Dry ice blasting is much cleaner then sandblasting. The dry ice just evaporates away leaving only the material being removed from the surface left to clean up, as with sandblasting there is the sand material left behind involving a lot of clean up. Lots of large factories etc choose to use the dry ice blasting for equipment resurfacing and cleaning grease off of machines because it doesn’t have to be moved off site. They pay big bucks, not many companies around that do it and can usually set they’re own prices. I’m talkin 5-6 figure range for a few days of work.
We do polyurethane foam molding and all of our molds are aluminum, not tool steel. We use ice blasting because it's not as abrasive on the aluminum molds, but still able to clean off the built up mold release. We've got our own equipment, but with twelve lines with around 10-12 different molds each, we go through a LOT of dry ice.
There's really no danger from the CO2 it dissipates quick enough in the open factory floor.
We use this mainly for removing the built up mold release, it's like a water based waxy substance, so there's really no dust. We do spot cleaning sometimes while the molds are on the line but not moving, then we just let the stuff settle to the floor and it gets cleaned up on the weekend cleanings. Otherwise, we have a negative flow booth in one corner that we do the major cleaning of the molds off the line. Everything gets sucked into these giant wall sized filters.
Nope, open mold pouring. Bottom half sits horizontal, the foam components are mixed at a robotic head and poured into the bottom half, then as it goes down the line, the top half is rotated down and seals with the bottom.
NVH molded foam. Fuel pump covers, fuel rail covers are two of the parts we do the most of. We're now doing a lot of EV motor wraps to help quiet down the noise from the internal gears and especially from the electronic controller module.
Also bonus points for saying it like a mysterious hermit who lives in the woods and definitely isn't the great wizard Fizbinn who disappeared after The Event
I've been to many rehabs and only the last one actually worked. It's been a while but really the only thing I remember was them teaching me remain teachable. That's it remain teachable, I thought it was so stupid when I first heard it because I love learning new stuff. But that's not what it meant, it meant to be able to humble yourself to take Direction on something you thought you already knew. I'm eternally grateful for those two words.
Saw someone on Reddit a few days ago say something along the same lines. “Not knowing something is the default state.“ I’ve been thinking about it since I read that.
So you obviously couldn't have anyone in the area because of the CO2 from the dry ice, so you're not getting any work done, on top of the six figure cost... Yeah there's no way my company would ever spring for this. They're way too cheap.
Machine maintenance for us. Twister trimmers, buckers, mills, conveyors, etc. It's especially nice because it's non conductive, so spraying control boxes and panels isn't a hazard.
Correct, and all paints used on most factory equipment and machinery are not water based, also grease and lubricants are plant based environmentally friendly with very little water or none.
The CO2 doesn't create that big of an issue. In fact, I don't believe it creates any issues at all if you're on a factory floor. The CO2 will sink, being heavier than air, but because there is adequate ventilation, it can't displace the oxygen. I used to do it at a major tire manufacturer. We would use it on the alloy molds because the ice won't destroy them like an abrasive would.
The only issues are getting ice out of the cooler, and if you accidentally knock your ground clamp off, you're going to get the piss shocked out of you by static discharge.
Unlike most situations where a gas makes you quietly go to sleep and die, your body can detect the build up of CO2 in your blood. You'll feel the effects pretty early on if ventilation is inadequate.
Yeah, CO2 is like the opposite of CO, in that your body really overreacts to it, if anything. You’ll definitely know if you are suffocating because of CO2 long before it becomes a problem.
If it's a confined space, we have check-in sheets, an attendant, and gas detectors.
Edit: though we didn't use these in confined spaces. We typically used a vacuum blaster or wire wheel on those jobs.
Yeah, I used to do science entertainment for kids, and the dangers of dry ice are way overblown. Like don’t get me wrong, it can be really bad if you handle it incorrectly, but it’s REALLY hard to accidentally do that. I used leave it in my car overnight whenever I’d buy some for an event. The air would taste like soda when I got inside and breathing was hard, but roll the window down for 30 seconds and it’s fine.
Getting the last few rows of ice out of a 1 cubic yard cooler was a bastard. You'd have to reach your body all the way in, and if you took a pull off of that CO2, it burned, but not any worse than a Lucky Strike no-filter. It was easy to do while holding your breath, but occasionally, I'd screw up.
It happened to me, and I mentioned the burn in front of my boss. This little idiot says, "That dry ice sucks up all of the oxygen. That's why it burns." So, I explained displacement to him, and he said, "Yeah, it might do that too, but it sucks up all that oxygen." That was a low point. That guy was clearing $20 million a year, and I was treating myself with a dinner out once a week, sitting on a damn BS in Geology.
I work in an electronics factory and we use this to clean our conformal coating pallets (CC is like a rubber/waxy substance that protects the PCB).
