Anyone try to remove or take these up? Need to remove some stripes for a company so they can put down a new layout. What’s a good way or product to remove this? Thanks
Brian Richardson
Crystal Clean Pressure Washing
270.350.SOAP
There a bear to get completely out. We’ve tried some strong strippers,hi heat,turbo nozzles,wire brushes and sometimes a combination of all and we never got to many lines out completely. Some type of media blasting may work.
We did jobs where the lines were redone but not what your being requested to do. Before you price this job go do some test first so you can see what your up against. On something like this it may best to just pass on it. Good luck on whatever you decide to do.
Thank you sir, ill keep that in mind!!
Brian Richardson
Crystal Clean Pressure Washing
270.350.SOAP
Concrete or asphalt…big difference. Asphalt, no problem…concrete…well…You may want to soften the strips and heat them up before pressure wash them.
There is a chemical you can use to " Soften" the stripe, but you would have to filter the wash water. After that, use extreme hot water.
I also seen bead blasting.
However if the strip is thermoplastic line striping, this is heat treated and very hard to remove. 10,000 psi is what is called for this removal or what is the best of everything is this
Met a guy at NOLA that removed all the strips at the dome where the Super Bowl was played at. He rigged up some kind of cart with a turbo nozzle. I can’t think of his name right now but maybe [MENTION=803]Thad[/MENTION] can help. He had the big pop up banner. Lives in NOLA
He must have had a pretty high PSI Powerwasher. We used heat and up to 4000 psi with turbo nozzles in the past and alot of the stripe would come out but there was some still left behind on most stripes.
Thanks for all the info. After hearing what you guys had to say and talking to customer, they have decided it would be best to leave it as it is. Whew!!!
Brian Richardson
Crystal Clean Pressure Washing
270.350.SOAP
That was Joe Burke.
He built a neat little setup to run a path right down the stripe.
I seen one guy use a scarifier (At the time I had no idea what it was).
Its like a garden mower with a rotating drum that remove the lines and a small layer of concrete or asphalt underneath .Same idea as a wood planer.
