Mold Removal - Dry Ice Blasting
There has been an increasing awareness around the toxic effects of mold in recent years. When mold embeds itself into structural surfaces, such as wood and concrete, it needs to be removed. The choices are to remove the entire structure and replace it (costly and time consuming), or sand and scrape it out. This often involves the unpleasant and uncomfortable process of squeezing into tight corners to sand the mold off of wood trusses and joists, only to have mold spores remain.
When mould presence is confirmed and dangerous areas contaminated with mould are discovered in the house a question of the most economical way of removing it arises. There is variety of technique depending on the severity of the mould presence. It the old days a simple scrap and clean seemed to be sufficient but recent studies confirm that mould spoors stay within the wood or drywall even after the most diligent scraping clean up.
The most reliable method of removing mould from the surface of dry wall or framing is dry ice blasting. Surfaces contaminated with mould are treated with pressurised dry ice – nitrogen, mixed with frozen below -65C rice. The abrasive property of frozen rice physically removes the mould from the surface and the temperature shock kills the mould and the spoors within the surface and prevents its further growth.
Dry Ice blasting is non-toxic way of removing mould it is also environmentally friendly way to deal with mould problem because it cleans without treatment of any toxic solvents.
Dry Ice Blasting a fast way to remove mould. It is effective in case of treating a whole “grow op” house or just a part of the attic to prevent mould from spreading further.
5 Reasons to use Dry Ice Cleaning
Reason #1: Increases uptime through in-place cleaning
The process is fast, thorough, and can be performed on-line without disassembly and without need for drying time.
Reason #2: Reduces or eliminates the need for hazardous solvents
Dry Ice Blasting replaces chemical or solvent based cleaning and manual scrapping.
Reason #3: Cleans without damaging the substrate
Dry ice blasting is non-abrasive. It quickly removes most contaminates without damage to switches, panels, lines, tubes, wiring or belts.
Reason #4: Quicker and more thorough than cleaning by hand
Get a more detailed and quicker clean with CO2 by getting into tight spaced areas inaccessible by hand
Reason #5: Safe around electrical components
This versatile process cleans heavy industrial build up without damage to sensitive areas like electrical components, switches, wiring, photo electric sensors, et
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