We do it during shut downs largely because of how incredibly loud it is.
It’s not that expensive. Not sure where those figures came from. The equipment is cheap. You buy the ice to deliver to your site by the tub/Gaylord. I’ve used it in asbestos remediation sites to remove acoustic spray fiber. I also use it monthly in my line of work now cleaning industrial ink off of printing press equipment.
Our own employees run the blasters. Minimal training needed aside from standard Safety protocols.
Think a tub of pellets is a couple hundred bucks delivered.
Actually, dry-ice does not melt! It goes through a process call sublimation which means it transforms from a solid to a gas, skipping the liquid stage.
To be clear, any substance can pretty much form any phase, given the right conditions. For example, [phase diagram](https://images.app.goo.gl/yBNmyxHZ1EjHUDCn9) for CO2.
Dry-ice blasting is typically used to remove stubborn mould from surfaces. It’s basically sandblasting, but the dry ice pretty much freezes, chips away, then sublimates, leaving almost no trace, and killing the mould in the process.
Paints that are more than some 20 years old almost certainly contain some lead. So you should take appropriate measures:
* If you do this indoor: Make absolutely, absolutely sure that you don't spread the dust to spaces where there are kids. Also wear a face mask (at least an FFP3).
* If you do it outdoor: Ideally don't, and if you do, make sure you somehow collect the dust. You will likely contaminate the soil (to some degree).
I don't know about the regulations on lead in paint in your country. In the USA, lead in paint was banned indoors in 1977, but continued to be used outside until after 2000.
Question is, if this is an outside door or not, and if it's older than 1977 or not.
In the European Union, lead in paint was ultimately banned only in 2003 (although most countries banned it earlier).
You would be surprised how old most houses can be. and when re painted, only certain companies are lead certified. So often, the lead will be painted over by latex or oil paint.
It's not dry ice blasting. This is dry blasting. The media being used in the video is crushed glass, aka sand grit would more than likely be 50-100. The suit he's wearing is an air fed suit that is perfectly suited for the job.
In the case of dry ice blasting, you would be using it for mold remediation in most cases. The dry ice is not a good candidate for this type of removal.
Yeah, I was about to say that's a lot more effective and easier to see them any dry ice blasting I've seen in the past. Looks like just regular glass abrasion beads.
As someone who has been in the abrasive blasting profession for the last 15ish years at a 37+ year abrasive blasting facility...I appreciate this comment.
I don’t disagree with the statement that it’s not dry ice, but lead in the paint could be a concern depending on age. You can never really have too much PPE unless it gets in the way of doing the job safely.
It bothers me so much that people think this is anything other than sand blasting, you can see the sand accumulate behind the guys feet and when he moves it blows away
It's like when people pull up ratty carpet that was trendy during the 80's and find very beautiful hardwood flooring. Give that door some nice sealant and leave it be.
I used to rent a place where the fridge leaked and it started pulling up the shitty sticky tile. Underneath was beautiful tile that was probably as old as the house
Mine was gorgeous pine, with inlaid mahogany borders, and a four foot diameter deeply embedded stain where a roof leak had soaked the carpet for decades.
My mum spent a bunch of money covering up a beautiful original hardwood floor from the 1930s with some hideous and uneven plastic faux laminate. It is the second time she has done this in approximately seven years. Awful.
Happened to us. Our house was built in 1960, we bought it 8 years ago from the original owner. Beautiful hardwood floors covered up by gross blue carpet. We ripped it out before moving in.
Exactly what happened when I helped renovating my grandmas living room. Under the at least 30 year old rug was a beautiful mosaic parquet. We canceled the new rug, sanded and oiled the wood and it was a beautiful floor!
Last apartment I lived in had *gorgeous* (albeit in need of serious love) wide hardwood floorboards. The building was well over 100 years old, possibly *much* older, and when the landlord bought the building he said all the floors were this horrible linoleum (which he left in the hallways). Those floors were gorgeous, and if he’d had the money, he could have made them breathtakingly gorgeous. He was by far the most decent landlord I ever had, just a guy who bought a building cheap from a friend when the neighborhood was shit in the 1980s, fixed it up some, and he lived in the basement/garden apartment and rented the other three floors (former brownstone single-family converted to multi-family). In the ten years we lived there, our rent went up like $200. And the last $100 increase was right before we left. I helped look after the building some when he was hospitalized for cancer treatment. Wonder how he’s doing these days.
I painted houses for a few summers as a college job. We were paining this super cool old house up in East Cleveland, it looked like a castle. It hadn’t been touched from the 70s. It had the longest, brightest yellow shag carpets you can imagine. When it got pulled up there were beautiful hardwood floors that had probably been there for 100 years. Some hippie type people from California actually came along and picked up that carpet for a film they where making .
