Surface prep

Sandblasting and Pressure Washing in Boyceville, WI

Pressure washing, wet-and-dry sandblasting and hand-tool cleaning, done before any paint or coating goes on. Top-tier surface prep is the key to our success.

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Paint laid over rust does not hold

A coat bonds to what is under it, not to what you wish was under it. Rust, mill scale on new steel, chalking on old paint and a failing earlier coat are all weak layers. Paint over them and the new coat lets go early, taking the weak layer with it.

Harry Joles Maintain Painting & Sandblasting puts it in one line: "Top-tier surface prep is the key to our success." It is why sandblasting and pressure washing sit ahead of every painting job from the shop at 1004 East Street in Boyceville.

Three methods, picked for the surface

The crew works with wet-and-dry sandblasting, pressure washing and hand-tool cleaning. Nothing is applied by habit. A weathered log wall, a rusted steel roof and a corner of trim that a blaster would chew up are three different prep jobs, and each gets the method that fits it.

The prep is part of the residential, commercial and industrial work rather than a separate trade you have to hire in. Call (715) 643-5511 and describe the surface, and the crew will tell you which method it needs.

The same crew blasts and paints

Prep is used on steel siding, quonset roofs, tanks, silos, sand plant conveyor piers and log homes before they are coated. Because the people who clean the surface are the people who paint it, nothing is lost between the prep and the first coat.

That matters most on big steel. A farm roof or a silo has little tolerance for a missed rust patch, and the one who cleaned it is the one who will be looking at the paint over it.

Silver arched quonset roof over a farm building with a red barn door

Silver arched quonset roof over a farm building with a red barn door

Family and locally owned in Boyceville, second generation, with over 55 years' experience on staff. Expert surface prep and painting. Call (715) 643-5511.

Boyceville, WI surface prep

Three ways to clean a surface

Most jobs use more than one. The result goes to the residential painting, commercial painting and industrial painting crews as a surface ready for a coat.

Pressure washing

Removes

Dirt, mildew, chalking and loose, flaking paint.

Used on

Home siding and log homes before coating, and the washdown ahead of work on commercial and farm buildings.

Wet-and-dry sandblasting

Removes

Rust, mill scale and old failing coats that a wash will not touch, leaving a rough, clean surface a coating can grip.

Wet or dry

Wet blasting adds water to hold dust down. Dry blasting cuts without it. The surface and the setting decide.

Used on

Steel siding, quonset roofs, tanks, silos, sand plant conveyor piers and log homes.

Hand-tool cleaning

Removes

Loose rust and flaking paint in spots where a blaster would be too much or cannot reach: trim, tight corners, small repairs.

Used on

The finishing pass on any of the surfaces above. Call (715) 643-5511 to talk through yours.

Sand plant conveyor gantry on tall pale painted piers with a boom lift under blue sky
Red barns on grass with a white service truck and a yellow aerial lift

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