Warehouse Striping Can Save You Money

Warehouse Striping Can Save you money

When was the last time you looked around your warehouse and thought I could get more use from my space.  Chances are it wasn’t to long ago and your still thinking about it.  Trueline Striping has been striping warehouses for over 20 years and knows how to get more from that space for you.  With warehouse striping you can really increase not only the space in your facility ,but you can improve the safety and appearance of your warehouse areas.

The Process of Warehouse Striping

When Trueline Striping is hired to install striping in  a warehouse its 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.   Sometimes when our customers have forklifts they ask us to install acid resistant floor coatings under there battery charging stations to prevent acid from destroying their 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 is stored of any kind in a facility.

Warehouse Floor Striping Products & Options

When warehouse floor striping is going to be considered it’s important to also consider what type of paint you are going to want to use.  At Trueline we have the experience to access your situation and make appropriate recommendations.   With warehouse line painting you literally have dozens of choices to choose from.  Take a look below at the following paint choices and where the best place to use them is.

• Water base Paint:  Best used for exterior line painting applications such as truck stall parking, parking stall striping, and stencils and markers ie. stop, arrow and handicap parking.
• Oil Base Paints: Oil base paints are one of the best paints to use to gain a little more durability over a typical water based paint. oil base paints are also know for there drying characteristics. A great place we recommend oil base paints would be in  shopping centers and parking situations that need there parking lots open fast.  Here at Trueline we like to use oil base paints to repaint curbs and fire lines in shopping centers and home owner associations.  They are stronger than there water based cousin and last longer as well.  Add in the fast drying time and you can see why they are so popular with wise parking lot striping companies.
• 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 post.
• 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 hold up under the harshest conditions.  This paint product is ideal for warehouse floor striping and also floor coating like battery acid resistant applications.

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.  Trueline Striping Incorporated specializes in the applications of paint listed above and would love to provide you with any information that you may need regarding those applications.

714-630-9060

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The service goes by many names such as Warehouse Floor Striping, Warehouse Floor Painting, Floor Painting, Warehouse Line Striping, plus many more. Its similar to painting parking lots in that you are basically measuring out lines and painting them down.  However, the similarities end there.  Warehouse Striping is a far more complex project to undertake then parking lot striping with factors to consider such as, product choices, product pot life, timing, drying times, product compatibility, and many many more.

There are a lot of contractors that will take these projects on with little to no experience or worse, they are unlicensed or un-insured. A good indicator of an unlicensed contractor is not seeing it posted on there web site or stationary. Many times, contractors will actually use another companies’ license. The easiest way to know who it belongs to is to do a search on your local state license board. In California, ours is at http://www2.cslb.ca.gov/OnlineServices/CheckLicense/LicenseRequest.asp . You can check a license by company name, personal name ( i.e. owners name) or by contractor license number that they provide. Insurance is even easier. Simply ask for proof of insurance and then call their provider to make sure their policy is current and reflects coverage for their company.

Here are a few other State License Board Search web addresses.

• Nevada           https://www.nvcontractorsboard.com/datamart/nvscbSearchType.do
• Florida            https://www.myfloridalicense.com/wl11.asp?mode=0&SID=
• New York       http://www.op.nysed.gov/opsearches.htm
• Washington   http://www.dol.wa.gov/business/checkstatus.html

Basically, if you need to do a search for a license, just paste the following line into your search engine and you should find your local agency.

Search Query:

(” state name” + “state license board”)

So. California would look like this:

(California State License Board)

Also, there are some states that do not have a state license board because they do not require a license to preform work.  At last, look the number was around thirteen. However, its changing a lot, so keep checking.

If you need a licensed contractor for your Warehouse Striping project, please give us a call. Not only are we licensed and insured, but we have 18 years of experience and  great customer service.

The most important question you should ask first is this: 

Is your warehouse floor striping company  a licensed contractor? and are they an experienced contractor?

That is an important question. Mainly because if your contractor is not licensed locally, and something goes wrong, it can be difficult to make that company responsible for their mistakes. Here is a quick story about a Warehouse Floor Striping Services contractor that cost their customer a lot of money.

In this story, a warehouse manager decided to hire a contractor from out of state in an effort to save money. Since labor can be cheaper and insurance and so on , some people will consider this a valid option despite the many laws that a broken along the way. This particular warehouse hired a contractor from a state out side of their own,  and agreed upon a price sight unseen. A contract was drafted and the contractor was paid half up front. The next week the project was started and finished 7 days later. These are a few of the photos that we took of the job to show you what they ended up with.

after the project got under way the warehouse manager realized the quality was not what he had expected. They could  have avoided a lot of problems by asking some basic questions up front. This is not to say that out of state  striping companies cannot do a quality job, but they should have referrals available, they should not be willing to bypass the laws regarding licensing and product use, and most importantly they should have the experience. When Trueline Striping is considering a out of state project, we do the research ahead of time for our accounts and give them a quick assessment of the cost, products, and a time frame.

