New Pavement Markings For Irvine Retail Center

June 7th, 2011

Irvine Shopping Center Gets New Pavement Markings

The term “Pavement Markings” refers to all things painted on a parking lot.From parking lines to red curbs and everything in between. Most Southern California paving companies offer pavement markings, but they’re not all offering the same quality or service. There are several reasons for this dilemma. The first reason is that some paving contractors sub contract out their pavement marking work to the lowest bidder. In return the customer gets shoddy and unprofessional work. That’s not to say that there are not quality parking lot striping companies, because there are. It’s just the “low bidder” part that kills the quality. Another reason is that many paving contractors don’t place a lot of emphasis on this service. Many think that because it’s a lower cost service, it shouldn’t waste too much of their time. This couldn’t be more wrong. At Empire Parking Lot Services we place as much emphasis on this service as we do on any other.


 

About this Pavement Marking Project

At this Orange County shopping center Empire Parking Lot Services was contracted to repaint all of their parking lot markings & curbs. This included all handicap Pavement Markings such as the disabled silhouette (handicap logo) and cross hatch lines, traffic stencils, such as stop and bars, arrows as well as  all parking stencils i.e. visitor, compact and reserved. Furthermore we repainted all speed bumps, parking lines, curbs, and bollards. This customer made sure that all areas that needed to be painted were prepped ahead of time, as well scrapped and sand blasted as needed. Any stencils that did not match the set chosen by the management company were blacked out with a clean square box, and repainted using the customers choice. All of this was done in the early morning hours, so that there was minimal inconvenience caused to the shopping center tenants and customers.

 

About Empire Parking Lot Service

Annual Pavement Markings maintenance plans are something we offer to many of our customers. We manage records for all of their shopping centers in terms of what has been done, and when it was done last.  As we work on these centers over the years we have learned to make suggestions to the property managers that will head off future issues. One example is red curb paint build up. If we see the paint on the curbs is getting to thick, we would make a suggestion to the management team to help properly plan and budget for the removals of that paint. By maintaining all of their centers they receive several benefits. First, they get quality uniform markings on their centers that is unmistakable. Same stencils, same colors, same high quality layout on each center. Nothing can make a stronger impact on your parking lot for less cost than clean parking lot markings. Second, they get great prices because of the number of centers they allow us to maintain for them. Volume work receives better pricing than a single project. Lastly, and most importantly, they get piece of mind knowing that the contractor they hired is always keeping an eye out for them, and heading off future problems and pitfalls.

Call Empire Parking Lot Services today to discuss ways in which we can save you money while making your parking lots look great!

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Pavement Markings for Torrance Business Park.

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).

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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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Options For Removing Old Pavement Markings

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.

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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

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