During and After a Prolonged Period of Low Activity or Shutdown

EXCEL CLEANING SERVICES: AT YOUR SERVICE BY FIGHTING

ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS

Closing an office or commercial building for months at a time, or having significantly diminished building usage over an extended period raises risks for bacterial growth, which can lead to serious mild illness to serious, debilitating diseases.

COVID Reopening and Ongoing Facility Management

The advantages of hiring Excel Cleaning Services to manage the needs of a company’s cleaning maintenance eliminates the need to hire and manage a company janitorial cleaning team, with its associated employee costs, extending deeply into a staffing solution that ensures a cleaner, safer and more hygienic workplace every day. This has never been more critically important than today, during our present COVID reality.

Vigilance during diminished usage: interior dampness is destructive

According to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, the sources for building dampness are not always obvious when the affected materials and water sources are hidden from view, such as wet insulation within a ceiling or wall and excessive moisture in the building foundation due to the slope of the surrounding land. With an Excel Cleaning team on board, ongoing maintenance includes vigilance against visible threats and heads-up awareness to hidden threats such as excessive dampness, which can be the harbinger of destructive bacteria and even mold.

The health of those who live, attend school, or work in damp buildings has been a growing concern through the years due to a broad range of reported building- related symptoms and illnesses. Research has found that people who spend time in damp buildings are more likely to report health problems such as:

• Respiratory symptoms (involving nose, throat, lungs)

• Development or worsening of asthma

• Hypersensitivity pneumonitis (a rare lung disease caused by an immune system response to repeated inhalation of sensitizing substances such as bacteria, fungi, organic dusts, and chemicals)

• Respiratory infections

• Allergic rhinitis (often called “hay fever”)

•  Bronchitis

•  Eczema

Excel works with our clients to customize a cleaning plan tailored to every building’s needs, from COVID disinfecting to thorough janitorial cleaning creating safe and healthy environments.

Exposures in damp or “sick buildings” are complex. They vary from building to building, and in different places within a building. Lack of attention to moisture can allow indoor mold to multiply more easily on building materials or other surfaces, and people inside buildings may be exposed to microbes and their structural components, such as spores and fungal fragments. Mold may also produce substances that can cause or worsen health problems, and these substances vary depending on the mold species and on conditions related to the indoor environment. Moisture can also attract cockroaches, rodents, and dust mites. Moisture-damaged building materials can release volatile organic compounds that can cause health problems. While exercising its array of cleaning duties, Excel strives to stay aware of and share concerns with facility managers of any need for specialist intervention, such as professional mold remediation.

Staying Vigilant Before, During and After Prolonged Shutdowns.

Excel Cleaning Services helps facility managers pay attention to factors that can weaken the overall health of a building, before, during and after prolonged shutdowns. Indoor humidity needs to be kept as low as possible, not exceeding 50%, as measured with a humidity meter. Facility managers may consider continuous monitoring of indoor humidity using a digital hygrometer, ideally more than once daily during long shutdowns.

Excel’s practice of maintaining immaculate, environmentally safe office spaces in and around Nashville includes the use of a registered EPA-approved hospital-grade disinfectant that kills 99.999% of bacteria and germs, while being odorless, colorless, and non-leaching, protecting facilities from accumulating germs and bacteria.

Excel’s Full Room Protection provides residual security through sanitized fogging of all surfaces in our client’s facilities, adding extra life to the original treatments — just one example of how Excel stays one step ahead of indoor environmental threats. Through daily attention to and maintenance of internal environmental factors, Excel is widely trusted across the greater Nashville region to maintain healthy work, living and learning environments.