Sandblasting with the rates published
Capital City Sandblasting is a mobile sandblasting contractor serving Jackson, MS and the surrounding metro: coating removal on equipment and structural steel, dustless blasting where dust cannot fly, masonry cleaning, graffiti removal and automotive work, all done where the work sits. Every job prices off the public rate sheet, so the first number you hear is one you can verify.
The rig is taking new work now. Booked jobs get a written date.
Sandblasting in the Jackson, MS area costs $150 to $250 per hour for a mobile rig with an operator, $800 to $3,000 for typical equipment and machinery pieces and $4 to $8 per square foot for commercial surface prep, with masonry cleaning at $3 to $6 per square foot and single graffiti tags at $300 to $800. The rig travels to the job anywhere in the metro, dustless wet methods make blasting workable beside occupied buildings and most single-piece jobs finish in a day. The one constraint this climate imposes: bare steel starts flash-rusting within hours in Mississippi humidity, so the coating date belongs in the blasting schedule from the start. Every price here traces to a published rate sheet anyone can read before making a call.
See your price range right now
Two questions, priced straight from the published rate sheet. This is a real calculator running on this page. It asks for no contact details, sends nothing anywhere and the range updates as you answer.
What comes clean, and where it leads
Steel is the core of the work: machinery and equipment back to bare metal, trailer and fleet frames, structural members and tank sections, fab-shop steel profiled for coating. The industrial page covers the plant-and-supplier side, including maintenance-window scheduling and what happens when old paint might contain lead.
Masonry and concrete get the gentler versions: paint pulled off brick, storefronts and parking structures cleaned, floor coatings stripped for recoat. And the graffiti page covers the fastest product we sell: a tag photographed in the morning and gone within days, without scarring the wall under it.
The method question, dry abrasive or dustless wet, has its own page at dustless and mobile blasting, because the right answer depends on the site, not the sales pitch. Open yard, dry works and costs a bit less. Occupied site, wet wins every time.
From call to bare metal, in five steps
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Photos first
Most quotes start from photos texted to the number on this page: the surface, the coating coming off and something for scale. Complex sites get a free walk-through instead.
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A written number off the public sheet
The quote names the method, the media, the expected time and the price, tied to the published rate sheet line by line.
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The coating handoff, planned
Bare steel is a deadline in this humidity, so the blast date gets set against your primer or paint date before anything is scheduled.
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The blast, contained
The rig arrives, containment goes up where the site needs it, and the surface comes clean to the standard the coating requires. Most single pieces finish in a day.
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Cleanup and the job record
Spent media gets collected, the site leaves clean and commercial clients get documentation of what was done and to what standard.
Built for the metro’s industrial spine
This metro makes things: the auto corridor up north around Canton, the tire campus and supplier ring west in Clinton, the heavy-equipment strip down Highway 49 through Richland and the fleet yards of Pearl. Industrial surface prep is maintenance-cycle work: equipment and structures get blasted and recoated every five to ten years whether anyone enjoys it or not, and a local rig with published rates makes that cycle a budget line instead of a procurement adventure. Surface preparation standards for coating work come from AMPP, the coatings industry association whose standards define how clean and how textured blasted steel must be for a new coating to stick and last, published at ampp.org, and quoting against those standards is how industrial buyers and blasting professionals stay honest with each other.
Affordable by the hour, honest by the job
The full sheet lives on the rate page with hourly, day, per-piece and per-square-foot lines and every price mover explained. The short version:
| Mobile rig, hourly | $150 - $250 |
| Equipment or machinery piece | $800 - $3,000 |
| Commercial surface prep, per sq ft | $4 - $8 |
| Graffiti removal, single tag | $300 - $800 |
Asked on almost every call
How much does sandblasting cost in Jackson, MS?
The mobile rig runs $150 to $250 per hour with half days at $600 to $900 and full days at $1,100 to $1,700. By the job: equipment and machinery pieces run $800 to $3,000, car bodies $1,200 to $2,500, commercial surface prep $4 to $8 per square foot and masonry cleaning $3 to $6. Every number sits on the published rate sheet, and photos of the work get you a firm written quote fast.
What is dustless blasting and do I need it?
Dustless or wet blasting mixes water with the abrasive, which knocks the dust cloud down by an order of magnitude and lets blasting happen next to occupied buildings, parked cars and working crews. You need it any time the site cannot tolerate a dust plume; open yards can often run dry and save a little. The quote recommends the method honestly rather than upselling the fancier word.
Do you come to us or do we haul the work to you?
The rig comes to you, and that is the point. This is a Jackson-metro operation on a local (601) line, serving only central Mississippi rather than routing calls from everywhere. Trailers, machinery, structures and buildings get blasted where they sit, anywhere in the Jackson metro with no travel charge. For batches of small parts a pickup arrangement sometimes beats a site visit, and we price both so the logistics are visible.
How fast does bare steel rust after blasting here?
In Mississippi humidity, flash rust can start the same day, which is why the coating plan belongs in the blasting schedule. We time every blast against the primer or paint date, and for steel that must wait, a hold-primer or rust inhibitor gets quoted alongside the blast so the surface you paid for is the surface that gets coated.
More on the full FAQ page.