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Electrostatic DisinfectingElectrostatic application puts an electrical charge on the disinfectant as it leaves the nozzle. Charged droplets are drawn toward surfaces and wrap around what they land on, reaching the sides and undersides of objects that a cloth only ever touches on top.
That is the whole advantage. It is a delivery method, and it is a good one for complicated surfaces: chair bases, door hardware, gym equipment, desk clusters, handrails, a waiting room full of arms and legs and undersides.
Disinfectant is deactivated by organic soil. Spray it onto a dirty surface and you have spent product to no effect, which is the single most common failure in this line of work and the reason some buildings have paid for disinfecting three times and seen nothing change.
So the sequence runs: clean the surface, then disinfect it. On our jobs the cleaning is part of the scope, not an assumption about what your staff did yesterday. If a vendor quotes you a spray only service and does not ask who is cleaning first, that tells you what you are buying.
Every disinfectant carries a contact time on its label, the number of minutes the surface has to stay visibly wet for the product to do what the label says. It runs from a few minutes to ten or more depending on the product.
A surface that dries in forty seconds under a label calling for four minutes has been sprayed. It has not been disinfected. Crews working to a clock rather than a label is how this service got its reputation for theater.
Our crews are trained to the label of the product in the tank, and application rate is set so surfaces stay wet for the full contact time. It is slower. It is also the only version of this service that does anything.
Most of the demand falls into a few situations. Illness moving through a school, daycare or office and you want the building treated before Monday. A confirmed exposure in a specific suite or classroom. Seasonal treatment through the winter months, scheduled weekly or monthly.
Facilities where shared equipment is the whole business want it most: gyms, studios, locker rooms and rec centers. Medical and dental waiting areas often run it on a standing schedule.
It also shows up after an event, a heavy tour season in an apartment community, or any stretch where far more people passed through a space than usual.
We treat buildings as one time jobs, on a recurring schedule through illness season, or on call when something happens. Call response is available nights and weekends, because a building that needs treating on a Saturday cannot wait for Monday to get quoted.
Most spaces can be reoccupied once surfaces are dry and the room has ventilated, but the actual interval comes from the product label and we will give you a specific answer before we start, in writing, for the product being used in your building.
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Charged droplets wrap around chair bases, desk clusters and the undersides a cloth never reaches.
