SODA BLAST - PRESSURE TREATED WOOD DECK STRIPPING

[CCAWOOOD]

@RazedByWolvs, you may want to seriously look into it

[gcso401]

can this process of soda blasting be used to strip the stain off my kitchen cabinets? on a much smaller scale that is??

[busterblastereast]

Yes, you probably could. You'd have to do a test to fully determine your outcome. It would be messy to do it indoors though.

Stacey - Chesapeake Soda Clean, Inc.

[hipsociety]

@gcso401

A dry ice blaster can be used indoors without and soda or sand waste, and will take your cabinets down to bare wood!

[stymye]

I envy your compressor ! is it a screw drive?

[busterblastereast]

Yes. 210 cfm @ 150 psi.

[stymye]

sweet!

[CCAWOOOD]

what are the arsenic test levels before and after this process, thankyou

[busterblastereast]

Unknown. We do decks mostly as a sub-contractor to the professional pressure wash industry which cannot remove the applied stain as we can without damage. We do not disturb the surface any where near what a pressure washer will.

[PressurePros]

buster, perhaps you speak of the hacks that plague the pressure washing industry. A true wood professional would have that entire deck, including rails stripped in under an hour using LOW pressure and the right cleaning agents. I'm not attempting to take anything away from what you are doing. I do want to dispel the myth that pressure washing causes damage to decks. Like any power tool or trade, the results lie in the skillset of the contractor.

[dnganesh]

That's really cool! I live in the west coast. I need to get a lot of rust removed from the metal bracing on my filled concrete front steps. It is a pre-fab metal staircase structure.. but looks like the concrete bracing were never painted and now it has a lot of rust.

I was planning on getting a used sand blaster and using one of the fine/medium abrasives (wearing a mask.. already have enough lung problems) to get it cleaned before painting.

[dnganesh]

Now I am confused if I should sandblast it or sodablast it. Probably the former because it is metal?

Also, I am thinking that it might be better left to a professional :) Can you give me a ballpark idea of how much you would charge for the deck stripping job you showed here? Thanks!

[bigjimbow]

The overspray didnt look all that bad. Have you ever had any damage to lawns or shrubbery from the soda at all. Iam thinking about doing this and just wonder how you would reclaim soda from a boat blasting or deck or whatever you are blasting, how do you recapture what you used?

[busterblastereast]

Vegetation sometimes needs to be protected with cloth tarps or a water spray from a garden hose. Baking soda is a soft media and is not a reusable media. Boat bottoms need to be tented to contain and capture the media/paint mix from blowing around the marina and for easy disposal to a landfill. Call me for more detailed information at 410-271-2652.

[busterblastereast]

Well, if you can come up with a better way to strip that deck in under 6 hours and make it look like new... I'm all ears.

[hipsociety]

@busterblastereast

My dry ice blaster can do that deck in WAY under 6 hours, make it look just like new with with ZERO secondary waste...no bushes to cover, and no visits to the landfill!

[evilsinz]

good lord man, just pull the board up and flip it over, nail it back down.

[busterblastereast]

Not an option.

[goodgood123321]

wow, did that take like 4 days?

[busterblastereast]

6 hours from start to finish and the customer was elated!