Steel Cleaning/Painting

[jjeng2]

As part of an existing building rehab I am specing to clean and paint all exposed steel including lintels in interior brick bearing walls. I thought I had the SSPC book but apparantely do not. This is a mildly corrosive environment with some moisture from the masonry walls and has experienced some rusting in the past and additional moisture in stairwells from urination(it is a housing project). I think that hand tool cleaning to bare metal and solvent cleaning is adequate and I will be inspecting for material loss. Can anyone guide me on the proper SSPC cleaning and painting spec #. Any comments/advice would also be appreciated.

 

[RockEngineer]

Here are the SSPC spec names and numbers you wanted.

SP 1 Solvent Cleaning
SP 2 Hand Tool Cleaning
SP 3 Power Tool Cleaning

 

[RockEngineer]

I fogot a couple

SP 11 Power Tool Cleaning to Bare Metal
SP 15 Industrial Grade Power Tool Cleaning.

 

[jjeng2]

Rock Engineer,
Thank You. I believe that if I spec SP2 or SP3 then I need to spec SP1 after that to remove oil, dirt, etc. Is this correct? I used to so this a lot but dont have the book at my new job and need to get this out so ordering it wouldnt help.

 

[RockEngineer]

That's what I usually spec if I can't have something blasted. SP 2 & SP 3 require that anything that is not tightly adhered be removed.