TradeLane  Properties Commercial Painting Project Case Study

When Chicago’s renowned industrial real estate company, TradeLane Properties, needed two of their industrial warehouses and one stand-alone office building repainted, they reached out to PPD Painting. Having worked with PPD before, TradeLane knew that they could rely upon PPD to meet their client’s needs and expectations for this project.

Commercial Painting Project Overview

The project, located at 4201 W. 36th Street, required interior and exterior work on almost 100,000 square feet of building space. The bid proposal included a detailed scope of work identifying the specific issues and substrates for this project.

In addition, PPD outlined a tentative schedule for the progression and logistics of future work to dictate the pace, materials, labor, and equipment to finish the project. Our skilled estimating team walked this project and followed PPD’s established production rate to determine labor hours and material needed for this job.

Preparation & Painting Process

Building one was unique because, at the time, it was occupied by a large wrecking and excavating company. As a result, our foreman and supervisors regularly visited the site to ensure that our work did not interrupt their regular working hours.

Before the painting could begin, however, PPD coordinated a timely and convenient method for moving the heavy equipment stored outside the building so our painters could begin work. Once the site was cleared, PPD meticulously prepped the chalky and oxidized building surface with adhesion-resistant tests.

Our main concern was to find a suitable adhesion coating to reduce the severity of fading, chalking, and surface stains caused by sunlight and extreme weather conditions. Once the adhesion tests were complete, PPD then set about power washing the exterior surface, preparing and painting the metal siding, canopies, gutters, and downspouts using Benjamin Moore’s Command.

We also extended the scope of the work to include painting various exterior surfaces such as the building’s overhead doors and frames, loading dock handrails, bollards, fire hydrants, and gas meters.


Building two was vacant and required both interior and exterior painting. PPD prepared the interior using surface preparation methods such as air-blasting walls before painting and mechanically grinding metal surfaces such as doors and frames. Interior work also included:

  • Painting steel l-Beams and Warehouse Walls
  • Scraping loose and peeling paint off the columns throughout the warehouse and then repainting the bottom 6 inches yellow for safety reasons while leaving the top half white.
  • Painting bathrooms and offices.

The exterior mirrored the size, scope, and execution of building one.

Challenges

The greatest challenge we faced with this project was accessibility and the safety of our workers due to the sprawling power lines above building one. We remedied the situation by working with a local electrical company to de-energize both facilities.

In addition, PPD gave TradeLane timely updates on our progress, including pictures of work completed. PPD’s team also put out notices to provide the neighbors adjacent to the west side of building one with warnings of when we would begin spraying and painting. Safety measures are our top priority, and we use every bit of our training to ensure the project’s safety.

Final Results

PPD’s efficiency ensured that the job was completed on time and that the final results exceeded our customer’s expectations. Our hardworking painters and their ability to work 12-14 hour shifts and weekends produced an overall success.

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Really like this service. Great pricing

Alex Wong

Well, nothing in this life seems to be perfect, but Precision Painting is nearly there.

Karen Fenyn

Very responsive. Quality work. Helpful staff!

David Wilson

Work was great. Professionally completed job. Workers were great and a pleasure thru the mess.

Kathie

Exceptional work! Ricardo did a great job. The office staff and project manager as well as Aaron were all very helpful and accommodating.

Marikay Artner

On time, professional, pleasant, hard working and thorough job.

Maura Cullen

You came here and gave us the estimate when you said you would. Your project leader was polite and on time.Your crew was here on time, they were polite and got to work right away and did a good job. The job was completed when you said it would be finished.

Joe Lambert

Very detailed, quality work, responsive, prompt, pleasant to work with.

Kurt Nitschke

First time using, but very pleased with everything. Great crew did a great job, reasonable pricing, flexible hours with minimal effect on our staff

Robert Wallace

You have experienced, professional painters who genuinely care about the quality of their work.

Ann R.

The crew was very professional and courteous.

Kim Baker

Bruno is doing a good job in his new roll as project manager and Sal is the best painter that leads the crews for Phonak work projects. I get them started and they take it from there with very little monitoring on my part. I also like the partial billing, the organizing of my paints and if possible a year end report on what we spent on patching and painting would be great.

Mike Moore

Excellent workmanship, I didn't have to check your work. Paul and Alfonso were polite, and conscientious and treated my house as if it was their own.

Rick Orna

Answered their phone promptly. Paint job was a perfect match. My customer was very pleased.

BRS

Paul is an excellent painter. He was very tidy and easy to work with. Paul did a great job matching the color of our front stain and his work is professional. Paul was on time and good at communicating. I would definitely recommend Precision Painting to a friend.

Tracy McCarville

Quality efficient work

Brent Alwood

Great Professional Work!!

James Kastanis

On time, good job, neat, good clean up

Joyce Helms

Friendly professional staff. Quick scheduling of both quote and job. Quality work at finish!

Amy Barger

On time, on budget with a high degree of quality.

Richard Dusing

Great painters did a thorough and complete job. Staff was commenting on how good they were.

John Pena

The crew did an unbelievable job on our home.

Brian Germain

By far the best team I have worked with on home improvements -- I'd describe them as professional, timely, courteous, talented, and fun!

Kevin Slattery

They were extremely professional, organized and finished the job in half the time! Highly recommend their service again :)

Valentina Labovic

Very good execution and quality.

Bob Sanner

Always prompt, professional, reasonably priced, great work, communicates well with you!

Mary Della Chiesa

Great company; professional and courteous. It was clear the team knew how to do their job and took pride in doing it well. Very organized and efficient as well.

Pat Shaughnessy

Great job and extraordinarily kind gentlemen doing the work. Had the utmost respect for our home.

Eileen Daw

Great workers and very friendly.

John Pena

PPD was professional, prompt, clean and fairly priced. Recommend 100%!

Jack Dominy

Great experience from start to finish, from scheduling the estimate, work well done, polite & professional painters, cleaned up afterward

Christine Futrell

Professional, responsive, does great work!

Kurt Nitschke

Excellent service and quality work at a fair price....

Dan Abdo

You guys do great work, are reasonably priced, and stand behind your work and all your people are good to work with. I will mention that on the last few jobs I noticed a very slight slip in the finished quality, things like drips or missed spots. No big deal but something I don't expect from you guys.

Bernard Bartelli

Terrific and conscientious quality of work plus cleanup.

John Michie

Good job and very easy to work with!

Ilsa Conover

Great friendly staff and quality painting pros.

Christine Paulson

Good job Finished on time

Pat Rossi

The work was outstanding and the employees were amazingly courteous, professional and personable.

Eva Roby

Very nice job can’t wait til do the outside

Dennis Hansen

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