Soda Blasting For Cedar Siding

Cedar siding soda lime or glass any product blasted with air will grove the cedar like a psi washer would.

Soda blasting for cedar siding.

Part of the renovation is to clean the exterior brick siding of decades worth of green moss and fungus which have become attached the. For cedar siding with a smooth surface scrape the paint and clean the cedar before painting. Just a testament of how gentle or aggressive you can be with the dustless blaster to meet your customer s needs. The home was built in the 1950 s.

Cheap cedar siding and most types of pine siding will show a lot of flat grain. 600 square feet 3 bags 40 70 crushed glass stand off was about 2 to 2 1 2 feet 6 nozzle. Unlike sandblasting it will not scratch wood or metal surfaces below the paint. We are using a harbor freight soda blaster to take this old dresser down to raw wood.

A little over 1 hour. Sealing the wood with sweet pickins top coat which can be found here. Soda blasting was developed to work well on soft metals like copper it was originally developed for use on the statue of liberty but also works well on wood. It can also be used on older wood but is usually reserved for hardwoods or old fir beams and columns that have substantial thickness and strength.

To my knowledge it is not used on soft wood. Soda blasting neglected 75 year old brick home. Trick is to start with the lowest psi you can and go from there. It has been empty and neglected for over 10 year.

This home in maryland was recently purchased for renovation by an investor. For rough sawn cedar you can try to remove the paint using a stiff wire brush being careful not to.