New Safety Warehouse Striping for Costco Laguna Niguel

December 6th, 2011

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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Not Just an Asphalt Paving Company

January 19th, 2011

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!

Call empire at: 877-760-2757

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Los Angeles Warehouse Floor Striping For Costco

April 5th, 2010

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.

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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

Or look us up on the web at www.Empirepls.com

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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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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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