Description
A blast room (also called a sandblast booth or abrasive blast room) is a fully enclosed, ventilated workspace where operators can blast large parts, weldments, and fabrications that don’t fit in a sandblasting cabinet. Solvent Recycling Systems supplies turnkey Kresco blast rooms — designed, manufactured, installed, and supported — with the abrasive media recovery system, dust collection, and blasting equipment matched to your parts and throughput. Kresco has over 1,000 installations across North America.
Watch: Abrasive Blast Room in Action
What’s Included in a Complete Blast Room
A working blast room is a system, not just an enclosure. Every Kresco blast room package covers all six elements:
- Modular enclosure — bolt-together 14-gauge galvanized steel panels with structural beams sized to your room dimensions and load (strong enough to support lifting equipment). Natural galvanized or powder-coated finish.
- Abrasive media recovery system — pneumatic, mechanical, or hybrid floor recovery that returns spent media to the blast pot (see options below).
- Dust collection — reverse-pulse cartridge dust collector capturing 99.9% of particles 5 µm and smaller, with automated filter cleaning, keeping visibility high inside the room and emissions controlled.
- Pressure blasting equipment — pressure blasters and media storage hoppers in configurations supplying up to four simultaneous blast operators.
- Operator safety equipment — personnel doors with observation windows (36″ x 84″ standard), door safety switches, emergency stops, and supplied-air respiratory protection with air filtration and gas detection.
- Controls & lighting — PLC control with HMI touch screen and built-in maintenance alerts; 18,000-lumen LED Hi-Bay lighting serviceable by a single technician.
Abrasive Media Recovery Systems
Recovery is the biggest design decision in any blast room — it drives the floor construction, the budget, and how much time your operators spend shoveling instead of blasting. Kresco builds five recovery configurations:
| System | Type | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| PARS2000 | Pneumatic recovery floor | Cost-effective recovery in multiple floor configurations — partial or full coverage without deep excavation |
| PARS5000 | Vacuum recovery head | Recovering media from confined areas and tanks |
| MARS2000 | Mechanical (screw conveyor) floor | Ultra-robust recovery that handles all media types and heavy contaminant loads at high volume |
| HARS2000 | Hybrid pneumatic + mechanical | Heavy-duty blast facilities that want mechanical durability with pneumatic flexibility |
| Mechanical loading recovery | Above-floor recovery | Oversized rooms and retrofit sites where excavating a recovery pit isn’t feasible |
Not sure which floor is right? That’s exactly what our free process evaluation is for — tell us your parts, media, and duty cycle and we’ll spec the recovery system that pays for itself.
Enclosure, Doors & Room Sizes
Blast rooms are sized to your parts, not the other way around. The modular panel system means the enclosure is engineered to your dimensions — from compact single-operator rooms to drive-through rooms for trailers, dump bodies, and structural steel. Door options include standard access doors, bifold and trifold doors for tight floor plans, heavy-duty rubber roll-up doors for fast cycle times, and doors on both ends for a true drive-thru workflow. Interior rubber lining, overhead monorail part handling, and removable flooring for heavy parts are available options.
Ventilation & Dust Collection
Proper airflow is what separates a productive blast room from a dust cave. Each room is ventilated through a reverse-pulse cartridge dust collector sized for the room volume, maintaining operator visibility during blasting and filtering exhaust air to 99.9% at 5 µm. Automated pulse cleaning keeps cartridges working between filter changes, and the PLC flags maintenance before performance drops.
Industries That Use Our Blast Rooms
Kresco blast rooms are at work in aerospace, automotive and truck fleets, foundries and forges, shipyards, railcar and mass transit shops, military depots, construction equipment rebuilders, and general manufacturing — anywhere large steel needs cleaning, de-rusting, de-coating, or surface prep before welding, painting, or powder coating.
After the Blast: Stop Flash Rust
Freshly blasted steel is bare, active metal — it starts flash-rusting within hours in humid shops. As a Cortec Corporation distributor, we pair blast rooms with VpCI corrosion inhibitors, rust preventatives, and VCI packaging so the white-metal finish you just paid for survives until coating. Ask us to include corrosion protection in your blast room quote.
Blast Room FAQ
How much does a blast room cost?
