Cleaning concrete with the dry ice blasting process is highly recommended where hazardous materials are present.Tweet
Concrete cleaning can be accomplished by many different conventional industrial cleaning methods, sandblasting, soda blasting, pressure washing, chemical cleaning and acid washing to name a few. These methods have one thing in common. They all leave a secondary waste stream behind.
In the industrial world, secondary waste streams are an unnecessary added expense. Containment and cleanup of the cleaning media is labor intense. If hazardous materials are part of the project, the volume of the used cleaning media needs to be contained, shipped, treated and disposed of in the same way as the hazardous material itself. This can make your costs for doing the job quite expensive.
A graffiti removal project might be under consideration. Will your planned method of removing it make it look worse than it already does? How about the job setup, do you need to barricade the area to minimize hazards?
Dry ice blasting has no secondary waste stream, no sand or water. There is no liquid state to carry contamination into drainage systems or the ground. It changes directly from a solid to a gas, by a process known as sublimation. This method of cleaning does not magnify the volume of waste. Imagine concrete cleaning without the added sand, water, chemicals, soda or acid.
Dry ice is pure carbon dioxide (CO2) in a solid state. When we breath we take in air that contains oxygen, our bodies use the oxygen and we exhale CO2. The earths vegetation uses CO2 in the photosynthesis process and gives back oxygen.
Perhaps there is a concrete cleaning project ahead and there is a question that is causing you some reservation, call and ask us what we think. We cannot answer every question, but, there is a lot of experience at Glacier Blast that you can feel free to use. 320-275-5479
Industrial Cleaning By Dry Ice Blasting In Minnesota