SodaBlast Systems Europe · Knowledge & Projects
Understand the surface. Plan the work. Choose the equipment.
Practical guides to soda blasting and surface preparation, from assessing a job to organising mobile cleaning work. Explore applications, understand the limitations and prepare better questions before choosing your equipment.
- Applications and limitations
- Job preparation checklists
- Questions before buying equipment
Applications
Start with the material in front of you.
Pick a surface to see what matters when you assess it. The questions help you prepare a conversation and a trial – they do not choose a medium or settings for you.
Steel structures, machine parts and metal surfaces
On steel the question is usually what has to come off – loose paint, rust, mill scale or only dirt – and what the surface must look like for the next coating. Harder deposits may call for a different medium than soda.
Questions to assess this job
- What exactly has to be removed, and how thick is it?
- Does the next coating require a specific surface preparation?
- Is the surface protected after cleaning, or will flash rust be a problem?
A new service for your existing business
Expanding a construction or cleaning business? Consider mobile soda blasting.
Mobile soda blasting is one option for expanding a construction, renovation or facade cleaning business. Existing customers may need suitable coatings and contamination removed before further work. SodaBlast Systems (SBS) offers the SB-500 Trailer, a trailer-mounted blasting unit and compressor for work at the customer's site. Start with actual enquiries and trials on the surfaces you expect to encounter.
Starter library
Four guides to read before the first job.
Each guide answers one practical question and ends with a clear next step.
- Preparing & running servicesPlanning guide
Construction business expansion: mobile soda blasting with SBS
Explore mobile soda blasting as a new construction service. Check demand, sample jobs and costs before choosing a SodaBlast Systems SB-500 Trailer.
What you get from it: Plan your business expansion
Read the guide - Preparing & running servicesPlanning guide
From pressure washing to coating removal: choosing a service
Expand facade cleaning into coating removal: compare soda and other methods on timber, brick and metal. When to consider an SBS SB-500 Trailer.
What you get from it: Plan your business expansion
Read the guide - Applications & technologyExplainer
Soda blasting, dry ice or laser? Compare the job, not the video
Choose a cleaning method for a service business: compare the required finish, accepted area, media use and the complete job cost before buying equipment.
What you get from it: Choose equipment against real customer jobs and an agreed finish.
Read the guide - Preparing & running servicesPlanning guide
Soda blasting business: demand, costs and mobile job planning
Assess a hands-on soda blasting business: local customers, repeat work, full job costs and planning from transport to clean-up.
What you get from it: See the whole job, not only the hours of blasting.
Read the guide
How it works
Air, medium, surface – the principle in three stages.
Start the diagram or pick a stage. It explains the principle; it does not simulate performance or replace the machine manual.
Stage 1: Preparing compressed air. A compressor supplies the compressed air that drives the whole process. On the SB-500 Trailer it is part of the set, so no external compressed-air supply is needed.
Photographs from real work
Brickwork: two stages of the same job.
Two views of the same brick wall at different stages of the work. The photographs were taken from different positions and are shown side by side.
The photographs document the visible surface. The blasting medium, equipment configuration and job duration are not specified.
Work on site
Concrete structures in practice.
A photograph of an operator working at a concrete structure. Access to the surface and the surroundings are part of planning a mobile cleaning job.
Plan a cleaning project
Prepare the conversation about a job in four steps.
Choose what applies and get a list of things to check. No personal data is needed and nothing is sent.
To check
The checklist is kept only while you browse this site. Reloading the page may clear it – copy it if you want to keep it.
About this hub
Who writes this and how to read it.
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Run by the brand
SodaBlast Systems Europe is published by the SodaBlast Systems brand, operated by SBS SYSTEM in Łódź, Poland. It is not an independent test institute.
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Where the material comes from
Guides are explanatory texts based on the approved product documentation and practical questions from customers. Operating parameters always come from the documentation for your configuration.
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Guide or documented project
A guide explains and helps you ask the right questions. A documented project shows one real job with its conditions, photos and limitations – and is published only with permission.
Equipment
From knowledge to the right equipment
When your questions lead to equipment, the SB-500 Trailer is our main mobile set: a blasting unit and a diesel-driven compressor on one trailer.
- Maximum output
- up to 60 m²/h
- Media hopper
- 150 kg
- Hose length
- up to 200 m
- Axles
- 2
For smaller jobs or workshop use, the SB-200 Trailer and SB-150 Trailer are smaller sets. Which one fits depends on the work you plan.