Air Conditioning Duct Cleaning
70Keeping Your Air Conditioning Ducts Clean Keeps Employee Health Costs Down
As a business owner you are probably watching the debate in Congress over health care reform rather closely. What costs in your business have done nothing but increase over the last several years? You try to switch providers every couple of years to keep costs and the level of benefits in line of what you have provided before, but your health care costs keep going up.
What choices are you going to have to make in the coming years? Will you need to have your employees handle a greater percentage of the cost of health care? Will you need to reduce the benefit levels just to keep costs the same? Do you need to institute a wellness plan at work to improve the overall general health of your employees?
All of these questions are valid as you try to keep costs in control and keep your business afloat. Benefit programs with good health benefits are a key to retaining good employees and attracting new ones. Everyone knows that it costs nearly three times an employee’s salary to hire and train a replacement than it does to retain that employee.
Other ways to help reduce the costs of health care are to make sure that your employees' work environment is clean and stress free. If you own your own building, making sure that the indoor air quality is up to federal standards and your duct work clean and free of contaminants is a good way to reduce the incidence of air born allergies and sicknesses like bronchitis, colds and coughs.
If you do not own your own building, but merely rent office space, you should check with the property management and make sure that air conditioning duct cleaning is on their regular maintenance schedule. You can get quotes for air conditioning duct cleaning at Stanley Steemer’s website, Service Master and some local cleaning companies as well. By typing in air conditioning duct cleaning in the search engine of your choice you can find numerous local contractors in addition to the national chains that you can either get quotes online or by calling a toll free number.
Using Stanley Steemer’s online quoting system I put in the number of vents (both return and regular) for a two bedroom home with a kitchen, bonus room, den, dining room and one bathroom. The total online estimate for that many vents was five hundred and thirty four dollars before sales tax for a home in the Akron, Ohio metropolitan area.
Businesses will probably be the same price per vent in this area. Air conditioning duct cleaning is actually cleaning all duct work as the ducts carry both your air conditioning in the summer and heat in the winter. It should really be called heating and cooling duct cleaning; unless your home or business does not have central air conditioning. It's all about home air duct cleaning folks.
The first step is to get an estimate for your business is to schedule an appraiser to come in and do an inspection of your duct work to see how dirty they actually are before performing the work. Cleaning is only the first step in making sure the air quality in your office is at a premium level so you can rest your mind that you are doing everything possible to make the work place a safe place for all your employees.
Once the duct work has been thoroughly cleaned you may want to consider the addition of an electrostatic air cleaner to your heating and air conditioning system. The electrostatic charge in these cleaners will kill or destroy most air born contaminants. For those tough to eliminate contaminants a good contractor will recommend sanitization to your duct work.
This can be done chemically or you can have your ductwork irradiated with special germicidal UV radiation to kill anything that the chemical sanitation does not eliminate. Once the sanitation process is complete many times additional filtration is recommended to keep your ductwork clean.
Since cleaning your ductwork is a relatively expensive prospect, the installation of electrostatic air cleaners and additional filtration units, including high efficiency HEPA units, you can reduce the build up of duct work contaminants and increase the time before you need additional air conditioning duct cleaning.
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