Ice Sculptures in the Heat of Summer

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It is a question that I receive on a regular basis from clients new to the Ice Sculpture industry and the service that we provide at Ice Art in South Africa.

People are usually only familiar with the quality of ice blocks that they find or make themselves in their freezer. This is standard, low quality - or dirty ice as we call it. Full of all the natural salts found in water and also dissolved air which results in a porous crystalline weak structure of ice. It looks terrible and is full on air bubbles and melts very quickly. It is not suitable at all for high quality ice sculptures for a high end market. It may only be suitable to practice or teach the skill of ice sculpting.

At Ice Art, we only produce ice carving quality blocks. Each one 150kg of crystal clear ice. This is the only suitable quality ice for ice sculptures and ice bars, or in fact any ice structure as this ice is completely uniform, has no air bubbles and the dissolved salts have been removed in the manufacturing process. This strength allows us to build solid structures such as Ice Bars or Ice Walls or large scale installations for events and functions. Special machines or block makers are used to produce these ice blocks. At Ice Art we produce around 15 tons of this quality ice per month to service our industry of hand carved ice sculptures.

For more information please visit us at www.iceart.co.za

The result of this quality ice is that even in the heat of the SA summer the ice sculptures can remain looking good for 6-8 hours. Possible longer depending on the designs robustness.

For my information on ice sculptures for your events, functions, launches and parties please contact James Cussen, here at Ice Art for more information on Ice Bars, Ice Centrepieces, Ice Carvings and Ice Sculptures of any nature.