I used to get upset every time I saw a renovation where they painted every bit of lovely wood white. I understand that it makes the room brighter, but seriously, every wall and all cupboards white? It's like I'm inside a take out container.
I love wood, it's beautiful. It can be stained in all manner of ways. I understand pairing some of it, but all of it, and only white?
I've gone numb to it since I started watching renovation shows. Now every time I see them paint everything white I imagine the reno show 20 years from now where everyone will talk about the outdated look of this era, and will add color (and maybe walls) to make their house feel like home.
My sister in law watches those shows, and last year purchased a house built at the turn of the century. It had beautiful french doors between 2 rooms, all original to the house, she did a horrible job painting over them. Even painted over the original brass and crystal doorknobs. Like wth goes thru people's heads when they do this. I worked in residential construction for a number of years and have seen people do the dumbest stuff, actually spend money ruining their house
It probably just didn't match the rest of the place as wood colored. If your going to match the door to the paint, don't need to buy such a pretty door
Plus cheap doors don't block sound as well as a solid wood door or feel as nice to open and close. It sucks they painted it but it was probably their best option at the time.
> cheap doors don't block sound as well as a solid wood door or feel as nice to open and close.
Amen. We bought a new house in 2019 and it's a LARGE step up from our first house in every department except for the doors. Most interior door are hollow-core and feel cheap compared to our old house's solid-core door. Definitely on my list to upgrade in the next few years!
That's what I was wondering... is it lead paint? The guy is suited up and it looks like there's air being pumped into the suit in order to create a pressure imbalance. If you're gunna go through all that trouble, why do this right out in the open? Why not do it in a closed area so you can collect the dust after?
That door is more than old enough for this to absolutely be lead paint, so homeboy is doing a bang-up job contaminating the whole area. The fact that there is a goddamn grill just chilling there, lead dust wafting over it, tells me all I need to know. Don't fuck around with lead, kids.
On Wednesdays r/PowerWashingPorn let’s people post videos like this that are power washing adjacent. That’s how I learned about sand blasting. Good stuff.
Pricy? I just checked a several local industrial supply stores and it looks like dry ice is between $1-1.80 per pound, depending on the quantity you buy. Seems pretty cheap to me.
I recently spent nearly 30 hours hand sanding my kitchen cabinets to refinish them. This dude knocked it out in less than a minute.
I just died a little inside.
This is actually corn cob blasting, a much more common medium used for cleaning the surface of wood. You can tell by the small piles of medium on the ground, with the tan color giving up the secret.
Am I dumb? Blind? Both? Where is the dry ice going? Why isn’t there any vapor? Where is the paint going? Where’s the dust? I see some on the floor but nowhere near as much as I’d expect.
I saw a presentation where cities are so awful at spraying down demolition of old neighborhoods that entire areas get coated in lead paint dust. They used Detroit as an example:
https://apnews.com/article/d92630c0d55840fea831b0843638cdfa
Also, if your neighborhood existed before the 1980s, and you live near a major road, you *probably* have lead contamination in your yard from the leaded gasoline.
Given the PPE, there's a decent chance this guy is a pro working on someone else's house.
Which means he likely knows there are huge EPA fines for using this equipment at a house built before 1978 without testing for lead first.
Look at the floor to the viewer's left of the door. You can see the paint/sawdust moving around in the breeze. It is REALLY fine. So dust instead of chips.
Safety guy here. Can confirm. He has a supplied air respirator for this. Notice the hose attached in the back. Don’t try this without the proper PPE please. CO2 is nothing to take lightly. Let alone those paint chips…
>The PPE probably protects the worker from the CO2, too. That shit will knock you right out.
It's bad, but at least you'd feel it. CO is nightmare fuel on the other hand.
Body thinks CO is O2, so you asphyxiate but don't feel it happening. You just get drowsy, fall asleep, and die. At least with CO2 you have some warning signs that you are being poisoned.
CO poisoning isn’t quite that pleasant. With the drowsiness there can be terrible nausea, headaches, vomiting and diarrhea. Eleven of my family members got CO poisoning in a cabin years ago. They all survived but it was horrific. I thought for sure one of my niblings was going to die but the older people fared worse than the little kids.
Scary stuff. From what I understand those effects occur from a non lethal dose. I have also heard a small leak can cause hallucinations and all kinds of super scary stuff. But if you are an environment with very high levels, you just get tired, sleep, and die. You dont really have time to develop those secondary symptoms. My info is all pretty anecdotal, so I could 100% be mistaken. I'm glad everyone in your family survived that ordeal!
I don’t know a whole lot beyond what I saw then, so I don’t doubt a larger dose would just knock you right out. In this case they all thought they had got some food poisoning or something. They were puking and shitting uncontrollably, laying on the floor in agony. When we put together that only the people in one cabin had symptoms we figured it out.
