Industrial Painter - Industrial Commercial Painting Services

Why should I be worried about safety?

admin — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 23:33:58 +0000

If you own or manage an area that people use, whether it is public or private, then it is your responsibility to make that area as safe as possible. If you are an employer, then by law you must ensure the health and safety of your employees and other persons, as well as eliminating any risks to the health and safety of employees and other persons in your workplace (Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004). There is also a ‘duty of care’ which you must provide to customers and the general public if your organisation requires them to visit your premises (Business Victoria).

The legal consequences of not following these rules can be both costly to a business and damaging to its reputation.

Slippery Surfaces
Slip and Fall accident claims, against both businesses through Workcover and bodies corporate through Public Liability, are on the rise in Australia. Slip and Fall accidents are widely perceived to be the primary cause of workplace injury and absence. Such accidents are not only costly for business but also bad for employee morale. The best solution is to prevent Slip and Fall accidents from occurring and provide a safe environment for your employees, customers and the general public.

CIPS can provide non-slip walking areas with either non-slip protective coating or abrasive blasting depending on the requirements and surface material. Treatments and coatings can be applied to a wide variety of floor materials including: porcelain tiles, quarry tiles, granite, marble, terracotta, terrazzo, slate, concrete, timber, steel and bitumen. If you have a surface area that you’re worried about, or that you’ve received complaints about, then don’t delay any longer. Contact CIPS and give yourself peace of mind that your business, workplace or property is as safe as it can be.

Traffic Dangers
Forklifts are responsible for many deaths and injuries in the workplace, through both collisions and falling loads. A Traffic Management Plan is vital for ensuring the safety of your staff and visitors. In providing a safe workplace, employers must separate pedestrian traffic from machinery, forklifts, trucks and other vehicles.

Commercial Industrial Painting Services are qualified to help you design and install a Traffic Management Plan that will keep your employees and visitors safe. Creating an effective Traffic Management Plan means identifying:

No-go or exclusion zones
Pedestrian walkways & crossings
Shared zones
Dedicated parking areas
Dedicated storage areas

Once identified, CIPS are then able to create these areas using methods such as line marking, epoxy coating, non-slip treatments, signage and colour coating.

‘A traffic management plan incorporating physical separation of forklifts and people is essential’ (Worksafe Victoria).

What should I consider before selecting a contractor?

admin — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 23:27:44 +0000

There are a number of factors that a customer should consider before choosing a contractor.

Experience
If your contractor isn’t experienced they may not know how to deal with certain problems or the best way to achieve what you want. CIPS has over 25 years experience in the painting and maintenance industry. Time restraints, budget restraints, access difficulties and specific requirements are all part of the job for CIPS. Their attention to customer satisfaction has established them as a market leader in keeping commercial and industrial properties looking their best all across Victoria and even in New South Wales.

Qualifications
If you want your job done properly and safely, you need to know that your contractor is properly qualified. CIPS is one of only 56 organisations Australia-wide to have Painting Contractor Certification Program (PCCP) accreditation levels 3 and 4 from the CSIRO. CIPS is a registered member of Master Painters Australia and a corporate member of the Australasian Corrosion Association. Their staff are also fully trained and qualified with both ‘rail track awareness’ and ‘elevated work platforms’ certifications.

Work History
To judge how good a contractor is you need to know their work history and see it for yourself. If they’re not willing to provide any references or examples of past work there may be a problem. CIPS have over 25 years of work experience history and an abundance of customers who recommend them highly. Their customers are both private industry and government, and the majority of their work is painting both buildings and concrete structures. Examples of CIPS’s high quality painting, maintenance and protective coatings can be seen at:

Rosebud Police station
Mordialloc Police station
Mt Eliza Secondary College
Dandenong Valley Special School
Tullamarine Primary School
Bialik College
Chisholm TAFE
George St Overpass (next to Dandenong Railway Station)
Leakes Rd Overpass (Calder Hwy)

To see some examples of CIPS’s work as well as read customer testimonials, click here.

Signwriting Melbourne

admin — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 23:21:24 +0000

CIPS know that in business looks are important. That’s why they want to make your business look as professional as possible with their fantastic range of signwriting services.
If you own a new business, what better way to establish your brand than with professional and modern shop front signage. If you own an established business, what better way to get more customers through the door than with a new look or freshening up. Hiring CIPS for signwriting services doesn’t mean changing your brand or logo either. If customers know your look and you’re happy with it, then CIPS will simply restore your signage for you and have it looking as good as the day it was painted. CIPS can tailor a sign to suit your needs. They can provide computer generated signs for modern designs and effects, to the more traditional hand painted signs when a delicate touch is required.