If you have a Warehouse Floor Striping project coming up, give us a call and talk to one of our estimators. They can provide answers for all your questions.

Paint Won’t Stick?

This week, a curious customer from Houston, Texas contacted us with questions about striping in a parking garage.  She is currently experiencing a problem that many property managers encounter with parking garages and warehouses that have smooth concrete surfaces.  Her pedestrian path of travel, near the main entrance, is wearing and disappearing at an accelerated rate.  With some a quick Q & A, we were able to trouble shoot her striping dilemma and provide her with a solution.

We recommend that the striper she hires uses a white two part epoxy paint or a polyurethane product.  Yellow or white will function.  However, in addition to using a durable paint product,  we suggested preparing the surface via etching to create a surface which the paint will properly bond.

The best procedure to use for etching the surface would entail Shotblasting.  A good striper will know this procedure and will be able to include this service in his contract. In most cases, striping on a smooth concrete surface will not be guaranteed without shot blasting.  Sans shotblasting, the surface is too smooth and the paint will simply scrape off the surface.

We also advised that epoxy paints need time to set-up.  If your parking garage, or warehouse, is closed on the weekends, it would be best to shotblast on an early Saturday morning and stripe the same day.  This will allow the paint to set-up till Monday morning.  However, if your garage, or warehouse, is always open then the striping may have to be completed in multiple phases.  This of course would increase the cost due to additional trips.

Another factor we suggested was to keep in mind is that she may want to apply a compatible and transparent sealer to the striping after it has been set up.  This will help protect the paint.  This does, however, add more logistical issues.  In many cases, the sealer cannot be applied until twenty four hours after the epoxy paint has been striped.

Lastly, once her project is completed, we recommend that an in-house maintenance staff, or a janitorial service, occasionally cleans the striping with some hot water and soap.  This will keep any sort of grease, dirt, or markings to cling to the striping and keep it looking fresh.

With this sound advice, she felt confident to contact a local striper with prepared questions and a bit of education for parking garage striping.

If you have any similar questions please call Trueline Striping, Inc. at (800) 603-1116

There are times when a business can offer you more than one plan, helping you to make your entire work area a better place. For instance, a good line striping company can not only help you to get your line striping done in your delivery area of your business, it can also help you to get your warehouse line striping done as well, allowing the warehouse floor striping to flow well into the parking lot striping so that the two work together flawlessly. But how can this work so well?

When you’ve got a warehouse, you often need to be able to have room for your employees to get to your docking area. Having striping done makes it easy to figure out where everything goes and what ways everyone is supposed to go in. When you add the parking lot striping and the unloading zone markings in with the warehouse line striping, and get it all done at the same time, the two can flow together seamlessly, making it easy for those who are working, and for those who make the deliveries, to work together so that your business keeps running smoothly.

Need a Warehouse Floor Striping Contractor in Southern California area? Look no further. Trueline Striping Inc. is located in Anaheim, California. In the center of Orange County and the central part of Southern California. Not only do we work in Southern California, but we can travel throughout the entire state to a project. This year alone we have done jobs in San Diego, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino, Kern County, Central California plus many many more. We have been helping companies like Costco, Best Buy, Federal Express and many more with there Warehouse Striping and other needs.

Warehouse Striping is a type of line painting that is usually performed using a high end two part epoxy or urethane product. Often times, warehouses need this type of striping to help keep their warehouses organized and to maximize their space. The problem with regular parking lot paint products is that they are not designed to stand up to the ware and tear of forklifts and pallet jacks. Trueline Striping uses a very strong paint product that not only holds up to this kind of abuse, but also complies with all California state laws regardsing air quality concerns.  If you have any questions regarding this type of Warehouse Floor Striping, please feel free to give us a call at 714-630-9060 or email us at This Link.

Can warehouse floor striping really help you to keep things more organized in your business? That depends on the type of business you have. If you’ve got a business where you store items and you never touch them again, like a large storage facility, then warehouse floor painting may help you to stay a bit more organized, but it isn’t necessarily something that you need to implement. This, however, isn’t what the normal warehouse looks like.