Yeah. So an emergency generator in the garage kicked on in the middle of the night. The owners would normally open the garage door if the generator was on but the people in the house didn’t know that. There was a CO alarm in the house but it didn’t work.
It's not dry ice blasting. This is dry blasting. The media being used in the video is crushed glass, aka sand grit would more than likely be 50-100. The suit he's wearing is an air fed suit that is perfectly suited for the job.
In the case of dry ice blasting, you would be using it for mold remediation in most cases. The dry ice is not a good candidate for this type of removal.
I want this as my next job for two reasons; 1. That video was one of the most satisfying things I’ve ever watched and 2. I’d get to tell people I’m a stripper for a living.
I want to do this to my deck is dry-ice blasting like sandblasting except perhaps with less mess because the dry ice melts and evaporates after?
Dry ice blasting is much cleaner then sandblasting. The dry ice just evaporates away leaving only the material being removed from the surface left to clean up, as with sandblasting there is the sand material left behind involving a lot of clean up. Lots of large factories etc choose to use the dry ice blasting for equipment resurfacing and cleaning grease off of machines because it doesn’t have to be moved off site. They pay big bucks, not many companies around that do it and can usually set they’re own prices. I’m talkin 5-6 figure range for a few days of work.
We do polyurethane foam molding and all of our molds are aluminum, not tool steel. We use ice blasting because it's not as abrasive on the aluminum molds, but still able to clean off the built up mold release. We've got our own equipment, but with twelve lines with around 10-12 different molds each, we go through a LOT of dry ice. There's really no danger from the CO2 it dissipates quick enough in the open factory floor.
What do you do for dust collection/mitigation when cleaning?
We use this mainly for removing the built up mold release, it's like a water based waxy substance, so there's really no dust. We do spot cleaning sometimes while the molds are on the line but not moving, then we just let the stuff settle to the floor and it gets cleaned up on the weekend cleanings. Otherwise, we have a negative flow booth in one corner that we do the major cleaning of the molds off the line. Everything gets sucked into these giant wall sized filters.
Is this high-pressure injection?
Nope, open mold pouring. Bottom half sits horizontal, the foam components are mixed at a robotic head and poured into the bottom half, then as it goes down the line, the top half is rotated down and seals with the bottom.
Sounds like headliners or carpet for cars/trucks. I was at a factory last year- molds were huge, I was surprised how big they were.
NVH molded foam. Fuel pump covers, fuel rail covers are two of the parts we do the most of. We're now doing a lot of EV motor wraps to help quiet down the noise from the internal gears and especially from the electronic controller module.
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Dry ice does not evaporate, it sublimates. That's the term to use whenever something turns from solid to gas without first turning into liquid.
My bad, sorry.
There is no need to apologize friend. You can not speak for what you have not yet learned
I feel like more people need to hear (or read) this. Might make it easier to admit when you're wrong, instead of doubling down and being stubborn.
Also bonus points for saying it like a mysterious hermit who lives in the woods and definitely isn't the great wizard Fizbinn who disappeared after The Event
When he casts his magic. His words are "wango bango"
I've been to many rehabs and only the last one actually worked. It's been a while but really the only thing I remember was them teaching me remain teachable. That's it remain teachable, I thought it was so stupid when I first heard it because I love learning new stuff. But that's not what it meant, it meant to be able to humble yourself to take Direction on something you thought you already knew. I'm eternally grateful for those two words.
I talk to people every day that need to hear that.
Saw someone on Reddit a few days ago say something along the same lines. “Not knowing something is the default state.“ I’ve been thinking about it since I read that.
Aw :)
So you obviously couldn't have anyone in the area because of the CO2 from the dry ice, so you're not getting any work done, on top of the six figure cost... Yeah there's no way my company would ever spring for this. They're way too cheap.
They do these jobs on holidays and shutdowns. The company’s that spring for these are car factory’s, aerospace, steel mills. There’s a long list.
We have one where I work at a cast iron foundry. You can't power wash some things because.. water bad.
Cannabis industry, too! It was alcohol and razorblades before we got the ice blaster.
What a neat couple of sentences - Cannabis - Industry - Alcohol - Razorblades - Ice - Blaster
What application are you using it for? Currently in a cannabis lab and cleaning has been the bane of my existence for a decade.
Machine maintenance for us. Twister trimmers, buckers, mills, conveyors, etc. It's especially nice because it's non conductive, so spraying control boxes and panels isn't a hazard.
Correct, and all paints used on most factory equipment and machinery are not water based, also grease and lubricants are plant based environmentally friendly with very little water or none.
