The Texas Bookman

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The Texas Bookman Painting Project

This building is an office/warehouse facility for The Texas Bookman, a division of Half Price Books. The building in located in the western part of Dallas in a warehouse district. Most of the building is a tilt-wall structure with aggregate, but there are smooth concrete areas that are painted. The paint in these areas was badly faded and weathered. Our CertaPro team power washed all painted surfaces, and painted in a fresh new color that restored the branding of the building.

Conditions:

Most of the building is a tilt-wall structure with aggregate, but there are smooth concrete areas that are painted. The paint in these areas was badly faded and weathered. CertaPro power washed all painted surfaces and painted in a fresh new color that restored the branding of the building. The washing, prep and painting was completed within the time frame communicated to the customer, and done in such a way as to avoid disruption to ongoing activity at the building.

Challenges:

We used a boom lift throughout the project.

Project Involvement:

This project was all prep and painting of concrete tilt wall, metal doors and steps, metal coping around the top of the building and areas around bay doors.

Special Challenges:

Much of the work required access via a lift. This is a working facility, with 18-wheeler trucks pulling up to bay doors throughout the day, and leaving their trailers to be emptied and loaded. There are also employee vehicles that typically park next to the building, and we had to coordinate restricting parking to ensure that there was no overspray on vehicles.

Before Photos

Below is what the building looked like prior to painting. Click on any image to zoom in.

Faded Doorway

Faded Doorway

The doorway was in bad shape and needed new paint.

Worn Signage

Worn Signage

The front of the building and signage were very worn.

Side of Building Before

Side of Building Before

Here is what one side of the building looked like before painting.

Loading Door

Loading Door

Here is what some of the other doors looked like before we started the project.

After Photos

Here are the final results of this industrial painting project.

New Branding

New Branding

Here is how the signage turned out.

Fresh Entryway

Fresh Entryway

The pop of blue is ultra inviting.

Refreshed Building

Refreshed Building

The building has a completely new look now.

Loading Area After

Loading Area After

The owners were thrilled with our results.