If You’re One of These 5 Businesses, Now Is The Time to Plan For Commercial Air Duct Cleaning

The heat is in full swing here in Cache Valley. Summer is kicking into high gear. When it comes to summer weather, commercial air duct cleaning might not be the first thing you think of as a business owner, but now might actually be the best time.

Businesses That Should Consider Commercial Air Duct Cleaning

1. Medical Manufacturing

The most important aspect of medical manufacturing is cleanliness. You want healthy employees, clean work spaces, and sterile equipment. Without this, you risk infecting patients who use your products. Since it’s mostly made of dead skin cells, dust can be food for bacteria. If it gets into your air ducts, it can spread that bacteria throughout the facility, potentially contaminating your products.
For this sort of business, you could do your air duct cleaning at any point in time, but we often look for lulls in business. That way, we minimize how much of a disruption we cause to the business. Generally, we see an uptick in health problems in the winter and running into spring, which makes fall and winter the busiest seasons for this industry. Since people are healthier in the summer, that’s when the demand tends to slow down, making it the perfect time for us to schedule cleaning without disrupting production.

2. Health & Medical Groups

Just like medical manufacturing, cleanliness is important to any health related business. Doctors, dentists, hospitals and clinics, and psychologists will all benefit from from having cleaner facilities. Just like with medical manufacturing, people being less inclined to get sick over the summer means a lull in business. That makes now the perfect time to have our air ducts cleaned to avoid disrupting your work.

3. Tourism

Tourism is an industry that thrives off customer experience. People don’t want to stay in dirty hotels or condos when they’re on vacation, nor do they appreciate coughing, sneezing, or itching. Tourist industries will spend a lot of money keeping their places clean. If dust gets into the air ducts, it can spread throughout your hotel or resort and you can’t easily clean it with standard equipment.

Our specialized commercial air duct cleaning equipment will help remove that dust, making the job easier on your cleaning staff, which your customers are sure to enjoy. As a bonus, removing dust from your air ducts improves air flow, which can reduce the amount of energy it takes to keep your business cool in the summer, or warm in the winter.

4. Food Industry

Have you ever been to a restaurant or grocery store and noticed dust caking the vents? Doesn’t that just do wonders for your appetite? No? Well, that’s a good reason to get your air ducts cleaned, then. Just like with tourism, businesses that work with food need to provide the best customer experience to succeed. Anything that makes people wonder about the quality could potentially turn them away. You don’t want that.

This is an industry that tends to be busy year round, so there usually isn’t a seasonal lull, except in cities specifically built around tourism. That means there isn’t a specific time when it’s best to schedule a cleaning and you just have to guess based on when your business usually sees its specific dips. If that’s right now, then jump on it quickly, so you won’t have to worry about it later.

5. Military Manufacturing

Most people aren’t aware of the military production side of our economy, but it gets into everything. Mechanical parts, electrical components are basic engineering elements that play into all military manufacturing. Even a little bit of dust can mess up a circuit board, or cause faster corrosion in complicated machine parts for vehicles, potentially leading to a costly recall.

If you’re in any business that provides parts for military use, then you definitely want to provide the best quality, if not just for patriotic reasons, than for the protection of our servicemen. Semi-annual duct cleaning can reduce issues you may face. For even better results, you should have the most up-to-date filters on your air duct systems, something we can help you spot when we do our job.

Don’t Put Yourself At Risk

Another reason why any business should take cleaning seriously is because it can result in what the EPA refers to as “sick buildings“. This can negatively impact the health of customers and employees alike, both physically and psychologically. According to NADCA, which helps certify and provide guidelines for cleanliness in business and industrial sectors, industries can be liable for the health issues caused by improper cleaning. You definitely don’t want that.

Fortunately, HVAC technology has come a long way in the last decade or so. Modern HVACS are usually built with advanced filtration systems that can reduce the amount of dust that gets into your air ducts. This means that the expense of professional duct cleaning isn’t something most buildings will need on an annual basis. While industries with the most demanding standards (medical production and electronics, for example) would benefit from annual cleaning, most businesses should only need cleaning every 3-5 years if their systems are up-to-date.

When Did You Last Clean Up?

That gap makes it hard to remember when your ducts need cleaning. A lot of our customers say they can’t remember when they had their air ducts cleaned, or if they ever were. That’s why we recommend giving us a call right now. Get it done as soon as possible and avoid any issues you might be dealing with. Sooner is always better than later. We’ll give you a full commercial air duct cleaning cleaning and sanitization, so you know you’re good to go.