Vital ventilation cleaning

Laundry rooms pose a significant health and fire risk if ventilation extract ductwork is not regularly maintained and cleaned.

System Hygienics' long-standing relationship with a hospital in the north of Scotland has meant clean ventilation and clean laundry for the hospital for several years.

"There are five tumble dryers that extract straight from the rear of the machines via branch ducts into three exhaust plenums via a main extract duct which is about one metre in diameter," says Colin Mason of System Hygienics. "The Jetvent powervac system provides optimal cleaning with minimum disruption, which is essential in hospitals." According to Mason, the cleaning process and bagging up of waste takes approximately one and a half days. "We would recommend that these systems be cleaned at least annually but in some cases where the use is very heavy, more frequent cleaning should be considered," ends Mason.