CIPS’s signwriting services are not only limited to shop fronts. They are also able to provide:

directional signage
statutory signage
corporate signage
design service
installation

General Painting

admin — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 23:09:38 +0000

CIPS are the Melbourne specialists in painting and maintaining business properties. As well as their ongoing SmartPaint® maintenance contract work, CIPS also do regular one-time paint jobs. But we can assure you that with the high quality paintwork that CIPS provide, their customers very rarely call them up just once. It may be years down the track, but when their customers need another paint job and they want it done properly, safely and for a reasonable price, they know they can count on CIPS.
Just because CIPS have all the tools for the big jobs, that doesn’t mean they don’t do the small ones either. It may not be your entire property, it may be one building, one apartment, one room, or even one wall. Whatever the job, big or small, commercial or industrial, complete repaint or light touch up, even if you’re unsure of what you want, don’t hesitate to contact CIPS and one of their friendly staff can attend to your needs.
As well as property painting, CIPS also paint smaller items. CIPS is proud to be able to offer Spray Painting services for tools, machinery and other items.

Line marking & traffic management plans

admin — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 23:05:59 +0000

How would you rate the traffic management on your commercial, industrial or rental property? Are your car parks, arrows and safety lines all clearly visible or are they faded markings just waiting for an accident to happen?

CIPS don’t stop at maintaining your building or block of apartments, they can also provide any road markings or signage that may be required on your property. Offering these services has seen CIPS evolve into a one stop shop for customers looking to refurbish their business sites. CIPS can provide line marking, road marking, car parking and lettering, as well as line removal.

Whether you own apartment buildings or industrial/commercial facilities, it is your ‘duty of care’ to have a clear distinction between pedestrian and vehicular traffic areas. Do you have any areas where you think an accident might happen? Any blind spots or areas that both pedestrians and vehicles share? CIPS are qualified to advise you on developing safe and practical Traffic Management Plans so solve these issues. CIPS can provide a number of traffic management solutions, including: arrows, car park lines, non-slip pedestrian crossings, bicycle symbols, forklift symbols, disabled symbols, safety lines, speed humps, kerbing, stop and give way lines, numbering, and lettering.

As well as painting road markings, CIPS can also remove any old or unwanted markings. Their removal techniques include blacking out markings with paint, as well as scrabbling with mechanical tools.

Facade and Canopy Cleaning

admin — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 00:07:33 +0000

It’s not only CIPS’s painting and maintenance services that have businesses around Melbourne looking first class. Whether it’s exterior cleaning for presentation, or other forms of cleaning for protection as well as health and safety, CIPS have the equipment and experience to tackle any job.

Facade and Canopy Cleaning
No matter how good a paint job is, the day-to-day elements it faces will eventually take their toll. Dirt, dust, rain, insects, birds can all take the shine out of any paint surface. With regular cleaning discolouration is only temporary, but it can lead to permanent damage when left to accumulate over time. If you ran your business from a car or van you would wash it regularly so why should your building be any different. CIPS have a number of cleaning techniques to keep your facade looking great. Regular facade cleaning extends the life of building surfaces, reduces maintenance costs and provides a well presented exterior to your customers and associates.

Their facade and canopy cleaning techniques include:

pressure cleaning to efficiently clean large surface areas such as broad walls, pavements and roofs
polishing for surfaces such as stainless steel, marble and stone
soft washing for more delicate or older materials where using high pressure cleaning could be harmful, ideal for historic facades of heritage buildings

Cleaning of Production Machinery/Areas

CIPS’s cleaning services can also help you maintain a safe and healthy work environment. Production machinery and production areas should be regularly cleaned to maintain health and safety standards and enhance performance. Cleaning production areas not only provides staff with a necessary healthy environment, it also removes hazards. Depending on your industry, waste materials may build-up on the walls causing falling debris or on the floor causing slippery surfaces. Cleaning can also lift staff morale and give them confidence in their employer.

Protective Coating Melbourne

admin — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 23:58:53 +0000

CIPS’s protective coatings are more than just applying a coat of paint. They create a paint system based on both the surface material and its surrounding environment to give the surface maximum possible protection. Customers are always very pleased when a protective coating has been applied and often comment on the fine work of the CIPS painters and how new the surface looks. However, it’s the long lasting protection that makes their customers really happy.

CIPS use only high grade products to create coatings that will protect surfaces from environmental and chemical damage. Even in natural environments where they are not exposed to hazardous chemicals, both metals and non-metals such as concrete, brick, plastics and timber will deteriorate over time. CIPS design their protective coatings to seal off these surfaces from the damaging reactions caused by environmental forces and chemicals. Whether it’s something as large as a building or as small as a tool, when the surface is sealed from the outside, corrosion is kept to a minimum.

