Dry Ice Blasting
From sand blasting to dry ice blasting, Protec provides the most cost efficient and environmentally safe way to prepare any surface for painting, coating or simply leave areas looking clean and fresh. Our Protec blasting experts can recommend and complete the right solution for removing paint, oil, grease, tar, resins, wax, carbon, adhesives and other contaminants from various surfaces.
About Dry Ice Blasting
Dry ice pellets are accelerated in a jet of compressed air, which then strikes the coating or containment to be removed with extreme velocity. This cleans through three effects.
Kinetic Effect: When dry ice pellets strike a surface at the speed of sound any coating, dirt or contaminant on the surface is cracked and loosened.
Thermal Effect: The low temperature of dry ice pellets makes the coating brittle, cracks it and loosens it as a result of reduced bonding between the coating and the underplaying surface permeating the coating.
Explosive Effect: dry ice penetrates the coating and immediately passes from a solid to a vapour state.
Protec can use Dry Ice Blasting to restore many areas to a like new state in a safe, effective way around your commercial or residential space.
Dry Ice blasting can be used in but are not limited to the following areas:
Building facades, monuments and historic restoration
Automotive assembly areas
Disaster recovery, smoke and fire damage
Power Stations - transformers, generators & insulators and electrical and electronic equipment cleaning
Graffiti removal
Food & beverage processing
Mould removal
Print machines
Pulp and paper motors
Soda Blasting
Soda blasting is a mild form of abrasive blasting in which sodium bicarbonate particles are blasted against a surface using compressed air. It has a much milder abrasive effect than sandblasting while providing more abrasion than dry ice blasting.
Soda blasting is a non-destructive method for many applications, including but not limited to paint and varnish stripping, automotive restoration, industrial equipment maintenance, rust removal, graffiti removal, masonry cleaning and restoration, boat hull cleaning and more.
We specialize in soda blasting in fire restoration project.
Protec Contractors offer mobile soda blasting services for much of southwestern Ontario, the Niagara Golden Horseshoe and the GTA. Find out today if soda blasting is the right cleaning or surface preparation method for your job