Edgewood, New Mexico · Albuquerque & the East Mountains
Run out of Edgewood by the man who does the work. Nothing gets towed, nothing gets shipped — the rig pulls up to your shop, your lot, or your driveway.
Send a couple of pictures and you’ll get a real number back — no rate card, no call center.
Before
AfterA ’63 Impala, stripped in an afternoon — drag the handle.
For fleets and facilities
Roll-off trucks, semis, yard equipment, parking lots and dumpster pads. One operator on a standing route, invoiced properly, on site when he says he will be — including early mornings and weekends when the fleet is parked.
Talk about a recurring route — (505) 459-8967Roll-offs and semis washed on a repeating cycle, with the runoff handled instead of left on your pad.
Parking lots, dumpster enclosures, drive-thrus, walkways and entries — the areas your customers notice first.
Trailers, tanks, racks and iron blasted back to bare metal and re-coated before rust costs you the asset.
Proper paperwork for accounts payable — quoted per job, billed the same way every time.
What he does
Hire one on its own, or combine them when a piece needs stripping and finishing in the same visit.
Wet abrasive blasting strips rust, paint and filler without the dust cloud or the heat warp of dry media. Slow and controlled where the metal is thin.
Commercial-grade equipment for grease, road film and years of weather — sized to the surface so brick, stucco and paint come out clean, not scarred.
Primer and finish on bare metal while it is still clean, so the work you just paid for doesn’t flash-rust in a New Mexico spring.
What he takes on
A partial list, drawn from jobs he has actually done. It is the same three machines behind all of it.
Not on the list? Send a photo and ask. The answer is usually yes.
Real work
Every job here is his own, photographed in his own yard. Drag the handle across a job to take it back to where it started.
Before
AfterResidential · Dustless blasting
Rust breaking through the hood and roof of a car that had sat outside for years, and a windshield patched with cardboard. Blasted from the same spot it was photographed in, so the wipe changes the paint and nothing else.
Before
AfterResidential · Dustless blasting
Tan paint over a rusted-out deck, in and stripped the same day. The tailgate and bed came back to clean steel without heat warping the long, thin panels a car like this is made of.
As it arrived
Blasted bareBlasted bare
Coated whiteCommercial · Blasting and coating
Chalked paint and rust across the deck of a working trailer. Blasted back to bare metal the same evening, and sprayed white the next day — in the field it was parked in, not a shop.
Before
AfterResidential · Dustless blasting
The same convertible, shot from one spot before and after the deck was stripped. Filler and an old respray off the trunk lid and quarters, without heat warping panels this thin.
Blasted bare
Coated blackCommercial · Blasting and coating
Blasted down to clean steel and re-coated in the same yard it works out of, so it went back to earning without a trip to a shop. Both frames are from the same day.
Before
AfterResidential · Dustless blasting
Decades of paint, filler and surface rust over thin panels — and a car worth real money underneath. Every panel back to even bare metal, with the pressure dialed back over the thin spots.
Before
AfterCommercial · Blasting
Old paint gone chalky and rust starting at the seams, stripped back to clean metal so a coating had something sound to key into. Done on the owner’s own ground rather than hauled to a shop.
Commercial · Blasting
The car hauler above, part-way through: blasted deck hosed off before the coating goes on. One man, one hose, in the field the trailer was parked in.
Commercial · Prep and coating
Wheels, lines and lamps taped before anything is sprayed. On a working truck the masking is most of the day.
Owner-operated
There is no crew, no dispatcher and no subcontractor. He answers the phone, looks at your photos, gives you the number, and then shows up and does the work himself. That is why the schedule is honest and why a car worth real money is safe on the trailer.
The business has run on referrals in the East Mountains for years. This is the first time it has been easy to find.
Owner · Imperial Surface WorksName and bio to be added
Service area
Albuquerque, the East Mountains and the towns down I-40. Farther out is usually still a yes — call and ask.
Calls and texts both reach him directly. Tell him what it is, where it is, and roughly when you need it done.
Mon–Fri · 8am–5pm · earlier and weekends for fleet work