The Aulson Company, Inc. is Licensed, Bonded, Insured and Safety Compliant with an excellent reputation.
As a Contractor in the Northeast Aulson’s experience on Aged and Historic Structures was established early. As a DCAMM Certified Contractor in Historic Building Restoration, Aulson employs a combination of services to provide a turnkey resource for Historic preservation and restoration, known as the Aulson Advantage. Aulson’s early experience with lead and asbestos conditioned our crews for the performance of work on historic properties and structures to where it has become a primary focus and major service line.
Through the combination of Aulson's unique capabilities, a major service line provides specialty concrete repair services for bridges, marine structures, parking structures, and industrial facilities. Aulson has demonstrated the ability to utilize chipping and traditional placement methods and more importantly, specialty methods preparation and material placement such as hydrodemolition and shotcrete. Aulson has provided hyrdodemolition, shotcrete, hand-chipping, patch repair and traditional placement as stand-alone features of work, but when employing the Aulson Advantage, synergizes of various methods become available to our clients and customers. Through specialty methods with skilled Project Management Teams, Aulson delivers results with quality products and proven processes.
Abrasive Blast Cleaning is the use of pressurized abrasive material (such as sand) forced through a hose and propelled at high velocity out a nozzle at pressures ranging from 90 to 110 psi. Abrasive media impacts the desired substrate for the purposes of coatings removal, cleaning or preparing the substrate. Sandblasting can achieve various levels of cleanliness, and when specified Abrasive Blast Cleaning is used to provide a high level of surface preparation and desired anchor profiles suitable for High Performance Coatings Systems. So when it comes to protective coatings, remember, surface preparation is everything. Through the use of Abrasive Blast Cleaning Aulson is able to perform various levels of surface preparation and employ a wide variety of abrasive cleaning medias to obtain the desired or specified surface preparation. Abrasive medias come in a wide range of types and sizes, and can be recyclable or non-recyclable forms ranging sand to steel, or crushed glass to walnut shells. Surface preparation for protective coatings installation is a critical step in the success of the project and requires a high level of Quality Control.
Description: Ultra-High Pressure Water Jetting was utilized for all coatings removal to ensure the cast iron was not damaged during surface prep, and to also ensure the chloride contamination, brought on by the marine environment, was rinsed clean from the surface prior to the application of new coatings. This restoration project required exterior scaffolding to provide access and infrastructure for the installation of protective enclosures required for coatings removal and application. The entire project was serviced through the use of marine vessels, carrying all equipment, manpower and materials to and from the structure which sits atop a rock formation often over taken by ocean swell throughout the day, making the leap to the light, a precarious one.