Industrial sandblasting without the dust cloud.
Bossier Sandblasting is an industrial wet sandblasting contractor serving Bossier City, Shreveport and the Ark-La-Tex. Water at the nozzle kills the dust, the steel still comes out at spec, and every rate is published before you call.
- Published rate sheet
- SSPC standards, profile verified
- Rust-inhibitor finish on every strip
- Containment and disposal handled
Coating crew waiting on prep? Call (318) 666-4671. A local line, answered by the operator.
What industrial wet sandblasting costs around Bossier City.
Mobile wet sandblasting in the Bossier City and Shreveport area runs $200 to $300 per hour for the rig and operator, with day rates of $1,800 to $2,600 for bigger scopes. In practical terms, equipment attachments strip for $250 to $600, a trailer frame and deck for $800 to $2,000, a full machine for $900 to $2,500, and structural steel prices at $3.50 to $8.00 per square foot depending on the prep standard and profile the coating system specifies. Bossier Sandblasting is an industrial wet sandblasting contractor serving the Ark-La-Tex, and those figures come from the published rate sheet rather than a guess at your gate. Wet blasting reaches the same SSPC standards as dry blasting while suppressing the dust at the nozzle, every strip finishes with a rust-inhibitor coat or same-visit primer, and the invoice matches the quote.
This region has the steel. The dust rules have the final say.
The Ark-La-Tex works its iron hard: Haynesville wellsite equipment on recoat cycles, fabrication shops feeding coating lines, fleet yards full of trailers, and mills that measure everything against fire risk. Almost none of that steel sits somewhere a dry grit cloud is welcome. Live pads, working yards, occupied blocks, and wood-dust environments all say the same thing, and the federal silica rules say it about the operator’s lungs too.
Wet blasting answers all of it at once, which is why this outfit runs water: the method explained, the equipment work, and the shop partnerships, all priced in the open.
Six kinds of steel, one wet rig.
Heavy equipment stripping
Loaders, excavators, buckets and attachments stripped to bare metal wet, with the rust-inhibitor coat on before the surface can bloom.
Oilfield iron
Separators, treaters, skids, pump jacks, and lease equipment prepped for recoat next to live pads, because wet blasting sends up no dust cloud.
Structural steel
Beams, columns, walkways and mill structures blasted in place to SSPC standards, profile checked with a gauge and written down.
Trailers and fleet steel
Frames, decks and dump bodies stripped in working yards while operations keep moving, batched by the row for the pricing to match.
Fab-shop batch prep
Fabricated steel blasted to your coating line’s profile spec on standing schedules, so your riskiest variable becomes a known quantity.
Dust-sensitive settings
Storefronts, occupied blocks, mills and yards full of parked equipment: the places dry blasting cannot behave are where wet blasting earns its rate.
The rate sheet is public. Budget the job before you call.
Hourly and day rates, per-piece equipment ranges, per-square-foot structural rates, and the lines for containment, lead-paint testing, and mobilization: the rate sheet prints all of it. A yard manager or a plant engineer can rough out a scope in five minutes, the quote comes off the same page, and anything a site look changes gets said at the site, never on the invoice.
The Ark-La-Tex, one dust-sensitive site at a time.
Mobile sandblasting near Shreveport covers the fab shops and the close-quarters work. Haughton and Vivian hold the oilfield iron. Minden’s coating shops buy prep by the batch and send the mold removal work on Minden steel and framing, and Greenwood’s fleet yards strip trailers by the row. Each area page covers the steel that place actually sends us and what the work costs.
Frequently asked questions
What does wet sandblasting cost around Bossier City?
The rates are published: $200 to $300 per hour with a two-hour minimum, day rates of $1,800 to $2,600, attachments $250 to $600, trailers $800 to $2,000, machines $900 to $2,500, pump jacks $700 to $1,800, structural steel $3.50 to $8.00 per square foot, and fab-shop lots from $400. The cost page carries the whole sheet and the invoice matches the quote.
Is wet sandblasting as effective as regular dry blasting?
On the steel, identical: the abrasive does the cutting either way and both reach the same SSPC prep standards, which we verify with a profile gauge. The difference is the air. Dry throws a dust cloud; wet captures dust at the nozzle, which is why jobs next to live equipment, open businesses, and running yards get done wet or not at all.
What is the deal with silica and sandblasting?
The federal respirable crystalline silica rule tightly limits blast-dust exposure, which killed casual dry blasting with actual sand. We run silica-free garnet and crushed glass media inside a water stream, dust suppressed at the source and media choice safe on top of it. The people most protected are the operator and whoever works in that yard tomorrow.
Does the water rust the steel?
Left alone, damp bare steel flash-rusts in hours, which is why no strip of ours ends bare: a rust-inhibitor rinse finishes every job, holding the surface clean for days, or primer goes on the same visit when the coating plan allows. Managed properly, wet-blasted steel coats exactly as well as dry-blasted steel.
Can you blast next to things that cannot get dusty?
That is the specialty: producing well pads, working truck yards, storefronts with the sidewalk open, mills where dust is a fire word. Containment catches what falls and the wet stream keeps the air clear, so the neighbors mostly notice the pressure-washer sound and nothing else.
Tell us what the steel looks like. We’ll bring the water.
Photos of the rust, the equipment, or the batch speed everything up: text them to the same number you call, and the quote comes off the published sheet.