Dustless blasting in Medicine Hat: how it works and where it fits

Most people searching for dustless blasting in Medicine Hat have something specific in mind: a trailer, a deck, a frame, a set of steps. What they want to know is whether the method suits their job and whether someone will bring it to them. Here is the short version.

What dustless blasting is

Water is mixed into the blast stream along with the abrasive. The water weighs the dust down, so instead of a cloud drifting across the yard it drops to the ground — up to 95% less airborne dust. It strips paint, rust, old coatings, stains and graffiti the way traditional blasting does, without the cloud.

We run recycled crushed glass, not sand. It is silica-free, so there is no crystalline silica in the air for you, your neighbours or anyone on the crew. The longer explanation is in what silica-free media actually means.

Wet or dry depends on the surface

Our rig is a hybrid. It switches between wet and dry on site in minutes, and the surface decides which one we use:

• Wet for concrete, brick, thin sheet metal and anything delicate — water cools the surface as it cuts and controls the dust.
• Dry for wood and heavy steel — decks, fences and log walls are always blasted dry so no water is driven into the timber.

Why it suits Medicine Hat

A lot of the work here sits close to something that cannot get dusty: a house in Southview, a working shop in Brier Park, a garden in Riverside, a corral full of cattle out past Dunmore. Dust control is what lets us set up in those places without sheeting off half the property or shutting an operation down.

It is also why mobile matters here. Southeast Alberta is big, and a great deal of what needs blasting is a stock trailer, a header or a skid that does not move well. The rig carries its own compressor, pot, media and water, so we come to the yard, the lease or the driveway rather than asking you to haul it into town.

What we take on

• Farm and ag equipment — trailers, augers, headers, implements.
• Industrial and oilfield — bins, service bodies, tanks, structural steel.
• Automotive — frames, chassis, panels, wheels.
• Log homes, decks and fences, concrete and masonry and graffiti.