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The Value of Commercial Facility Disinfection

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Why Advanced Disinfection Services are Crucial for Your Business

As you’re probably aware, many factors go into maintaining your business’s reputation. From the quality of the products and services you sell, to the proficiency of your customer service team, all of this matters in making sure your business is successful. As a commercial business, these elements affect how your business is seen by the public. But, one crucial and often forgotten component in maintaining your business’s reputation is the cleanliness and sanitation of your company.  Sure, a cleaning company can simply wipe down the counters and take out the trash, but how do you know the presence of bacteria and other germs has actually been eliminated?  Anyone interacting with your business —whether employees or visitors in the form of customers, clients, guests, patients, or students — expects you to provide them with a clean and safe environment. This isn’t something people want, but rather something that is expected from the get-go. In other words, your business should be providing people with a safe and comfortable environment, which can easily be accomplished with advanced disinfection services. Below, you will find everything you need to know about disinfection services for your commercial facility, including how advanced disinfection services work and the benefits it can provide for your specific industry. 

Why Advanced Disinfection Services are Beneficial for Businesses

Keeping a healthy environment through disinfection services is the first step in providing a safe facility for everyone who comes in contact with your commercial business. Disinfection services should be standard — and in our opinion, mandatory — in every commercial facility in order to protect the health of the public.  Unlike a regular cleaning service, advanced disinfection services like our EnviroKlean Disinfection sanitize every surface inside of your business using powerful EPA-standard disinfectants that are applied with specialized equipment. 

How Advanced Disinfection Services Work

To properly disinfect the space, technicians spray a combination of powerful sanitation products that kill a long list of harmful viruses and bacteria on contact. Most notably, the infamous E. Coli and Salmonella bacterias that are the common causes of food poisoning. Our EnviroKlean Disinfection services also eliminate infectious bacteria that lead to health conditions like the Hantavirus, Staph Infection, Candida, Strep Throat, and more. These sanitation products also prevent the growth of mold and mildew, which can have negative impacts on our health over time. Note: Advanced disinfection services are especially important if your business has been recently flooded and may have the presence of mold or mildew, has been infested by any type of disease-carrying pest, or deals with health-compromised patients such as a doctor’s office or assisted living facility. 

The Process Behind Advanced Disinfection Services

The application process behind our disinfection services is what makes this treatment so effective. Through an application technique called bio-fogging, a thin mist of product is evenly sprayed onto every indoor surface. Areas that are difficult to clean (and usually ignored) can finally be properly sanitized with this method. Plus, high-traffic areas that are in need of additional sanitation can be wiped down to ensure these are completely disinfected.  Typically, the disinfectant product is left to air dry for up to one hour, ensuring that all bacteria and viruses present have been eliminated with little downtime. The removal of odors is also a positive side-effect of disinfection services! RelatedWhat to Do About Bed Bugs in The Workplace

How Advanced Disinfection Services Benefit Your Industry

Office Buildings

There’s a strong correlation between a clean work environment and employee sick days. Excessive sick days can lead to projects falling behind schedule and lower productivity overall. Keep employees healthy and protected against contagious bacteria and viruses by providing them with a disinfected environment to work in — this includes a pest-free office, too.  RelatedThe Benefits of Office Plants

Food and Retail

Without a doubt, in order for these types of businesses to succeed they must be clean. Otherwise, customers will have no desire to enter a food or retail business they deem unsatisfactory in terms of cleanliness. While this philosophy applies to both food and retail, it’s especially true for businesses that sell food. Customers base their decision to eat from your business off of the cleanliness of your restaurant. Because food can easily grow mold and bacteria, disinfection services can lower the chances of food contamination. 

Hospitality 

Sadly, it’s a regular occurrence for guests to fall ill from staying at a hotel, whether it’s from a pest infestation or a virus. With so many people in and out of hotels, it’s important to maintain a proper sanitation routine. Contagious viruses like the common cold and flu are just a few of the germ types lingering in hotel rooms. To avoid exposing guests to illness, include regular disinfection services alongside your housekeeping protocol. 

