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Keeping your facility in top condition requires constant maintenance. Commercial and industrial building managers are constantly taking care of repairs and touch-ups to maintain the quality of the facilities. Some repairs can take place year-round, but painting can only be safely completed during a few months of warm weather each year. No matter what industry you’re in, spring and summer are the busy season for commercial painting because this is when you can safely conduct outdoor painting projects.
With so many areas to cover, the summer becomes a painting busy-season for your facility. There are a few ways to approach this challenge. You can pick and choose areas to repaint each year, work as quickly as possible, or try to stretch your schedule into the off-season. PaintJet has a unique solution that can help asset managers achieve safe, fast, and high-quality commercial painting to achieve all your retouching or rebranding objectives this year.
When you have a lot of work and a limited amount of time to do it, challenges naturally arise. Commercial and industrial building managers need to budget time and money while also planning logistics around the interruptions that painting can cause.
The quality of paint throughout your facility is important to both looks and safety. Rebranding or taking care of routine maintenance requires attention to every area of the property. This can create a massive number of individual projects painted one area at a time. Scheduling each section of painting can become a huge logistics challenge.
Covering large spaces and higher levels is also more challenging because you need a team that can safely paint high spaces which means scaffolding or lifts, fall protection, and trained professional painters. Large-scale painting projects take more time, more people, and more safety measures but it needs doing to ensure the quality of the finishes on your exteriors and large interior spaces.
Painting always becomes a busy season because the summer is the only time when the weather is clear and warm enough to ventilate interior areas and schedule exterior projects, But this also means that you only have a few months before autumn storms change the conditions. You can only stretch your painting projects until the weather decides when the clear season ends.
Another issue is that painting projects get in the way of normal traffic flow and, in some cases, prevent work from being completed. Each space to be painted must be shut down during the painting and interior spaces must be aired out while the paint cures before they can be reoccupied. You need to schedule painting to complete and dry as quickly as possible and prepare logistics to minimize the impact on your operations.
Lastly, every maintenance project requires budgeting. Widespread commercial painting means budgeting for commercial painting services, even if you have an internal team who can take on smaller painting jobs.
When it comes to maintenance limited by the summer season, efficiency is key. Each individual painting project must go swiftly to allow activities to resume in each refinished area. You also need to complete the entire stack of painting tasks before the end of the season when wet weather prevents exterior projects and imminent cold stops you from efficiently airing out the building.
This leaves you with a short amount of time and a great deal of painting to complete, so working quickly is the only way to achieve your goals. You need a team painting as quickly as they can, covering each section with efficiency and speed before moving on to the next area to be painted.
To achieve these efficiencies at scale, it’s crucial to leverage advanced technology. This is where PaintJet comes in, utilizing state-of-the-art robotics to streamline the painting process. With PaintJet, you can achieve fast production times and unmatched quality.
The usual solution to finish a large job quickly is to hire more people to get your facility looking sharp and back at full capacity as quickly as possible.
However, the painting industry is facing a significant challenge with a rising cost of labor shortage. As the economy has rebounded, construction activity has increased, and there is a growing demand for skilled labor in the painting industry. Unfortunately, the supply of skilled workers has not kept up with this demand, and the result is a shortage of skilled painters. As the balance of workforce utilization changes, there are fewer painters available and the cost of a large team working quickly has gone up considerably. This can take the usual solution outside your preferred budget range.
Getting your team into gear is the best way to meet your large-scale painting needs on time and on budget. Of course, to accelerate the timeline, you’ll need to double-down on safety. The last thing you want is injuries regarding scaffolds and lifting equipment as you rush to meet your summer maintenance timeline.
Make sure your entire painting team has recent safety training. Assign safety officers that are in charge of maintaining safety and compliance requirements for every project and shift where off-the-ground painting takes place.
The most efficient way to ensure safety, however, is keeping everyone’s feet on the ground. Robotic painting systems make it possible to quickly and efficiently paint large and upper-level areas, taking care of the hazardous work.
How do you avoid sacrificing quality when rushing your team to complete painting maintenance during the busy season? The answer lies in advanced commercial painting robotics. PaintJet operates AI-powered paint robots that can handle large-scale and advanced painting jobs with superior efficiency and a small team of on-the-ground operators.
Paintjets’s robotics solution offers the advantages of speed, safety, small professional crews, and can even continue painting exteriors while the weather turns cold, as long as the sky is clear. Paintjet is changing the game in the painting industry. Our use of drones, advanced imaging technology, and robots have made us a one-of-a-kind solution to painting at scale. By incorporating AI into our painting process, we can predict maintenance requirements and reduce overall painting costs. We are committed to delivering quality and ensuring that our clients’ facilities look their best.
Contact PaintJet to consult on your facility-wide painting needs this maintenance season.
15 Years Painting industry expertise @ PPG, PaintZen, CertaPro and industrial painting contractor
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