Thursday, September 22, 2011
Being Flown in a Private Plane to do a Façade Restoration
Not an everyday occurrence but the customer needed the paint removed from the store front in time for “Doors Open” in Wiarton for the circa 1890 historic Lloyds building http://www.doorsopenontario.on.ca/userfiles/HTML/nts_1_39_1.html and so it was off into the wild blue yonder for Absolute Blast. The paint covered pillars were cleaned off under HFRG guidelines http://hfrg.ca and once re-pointed and sealed will stand another century.
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Cleaning Portable School Buildings
One of Canada’s leading portable classroom manufactures NRB Inc. http://www.nrb-inc.com needs quick efficient blast cleaning of frames of the units they build. Absolute Blast provides fast turn around at NRB’s plant in Grimsby Ont.
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Cleaning up Dirty Façade in Burlington
The Staples/ Michael’s Plaza at Brant and Plains Rd Burlington is a typical block construction building with a course block exterior in two and three finishes. All these finishes are easily made dirty by air pollution making the building look tired and unappealing which is not a good thing for the businesses there. Being rough concrete the simplest solution is a brush blast with a clean shot leaving the surface looking new and pristine. Having a truck with its own bucket lift makes it a winner for Absolute Blast.
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Wooden Ceiling Restoration in Dundas Valley School of Art
Located in a former Victorian circa 1836 factory the Dundas Valley School of Art, http://www.dvsa.ca the school is famous for its cultural importance to the area. One of the main features of its past is the exposed roof system of the top floor with all its corbels, brackets and beams. Cleaned by Absolute Blast so as to not destroy the patina of the wood but to bring it back to its original look, care had to be taken not only in the execution of the work but there were all new windows in place and other work ongoing through out the building.
Architects Garwood –Jones & Hanham http://www.gjharch.o … ty/dvsa/com_dvsa.asp were very pleased with the outcome http://hamilton.open … itectural-challenges.
Monday, November 29, 2010
Ghost Busters
A challenging “ghost” graffiti removal on the historic downtown Liuna headquarters in Hamilton Ontario sets the standards in doing it right. Never mind the safety concerns of being up on the roof the soft brick of this historic building had to be respected. Damage to the brick surface is always has to be avoided in the harsh Canadian climate as the freeze thaw cycles will spall the surface and destroy the brick if water can penetrate through the thin outer waterproof surface.
Using paint removers and low pressure cleaning as part of the process plus other HFRG techniques brings the job to a successful finish. The happy client has continued to use Absolute Blast for other graffiti removals on this building and other Liuna properties in the city.
