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A Peculiar Services blaster on top of a tank at dusk

Odd jobs welcome. So is everything else.

In-shop and mobile sandblasting across the Kansas City metro, since 2010. Bring it to the shop in Belton, or we'll bring the rig to you.

Free estimates. Nothing padded in, and nothing changes without your say-so.

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Family ownedSince 2010
BBB accreditedCass County
Licensed and insuredCOI on request
Same-day callbackMost calls under 12 hours

Before and after.

Everything that comes after blasting — primer, coatings, paint — only holds if the surface underneath came out right. Every pair below is our own work.

Ford Bronco

Ford Bronco in faded original paint before blasting
Before
The same Bronco blasted to bare metal in the booth
After

Switcher locomotive

Locomotive in green paint before blasting
Before
The same locomotive stripped to bare metal
After

Cast stone statues

Cast stone statue still grey under old paint
Before
A statue from the same job, cleaned back to bare stone
After

Truck wheels

Truck wheels before blasting
Before
Truck wheels after blasting
After

Dump truck bed

Dump truck bed with faded, chalked paint before blasting
Before
The same dump bed after blasting, uniform bare steel
After

Bulk storage tank

Bulk storage silo streaked and stained before blasting
Before
The same silo standing again after blasting, uniform bare steel
After

Graffiti removal

Graffiti removal before blasting
Before
Graffiti removal after blasting
After
25 × 10 × 10 ftShop bay. Bigger than that, we come to you
3,500 lbLargest piece we lift in-shop
40 miMobile radius from Belton

Two ways to work with us.

Most jobs come to the shop, where we have the space, the light, and the room to do careful work. When a piece is too big or too fixed to move, we load the rig and come to you.

A Ford Bronco blasted to bare metal inside the shop booth

In our shop

20203 State Rte D, Belton

Frames, bodies, classics, hot rods, semi cabs, trailers, farm equipment, cast iron, fabrication work, antiques, restoration projects. If it fits through the door, we can blast it.

Up to 3,500 lb — 25 × 10 × 10 ft bay. Larger than that and we bring the rig to you.
Two of the crew in blast hoods stripping a pool on site, hoses run out across the deck

At your site

40 miles out from Belton

Structural steel, tanks, machinery, grain equipment, livestock handling, pools, anything too large or too fixed to move. We haul the rig, the compressor, and the media, and we clean up after ourselves.

Commercial and industrial — we can work to an extended schedule when the job calls for it.

What we blast

If it isn't on this list, it's still worth a call. We enjoy the odd ones, and we do plenty of ordinary work too.

Vehicle frames and chassis
Bodies, panels and fenders
Semi cabs and box trucks
Wheels, rims and axles
Undercarriages
Trailers and fabrication
Farm and construction equipment
Tanks, hoppers and vessels
Structural steel and railings
Cast iron and antique tools
Brick, stone and concrete
Pools and pool surrounds
Timber, plank walls and beams
Solid wood doors and sashes
Patio furniture and ironwork
Engine and machine components
Restoration projects of any kind

The right media for the surface.

Aggressive media cut fast and leave a profile for coating to grip. Soft media clean without touching the substrate underneath. Picking wrong is how people end up with warped panels and etched glass.

These three cover almost everything that comes through the door. The discs are drawn to scale against each other — same field of view in every one, so you can see how the grain changes. Specialist media — walnut shell, glass bead, steel shot and others — we bring in when a job asks for it.

Angular crushed glass, magnifiedCrushed glass
Soft satin finish on aluminum, stainless, and alloys. Recycled, no free silica.
Grit 40–80 · Mohs 5.5
Sharp coal slag grain, magnifiedCoal slag
The workhorse for big structural jobs where speed matters more than finish.
Grit 20–40 · Mohs 7
Graded garnet grain, magnifiedGarnet
Surface prep before primer or coating. Clean cut, consistent profile.
Grit 20–40 · Mohs 7.5

We have never used free silica sand. Not once.

