About Optimum Dry Ice Cleaning
Optimum Dry Ice Blasting LTD was originally founded in May 2008 by Ian Reynolds, making 2024 our 15 Year anniversary! The main, original core of the company, is heavy industrial decontamination projects, with a focus on machinery cleaning. Our family company roots in factory cleandowns, can be traced right back to 1943!
Over the years we have raised the bar in dry ice blasting standards for quality, health and safety and awareness of our industry.
We believe, as one of the oldest dry ice blasting comapnies in the UK, we have the experience to tackle some of the largest of projects for many of the UK’s flagship companies. We also have a scaleable approach to dealing with smaller one off blast cleans for business and private customers.
How Dry Ice Blasting Works
The process of dry ice blasting works by firing ‘rice grain’ sized pellets of dry ice, at extremely high speeds, to smash and then dislodge stubborn products from surfaces!
Obviously there is a lot more science behind the process but, essentially, we are blasting contaminants away from a surface by using 1) agression and 2) sheer cold.
It is better seen in the myriad of videos we have posted on YouTube, which you can see by clicking here.
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The 4 Stages of Blasting:
- Stage 1: 3mm dry ice pellets are propelled onto the contaminated surface via a compressor and a dry ice blast unit and then onto the nozzle or blast gun.
- Stage 2: This causes the contaminated layers to rapidly freeze, contract and weaken…..
- Stage 3: …forcing them to break free from the substrate surface. The dry ice then sublimates and turns back into a gas.
- Stage 4: The substrate is left completely free of any contaminate and is undamaged by the non-abrasive action of Dry Ice Blast Cleaning. The contaminate simply falls to the ground ready to be swept away.