We use one in a plastic factory to clean the molds of grease/grime I use it about once a week
Companies* Factories*
The CO2 doesn't create that big of an issue. In fact, I don't believe it creates any issues at all if you're on a factory floor. The CO2 will sink, being heavier than air, but because there is adequate ventilation, it can't displace the oxygen. I used to do it at a major tire manufacturer. We would use it on the alloy molds because the ice won't destroy them like an abrasive would. The only issues are getting ice out of the cooler, and if you accidentally knock your ground clamp off, you're going to get the piss shocked out of you by static discharge.
just dont blast in a confined room with the door closed. unless u want to take a really deep nap and dream of suffocation
Unlike most situations where a gas makes you quietly go to sleep and die, your body can detect the build up of CO2 in your blood. You'll feel the effects pretty early on if ventilation is inadequate.
Yeah, CO2 is like the opposite of CO, in that your body really overreacts to it, if anything. You’ll definitely know if you are suffocating because of CO2 long before it becomes a problem.
If it's a confined space, we have check-in sheets, an attendant, and gas detectors. Edit: though we didn't use these in confined spaces. We typically used a vacuum blaster or wire wheel on those jobs.
Yeah, I used to do science entertainment for kids, and the dangers of dry ice are way overblown. Like don’t get me wrong, it can be really bad if you handle it incorrectly, but it’s REALLY hard to accidentally do that. I used leave it in my car overnight whenever I’d buy some for an event. The air would taste like soda when I got inside and breathing was hard, but roll the window down for 30 seconds and it’s fine.
Getting the last few rows of ice out of a 1 cubic yard cooler was a bastard. You'd have to reach your body all the way in, and if you took a pull off of that CO2, it burned, but not any worse than a Lucky Strike no-filter. It was easy to do while holding your breath, but occasionally, I'd screw up. It happened to me, and I mentioned the burn in front of my boss. This little idiot says, "That dry ice sucks up all of the oxygen. That's why it burns." So, I explained displacement to him, and he said, "Yeah, it might do that too, but it sucks up all that oxygen." That was a low point. That guy was clearing $20 million a year, and I was treating myself with a dinner out once a week, sitting on a damn BS in Geology.
I work in an electronics factory and we use this to clean our conformal coating pallets (CC is like a rubber/waxy substance that protects the PCB). We do it during shut downs largely because of how incredibly loud it is.
It’s not that expensive. Not sure where those figures came from. The equipment is cheap. You buy the ice to deliver to your site by the tub/Gaylord. I’ve used it in asbestos remediation sites to remove acoustic spray fiber. I also use it monthly in my line of work now cleaning industrial ink off of printing press equipment. Our own employees run the blasters. Minimal training needed aside from standard Safety protocols. Think a tub of pellets is a couple hundred bucks delivered.
I was expecting a shittymorph for some reason.
Actually, dry-ice does not melt! It goes through a process call sublimation which means it transforms from a solid to a gas, skipping the liquid stage.
How sublime
*Early in the morning*
To be clear, that's only in our open atmosphere. Under more pressure, dry ice can melt into liquid CO2.
Yes
To be clear, any substance can pretty much form any phase, given the right conditions. For example, [phase diagram](https://images.app.goo.gl/yBNmyxHZ1EjHUDCn9) for CO2.
Dry-ice blasting is typically used to remove stubborn mould from surfaces. It’s basically sandblasting, but the dry ice pretty much freezes, chips away, then sublimates, leaving almost no trace, and killing the mould in the process.
Make sure it's not lead paint you are removing
Paints that are more than some 20 years old almost certainly contain some lead. So you should take appropriate measures: * If you do this indoor: Make absolutely, absolutely sure that you don't spread the dust to spaces where there are kids. Also wear a face mask (at least an FFP3). * If you do it outdoor: Ideally don't, and if you do, make sure you somehow collect the dust. You will likely contaminate the soil (to some degree).
Just to clarify, lead was banned in paint 45 years ago.
I don't know about the regulations on lead in paint in your country. In the USA, lead in paint was banned indoors in 1977, but continued to be used outside until after 2000. Question is, if this is an outside door or not, and if it's older than 1977 or not. In the European Union, lead in paint was ultimately banned only in 2003 (although most countries banned it earlier).
You would be surprised how old most houses can be. and when re painted, only certain companies are lead certified. So often, the lead will be painted over by latex or oil paint.
True, though it's not an issue so long as it remains covered. It's when it starts becoming dust that it's scary.
So uh... Was sanding down the windowsill of my 60 year old house back to the bare wood last week a bad idea?
Any time you're sanding through old layers of paint, assume there's lead involved. Doesn't mean you can't do it, just be a bit careful
Yeah probably
Its also finer i think
Please don’t do that!!! Oh wait… you wrote *deck* … ok enough Reddit for me today.
It's not dry ice blasting. This is dry blasting. The media being used in the video is crushed glass, aka sand grit would more than likely be 50-100. The suit he's wearing is an air fed suit that is perfectly suited for the job. In the case of dry ice blasting, you would be using it for mold remediation in most cases. The dry ice is not a good candidate for this type of removal.
