Rescue 1 Restorations finishes first Springfield job

The company spent two weeks cleaning smoke damage from a Nov. 23 fire at Columns IV apartments on East Sunshine.

Owner Troy Cole uses dry-ice blasting to clean anything from smoke-damaged apartments to printing presses with very little mess and hassle, he said. With dry-ice blasting, it is unnecessary to disassemble machines for cleaning.

Cole uses pellets of dry ice, which he scoops into a hopper. The dry ice is fed through a hose at an adjustable rate – usually about three pounds per minute – and can travel as fast as 2,300 feet per second.

The dry ice cleans from its impact and its temperature: 109 F below zero. The ice flash freezes contaminants, which fall to the floor and are vacuumed up.

“It’s kind of cool stuff,” Cole said. “It’s very fast and efficient, and it’s just not messy.”

Until the Columns IV job, Cole had only worked in Kansas City, St. Louis and Neosho.

See SBJ’s Dec. 11 issue for more on this story.