Blast rooms are engineered systems, so pricing depends on room dimensions, the media recovery floor (pneumatic vs. mechanical vs. hybrid is the biggest cost driver), dust collector sizing, number of simultaneous operators, and options like roll-up doors or monorails. Contact us with your part sizes and throughput for a budgetary number — we’ll give you a realistic range for your configuration, not a teaser price.
Blast room or blast cabinet — which do I need?
If your parts fit through a cabinet opening and one operator can handle them, a sandblast cabinet is faster and cheaper. When parts are measured in feet instead of inches — frames, weldments, tanks, wheels sets, structural steel — you need a walk-in blast room.
Can a blast room be installed without digging a pit?
Yes. Pneumatic recovery floors and the mechanical loading recovery system are designed for above-slab installation where excavation isn’t possible or economical. Full mechanical screw-conveyor floors typically use a shallow pit and earn their keep in high-volume operations.
What abrasive media can I use?
Steel shot and grit, aluminum oxide, glass bead, garnet, plastic media, and other recyclable abrasives — the recovery system and dust collector are specced to your media. Recyclable media plus a recovery floor is what makes a blast room dramatically cheaper to run per hour than open blasting.
Do you install and service blast rooms?
Yes — Kresco blast rooms are turnkey: engineering drawings, manufacturing, installation, startup, operator training, and ongoing parts and filter support (dust collector cartridges, nozzles, hoses, and abrasive media) all come through Solvent Recycling Systems.
What’s the difference between a blast booth and a blast room? Nothing, in practice — “abrasive blast booth,” “sandblast booth,” and “blast room” all describe the same walk-in enclosure with media recovery and dust collection. Some industries say booth, others say room. Whatever you call it, an abrasive blast booth from Kresco is engineered to your parts, your media, and your building.
Get a Blast Room Quote
Request a quote or a free process evaluation — send us your part sizes, current process, and production volume, and we’ll come back with a recommended room size, recovery system, dust collector, and budgetary pricing. Also see our blasting equipment line for cabinets, automated systems, and portable blasters.
Engineering the Room Around Your Parts
Every Kresco blast room starts with a modular enclosure of 14-gauge galvanized steel panels (10-gauge optional) that assembles quickly in pre-engineered sizes or fully custom dimensions. High-efficiency LED lighting keeps the work surface bright, and the product access door comes as a single door, bifold, or roll-up to match how your parts move — forklift, cart, monorail or drive-in. Optional powder-coat finish and rubber lining protect the enclosure in aggressive steel-grit service.
Recovery Floor Layouts & Rates
The recovery floor is where the budget is won or lost, so Kresco offers six standard layouts — from a single pit up to full-floor coverage that eliminates sweeping entirely. Excavated pits carry grating rated up to 5,000 lb bearing capacity, so wheeled loads roll right over the recovery zone.
Matching the recovery system to your media and volume: the pneumatic system (7.5 hp / 900 CFM cartridge dust collector, urethane piping) recovers up to 2,000 lb/hr and suits most recyclable media except heavy steel grit (GH-36) and large steel shot (S-230+). The mechanical system — excavated endless-screw conveyors feeding a bucket elevator with adjustable airwash cleaning — handles any media at up to 10,000 lb/hr and supplies up to four blasters at once. The hybrid system pairs an excavated auger with vacuum transfer for heavy-duty duty where excavation is limited or ceilings are under the ~20 ft a bucket elevator needs, recovering up to 2,000 lb/hr.
Inside the Cyclonic Separator
An adjustable air inlet tunes the separator to your media type; dust and fines are pulled to the dust collector, large debris drops into a trap drawer, and only good, reusable abrasive returns to the blast pot — which is why operators see better inside the room and consumable spend drops from day one.
Smart Controls & Operator Options
Systems run on a PLC with a 7″ HMI touchscreen: fully automatic mode, integrated maintenance alerts, alarms with resolutions, and hour/wear counters, available in any plant electrical configuration. Popular productivity and safety options include movable floors and overhead conveyors for parts handling, in-booth remote switches (blast on/air only, pressurize/depressurize the vessel — no leaving the room or pulling PPE to adjust), door safety switches, emergency pull cords and exit lights. Kresco rooms are code-compliant for industrial use in both the United States and Canada.
We also supply GVS/RPB Safety respiratory protection as an authorized distributor — Nova 3 blast helmets with Grade-D breathing air monitoring, filtration and supply — so your operators are protected with the same purchase order as the room itself.
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