Commercial Cleaning & Air Quality

Poor Air Quality?

Poor air quality is something that your warehouse, store, workplace, or office could be suffering from. We aren’t just referring to foul odors or even allergens spreading. Numerous things can contribute to poor air quality, and each can impact your customer, your business, your staff, and yourself negatively.

Thankfully, using the right cleaning techniques can help you either improve or prevent poor air quality and avoid these negative effects. Here are some of the elements of poor air quality that you should consider focusing on along with the different ways to resolve them.

Elements of Poor Air Quality

Is there a general feeling of stuffiness or heaviness in the air when you walk into your workplace after a long weekend away? Is there perhaps a smell, or you start sneezing and itching immediately when you walk in?

To resolve your poor air quality issues, it can be important to determine exactly what is wrong with your current air quality. Here are some of the elements of poor air quality that you need to give serious consideration:

Mold: Any building can develop a mold problem if it isn’t regularly and properly cleaned. Still, buildings with moisture issues or buildings where food is prepared are particularly susceptible to mold. Mold can not only harm your products, but also can irritate people’s lungs and eyes.

Smells: Strong smells tend to put off both employees and customers alike. They may be the result of mold issues or poor cleaning. Or, strong smells could be part of your business, whether you manufacture goods with a smell or dry clean laundry.

Germs: You don’t actually have to be in a medical office to have germs in the air. Cleaning the air can help reduce sick time and protect employee health.

Dust: Dust is not always visible, but if it isn’t properly removed from your workplace, you may be inhaling it. Furthermore, when dust builds up quickly, workplaces look unkempt.

Debris and Dirt: In some workplaces, especially industrial workplaces, dirt, and other kinds of debris can become airborne and pose a risk to peoples’ health.  Professional cleaning services can be effective when it comes to mitigating that risk.

Humidity: If you feel an unusual heaviness in your workplace air, humidity is the likely culprit. Excess humidity in the air can contribute to poor air quality. Seniors and those suffering from various health conditions will likely be considerably more uncomfortable if there’s too much humidity in the air. The excess moisture can also increase mold growth.

How to Clean Up Your Air Quality

You can clean up your air quality in a few ways. Most remedies tackle multiple forms of air contamination.

Here’s what to do:

Regular Surface Cleaning: Things on your surfaces can end up in the air. Office kitchens, cleaning desks, bathrooms, and any other surfaces will actually affect your air quality. Professional cleaning, particularly services that carefully match the cleaning product with the debris and surface to be cleaned, combats germs, smells, as well as mold.

Dust Removal: Everyone knows that removing dust from surfaces can help lower the dust burden in the air. Still, you might be frustrated with dusting since it often seems not to do much besides putting the dust in the air. Using microfiber cloths capable of capturing dust and working from top to bottom in the space to be cleaned is the best approach. Make sure that you dust before you vacuum so that any dust that isn’t captured by the microfiber cloths is caught by the vacuum.

Vacuum with HEPA Filters: Vacuums often put much of the debris and dust they collect back into the air via their exhaust. That’s why you should use HEPA filter vacuums, which collect the particles that might otherwise escape the vacuum, which has a significant positive effect on the air quality. HEPA filters collect dust, dirt, germs (viruses and bacteria), mold spores, and other debris.

Air Duct Cleaning: If your HVAC system isn’t cleaning properly, it can put dust and debris back into the air. To boost your air quality, get regular commercial dust cleaning and potential furnace and other HVAC equipment cleaning. A key part of HVAC maintenance is changing out the filters on your equipment.

Why Hire Professionals to Improve Your Air Quality?

You can make a significant impact on the air quality by yourself, but a professional can do it better, faster, and more thoroughly. They have the cleaning equipment and techniques to resolve air quality issues from dust and mold to airborne debris and germs. They can clean surfaces, vacuum, dust, and perform other niche cleaning tasks for your business.