Wood - Traditional Grit Blasting / Sandblasting
We will undertake sand blasting of wood (also known as grit blasting) anywhere in the country, although we obviously work most often in our local communities such as Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, or cities such as Nottingham or Derby; but we have dry sandblasted as far south as London, and did a 'sizeable' job in Cheshire a few years ago. Traditional gritblasing or sandblasting relies on gravity to regulate a smooth flow of abrasive into the blast air stream, it tends to be more agressive than some of our other methods, is very dusty, but can be very cost effective.
A data sheet on our dry blasting cleaning services, a suitable summary for printing is available in PDF format, wood cleaning
We specialise in using an adjustable pressure damp sand jetting system that has been used nationwide for property restoration, including working on many Listed Buildings. The system causes minimal damage to an underlying surface and is flexible enough to tackle most property restoration cleaning tasks. However, the damp nature of the blast does mean that the abrasive and removed dirt / paint stick to surfaces (as can be seen in the wood - sand jet photographs). As a result of this we offer our customers dry blasting - traditional grit or sand blasting which can, if the operator is careful, be quite effective, so we now offer that service as well. It is one of those 'swings and roundabouts' things - Sandblasting will use more abrasive and create lots and lots of dust, but is perhaps a little easier to clean up on the day.
Beams
Internal beams are the typical wooden structures that we sand blast...
We can give no guarantees what your wood is like underneath the painted surface, and it is typical that builders paint all the beams one colour to disguise that one replaced beam doesn't match the others! These beams were in a house between Nottingham and Derby
Whole Ceilings
A painted pine roof in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, cleaned in March 2009. A job that we were immensely proud of - a pity that the customer never paid for the work - or the brickwork we cleaned on the outside of the building either (one of those companies that is there one day, and ceases to exist when it is time to pay)!
a close up of that ceiling
This is another complete ceiling - in East Yorkshire
a wooden ceiling in Sheffield cleaned with dry blasting. Compare with the standard Sand Jet!
The sort of dust cloud generated inside a room (and house) when dry blasting! This one was in Lincolnshire. If you live in an open plan house and are fully carpeted, dry blasting can be slightly invasive! Compare this with the photographs elsewhere in this website! We need lots of ventilation and even then may need to stop and let the dust settle several times to make progress - and see how we are doing.
Wooden Floors
A wooden floor in a Huddersfield mill, West Yorkshire - demonstrating that sand blasting was an option for cleaning it- as an ex-mill floor it was extremely rough, and ordinary sanding machines were struggling. - we could clean it - and the existing roughness wasn't a problem - then a thick coat of varnish could un-roughen the floor afterwards. But note the amount of sand debris around from this small section!
Wooden Panels
This first picture is of a partially cleaned set of panels in a Grade II listed ex masonic lodge in Scarborough, North Yorkshire. We had experimented with chemical stripping - and found it ineffective (and heading towards expensive!) and adjusted our blast pot to work at a lower pressure than usual - with excellent results.
This next set of panels were in Harrogate, North Yorkshire in 2015.
Wooden Furniture
In 2016 we were approached by a customer, who in moving house, found that his dark oak furniture no longer matched his living room. We successfully stripped the paint from the oak, and more or less got rid of the water stain on the table in the process!
Key Benefits
- Dry - debris can be cleaned up relatively quickly and easily with brush and vacuum
- aggressive - rapid removal of material.
- Cleaning to the requirements of BS 8221-1&2 :2000 the British Standard Code of Practice for Cleaning Building Surfaces