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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