Glacier Blast introduces a cleaning and protective coating system that meets the demands of today's car wash owners and clients.Tweet
Over time, peeling and blistering paint, detergent, wax and chemical buildup on car wash walls becomes less appealing. This creates a negative affect in the minds of your customer base. Clients that used to be loyal regulars start using a competitors facility. How can the owners of car wash and detailing facilities reverse this trend?
This, of course, is not a tough one to figure out. Get rid of the negative affect source, clean up and paint. The simple enough answer is not quite so easy to put into action. How and where do we start?
The preparatory cleaning of the car wash is the single most important step in assuring good paint adhesion to the surfaces being painted. A high quality coating system purchased for the advantages of being able to withstand high pressure water, harsh cleaning chemicals or detergents and having a surface that is scrubbable is of no value if the surfaces are not cleaned properly prior to the painting application.
If the coating system is applied over residual soap, detergent, wax, scaling rust or dirt, the application will fail. This does not apply to staining or material that over time has solidified and become part of the substrate.
What cleaning method should be used? Glacier Blast has their own forte for cleaning car washes, dry ice blasting. Our process uses dry ice pellets as the blast media. The pellets are added to a pressurized air stream and delivered at high speed through a nozzle to the surface being blasted.
Similar in concept to sandblasting with many added benefits. Dry ice sublimates on impact and turns into CO2 (carbon dioxide) gas. This phenomenon turns out to be a benefit to the end user of the dry ice blasting process.
There is no abrasive blast media to get into mechanical moving parts and cause long term damage. In the case of automated washing equipment, residual sand in the cloth can also cause damage to your customers cars paint.
It has no secondary waste to dispose of or cleanup. Nor does it have water to get into electrical panels or switches to cause corrosion and arcing. In the case of wood framed walls and ceilings there is no water being forced through sheet metal or plywood seams to cause damage to the inside.
After the interior of the car wash has been dry ice blasted there is still more preparation before painting can be accomplished. Concrete floors, automated equipment and any horizontal surface that over spray might settle on needs to be covered with poly. All windows are completely masked.
Now, on to the maintenance coating system Glacier Blast uses on their customers car wash facilities. When the masking is completed, then the painting starts with the application of Sherwin William's Macropoxy 646, this is applied to all bare metal surfaces.
After priming bare metal with Macropoxy, Sherwin William's Corothane 1 Aliphatic Finish Coat is applied to all surfaces that the car wash owner has determined should be painted. With its tough abrasion and chemical resistant qualities Corothane has proven itself to be the leader in car wash coating systems.
Last but not least is the job cleanup. When the painting is complete, Glacier Blast understands the need for the owners to be pleased with the investment they have made and strives to do a very thorough cleaning.
Industrial Cleaning By Dry Ice Blasting