Sandblasting is a powerful and efficient process that can clean and prepare a wide range of surfaces, such as removing rust from metal, removing paint and graffiti from brickwork, or removing stain from oak beams. The process works by blasting a chosen abrasive onto the surface to be cleaned using high volume compressed air at various pre-determined pressures. abrasives used would be garnet , recycled glass, aluminium oxide, copper slag and various types of steel shot.
Sandblasting, Grit Blasting, Blast Cleaning and Abrasive Blasting are all generic terms for the same process, which is most commonly referred to as ‘Sandblasting’. Shot blasting is similar, but very aggressive, using metal shot instead of grit; this is usually only used in large blast rooms on heavy rust.