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.

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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.

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.

Part 1 of 3 Warehouse Striping

If you are a decision maker on a large warehouse line striping project then you are going to want to look at this three part check list. Over the next week we will take a look at the most important factors to consider when hiring a striping contractor. Hopefully, this list can save you headaches and hassles from making the wrong choices.

Line Striping in a Warehouse California.

1. Contractor License:

Most states have an online tool to verify the status of a contractor’s license. Our license’s status, for instance, can be confirmed on the CSLB at http://www.cslb.ca.gov/. On this site, there is a license status check as well as the ability to check current bond, insurance, and workers compensation information. A national list of links to state licensing boards can also be viewed at http://www.clsi.com/state_contractor_license_board.htm

2. Insurance and Workers Compensation:

This is probably the second most common trap customers encounter. They hire a licensed company that has allowed their insurance to lapse or simply never had any in their company’s history. This leaves companies with huge exposure to medical claims and lawsuits. I have personally been an expert witness on cases where large companies hired small and uninsured contractors in order to save a few hundred dollars only to end up paying millions from the litigious situations they create. To avoid these pitfalls, only do business with licensed and insured contractors.

3. Legal Paint Selected:

When it comes to warehouse line striping, there are many companies claiming they are qualified to execute warehouse striping work when they actually are not. A great question to ask your contractor to help you assess their qualifications include, “What are the laws regarding air quality and my paint choices?” Good contractors are familiar with the current state laws addressing which paints are legal and which paints fall short of environmental and air quality requirements. First time fines for the use of an illegal paint can fall in the tens of thousands of dollars. There are many great products sold by national paint manufacturers that will last a long time. So take some extra time to make sure you are covered with paint products that meet state codes and requirements.

There are many important decisions to make when planning and managing large warehouse striping projects. Look for part two next week when we continue our report addressing the main questions to ask a striping contractor for warehouse striping and painting projects. Check back next week when we look at the next three issues. Timing, Experience, Guarantees.

Some people love to be organized, while others do not. Those who are in charge of a warehouse, however, have no choice but to be organized. If you’re disorganized when you’re running a warehouse, your entire stock and employees may get mixed up. This is why someone like Federal Express needs to have warehouse painting done, and they chose to contact Trueline Parking Lot Striping in order to have some of their striping taken care of.

Federal Express contracted Trueline Striping recently in order to have a small parking lot project taken care of. They made great decisions as to their warehouse striping, including choosing two part epoxy for their painting needs, which results in a longer life span, and organizing their area by using numeric stencils. If Federal Express realizes that they need to be as organized as possible and knows that warehouse striping can help them to get the many packages to the correct places on time, then most warehouse owners will also see that warehouse striping is not superfluous, but instead that it can help you to get your items organized and your employees working together in harmony.