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The Dry Ice Blasting You Needed – Emergency Response Project

Natural hazards often strikeout of the blue and emergencies happen — sometimes, you just need to find someone who can do the job, right away. Blast It Clean is known among clients and disaster recovery companies for its 24-hour emergency response capability. Our dry ice blasting service is there when you most need help. In…

Interior Warehouse Restoration to Maintenance Free Surfaces

For this interior warehouse restoration project, we converted painted brick walls and wood ceilings (surfaces that had required maintenance such as repainting, etc) to maintenance-free surfaces. The warehouse was very old and in need of updating. We were brought in to help bring this old warehouse back to life. An “all-natural” beauty products company was to…

Industrial Painting & Sandblasting Go Together Like Kansas City & BBQ

Look at the can of any paint or coating and you will likely see something like “make sure surface is clean and void of dirt, debris, peeling”. Any painter will tell you the most important step of any painting project is properly preparing the surface. The problem is that most painters are limited in their…

Awareness and Safety – Sandblasting in a Confined Space

In 2018, 148 workers died from occupational injuries involving a confined space in the United States according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. That is nearly 3 people a week! Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) estimates that over 4.8 million confined space entries are made every year resulting in more than 11,000 preventable…

Importance of Industrial Painting For Your Silos & Storage Tanks

Do you want to protect your assets, improve company morale, and strengthen your brand? There is one thing you can do to check all these boxes for your facility. Paint your silos or storage tanks. Look out your window. How do your storage tanks look? Food manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, and petroleum are a few industries where…

4 Tips for Safety on Industrial and Manufacturing Sites

Safety may be the single most important aspect of what we do at Blast It Clean. Regardless of if we are blasting, power washing, painting, or a combination of services, there are numerous safety details that have to be considered. In addition to the safety standards for our industry, we also have to consider the…

Five Things You Need to Know About Disaster Restoration When Building a Business Recovery Plan

It has never been so vital to have a business continuity plan with the various visits of natural disasters in the past few years, from Hurricane Maria that swept Puerto Rico to Hurricane Florence leaving hundreds of businesses immobile. As a provider of disaster restoration services who has partnered with numerous general disaster relief contractors,…

Blasting & Painting – Blast It Clean Does it All

Paint. It is so intrinsic in every product and surface that we don’t often think about how valuable it is. The history of painting goes back more than thirty thousand years to its use on cave walls. It wasn’t until the invention of the assembly line during the Industrial Revolution, that a whole new market…

Focus on Preventative Maintenance in Your Food Manufacturing Facility

“Time is Money.” This adage holds true across industries, and in manufacturing, it becomes even more significant. Manufacturing processes involve various timing factors, including lead time and cycle time, but one factor stands out as the most critical: downtime. Downtime refers to the period when production is halted, resulting in lost productivity and potential revenue.…

Fresh Face with a Great Attitude – Spotlight on Jeremy

Employee Spotlight is a new series intended to share a glimpse into our team. Our hope is that you can get to know us a little better. JEREMY’S ROLE AT BLAST IT CLEAN Jeremy is a fairly new addition to our team but is quickly proving himself as a valuable member. Within only a few…