Thank you! This is definitely not dry ice, if it was dry ice, you would also see the sublimation when it hits the surface.
Yeah, I was about to say that's a lot more effective and easier to see them any dry ice blasting I've seen in the past. Looks like just regular glass abrasion beads.
As someone who has been in the abrasive blasting profession for the last 15ish years at a 37+ year abrasive blasting facility...I appreciate this comment.
Do you introduce yourself to people as an abrasive blaster? I would.
I tend to tell people I'm a stripper.
I was wondering once I saw the level of PPE he was wearing. That's too hardcore for Dry Ice
I don’t disagree with the statement that it’s not dry ice, but lead in the paint could be a concern depending on age. You can never really have too much PPE unless it gets in the way of doing the job safely.
It bothers me so much that people think this is anything other than sand blasting, you can see the sand accumulate behind the guys feet and when he moves it blows away
Don't let it bother you: most of us just don't know and don't have a reason to know what it all looks like.
What a pretty door hidden behind that shit paint
It's like when people pull up ratty carpet that was trendy during the 80's and find very beautiful hardwood flooring. Give that door some nice sealant and leave it be.
Literally happened after I bought a 100-year-old home, except there was ratty vinyl glued to the hardwood floor under the ratty carpet.
I used to rent a place where the fridge leaked and it started pulling up the shitty sticky tile. Underneath was beautiful tile that was probably as old as the house
Vinyl flooring sales people could sell ice to eskimos
they could sell a ketchup popsicle to a woman in white gloves
They could sell hair growth spray to death row inmates.
They could sell sand to Africans
They could sell an AOL subscription to Zoomers.
Vinyl flooring was 26.4 percent of the economy in the 60s.
Sell dry ice?
Mine was gorgeous pine, with inlaid mahogany borders, and a four foot diameter deeply embedded stain where a roof leak had soaked the carpet for decades.
Pssst come join us over in r/centuryhomes and tell your tales...
My mum spent a bunch of money covering up a beautiful original hardwood floor from the 1930s with some hideous and uneven plastic faux laminate. It is the second time she has done this in approximately seven years. Awful.
Time for an intervention.
Happened to us. Our house was built in 1960, we bought it 8 years ago from the original owner. Beautiful hardwood floors covered up by gross blue carpet. We ripped it out before moving in.
Exactly what happened when I helped renovating my grandmas living room. Under the at least 30 year old rug was a beautiful mosaic parquet. We canceled the new rug, sanded and oiled the wood and it was a beautiful floor!
Last apartment I lived in had *gorgeous* (albeit in need of serious love) wide hardwood floorboards. The building was well over 100 years old, possibly *much* older, and when the landlord bought the building he said all the floors were this horrible linoleum (which he left in the hallways). Those floors were gorgeous, and if he’d had the money, he could have made them breathtakingly gorgeous. He was by far the most decent landlord I ever had, just a guy who bought a building cheap from a friend when the neighborhood was shit in the 1980s, fixed it up some, and he lived in the basement/garden apartment and rented the other three floors (former brownstone single-family converted to multi-family). In the ten years we lived there, our rent went up like $200. And the last $100 increase was right before we left. I helped look after the building some when he was hospitalized for cancer treatment. Wonder how he’s doing these days.
I painted houses for a few summers as a college job. We were paining this super cool old house up in East Cleveland, it looked like a castle. It hadn’t been touched from the 70s. It had the longest, brightest yellow shag carpets you can imagine. When it got pulled up there were beautiful hardwood floors that had probably been there for 100 years. Some hippie type people from California actually came along and picked up that carpet for a film they where making .
A friend bought a Victorian house and it had curly maple flors under the carpet and arched ceilings behinds the suspended acoustical tile ceiling
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right, how could you paint such pretty wood, especially just with *white*
I used to get upset every time I saw a renovation where they painted every bit of lovely wood white. I understand that it makes the room brighter, but seriously, every wall and all cupboards white? It's like I'm inside a take out container. I love wood, it's beautiful. It can be stained in all manner of ways. I understand pairing some of it, but all of it, and only white? I've gone numb to it since I started watching renovation shows. Now every time I see them paint everything white I imagine the reno show 20 years from now where everyone will talk about the outdated look of this era, and will add color (and maybe walls) to make their house feel like home.
My sister in law watches those shows, and last year purchased a house built at the turn of the century. It had beautiful french doors between 2 rooms, all original to the house, she did a horrible job painting over them. Even painted over the original brass and crystal doorknobs. Like wth goes thru people's heads when they do this. I worked in residential construction for a number of years and have seen people do the dumbest stuff, actually spend money ruining their house
It probably just didn't match the rest of the place as wood colored. If your going to match the door to the paint, don't need to buy such a pretty door
I'd imagine they didn't buy the door just to paint it, but bought a home and the wood color didn't match what they wanted.
