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Light industrial sandblasting

Surface preparation ahead of coating or repair, so what goes on the metal actually stays on the metal.

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Steel service body prepared for finishing in the Pro-Line shop
Service body / in shop, Piketon

Light industrial sandblasting is surface preparation, and it exists because coatings and welds both fail on dirty metal long before they fail on their own.

Paint does not fail because the paint was bad nearly as often as it fails because it was put onto rust, scale or oil. The same is true of a repair weld laid over a surface nobody cleaned. Preparation is not the interesting part of the job and it is usually the part that decides how long the result lasts.

We blast in the shop as preparation ahead of coating or repair, on parts we are already fabricating and on parts brought in for prep. It is light industrial work, which is an honest description rather than a modest one. Tell us the part and what is going onto it afterwards and we will tell you plainly whether this is the right shop for it.

Most often this runs as a step inside a larger job: a truck body being rebuilt, a frame being repaired, a fabricated assembly that has to be coated before it goes into service.

When you send this over, tell us the part, its rough size, what is currently on it, and what is going onto it afterwards. Old paint, mill scale, surface rust and heavy corrosion are four different problems and they do not all get the same answer.

If the honest answer is that your part needs a larger or more specialised blasting operation than this one, we will say so. Taking a job we are not set up for wastes your time twice, once when it is here and again when it has to be done properly somewhere else.

03 / What the work involves

How this job runs

The same sequence every time, so you know what you are buying.

01
Prep before coating

Scale, rust and old finish removed so the coating has clean metal to hold.

02
Prep before repair

A clean surface before a repair weld, rather than welding through contamination.

03
Part of a larger job

Usually one step inside a fabrication or truck body job already in the shop.

04
Honest scoping

If a part is beyond light industrial blasting we will say so rather than take it and disappoint you.

Steel service body prepared for finishing in the Pro-Line shop
Service body / in shop, Piketon
04 / Detail

Coatings fail on dirty metal, not on their own.

Preparation is the least visible step and the one that decides how long the finish lasts.

05 / Straight answers

Questions about light industrial sandblasting

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What does light industrial mean here?

It means the blasting is scaled to job shop work and to prep inside our own fabrication jobs. Describe your part and we will tell you honestly whether it suits this shop.

Do you coat and paint as well?

Blasting here is surface preparation. Tell us what is going onto the part afterwards and we will scope the prep to suit it.

Can you blast a part we bring in?

Yes, prep-only work is fine. Send the part details on the job form.

Is this available for residential items?

No. Outside of handrails, gates and fences, the work we take is commercial and industrial.

07 / Request a quote

Send us the job

Describe what you need made or fixed and we will send a quote back. Photographs and drawings help more than anything else, so the form takes uploads.

Commercial and industrial work. Residential is limited to handrails, gates and fences, and we do not take small repairs.