The normal warehouse has deliveries and is constantly sending things out as well. Warehouse floor striping is a great way to make sure that the items in your warehouse get shipped out to the right place, and that they’re expedited correctly no matter how busy things get. Warehouse floor striping also helps pedestrian traffic to stay organized, allowing you to not have to worry as much about people getting into accidents on the floor, and making it simple for everyone to know where everything is and to go to the right section at all times. Warehouse floor striping is not only a good idea, but it’s also extremely affordable especially when you weigh the cost against messing up orders.

Warehouse Floor Striping for California

Warehouse Floor Services is just one aspect of Trueline Striping Inc. For 18 years, we have been painting lines both inside & outside California facilities.  Our Warehouse Floor Services division has been around for the last twelve years and there are many things we have learned along the way. The first and foremost, is experience in working with literal dozens of different paint, tape, and thermoplastic products & types. Another thing, is understanding the customers needs. Lastly, but equally as important, would be keeping the cost down to the customer so that its a product that they can afford. Here is a small list of Warehouse Floor Services we offer.

• Warehouse Clean up and Construction Prep.
• Warehouse Pressure Washing
• Warehouse Sweeping
• Warehouse Striping and painting
• Warehouse Floor Coatings
• Warehouse Bollard Installation
• Warehouse Striping layout & design
• Warehouse Equipment and Labor rental services
• Warehouse Shotblasting
• Warehouse Sandblasting

Acid Proof Coatings

Shotblasting

Warehouse Striping

Warehouse Bollard Installation

This week Trueline did a warehouse floor striping project that was started by another contractor. Its  a long story, but the lesson is invaluable.

In this story, Trueline was hired to fix a job that had gone bad for our customer. The contractor, he originally hired asked for 50 % up front for material cost, which he was paid. Their original contractor started the project and quickly things started falling apart. The customer started asking questions and realized that their original hire was uneducated about the paint he chose to put down for them. With only 20 % of the job completed, the contractor stopped showing up and stopped answering his phone. When they tried to go after the contractor for the up front money they put up, they found out he was not a licensed contractor and that he had only a P.O. box address and a cell phone number that was now turned off. When I questioned whether they would where going to pursue it any further, they stated that the cost to sue would not be worth the time it would take to pursue it.

The Services such as Warehouse Floor Striping,  also known as Warehouse Floor Painting, Floor Painting, Warehouse Line Striping, etc. seems easy because its similar to painting parking lots in that you are basically measuring out lines and painting them down. Unfortunately, the similarities end there. Warehouse  Floor Striping is a far more complex project to undertake then parking lot striping. With factors to consider such as, product choices, product pot life, timing, drying times, product compatibility, and many more.

There are a lot of contractors that will take a Warehouse Floor Striping project on with little to no experience or worse they are unlicensed or un-insured. A good indicator of a unlicensed contractor is not seeing it posted on there web site or stationary. Many times contractors will actually use another companies license. The easiest way to know who it belongs to is to do a search on your local state license board. In California ours it at http://www2.cslb.ca.gov/OnlineServices/CheckLicense/LicenseRequest.asp . You can check a license by company name, personal name ( i.e. owners name) or by contractor license number that they provide. Insurance is even easier. Simply ask for proof of insurance and then call there provider to make sure their policy is current and reflects coverage for their company.

Here are a few State License Board Search web addresses.

• Nevada https://www.nvcontractorsboard.com/datamart/nvscbSearchType.do

• Florida https://www.myfloridalicense.com/wl11.asp?mode=0&SID=

• New York http://www.op.nysed.gov/opsearches.htm

• Washington http://www.dol.wa.gov/business/checkstatus.html

It is also important to keep in mind that not all states have a state license board.

Below is a good link for research. It has a nice users interface and easy to to navigate.

http://www.contractors-license.org

With the Internet becoming so popular for search, it has become more and more risky to hire a contractor. Companies can spring up over night and be gone the following month. They can look professional, have phone numbers and clean contracts. The key is doing some home work and being proactive before you start your next project.

Call us today if you have any question regarding this article or any Warehouse Floor Striping Project questions.

If you own a warehouse, you know that having the proper warehouse floor striping done is important, not just to keep your workers organized but to help those who enter into the warehouse to know where to step and where not to step. It can, however, be tricky to figure out when to get your striping done in your warehouse. If you have it done during the workday, you risk making it difficult for your employees to get around and do what needs to be done.

The easiest way to get things done is to have your warehouse striping done at night. Unfortunately, not every striping company will allow you to do this. Before you hire anyone, make sure you’re getting a company that will work around your schedule. Warehouse striping can take a bit of time if done properly, as the floor has to be properly prepared. The easiest way to do this without wreaking havoc is to hire a line striping company that is willing to come in and give you an estimate during the day while actually doing the work at night, or whenever it is that your employees are the least busy.