Silica sand is the cheapest abrasive on the shelf — but only just. Coal slag, one of the three we run, costs a few dollars more for the same bag, and it tends to win the difference back in labor. That is the whole saving. The people who pay for it are the ones holding the nozzle, and anyone standing downwind of them.

  • What the dust doesBlasting shatters sand into particles fine enough to reach the deepest part of a lung and stay there, scarring the tissue permanently. There is no cure, and it can keep worsening for years after the last job. The World Health Organization’s cancer agency rates it a Group 1 carcinogen — the same tier as asbestos.
  • This is not new informationNIOSH called for silica sand to be prohibited as a blasting abrasive in 1974 and has never softened that position. Britain banned it outright. Here it is still legal, so the only thing keeping it off a job is a contractor deciding not to reach for it.
  • It does not stay on the jobDust does not stop at the edge of the work area. On a mobile job that is your yard, your shop floor, your family and your crew breathing whatever we put in the air. If you run a commercial site, it lands in your exposure records too.

So we buy crushed glass, coal slag and garnet instead, and we have since the first job. Our people get one set of lungs, and so does everyone whose property we work on. Cheaper grit has never been worth the difference.

A straight estimate, and no padding.

Every job gets estimated on its own, because every job really is different. What we don’t do is build the price back up after you’ve agreed to it — no shop fee, no per-employee charges, nothing that appears quietly at the end.

It is an estimate, and we will tell you why. Sandblasting uncovers things. Rust deeper than it looked, a second layer nobody knew was under the first, metal thinner than it should be — any of those can add hours to a job, and none of them show themselves until the coating starts coming off.

When it happens we stop, show you what we found, and discuss the new number with you before we carry on. You will not open an invoice and find a decision you were not part of.

Send a photo, get an estimate
No shop fee
No per-employee charges
No separate fuel surcharge
No surprise line items

Travel is billed at our standard hourly rate rather than as a surcharge, and it is in the estimate before you agree to anything.

A few we're proud of.

Switcher locomotive

Masked and protected

Electric motors and components that couldn't be touched, mounted to a body that had to come clean. The work was in the masking — protecting everything sensitive and blasting tight around it without a single strike where it didn't belong.

Locomotive stripped to bare metal

Corvette body

Pressure backed off

A body panel gives you one chance. Hold too much pressure in one spot on thin sheet and it oil-cans, and a panel that has been rusting for decades is thinner where you cannot see it than where you can. Fibreglass has no tolerance at all — lean on it and you are through the gelcoat and into the weave. This one came off with the pressure down and the nozzle never stopping, every curve even, nothing cut into and nothing left behind.

Corvette body stripped to bare fibreglass, every curve even
Carl Glowczewski beside the Peculiar Services sign on State Route D

Why we're called Peculiar Services.

Part of it is the town. We're Cass County people, and the name is home.

The rest of it is on purpose. We set out to be a peculiar solution to a not-so-common equation — a personal business, built to meet people where they are. Somebody calls with a thing nobody else wants to touch, and that's the call we want. It's a shake-a-hand kind of company. That's what it's built on, and it's why we'll tell you to use a different process, or a different shop, when that's the honest answer.

Look for the red sign.

We're on State Route D in Belton, out where the corn starts. Drop a piece off, or call and we'll bring the rig to you.

Get directions
The Peculiar Services LLC sandblasting sign on State Route D

Got something that needs blasting?

Send a photo and a couple of sentences. That is usually all it takes — most estimates go back the same day, and a photo saves us both a trip out.

Call or text (816) 719-1755
PHONE AND TEXT
(816) 719-1755Most calls answered the same day. Nothing sits longer than about twelve hours.
SHOP
20203 State Rte DBelton, MO 64012
HOURS
Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pmAppointments and extended hours as needed
EMAIL
contact@peculiarservicesllc.comChecked daily. Call or text if it is urgent.
Call or text (816) 719-1755