What Are The Benefits Of Shot Blasting Concrete?
Shot Blasting Concrete is highly beneficial to any contractor who needs to prepare floors to give the ultimate anchor pattern for floor coatings, screeds and indeed, smart polished concrete contractors who want to massively reduce the time taken to grind down to the aggregate.
Golden Rule:
Use the smallest shot possible! The reason for this is:
– The Smaller Shot Will Blast Much Faster:
The job will go a lot faster as you will do more square metres per hour because the machine is far more powerful than a Concrete Grinder.
– You Won’t Take Out The Unnecessary Depth Of Concrete:
Taking unnecessary depth only wears out the blast wheel and wears liners unnecessarily which means more depth will be taken away, which results in a coating or screed to be required to fill it.
– In The Case Of A Coating:
A beautiful fine-blasted finish will cover nicely, but an over-blasted surface will increase costs to fill the profile with epoxy if you use the wrong shot.
If you need to create a bigger profile for any reason then a bigger shot is the way to go. But still, the same rule applies; use the smallest shot that will give you the profile at the best time.
Shotblasting has the advantage that it is far faster and less costly per square metre to prepare floors and give excellent adhesion. Many coatings contractors will Shot Blast lightly, then diamond grind lightly, to get an excellent finish and give your customer the ultimate adhesion on the job. It’s faster, quicker and less costly.