The only way to combat this is to carry out a thorough cleaning of textiles, whether it’s curtains, carpets or upholstery. It’s essential to maintain correct levels of indoor air quality and exercise the appropriate duty of care towards staff employed within internal environments. The growth of respiratory illnesses and allergies is not something exclusively created by the outdoor atmosphere. Indoor air quality is often a significant part of the problem. In order to improve indoor air quality it is essential to have a planned schedule of periodic deep cleaning of textiles in place and to follow it.
INDOOR POLLUTION
Pilgrim Payne, a provider of high quality specialist cleaning services, discusses how air quality isn’t just an outdoor worry, and what companies can do to protect their employees’ welfare.
Since the 1990s outdoor air quality in London has regularly fallen short of European legal limits, and a series of heavy fines have been paid. Poor quality air does not magically halt at the doors to a city’s buildings, however. It’s an invasive problem which enters and accumulates in the textile fabric of interiors.
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Curtains should be taken down and cleaned thoroughly at least every year or two, depending on ambient levels of particulate soil and pollution. Curtains act like filters, catching dust and particulate matter (like pm10’s), and they will hold this damaging load until they are taken away and thoroughly cleaned by specialist curtain cleaners, or soft furnishing care companies like Pilgrim Payne.
If this is not done the saturated curtain fibres release the soil back to atmosphere with each agitation or air movement, ready to be breathed in by the occupants of the space. Research shows that on-site cleaning does not effectively remove dust and soil. It is a freshening up process, not a deep cleaning one.
Upholstery is also something that should have regular deep cleaning in order to prevent particulate soil being released into the interior atmosphere. Clothes carry dust and soil onto seating and this can then be held there until movement causes it to become airborne, where it can become harmful.
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