CIPS understands how important it is for businesses to save money. That’s why they do their utmost to make sure your building not only looks great, but is well protected. Low damage means low maintenance and more importantly low costs. CIPS’s protective coating will aid in the maintenance of your place of business, especially in combination with their SmartPaint® program.

Sand blasting/ Blast & Paint/ Abrasive Blasting

admin — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 23:54:37 +0000

As well as using solvent, CIPS can remove paint and clean surfaces using sand blasting or abrasive blasting. Abrasive blasting is the process of cleaning, smoothing or shaping a hard surface with a controlled high speed stream of abrasive material. With CIPS’s well trained staff, abrasive blasting of concrete or steel is like sand papering wood only more even and accurate. Corners and hard to reach crevices are no problem for their abrasive blasting. CIPS offers abrasive blasting for both pre-painting surface preparation and cleaning unpainted surfaces.

Preparation of surfaces
Old steel structures, containers and tools may be corroding and can become unusable if left untreated. Painting over rust may hide the problem temporarily but it won’t be long before it bubbles to the surface again with even more damage done underneath. CIPS’s surface preparation technique of removing rust with abrasive blasting or power tools is essential before applying a protective coating. But it’s not just old steel that can benefit, new steel can also require abrasive blasting to smooth joins, and remove welding slag and mill scale before painting.

Cleaning of unpainted surfaces
CIPS also offers a range of industrial cleaning services. With abrasive blasting they can:

remove surface layers of concrete to provide new layers underneath
create non-slip profiles on concrete floors
remove anti-foul from boats, yachts and other marine craft
clean food processing machinery, floors and facilities
recondition used tools, machinery and equipment
clean paint shop tools including slave tools, floor grates, trolleys and jigs
clean any hard metal surface from cast iron to mild steel

CIPS have specialised Blast & Paint facilities to provide safe paint removal, surface preparation and protective coating application to metal components. This is an invaluable service to many factories, engineering and industrial plants, and even small businesses.

Paint Stripping Maintenance

admin — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 23:44:57 +0000

CIPS believes that when a job’s worth doing, it’s worth doing properly. They want to make your place of business look brand new for as long as possible. That’s why CIPS offer paint stripping. Any painter can easily come along and paint over existing paintwork, regardless of the condition. But it takes specialists like CIPS to realise that if you want your paint job to look and last its best, you need to strip away any pre-existing layers.

Why paint stripping? Painting over old paint that is cracked, peeling or bubbling will only conceal the problem temporarily. Building facades that are in poor condition can only be repainted once any existing paint has been removed. Older buildings, especially those that are heritage listed, may have decades’ old layers of surface finishes that have been painted over again and again. In these cases, paint stripping is the only way to uncover the original detail and restore older buildings to their former glory. Paint stripping is the best surface preparation for industrial painting.

CIPS has a specialised paint stripping technique, involving the use of both solvent mixture and paint stripping tools, to remove any pre-existing layers of paint or other finishes. Their technique not only removes old paint, it also cleans the underlying surface leaving it ready for a fresh coat. Painting on a clean surface will have your building looking newer for longer, another way that CIPS strives to give their customers more value for money.

SmartPaint®

admin — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 23:22:19 +0000

When was the last time you had your place of business painted? Were you disappointed that after only one or two years it already began to look dull and shabby? Does your building, office or factory need a revamp but you can’t justify paying $15,000-$20,000 when it feels like you only just had it painted? CIPS has come up with the solution to your problem.

SmartPaint® is the clever, cost effective way of keeping your building looking its best at all times. SmartPaint® is a revolution in the way businesses maintain their properties and more Melbourne businesses are taking advantage of it than ever before.

Instead of paying an expensive lump sum for a one time job that will soon fade, CIPS’s SmartPaint® spreads the cost and the maintenance over an agreed contract period. It’s like painting with after-care for the amount of time you decide, with the convenience of paying only a fraction of the cost in annual payments.

When you sign up for SmartPaint®, CIPS will repaint your entire property in the first year. Then once a year for the length of the agreed period, CIPS will appraise your property and repaint or touch up any areas that need maintenance. Contracts can vary from two to 12 years, the longer the contract the less you pay each year. It’s flexible and there are no termination fees, if you want to opt out of the contract you simply pay for the work that has been completed. The best part is that for a reduced annual payment, your property is guaranteed to look its best for as long as you want it to.