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About Clean
An assortment of articles and posts probing the products, processes and protocols for a cleaner, safer indoor environment: surface, air and water.
Antimicrobial Options
Cleaning Basics...Part 13The Reasonable Options for Antimicrobial DefensesListen to the Audio Version: 0:000:00For thousands of years certain materials have been known to have tremendous antimicrobial properties, and yet we continue to accept a variety of inferior materials for environmental surfaces in public places. This must come to an end. If as we are told, that […]
ClO2 & Airborne Allergens
Recently, one of our forward-thinking distributors commissioned a nationally recognized lab to put a well known theory to the test - Is ClO2 efficacious in denaturing airborne allergens, and if so; is it restricted to either the aqueous liquid state [for cleaning] or the gaseous state [for air-remediation]?
Detergent Alternatives
Cleaning Basics...Part 8A Consideration of HOCl or other Onsite SolutionsListen to the Audio Version: 0:000:00The Generation of On-site Generation:In the past 10 years, there has been a veritable wave of manufacturers offering devices of various sizes that can take plain water and a touch of table salt and generate electrolytic hypochlorous acid for disinfection onsite. […]
Detergents & Microfiber
Cleaning Basics...Part 9Using Microfiber to Reduce the Need for DetergentsListen to the Audio Version: 0:000:00Detergent Chemistry Review:Generally speaking, detergents are a synthetic versions of soap. Detergents use an ionic-charged component called "surfactants" (Surface-Active-Agents) to produce a solution that reduces natural water tension, and draws water and other particles together. Sounds pretty good, right?What is in […]
Need for Validation
Cleaning Basics...Part 13How Do You Validate Your Cleaning Methods?Listen to the Audio Version: 0:000:00"Looks Good to Me!" For centuries, the only means of validating if an area's cleanliness was by look or smell. Even the "white glove test" does not properly speak past fine soils - dust, to the presence or absence of microbial contamination. […]
Role of Water
Cleaning Basics...Part 4The Essential Role that Water Plays in CleaningListen to the Audio Version: 0:000:00Solvents, Surfactants & Vehicles:In the same manner as was mentioned in our previous post - the Three Action so Cleaning, so also there is another rule. This rule states that most cleaning compounds, both soaps & detergents are made up of […]
Size Matters
Sorry to be so rough on this, BUT...How you equip your cleaning staff can't be a stupid choice.
Cleaning teams need to know why they clean, how they clean. It matters.
The Superior Oxidizer
Chlorine Dioxide Basics...Part 3How is Chlorine Dioxide Different and Better than Bleach?Listen to the Audio Version: 0:000:00Bleach - The "Go To" Product:For decades, bleach has been the "go to product" for disinfection. When deep disinfection is required, or an outbreak has occurred, facility and housekeeping managers have mandated the use of bleach for hard, inanimate, […]
Three Actions of Cleaning
Cleaning Basics...Part 3The Three Actions of CleaningListen to the Audio Version: 0:000:00It is hard to imagine cleaning being complete without all three of these "Actions", so let's take them in order.Action #1: Chemical ActionYou've washed dishes, right? Have you noticed that dishes that have time to soak is the hot, sudsy water are easier to […]
Tools & Equipment
Why you clean How you clean...Part 10It's All About the Cost of Labor, NOT the EquipmentListen to the Audio Version: 0:000:00The Cost of Labor: Invariably, Cleaning costs are: 90% labor, 5% consumable materials, 5% the amortization of the equipment used. Selecting 'cheap' tools and equipment on cost over production value NEVER pays off. No decisions […]
Type Matters
Knowing the type of soils you may encounter when cleaning a facility will help you make wise decisions as to your selection of chemistry. It's not just food that's organic!
Use of Enzymes
Cleaning Basics...Part 7What Are Enzymes & How Do they Help with CleaningListen to the Audio Version: 0:000:00What are Enzymes?Enzymes exist in every corner of the Earth, and are essential to life, but most people have no idea what they are. We'd like to change that by shining some light on their role in creation.Enzymes are proteins […]
Using Gaseous ClO2 to Remediate Bedbugs
Bedbugs have received attention because of recent outbreaks. Bedbug eradication is difficult and often requires a time-consuming multifaceted approach. ClO2 gas is the solution!
Water | Air | Surface
Chlorine Dioxide Basics...Part 5ClO2: The Water, Air and Surface DisinfectantListen to the Audio Version: 0:000:00ClO2 in Air Purification:Unique among the oxidizing class of disinfectants, Chlorine Dioxide has been frequently and successfully used to purify the air of odor and other contaminants. Among the most famous of which was the use of it in the 1976 outbreak among […]
What is Chlorine Dioxide?
Basics of Chlorine Dioxide...Part 1The Most Basic Answer: What is Chlorine Dioxide?Listen to the Audio Version: 0:000:00Chlorine Dioxide - Discovery & History:Chlorine Dioxide, a molecule consisting of just one chlorine and two oxygen atoms, was first discovered by Sir Humphrey Davies in 1811. For nearly 140 years, little was done to explore or employ this […]