Healthcare

The healthcare industry requires routine disinfection in order to keep patients healthy and safe. Patients with suppressed immune systems and other severe medical conditions are highly susceptible to contracting diseases and bacteria. Therefore, they must be protected at all costs. If you are a medical practice that sees patients in-person, an advanced disinfection service should already be a regular practice.

Education

Finally, educational facilities are one of the most common places to contract a virus. Young children in daycares to adults at university-level institutions should not have to worry about bacteria or viruses. School is already hard enough! Use a disinfection service to keep attendance rates and your school’s reputation high. Knowing how to approach pest control in a school setting is easy, if you know how to do it. Learn more about Commercial Pest Control in Educational Facilities

Other Ways to Improve Your Business’ Presence and Reputation

Along with providing a safe and healthy environment through advanced disinfection services like EnviroKlean, there are other ways to improve your business’s reputation. This starts by taking care of your commercial property to maintain its value and provide a positive impression to anyone who visits. 

The Value of Commercial Facility Disinfection

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How to Know if Your Hotel Has Bedbugs

Upon entering a hotel room, do you typically reach for the tiny toiletries, take a leap onto the bed, or perhaps start by inspecting for bed bugs? Knowing what to look for is essential. Anticimex Carolinas Service Manager Christian Tweed has shared valuable insights on identifying bed bugs in your hotel room and preventing them from hitching a ride back home with you. And if bed bugs do become an unexpected part of your vacation, remember that Clark’s Pest Control is here to assist!



Q&A with a Pest Professional


How do bed bugs get inside hotels?


Bed bugs are primarily hitchhiking insects as opposed to foraging ones, meaning that they get carried around on people’s clothes and belongings. Someone with an active infestation in their home can easily bring bed bugs to their hotel, but they can also be picked up during travel (airplanes, taxis, and rideshare services) and brought to a hotel room.


What do people misunderstand about bed bugs in hotels?


From a probability standpoint, all hotels will deal with bed bugs at some point in time. If you think about a bed bug’s method of travel, there’s literally nothing a hotel can do to stop them from being carried in. What I have realized is that luxury hotels are more likely to have an aggressive response to dealing with a bed bug case once it’s identified as they tend to have a higher quality of service and a reputation to protect. While this isn’t always the case, it has been my experience more often than not.

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What do you recommend travelers do when they get to their room to check for bed bugs?


Most hotel headboards hang directly on the wall. I start my inspection here before even looking at the bed itself. I have found bed bugs, their exoskeletons, and the telltale black stains they leave behind around the edges of or in the crevices of headboards. If the headboard looks clean, move on to looking over the pillowcases and comforter for any signs or stains. You can dig into the bedding as deep as you want here, but I encourage people to look over the top layer of things at the very least.


What are some lesser-known signs of bed bugs in your hotel room?


The specifics of the black stains they leave behind, which as gross as it sounds, are just digested blood as that’s all that bed bugs feed on. If the stains are on a hard surface, they will be small dots as if left behind by an ink pen and will smear into a brownish gray when moisture is applied. If they’re on fabric, they will usually bleed along the fibers making a small diamond, square or X shape.


If there are bed bugs in your hotel room, can they travel home with you?


They absolutely can, however this is easy to prevent. While staying in a hotel, keep as much of your clothing and luggage off the beds as possible. Storing suitcases in the bathroom might sound odd, but it’s an effective method of prevention.

Don’t tackle bedbugs yourself, call Clark’s at 866-781-4991!

What should you do with your suitcase if you suspect your hotel has bed bugs?


When arriving home from a trip, leave your luggage in the garage or on a porch and bring your clothes in one load of laundry at a time. If the clothes are dirty, wash them like you normally would, if they’re clean then run them through the dryer for at least forty-five minutes. Once your suitcase is empty, vacuum over it meticulously (don’t forget to empty the vacuum when you’re done), or if you’re in the right climate, expose it to heat for a few days by placing it in your vehicle (parked in the sun) or for a few weeks in your attic.


The Clark’s Solution


If you brought bed bugs back to you home, Clark’s is here to help. Our Bedbug Control service is designed to eliminate bedbugs and create a safe, comfortable environment.


A Clark’s Pest Professional will do an inspection and recommend a plan of attack to get rid of bed bugs now and prevent them from hatching in the future. Call Clark’s at 866-781-4991 today for more information.



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