Air & Ventilation Hygiene Cleaning Services

Background

You can improve business productivity if your employees, clients, customers and visitors are in a building that has clean, fresh air.

Mechanical ventilation systems (including air conditioning systems) should be regularly and properly cleaned, tested and maintained to ensure they are kept free from contamination.

There are various regulations and guidelines relevant to ventilation system hygiene, including; Work Place (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992, HVCA TR/19 Guide to Good Practice: Internal Cleanliness of Ventilation Systems.

In fact, the Health and Safety Commission's code of practice requires that mechanical ventilation systems need to be routinely and effectively hygiene cleaned and maintained in order to ensure that they stay clean and free from any contaminants the air. Regular ventilation hygiene cleaning is clearly essential.

It's well known that contaminated air is one of the most common causes of Sick Building Syndrome. Poor indoor air quality can result from biological contamination, such as bacteria, moulds, pollen and viruses that may breed in air ducts, humidifiers and drain pans.

Inevitably all ventilation systems become fouled over time. A regular programme of ventilation hygiene cleaning of ductwork (i.e. air ventilation hygiene cleaning) will deal with this and can be as simple as changing the filters on a regular basis.

Your regular ventilation hygiene cleaning programme will ensure that the ventilation systems in your heating, ventilation and air conditioning continue to provide clean, fresh air to the benefit of your business and workforce alike.

Air Ventilation Hygiene Cleaning Service

We use a range of specialised extraction devices, air jets and brushes designed for the purpose, which allow us to remove contamination from your ducts and disinfect where necessary during the air duct cleaning process, depending on the design and configuration of your system.

An air duct system is generally cleaned in the direction of the airflow. Therefore, a supply system is cleaned right through from the fresh air intakes to the supply diffusers. Conversely, the return extract is cleaned from the extract grills through to the mixing chamber or discharge.

If we find that existing ventilation systems have insufficient access points to enable effective duct cleaning we can also install access doors throughout the system so you can be sure of proper, thorough inspection, cleaning and disinfection.

Once your ventilation system is cleaned we recommend that the entire system is sanitised to give you long term protection. For example, a polymeric emulsion Sanitiser (PDS) is atomised into the ventilation system, where it forms an internal lining on the air duct which reduces corrosion. PDS also contains an anti-microbial for long term air duct protection.

Our ventilation hygiene cleaning service works fully to the HVCA TR/19 best practice standard.

Next Steps

If your building's air hygiene quality needs attention call us for advice on 0870 6092080 or click here to email us.