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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Ian Rochester on June 02, 2007, 01:08:03 pm

Title: Cryogenic cleaning
Post by: Ian Rochester on June 02, 2007, 01:08:03 pm

Just read a write up on a business that has just set up to do cleaning  by blasting dry ice.

Anyone heard of this before, what applications does it have and how does it work?

Title: Re: Cryogenic cleaning
Post by: John Kelly on June 02, 2007, 02:36:54 pm

Ian, similar to Armex soda blasting but uses dry ice crystals instead of soda. Good for soot removal from brick and stone without damaging the underlying surface. Not new been around for a while.

Title: Re: Cryogenic cleaning
Post by: carpetguy on June 02, 2007, 03:15:44 pm

Been around for some time, it's used in the food manufacturing industry among others.

Pretty specialised and I imagine the capital outlay would be large, to say the least !

It was featured in one of the cleaning magazines a couple of years ago.

Title: Re: Cryogenic cleaning
Post by: des on June 02, 2007, 07:42:11 pm

How strange ive just been looking at this and have just got a load of info from a u.  s. a  company but what they did not say was price ,I was looking for a way to clean hard floors but im still not sure

Title: Re: Cryogenic cleaning
Post by: Len Gribble on June 02, 2007, 08:27:30 pm

Des

You can try before you buy http://www.cryosonic.co.uk/dry-ice-blaster-rental.html.


Len

Title: Re: Cryogenic cleaning
Post by: carpetguy on June 03, 2007, 11:03:18 am

Looking at the videos, the applications are what would previously have been carried out with sand blasting or high pressure jetting.

This is hard surface cleaning where the surface being cleaned has to be preserved.