Industrial surface and plant cleaning
Flooring, car parks, pathways, building exteriors and plant. High pressure where it suits the surface, something gentler where it does not.
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What this is
High-pressure cleaning at industrial scale, on surfaces that are usually somebody’s asset: coated warehouse walls, painted cladding, plant exteriors, concrete that has to stay trafficable on Monday.
Which is why the pressure is only half the decision. The other half is what goes on the surface, and where the water goes afterwards.
A job we did
A carbon dust release
A burst silo, dust across the neighbours’ warehouses, and a chemical chosen so their paint stayed on.
Worth knowing
Wash water is the part that gets people in trouble
Water that has run over a factory floor, a plant yard or a car park is not clean water any more, and letting it reach the stormwater system is an environmental problem with a regulator attached. Section 319 of the Environmental Protection Act 1994 puts a general environmental duty on the person doing the work: do not carry out an activity likely to cause environmental harm without taking all reasonably practicable measures to prevent or minimise it. Council trade waste rules govern what may go to sewer instead.
So containment can be part of the quote from the start: bunding, capture, vacuum recovery and disposal through the right route for what is in the water, where the site needs it.
If your site has no trade waste arrangement and the wash water cannot go anywhere, we will tell you before the job starts, not during it.
What gets cleaned
Surfaces, structure and plant
Factory and warehouse flooring
Car parks, hardstand and pathways
Building exteriors and cladding
Plant, frames and structure
Loading docks and roller door bays
Who this is for
Industrial sites, not driveways
Factories and manufacturing plants
Warehouses and distribution centres
Bulk handling and storage sites
Commercial car parks and hardstand
This is the industrial arm. Domestic and residential pressure cleaning is a separate business.
Trade waste
Where wash water can go, and who decides
A business that discharges anything other than domestic sewage into a sewer needs trade waste approval from the local water authority, under the Water Supply (Safety and Reliability) Act 2008. In Brisbane and Ipswich the approval is administered by Queensland Urban Utilities. On the Gold Coast it is managed by the City of Gold Coast. On the Sunshine Coast it is Unitywater. Outside Queensland the authority and the rules are different.
Whether your site already holds an approval, and what it allows, decides where the wash water can go. If you are not sure, that is the first thing to find out.
Before the pressure goes on
What to settle for a surface and a plant
- What is the surface, and what is on it? A coating, a paint finish or a sealer can be damaged by the wrong pressure or chemical. The Wacol carbon dust job used a chemical known to be non-abrasive so the neighbours’ paint stayed on.
- When can the area be closed off? Loading docks, car parks and forklift routes need barriers and a time when traffic stops.
- What has to be captured? Oil, product residue and dust each change the plan for the run-off.
- How high is it? Cladding and plant frames sit above head height, and the same platforms used for at-heights work can carry the pressure cleaning gear.
Related
Cleaning that starts above the floor
Exterior and structural cleaning often comes with at-heights work on the same visit. The Wacol clean-up used platforms for the height and pressure cleaning gear for the surfaces.
Related work
Where industrial surface cleaning fits with the rest of the work
Most industrial buildings need more than one of these, and it is usually cheaper to do them on the same visit while the access equipment is already on site.
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Get in touch
Send us the surface and the constraint
What needs cleaning, what is underneath it, and where the water can go. Those three answers scope most of these jobs.
0409 455 189 · info@legacyinnovations24.com.au
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