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• Are Simple Sealers The Answer To Pricing Concerns For Your Warehouse Floor Coating?
  
  In today's competitive business atmosphere, controlling maintenance costs of warehousing and other buildings is essential. One expensive element of building maintenance is care of warehouse floor coatings.
  
  

• Causes for Coating Failure on Your Warehouse Floor Coating
  
  Applying warehouse floor coatings requires planning and expertise before, during and after the actual product application. Failures in surface analysis and preparation, product selection, application technique, dry time and maintenance procedures can, and do, cause coatings to fail.
  
  

• What Material is Right for Your Warehouse Floor Coatings?
  
  As a painting and coatings professional for the past twenty four years, I have been approached many times concerning the proper floor coating for warehouse floors. Trade journals are loaded with advertisements for different coatings that all promise optimal performance under virtually any conditions, and every one claims to be the best bargain in the business.
  
  

• Epoxy 411
  
  Epoxy paints are hands down some of the toughest coatings on the market. Auto garages, parking decks, factory production floors and other high traffic areas are the typical places you will find an epoxy based coating. When properly applied, epoxy paints can take a beating, and still look good.
  
  

• Is Your Building a Candidate for Encapsulation?
  
  If your facility has areas painted with lead paint, you know that lead abatement costs can induce a painful case of sticker shock. One way to possibly ease the financial pain of lead abatement is a technique called encapsulation.
  
  

• Laying It Down Epoxy Application Step by Step
  
  Epoxy coatings are durable and versatile, and are used in many industry and commercial settings where performance, looks and chemical resistance are a priority. Here's how epoxy is applied by the pros, from the pot to the finished product.
  
  

• Painting Green Commercial Painting Products and Procedures that Build a Greener Reputation
  
  Going green? In the wake of films like An Inconvenient Truth, presenting a greener reputation to the public may be a matter of business survival. As environmental consciousness becomes a mainstream concern, proving your company's commitment to green thinking involves adopting practices that make sense for your business and are earth friendly.
  
  

• Prep for Success - Avoid Paint Failure and Increase Service Value
  
  If improperly applied, or applied after hasty or incomplete preparation, the lifespan of paint will be short. Painting contractors know that using quality products on properly prepared surfaces and using professional application techniques is the only way to get the most out of a coating.
  
  

• Sticker Shock - Lead Abatement Costs You Need to Know Now
  
  Does your facility have lead paint? Get ready for the sticker shock now, because lead abatement costs can be a nasty surprise during renovation and renewal projects. Here is a general guide to the costs of lead abatement, including an examination of the factors that make the price tag for lead abatement so high.
  
  

• The Changing Face of Lead Abatement Regulations
  
  Facility managers: put April 2010 on your calendar. In April 2010, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will require all contractors whose renovation work disturbs lead-based paint in certain pre-1978 structures to be properly certified.
  
  

• Too Beautiful To Be This Tough - The Virtues of Epoxy Paint
  
  You can use epoxy almost anywhere that you need a durable, chemically resistant surface finish. Epoxy has many virtues which make it a coating of choice for many commercial and industrial applications.
  
  

• Top Ten Reasons to Repaint Your Commercial Building
  
  Meeting regulations is one of the most basic reasons for repainting a commercial building. Safety concerns are another basic reason for repainting a commercial building. Repainting signs and markings in the parking area keeps traffic flowing smoothly and safely, and helps insure a pleasant shopping experience.
  
  

• What Product Is Right for Your Painting Project
  
  The commercial painting product market has literally hundreds of applicators, paints, sprays, and types of coatings. If you are in charge of a facility, knowing a little bit about the types of products contractors use can help you make better maintenance decisions about your building.
  
  

• Budgeting for Commercial Painting Projects
  
  If your maintenance budget for the current operating year has a taken a hit, you may be wondering how to get a commercial painting project accomplished along with everything else. Two possible solutions to project budgeting are purpose driven spending and changing the contracting process.
  
  

• Building Great Client-Contractor Relationships
  
  Building a long-standing relationship with your commercial painting company can pay off big time. Here are five tips to keep your relationship open, honest and good for business.
  
  

• How to Attract and Retain Quality Employees
  
  Whether you run an independent painting company or you're contracting with an outside painting company, you want to know how to forge lasting bonds with your employees. "A company is only as good as the people who work for it".
  
  

• How to Choose A Commercial Painting Contractor
  
  You've done it. You've decided to hire a professional painting contractor for a project at your corporation or small business. Whether you've contracted this work out before or not, finding an experienced and professional commercial painting contractor can be a daunting task.
  
  

• Inspecting Finished Surfaces
  
  During the final stages of a painting project, taking a tour through the area and assessing the quality of the job should be first on the to do list. Here are a few tips from professional painting contractors for a finished surface inspection.
  
  

• Painting Versus Replacing
  
  When you are planning to refurbish a manufacturing facility, municipal building or warehouse, you always have to consider the costs of painting versus the costs of replacement. While it is true that replacement is a very long term solution, it is also a very costly solution, both in direct costs and in indirect costs.
  
  

• Safety Certification for Painting Contractors
  
  Whether you're an owner of a massive facility that's about to undergo a restoration or you're a small business manager who's contracting out a warehouse refinishing job, you want to know that your industrial painting contractor is properly trained in safe and effective painting practices.
  
  

• The Right Way to Building a Good Painting Crew
  
  In the commercial and industrial painting world, the basic working unit is the painting crew. Knowing how to put together a tightly knit, highly efficient work crew is the defining activity for a painting company. If the company can field great painting crews, then financial success is a lot more likely.
  
  

• Understanding Painting Preparation
  
  Proper painting surface preparation is one of the most critical factors to getting high quality results. It doesn't matter whether the job is a complete repainting of a 1,000,000 square foot warehouse complex or a simple touch up job in the gymnasium of a small elementary school.
  
  

• Understanding the Deck Coating Preparation Process
  
  Deck coating is one of the more challenging aspects of professional painting and coating. The deck surface takes repeated impacts and abrasions, as well as the general wear and tear of heavy traffic.
  
  

• Weather Effects on Painting Applications
  
  Weather can dramatically impact your exterior painting job. Heat, sunlight, rain and wind all create conditions that require extra care during the application phase to produce a professional quality coating.