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Fairbanks & the Fairbanks North Star Borough

Pressure washing
and sandblasting
in Fairbanks.

Joel Sperry spent 34 years in the fire service before he started Arctic Blasters in 2019. Same idea, lower stakes. Show up, deal with the mess, leave it better than he found it.

Pressure washing packed mud out of a bulldozer's track frame, the spray cutting back to yellow paint
Running since
2019
Fire service
34 yrs
Family run
Not a franchise
Estimates
Free, on site

Three things, done properly

What we take off surfaces

Joel's son Timothy pressure washing an asphalt shingle roof, a clear line between the washed shingles and the dirty ones

Pressure washing

Water, at the pressure the surface can take

Roofs, siding, decks, driveways, storefronts, heavy equipment. Getting the grime off is the easy half. Getting it off without stripping paint or driving water where it should not go is the part worth paying for.

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Blasting a structural steel column, the lower half already back to bare metal

Mobile sandblasting

Down to bare metal, on site

The rig comes to you, so equipment that cannot easily be moved does not have to be. Rust, failed coatings, old paint. What is left is a clean surface ready for primer, and that is usually the whole reason the job exists.

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Red and blue spray paint tags across the pavers at Golden Heart Plaza in downtown Fairbanks

Graffiti removal

Sooner is cheaper

A tag that sits invites more of them, and the paint keeps bonding the longer it stays. Call early and it usually comes off clean. We can also seal the surface afterwards so the next one lifts off without a fight.

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Who you are calling

Thirty-four years
running at fires.

Joel Sperry retired out of the fire department, looked around Fairbanks, and could not find anyone doing surface work the way he thought it ought to be done. So he and his wife bought the equipment themselves.

That was 2019. It is still a family business. His sons Timothy and Michael and his nephew Adam work the jobs with him, and when you call, Joel is the one who picks up.

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Blasting the side of a steel tank, spent media banked up on the ground

Where we work

Fairbanks · North Pole · Eielson · Fort Wainwright · Ester · Fox

Plus the rest of the Fairbanks North Star Borough. Further out than that, ring and ask. We take jobs beyond the usual radius when the scope is worth the drive.

Interior Alaska is hard on buildings. Freeze and thaw, road spray, breakup mud, then a whole summer of dust. Most of what we take off a surface got there because of the weather, not because anyone neglected it.

Tell us what needs cleaning.

We come out, look at the surface, and give you a number. Monday to Friday, 8am to 5pm.