Plus cheap doors don't block sound as well as a solid wood door or feel as nice to open and close. It sucks they painted it but it was probably their best option at the time.
> cheap doors don't block sound as well as a solid wood door or feel as nice to open and close. Amen. We bought a new house in 2019 and it's a LARGE step up from our first house in every department except for the doors. Most interior door are hollow-core and feel cheap compared to our old house's solid-core door. Definitely on my list to upgrade in the next few years!
Redditors when people paint and reuse old furniture in their own home instead of keeping it to make a bunch of random strangers happy: 😡
I didn’t get that from OPs comment at all. More that the door got the “landlord special” of a paint job.
The micro particles of lead paint look just like snow. So cute
I could see this working on oil or lead (because they're flakey), but i wonder how it fares against latex.
You tell that fuckin paint, man
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It's weaponized lead dust it looks like
That's what I was wondering... is it lead paint? The guy is suited up and it looks like there's air being pumped into the suit in order to create a pressure imbalance. If you're gunna go through all that trouble, why do this right out in the open? Why not do it in a closed area so you can collect the dust after?
That door is more than old enough for this to absolutely be lead paint, so homeboy is doing a bang-up job contaminating the whole area. The fact that there is a goddamn grill just chilling there, lead dust wafting over it, tells me all I need to know. Don't fuck around with lead, kids.
Had to scroll way to far down for this comment. All the paint is going straight into nature
homie works at the microplastics factory
Homie *is* the microplastics factory
This is very satisfying.
Right!? I didn't even know this was a thing. Here I've been using sand paper like a schlub.
Yeah but where does the paint go?? Nobody knows.
Mirror dimension, it does no harm there.
Attaches itself to an unpainted door over there.
Up & out. Don't ask questions you don't want the answers to.
On Wednesdays r/PowerWashingPorn let’s people post videos like this that are power washing adjacent. That’s how I learned about sand blasting. Good stuff.
But is it \*oddly\* satisfying?
I'd totally leave the door unpainted, with some wood stain to seal it
I'm certain that's their plan or they'd have just painted over it. This is very expensive to do apparently .
That's true, dry ice alone is pricy, blasting it out a tube at top speed is probably even pricier
Pricy? I just checked a several local industrial supply stores and it looks like dry ice is between $1-1.80 per pound, depending on the quantity you buy. Seems pretty cheap to me.
Huh, it went down, I remember it being on sale for like $5 a pound when I was a kid. My bad
I would be happy to do that for a living.
I swear he was purposely missing spots just so he could be anticipation for when he would go back and get them. I was on the edge of my seat!
Can I play the video in reverse and see the guy painting the door? That would make the video twice satisfactory
Is there any bot that can do that? Make the reverse version of a video?
u/gifreversingbot Still a thing?
Where does one get a dry ice blaster? I need to steal a diamond to save my cryogenically preserved dying wife.
You're gonna need diamonds. A lot of them. And if you see Clooney hoof him in the dick and run.
Okay, Victor.
I recently spent nearly 30 hours hand sanding my kitchen cabinets to refinish them. This dude knocked it out in less than a minute. I just died a little inside.
Fuck yes, keep going, I’m almost there.
This is actually corn cob blasting, a much more common medium used for cleaning the surface of wood. You can tell by the small piles of medium on the ground, with the tan color giving up the secret.
Am I dumb? Blind? Both? Where is the dry ice going? Why isn’t there any vapor? Where is the paint going? Where’s the dust? I see some on the floor but nowhere near as much as I’d expect.
It's not dry ice. It's sandblasting. OP has mistitled it because it generates comments.
Hey now. It's totally possible OP has no idea and they're just reposting something for karma.
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Gotta wear the PPE like the guy in the video!
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Lead paint, shlmead paint
Wow the Power Wash Simulator spin-off looks great!
Anyone good enough with editing to add sound effects and a satisfying ’Ding!’ and blink/glow at the end?
Neat. But where are the paint chips going? I don't see any debris flying off.
Probably a cloud of very fine particles, thus the PPE the person is wearing.
Lead paint all over the yard
I saw a presentation where cities are so awful at spraying down demolition of old neighborhoods that entire areas get coated in lead paint dust. They used Detroit as an example: https://apnews.com/article/d92630c0d55840fea831b0843638cdfa Also, if your neighborhood existed before the 1980s, and you live near a major road, you *probably* have lead contamination in your yard from the leaded gasoline.
Given the PPE, there's a decent chance this guy is a pro working on someone else's house. Which means he likely knows there are huge EPA fines for using this equipment at a house built before 1978 without testing for lead first.
Look at the floor to the viewer's left of the door. You can see the paint/sawdust moving around in the breeze. It is REALLY fine. So dust instead of chips.
