PARKING GARAGE LINE STRIPING

DUSTLESS BLASTING® CASE STUDY
empty garage
Client's parking garage area.
empty garage 2a
Client's parking area extended to the top floor.
blasting line stripe in progress
A portable work light atop the compressor illuminated the dark parking garage for better visibility of the line stripes during overnight blasting.
blast waste
Cleanup was outsourced to a local street sweeping company, who collected and disposed of the spent media once the debris had dried.

JOB DETAILS

A leading computer microprocessor company in Austin, Texas decided to revamp their parking garage. Needing to remove all the paint striping in their lot, they turned to Accurate Pavement Striping for their concrete resurfacing expertise.


MEDIA USAGE
200 lbs/hr

REMOVAL RATE
18 ft/min

BLAST EQUIPMENT
DB800® MOBILE XL

ABRASIVE MEDIA
40/70 Crushed Glass

BLAST PRESSURE
80 psi

CLEANUP METHOD
Hired a street sweeper

THE CHALLENGE


The client's private parking lot was part of a larger multi-floor garage in a busy metropolitan location. Other floors of the parking garage were in active use, with some cars parked overnight.

A dry sandblaster or concrete grinder wouldn't work for this project. Both methods would produce clouds of dust that are hazardous both to people and their parked vehicles. Accurate Pavement Striping needed to expand their toolkit and find a new removal method with these key qualities:

  • dust and debris suppression
  • similar or better production rate as other methods

They found the perfect solution in DUSTLESS BLASTING®.

parking garage condition

Other floors of the parking garage were in active use, with some cars parked overnight.

DUSTLESS BLASTING LINE STRIPE AT NIGHT
The ideal method for this parking lot striping project was DUSTLESS BLASTING® - a highly efficient surface preparation tool that uses water to keep blasting debris grounded.

THE RESULTS


With DUSTLESS BLASTING®, their production rate was calculated to be a whopping 18 feet of striping per minute, a remarkable improvement from their previous dry blasting system.

Upon completion, they were left with ample leftover unused media, pleasantly discovering that their new DUSTLESS BLASTING® machine only required half the amount of abrasive material that their previous dry blaster would have needed to complete the same job.

 

BEFORE AFTER WIDE parking garage removal

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