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Tell us what needs cleaning
Send the equipment, the location and a short description of what you are dealing with. Photos help. You will hear back from one of the owners.
What to send
The equipment, where it lives, what is on it, and whether it can be shut down. Photos tell us more than a paragraph.
If you have a deadline or a shutdown window, say so up front and we will tell you honestly whether we can hit it.
What happens next
One of the owners calls you back. If dry ice is the wrong tool for what you have, we say so on that call.
For anything unusual we test an inconspicuous area before committing to the whole surface.
Questions
How fast do you respond?
Usually the same day.
Do you give figures over the phone?
Once we understand the equipment, the contaminant and the access. We will not guess from a description alone.
Can you come and look?
For larger jobs, yes.
What areas do you cover?
South Florida from Miami out to roughly a hundred miles.
Do you work weekends?
Often. Tell us the window you have.
Who will I speak to?
Giancarlo at 786-302-6553 or Kenny at 786-797-2181.
What comes off
The deposits we see most
Most calls involve one of the following. The common factor is a bond between two things that should not be bonded.
- Salt and corrosion product
The year-round problem on the coast. The finish holding corrosion back has to survive the cleaning.
- Ink and printing residue
Ink and coating on anilox and press rollers, surfaces where changing the texture changes the print.
- Food residue
Burnt-on product, fat and sugar on processing gear, with no chemical residue left on a contact surface.
- Grease and oil
The greasy base coat that traps grit and dust. It releases early and takes the loose material with it.
- Carbon and soot
Heat-bonded black deposit. Because heat put it there, a sudden cold front is what breaks its grip.
- Adhesive and sealant
Bonded material that outlived whatever it was bonding, usually harder to shift than the part it is on.
- Resin and mold release
Cured process residue on a mold or fixture. The surface has to come out dimensionally unchanged, which rules out anything abrasive.
How a job runs
What happens once you call
If you have not seen this done before, the process is worth reading once. Nothing below is hidden in a footnote.
- We test a small area
Pressure and pellet size get dialed in on an inconspicuous spot before we touch anything visible. Painted parts, soft alloys and older finishes all behave differently, and the right setting on one is the wrong setting on another.
- We blast, then clean up
Nothing is left of the pellet, so the only thing to collect is what was on your equipment. That collection is part of the work we quoted.
- You look before we pack up
Inspect it with the rig still set up. Anything you are not happy with gets another go before we leave.
- You describe the job
Describe the equipment and the mess. If it cannot come offline that changes the plan, so say so early.
- We look at access and containment
Access drives the plan: reach, siting, masking, and the route the removed material takes off the job. It is the part customers think about least and we think about most.
The comparison
How this compares to the usual methods
- Pressure washing
Pressure pushes moisture past seals and into connectors, and then you wait. Panels and motors rule it out.
- Solvent and degreaser
Chemistry works, but you inherit ventilation, waste handling and a film on the surface.
- Hand scraping
Labor-intensive and uneven, and whatever you scrape with eventually marks what you are scraping.
- Media blasting
Grit removes material to do its job, so a machined face or a plated part pays for the cleaning.
- Dry ice
Thermal shock breaks the bond. The pellet sublimates, so nothing abrasive touches the part and nothing is left to collect but the contaminant.
What happens in your space
Expect noise. Everybody inside the working area wears hearing protection, us included.
Cold surfaces are the one aftereffect. Depending on the piece that is either a few minutes of patience or some condensation while it returns to room temperature.
The rig needs compressed air, which the truck supplies. There is no hookup to find and nothing of yours to plug into.
We cover what should not be hit before anything gets blasted. It takes minutes and saves arguments.
Why us
How we do business
- The rig comes to you
Compressor, hose and operator arrive at your shop, plant, driveway or dock. Nothing needs to be transported to us.
- We clean up after ourselves
The ice is gone; what came off your equipment is not. Gathering it is included.
- Firefighter owned and operated
Giancarlo and Kenny both came out of the fire service, and the discipline that job demands is the discipline this one gets.
- You speak to an owner
The person who picks up is the person doing the work. Nothing gets lost between the quote and the job.
- We will tell you no
If dry ice is the wrong tool for what you have, we say so on the first call rather than finding out on your equipment. Honest beats a quick buck.
- We test before we commit
Every substrate reacts differently, so settings get proven on a spot nobody sees first.
Tell us what needs cleaning.
Give us the job, the address and a rough description, pictures if you have them. The call back comes from Giancarlo or Kenny directly.