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AIr Duct Cleaners: Commerical Buildings
May 20, 2009 02:31 PM Filed in: commercial AIr Duct Cleaning
Commercial air duct cleaning is different from residential air duct cleaning in many ways. There are technical and customer needs issues that make experience a key issue in commercial air duct cleaning.
Let’s start off by talking about customer needs. Cleaning the air ducts in a building is a nice maintenance idea , but the expense sometimes does not match the budget needs of other expenses.
That brings us to why air duct cleaning is performed in buildings. AIr duct cleaning is requested usually due to a health issue in the building. Someone either sees debris falling from the vents ( heating and air conditioning registers ) or an occupant is complaining about the air quality.
Many building managers will turn to the air ducts as a possible source of the air quality issue. If you are a building manager professional, please let me be so bold as to stop you when you ready to call an air duct cleaner.
Although the air ducts can be a cause of the air quality issue ( or a pipe line of another cause ), cleaning the ducts may not solve the issue you have. To start your investigation, try these options:
1. Try finding the source of the issue. If you think it’s the ducts or air handler, have SI Restoration www.si-restoration.com perform a video inspection of your duct system to see of any issues. You may realize that it may not be the duct system.
2. Hire an Industrial Hygienist, who will test and evaluate what the issue is. If you need a list for the Maryland area go to www.si-restoration.com. Find our resource page.
As always you can call me at 410-458-5371 Jeff Cohn anytime
Let’s start off by talking about customer needs. Cleaning the air ducts in a building is a nice maintenance idea , but the expense sometimes does not match the budget needs of other expenses.
That brings us to why air duct cleaning is performed in buildings. AIr duct cleaning is requested usually due to a health issue in the building. Someone either sees debris falling from the vents ( heating and air conditioning registers ) or an occupant is complaining about the air quality.
Many building managers will turn to the air ducts as a possible source of the air quality issue. If you are a building manager professional, please let me be so bold as to stop you when you ready to call an air duct cleaner.
Although the air ducts can be a cause of the air quality issue ( or a pipe line of another cause ), cleaning the ducts may not solve the issue you have. To start your investigation, try these options:
1. Try finding the source of the issue. If you think it’s the ducts or air handler, have SI Restoration www.si-restoration.com perform a video inspection of your duct system to see of any issues. You may realize that it may not be the duct system.
2. Hire an Industrial Hygienist, who will test and evaluate what the issue is. If you need a list for the Maryland area go to www.si-restoration.com. Find our resource page.
As always you can call me at 410-458-5371 Jeff Cohn anytime
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