Fresh line painting is one of the cheapest ways to keep a commercial property looking maintained. Faded stall lines and worn stencils cost nothing until a tenant complains, an inspector shows up, or the fire department starts asking questions. ArtForm Construction handles commercial line painting across Edmonton for parking lots, warehouse floors, fire lanes, outdoor athletic courts, and custom stencil work. Everything runs through our own crews on our own equipment. We don't sub the work out.
Edmonton is hard on traffic paint. Snow plows take a lot of it off through the winter, tires grind sand and salt through the rest, and by August whatever's left has faded from the sun. Most commercial parking lots are due for a full repaint at the 12 to 24 month mark. Lots with heavy daily traffic go through paint faster than that. We work through the paint window between about mid-May and late September, and a standard commercial parking lot usually turns around in one working day.
Line painting covers a lot more than parking stalls. These are the main types of work we handle for Edmonton commercial and industrial properties.
Our biggest single category. Work runs from a brand-new commercial lot getting its first set of stripes down to a twenty-year-old lot where the layout no longer makes sense and needs to be blacked out and redrawn from scratch. Asphalt and concrete both. The layout comes from the property manager, the site plan, the bylaw, or some combination of those. Stall dimensions, drive lane markings, no-parking zones, drive-thru arrows, cart-return arrows, and anything else the flow of the lot needs.
Interior line marking for warehouse floors. Forklift lanes, pedestrian walkways, staging areas, hazard zones, and safety zones. Most facilities need the marking layout to meet CSA visibility standards and workplace safety requirements. Warehouse floor paint takes a heavier beating than parking lot paint. Forklift wheels, pallet drops, and foot traffic hit the same lines every single day. We use interior floor paint systems built for industrial wear. They cost more up front than exterior traffic paint but hold up rather than lifting off in a few months.
Fire lanes and accessibility parking are code-required and get inspected. Fire lane markings have width and colour requirements set by the local fire authority, and those specs get updated occasionally, so we track the current version. Accessibility stalls include the wheelchair symbol, the diagonal-striped access aisle, and the blue background where the site plan calls for it. What we paint passes inspection because we're painting to the code that's actually in effect, not what was in effect five years ago.
EV charging stalls have gone from a specialty ask to a standard add-on over the last couple of seasons. The layout usually involves stenciling the EV symbol into the stall and painting a distinguishing colour across the stall pavement, most often green. We do the layout, the striping, and the stencil work. Actual electrical for the charger itself is a separate trade.
Custom stencils cover everything on a lot that isn't a plain line: directional arrows, reserved parking labels, company logos, stall numbers, loading zone markers, speed limits painted on the pavement. Whatever the request is, if you can describe it or send us a graphic file, we can have a stencil cut for it and applied cleanly.
Basketball, tennis, pickleball, and multi-sport court markings for outdoor schoolyards, rec centres, and municipal parks. We only do outdoor courts. Indoor gym floors need a different set of coatings and a specialized flooring contractor. Outdoor court lines have to be dimensionally accurate to be playable. Each sport's governing body publishes specifications for court size, line width, and colour, and those specs are what we measure and paint to.
Yellow curbs for fire routes and no-stopping zones, coloured curbs for reserved parking, and safety-yellow paint on bollards so drivers can see them at night. Painting concrete curb is a different job than painting asphalt stripes. Concrete needs more prep, uses different paint chemistry, and holds paint longer than asphalt does. We handle both, but they get priced as separate line items on the quote.
Every line painting project runs through the same general stages, whether we're striping a 20-stall commercial lot or a warehouse with a mile of interior floor marking to lay down.
Winter takes years off traffic paint. Snow plows are the biggest single cause of line failure in this city. Plow blades scrape paint off the pavement, especially at the leading edges of stalls where the plow catches. Salt and sand ground into paint by tires works like sandpaper over a whole winter of freeze-thaw. UV from long summer days does the rest.
No paint on the market eliminates any of this, but a few things extend the life of a paint job. The main ones: painting when the temperature and humidity are within spec, running a heavier coat on high-wear zones, spec'ing an upgraded coating on lots that see heavy daily use, and scheduling the next repaint before the existing lines start looking rough rather than after tenants complain.
For most Edmonton commercial properties, a full repaint at the 12 to 24 month mark with touch-ups between visits works out well. We can also handle scheduled maintenance contracts so restriping happens on a set cycle instead of getting deferred until someone complains about how faded the lines have gotten.
We line-paint commercial and industrial properties throughout Edmonton and the surrounding area:
If you need line painting on a parking lot, warehouse floor, or any other commercial property in the Edmonton area, get in touch. We'll come out to measure the site, confirm the scope, and quote you a firm price before any work gets scheduled.
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