Utah Hydro Blasting

Hydro-blasting is an industrial cleaning method known for using high pressure water streams to clean and cut dense materials such as steel and concrete. Utah Hydro Blasting is also an alternative method to abrasive blasting, which is used in sand blasting. Hydro Blasting is preferred as it tends to preserve the surface of a material better. Additionally, the recovery of water used in the process makes it more energy efficient and environmentally friendly. The many uses for high pressure water blasting include: the removal of surface materials such as paint, dirt and corrosion-based chemicals, cleaning and preparing surfaces for bonding, and for cutting and shaping materials.

While hydro blasting is typically preserved only for cleaning, water blasting is also sometimes used to cut old concrete to aid in its removal in the demolition industry. This particular industry niche in hydro blasting has significant advantages to the demolition process over traditional methods of breaking up concrete like jackhammers and excavators. Using hydro-blasting reduces the damage to good portions of concrete that are meant to be preserved when only a portion of a building is being demolished by limiting fractures and damage to reinforcing steel rebar. Environmental and safety conditions for workers or engineers are also better when hydro-blasting is used. Much less dust and noise are created during the blasting process and other side effects are greatly reduced or even eliminated.

Many companies that provide hydro-blastingservices often refer to them as power-washing or pressure-washing services. The reason for this is while Utah hydro-blasting can be used to cut concrete, it will not effectively cut steel; which is also why it is most often used as a preparatory cleaning process prior to painting a structure or otherwise coating it. Where Hydro blasting will fail at cutting steel, it will however, succeed at cleaning it! In cleaning a steel surface, hydro-blasting will clean out fine pits or cashes in the steel that abrasive blasting cannot reach. This gives the cleaned steel an unflattering appearance that may look dull and dirty to the untrained eye instead of an overall shiny surface that has been cleaned by sand blasting. Appearance can be deceiving. Hydro blasting will truly clean the steel, whereas sand blasting will only glossy the steel, giving it only the ELUSION that the steel is actually clean.

Due to its clean and environmentally friendly nature, hydro blasting can be used indoors or outdoors with little need to isolate an area or protect the surroundings while working. Laser Industrial Cleaning Services also uses vacuum recoveries for both the expelled water as well as the surface debris that has been blasted off. And finally, since it is not abrading a surface but merely breaking it down into small particles, hydro-blasting works well at removing a variety of flexible coatings, such as rubber and other semi-soft plastics that naturally resist abrasion. Laser Industrial specializes in Hydro Blasting and with over 3 decades in the industry, over 30 years of experience and unmatched service; it’s no wonder we are number one in ALL industrial cleaning services.