort to help you achieve that goal, we offer you a quick list of questions and suggestions to think about ahead of time to help you be prepared.  Empire Parking Lot Services offers warehouse floor striping and, through our years of service and knowledge, we have come up with the following advice.

Part One:

  • Hire Local Warehouse Floor Striping Contractors:

Believe it or not, this is a common mistake many companies, big companies ! make.  They find a company that offers “National Striping & Signing Services”,  they call them up, and sign a contract with them.  Now, hiring a company from out of state isn’t the mistake in itself, but here is what can and often time does happen.  The company flies, drives, or buses out their crew, usually a very small crew to keep labor cost down.  Then, they order their paint from their local paint representative and they drop ship it to your facility.  Because these companies are not from California, they are not aware of the local air quality laws prohibiting the use of certain paints.  Problem number one is right there.  If you are working with a contractor that is using the wrong kind of striping paint on a construction project and that contractor is caught, guess who else feels the sting of that first time violation?  That’s right, it’s you!  Also, if you think it’s not going to happen to you, take a look here at this Google search results page.

Results 1 – 10 of about 261,000 for California air quality Violations 2009.

Another common problem you run into is that many states throughout the US don’t require a contractor’s license at all to perform Warehouse Floor Striping.  That’s where you run into some amazingly bad warehouse stripping.  I am not saying every unlicensed contractor does bad work because I am sure that’s not true.  What I can tell you is this, for every 10 jobs we do in the California area, one of them is  fixing a warehouse floor striping project that turned out wrong.  The fault does not necessarily always lie with a contractor, but we will get more into that in a later blog.  A licensed contractor isn’t a guarantee for a quality job, but it does guarantee that you, the customer, are protected by certain rights under the state of California laws.  These include filing against the contractors bond or taking legal action against their contractors license.  These things give customers like you a lot of leverage when things go wrong and they can go wrong, if your contractor doesn’t understand the complexities of warehouse striping.

7 Important Questions To Ask Your Contractor:

Where is your company located?
Do you have a contractor’s license for this trade in this state?
Are you familiar with the local laws pertaining to VOC (Volatile Organic Compounds ) levels in the paint you are using?
What size crew are you bringing to the project?
What happens if there is a problem and your crew has returned to Alabama, Florida,  Hawaii, Etc ……?
What is the expected time line to complete the project?
Do you offer a written guarantee on any of your warehouse floor striping services?

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