When the asset can't come to the shop, the shop goes to the asset. Six self-contained blast rigs deploy daily from our Houston yard — carrying their own air, media, containment, and spent- abrasive recovery. No dependency on your site utilities, no excuses about compressor capacity.
Roughly half of all industrial blasting in the Houston area happens at a shop — steel gets trucked in, blasted, primed, and hauled back out. The other half happens in the field, because the asset physically cannot move.
A 40-foot storage tank doesn't ride on a flatbed. A barge deck can't be brought into a blast bay. A refinery turnaround has a fixed shutdown window and every hour of delay costs the operator six figures. Bridge girders are already installed by the time they need recoating. Those are the jobs where a mobile rig matters.
What makes a mobile operation actually work isn't just having a truck — it's having a fully self-contained unit that arrives on site ready to work. That means an onboard diesel compressor, a blast pot large enough to run a full shift without stopping to refill, containment material that can be erected in under two hours, and spent-media recovery equipment so the abrasive doesn't end up in a storm drain.
Our six rigs run to that standard. Nothing about a mobile job is a compromise on quality versus shop work — the same SSPC grade, the same profile tolerance, the same inspection documentation. It's the same process, just with a different address.
Every unit is spec'd identically for redundancy — if one goes down mid-job, we swap without a gap in the schedule.
The workhorse. Freightliner chassis with a rotary-screw compressor, dual blast pots, and a full media hopper. Designed for tank exteriors, structural steel, and large-area field work.
Best for: tank shells, large structural, bridge steel
Towed unit with the same compressor package as Rig 01 but a slimmer footprint. Used where a Class 8 truck can't maneuver — narrow access roads, tight tank farms, rooftop jobs.
Best for: tight access sites, rooftop units, tank farms
Purpose-built for occupied buildings and interior work. HEPA-filtered vacuum recovery integrated with the blast pot — no airborne media, no cleanup trail. Certified for food-processing and pharma environments.
Best for: interior concrete prep, occupied facilities, clean rooms
Deck-mounted blast package that travels to the asset on water. Used for tug hulls, barge decks, dock piling, and near-shore structures that can't be brought to a yard. Operates from its own barge or yours.
Best for: hulls, barge decks, dock piles, offshore modules
Kept in ready-state with pre-loaded media and full PPE. Deploys within 8 hours of an approved work order for coating failures, spill-zone cleanup, or unplanned shutdown windows. Driver on call 24/7.
Best for: emergencies, shutdown windows, spill response
Blast package mounted on a telescopic boom for elevated work — silos, tall tank shells, structural steel on upper floors, and other surfaces that would otherwise need scaffolding.
Best for: silos, upper tank courses, elevated steel
The same sequence runs on every mobile job — whether it's a planned tank repaint or a 2 AM emergency call from a refinery turnaround.
We ask the basics: asset type, square footage (or approximate), location, service environment, and target schedule. If we can quote from the phone, we do. If not, we schedule a site visit.
A project lead walks the job — measures the surface, checks access, verifies media containment options, and photographs everything for the file. For emergency jobs, this step compresses into the same phone call.
Line-itemed quote with labor, media, containment, disposal, and schedule. Alongside it: a mobilization plan showing which rig is assigned, when it arrives, and what staging area it needs from you.
Crew arrives, backs the rig into your staging area, erects containment, runs the air lines and recovery hoses, and confirms the blast spec with the site supervisor before the first nozzle opens.
Blast, inspect, document, and either hand off to your coating crew or apply the coating ourselves. Containment comes down, spent media is recovered and hauled off, and the site is left clean.
Our service radius is 150 miles from the yard. Within that radius, standard mobilization is included in the quoted job price. Beyond it, we add a per-mile mobilization fee that's shown as a line item up front.
See all service areas →Houston proper, Pasadena, Deer Park, La Porte, Galena Park, and the Ship Channel. Same-day mobilization on most calls, no travel surcharge.
Baytown, Galveston, Texas City, League City, and the western suburbs. Standard next-day mobilization, no travel surcharge.
Beaumont, Port Arthur, Freeport, Lake Charles (LA), and other distant sites. Scheduled mobilization with a per-mile travel line item.
Coating failures don't wait for business hours, and shutdown windows don't negotiate. Our emergency response unit is kept in a ready state — pre-loaded media, full PPE, driver on call — so we can have a rig on your site within 8 hours of an approved work order.
Three things: a hard, level staging area roughly the size of two parking spaces for the rig, reasonable access for a Class 8 truck (12-foot width, no low wires or overhangs), and a water source if the job needs wet containment. If you don't have all three, tell us — we've staged in tighter conditions, but the estimate changes if we need to work around them.
We carry our own. Every rig has a diesel-driven rotary-screw compressor sized to run the blast pots it's paired with. This is by design — we don't want a job delayed because a customer's compressor turned out to be undersized, off-line for maintenance, or running at a lower pressure than the nameplate says. On very large jobs (multiple rigs, 24-hour operation), we sometimes supplement with a rented compressor, but the base package is self-contained.
For a typical tank or structural blast, we erect shrink-wrap containment — a scaffold-supported frame draped with heavy poly. On complex geometry (piping, grating, small parts), we use rigid panel containment or partial enclosures. For dustless interior work (Rig 03), we skip the enclosure entirely and pull vacuum at the nozzle. In all cases, spent media is captured, bagged, and hauled off with a disposal manifest if the media contains regulated metals.
Depends on the contents and the operating conditions. Hydrocarbon service, high-temperature service, and any vessel under pressure require a gas-free certificate and a signed hot-work permit before we start. We coordinate directly with your operations team and won't send a rig until the permit is in hand. For non-hazardous contents (water, air, non-flammable chemicals) at atmospheric conditions, we can often work without shutdown. The call is yours and your safety officer's, not ours.
We stay until it's done. Extensions that come from our side — weather delays, unexpected substrate conditions, equipment issues — don't incur additional mobilization charges. If the extension is on your side (additional scope, late access, changes to the spec), we quote the additional work before continuing. Either way, you get a call before any cost changes.
Within 75 miles of the yard, mobilization is included in the job price — no separate travel line item. Between 75 and 150 miles, we add a flat per-mile mobilization fee that appears as its own line on the quote. Beyond 150 miles, we'll still take the job if the scope justifies the trip, but the mobilization fee is quoted individually. No hidden fuel surcharges, no daily trucking charges.
We handle it. Containment comes down at the end, spent media is recovered, and the site is left in the same condition as when we arrived — actually cleaner, because we sweep the staging area before leaving. For jobs on sensitive surfaces (coated concrete, epoxy floors), we lay protective matting before setup and roll it up at demob. The only thing we don't handle is disposal of customer-owned material (like your own coating remnants if you provided them).
Tell us what the asset is, where it lives, and what needs to come off it. We'll tell you which rig is coming and when it will arrive.
Or email [email protected] — for emergencies, call the dispatch line directly.