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Country Club dry ice blasting
Most of what we clean around Country Club is equipment somebody cannot afford to damage.
How the work runs here
Everything arrives on the van: compressor, hose, operator and containment. It is also why nothing has to be crated up and driven across town, the work happens where the machine already sits in Country Club.
The pellet turns straight to gas when it hits, which means no sand in the machine and no sludge on the floor. The only thing to collect is the contaminant itself, and that is included.
What we clean
Where this method earns its keep in Country Club
Nearby
Also working across Broward County
Questions from Country Club
Do you need anything set up before you arrive?
Just access and parking. There is no tap to find, no drain to use and nothing of yours to plug into.
Can you come outside business hours?
Yes, within reason. Planned outages are easiest because everybody already knows the window.
What do most jobs look like?
A mix, vehicle work, shop equipment, marine and light industrial. Same rig, different constraint each time.
Is there a travel charge?
Sometimes, on the longer runs. Either way it is discussed before anyone commits.
How do I get started?
A short description and a couple of pictures is enough to start. An owner rings you back.
Will you travel to Country Club?
Yes, Country Club is well within range, and the compressor comes on the truck with everything else.
The local conditions
Salt carries a long way inland here, and it keeps working on metal every day of the year. Which is exactly the situation where a non-abrasive, low-moisture method is worth the call.
Shops, marine yards, warehouses and home garages all end up with the same problem in different forms. Driveway or plant floor, the requirement is the same: room for the rig and access to the machine.
With no slurry to contain and no media to recover, a confined Broward County site stops being a problem.
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.
- Food residue
Carbonized product build-up in a plant where neither standing water nor a chemical film is acceptable.
- 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
Cured sealant, old gasket, tape glue and sound deadening, the residue left when something was removed but its bond was not.
- Resin and mold release
Solvents soften resin but can leave a film of their own. The ice removes the residue dry and adds nothing to the tool.
- Paint and coatings
Removed selectively where the substrate underneath has to survive, which rules out most abrasive approaches.
- Salt and corrosion product
The year-round problem on the coast. The finish holding corrosion back has to survive the cleaning.
How a job runs
What happens once you call
We explain the whole job up front. If something below does not make sense, ask, and one of the owners will walk you through it.
- We test a small area
First pass goes somewhere out of sight. We look at it with you if you want, adjust if needed, and only then work the visible surfaces.
- We blast, then clean up
Cleanup is short because there is so little of it. With no blasting media to recover, the work at the end is gathering the contaminant and leaving the space usable.
- You look before we pack up
The job is not finished because we say so. It is finished when you have looked at it.
- You describe the job
Send images if you can, they settle most of the questions. A wrong-tool verdict comes on that first call, not after the invoice.
- We look at access and containment
The layout decides the method more often than the contaminant does. We work out reach and containment before quoting anything.
The comparison
Why not just pressure wash it
- Hand scraping
Slow enough to be uneconomic on a machine, and the tool always leaves a trace.
- Media blasting
Cuts into the substrate by design. Fine on structural steel, wrong on aluminum, plating, machined faces or anything with a tolerance.
- Pressure washing
It is fast and it is wet, which is fine outdoors and unusable on anything with a winding in it.
- Solvent and degreaser
It loosens the mess and leaves its own behind, along with fumes and something to dispose of.
- 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
The truck carries its own compressor. Nothing on your property has to be plugged in or handed over to us.
We cover what should not be hit before anything gets blasted. It takes minutes and saves arguments.
Outside on a driveway or a lot, there is not much to set up. Inside, we ask about the size of the room and how it is ventilated before we bring the hose in.
The process is loud. Hearing protection is standard for anyone in the working area, which is why you will see ear defenders in most of our photographs.
Send us the job.
Already tried degreaser or a pressure washer? Tell us that too. Knowing what did not work helps us tell you quickly whether dry ice will.