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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.
Straight Answers
Worth saying plainly, because plenty of vendors will not.
It does not clean
Electrostatic spraying removes no soil, no dust and no fingerprints. A building that gets sprayed without being cleaned looks exactly as it did before.
It does not sterilize
Sterilization is a different standard achieved with different equipment, and no sprayer in a commercial building meets it.
Protection does not outlast the drying time
Once the surface is dry the treatment is finished, and a door handle touched an hour later is a door handle.
It does not replace touch point wiping
This is a supplement to a routine cleaning program. It covers a lot of area quickly and reaches geometry that hands miss.
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.
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A method of applying disinfectant where the droplets are given an electrical charge on the way out of the sprayer. The charge pulls them onto surfaces and around objects, so coverage wraps around objects and reaches surfaces a hand would never touch.
For coverage and speed across a large area with complicated shapes, yes. For a specific soiled surface, a cloth and a cleaner is still the right tool. The two are not competing, and a good program uses both.
The area being treated does, during application and through the dwell period. Whole buildings are usually done after hours or over a weekend. Individual rooms can be treated during the day by working through the space a section at a time.
Once surfaces are dry and the area has ventilated. The specific interval comes from the label of the product used, and you will have that number before work starts.
Handled correctly, electronics are commonly included, and the charged droplet behavior is well suited to keyboards and peripherals. Screens and sensitive equipment are treated with more care or excluded, and we agree what is in and out before application. Flag anything you do not want sprayed.
Through illness season, schools and clinics commonly run it weekly or every other week. An office often does well with monthly treatment plus on call response when something goes around. Buildings with heavy shared equipment tend to want it more often.
Both, and in that order. Cleaning first is not optional, because disinfectant stops working on a soiled surface. It runs alongside your janitorial program rather than replacing any part of it.
We look at the floors, the traffic patterns and the problem areas you already know about, then put a written scope and a flat monthly price in front of you.
