Rezarf <>< said:
I gotta be honest, I think a lot of people are sandblasting these things because "everyone else is doing it." You are looking at a Mil-spec paint job on most of these things, i would sand and prime the rough spots and scuff the rest. Pick your color and shoot it.
Mil-spec finishes will outlast every other DIY job out there, I would think of it as a color change rather than stipping it down and rebuilding a good finish.
Just my .02
Rezarf <><
Lots of truth in what you say.
Which was even more of a stunner when I went to have some sandblasting done. I just wanted the few rusty areas blasted and the paint scuffed. That said I have done quite a bit of sandblasting and know what it entails. What I was asking for was the the exterior of the tub done. At most about an 1 or less of work.
My goal was only to get the crud and stuff off the top of the paint from where the trailer had been sitting out in storage.
Every shop I approached asked me the exact same thing, "how much did you pay for that trailer?" When I told them $875 they all said the same thing, "it will cost more than that!"
Not being from here, the desert, I figured sand was NOT in short supply, but I can only guess it is...
Every shop quoted 6-8 hrs to do it @ $75+ per hour + cost of sand (of course they said it was not sand but some SPECIAL yadah, yadah), estimate was always "about what you paid for it". Even when I said I didn't need it blasted down to bare metal, just cleaned a bit...that guy upped the price for that service.