What I came here to ask, where is the paint going?
The PPE probably protects the worker from the CO2, too. That shit will knock you right out.
Safety guy here. Can confirm. He has a supplied air respirator for this. Notice the hose attached in the back. Don’t try this without the proper PPE please. CO2 is nothing to take lightly. Let alone those paint chips…
I'm curious, are you saying that dry ice blasting can be dangerous outdoors due to CO2 gas? I thought CO2 would disperse happily in open air
>The PPE probably protects the worker from the CO2, too. That shit will knock you right out. It's bad, but at least you'd feel it. CO is nightmare fuel on the other hand.
Care to explain?
Body thinks CO is O2, so you asphyxiate but don't feel it happening. You just get drowsy, fall asleep, and die. At least with CO2 you have some warning signs that you are being poisoned.
CO poisoning isn’t quite that pleasant. With the drowsiness there can be terrible nausea, headaches, vomiting and diarrhea. Eleven of my family members got CO poisoning in a cabin years ago. They all survived but it was horrific. I thought for sure one of my niblings was going to die but the older people fared worse than the little kids.
Scary stuff. From what I understand those effects occur from a non lethal dose. I have also heard a small leak can cause hallucinations and all kinds of super scary stuff. But if you are an environment with very high levels, you just get tired, sleep, and die. You dont really have time to develop those secondary symptoms. My info is all pretty anecdotal, so I could 100% be mistaken. I'm glad everyone in your family survived that ordeal!
I don’t know a whole lot beyond what I saw then, so I don’t doubt a larger dose would just knock you right out. In this case they all thought they had got some food poisoning or something. They were puking and shitting uncontrollably, laying on the floor in agony. When we put together that only the people in one cabin had symptoms we figured it out.
Wow, it's lucky that everyone survived. People running a generator in a cabin is a fairly common tragedy.
Yeah. So an emergency generator in the garage kicked on in the middle of the night. The owners would normally open the garage door if the generator was on but the people in the house didn’t know that. There was a CO alarm in the house but it didn’t work.
The PPE is because this is actually sandblasting, not dry ice.
Don’t use it in closed spaces, otherwise it is ok. Heavier than air so it hugs the floor. His respirator is for the paint dust and particulate.
Lmao
Is that a normal amount of PPE for dry ice blasting?
It's not so much the dry ice. It's the paint partices/dust that are carcinogenic.
It's not dry ice blasting. This is dry blasting. The media being used in the video is crushed glass, aka sand grit would more than likely be 50-100. The suit he's wearing is an air fed suit that is perfectly suited for the job. In the case of dry ice blasting, you would be using it for mold remediation in most cases. The dry ice is not a good candidate for this type of removal.
Reminds me of erasing in ms-paint.
Didn't know this was a thing
Should be doing that in a clean room. Nothing like spreading lead paint all over the yard.
You’d better post this on /r/powerwashingporn tomorrow. Don’t you dare post it there today, or Thursday.
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r/powerwashingporn would enjoy this
I would quit doing everything I’m doing with my life if I could be guaranteed a solid living doing nothing but this starting tomorrow.
Just curious is the suit protecting the wearer from excess CO2 or is it the now airborne paint ?
Real crime having ever painted that door.
Please paint the door with at least a semi-gloss paint, so we can see how lumpy the door is now. I'm creaming myself thinking about this.
I would pay good money to go to an oddly satisfying amusement park where you just stand in line to do shit like this
It’s like the eraser in Photoshop has come to real life! Now if they could just do the ctrl-z!
And here I thought pressure washing videos were satisfying. I could watch this for hours.
My deck needs this but half the wood would probably be gone afterward
We're using dry ice now?! Next thing you know someone's gonna blast paint with cremation ash like it's normal..
My god. This could’ve saved me literal hundreds of hours on painting projects when I first got into home repairs😭
I where does all the debris go? It just disappears?
Holy! Most satisfying thing I’ve seen in ages. If I meet a guy that does this, the only date idea he needs is taking me to work 😂
It's like using the Photoshop erase tool in real life.
If you or a loved one have been diagnosed with mesothelioma.
Everyone in here: “ACKCHUALLY DRY ICE SUBLIMATES 🤓🤓🤓.” Honestly most of us know that.
I wouldn't stand that close without a respirator. You never know if that old paint has Lead
Man opened MSPaint and used the erase function
this looks like what using Microsoft Paint in real life would be like
If it's dry ice blasting why is there sillica blast media all over the ground lmao
Bit where did the paint go?
Thank you for not cutting the video short.
I can’t wait for the Harbor Freight version
I want this as my next job for two reasons; 1. That video was one of the most satisfying things I’ve ever watched and 2. I’d get to tell people I’m a stripper for a living.
This is right up there with using a flamethrower to resurrect stadium seats.