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To Vacuum or Not Vacuum Your Clean Room

4th Feb 2015

The best way to clean a clean room is to clean it thoroughly. No matter the industry, clean rooms have to maintain a low threshold for particulates and bioburden. In order to do this, it’s helpful to have a method to the madness. As standard protocol, it’s important to make sure all surfaces are cleaned, including the ceiling panels, glass surfaces, floors and walls. Also, change out the HEPA filters in the air filtration devices. Also, clean the sprinkler heads, the lighting units, piping systems and manufacturing equipment. Here are some tips for vacuuming a clean room and making sure you will get it as clean as it needs to be.

With your cleanroom specific, HEPA filtered vacuum, clean every nook and cranny of the cleanroom. Any excess dust can cause contamination. Move the carts and anything else that is moveable or has space under to vacuum under and around them where dust would naturally settle. A vacuum can be used to help reduce the amount of dust in the room in a way other supplies won’t. It will suction up dust and particles, removing them from the clean room instead of moving them around like mops and wipers can do.

For sanitizing the room, use a lint free Texwipe wiper. Using lint free wipes will offer a clean result for the surfaces in your clean room. Texwipe is among the most notable products in the clean room cleaning supplies industry. SOSCleanRoom.com is an authorized master distributor of ITW Texwipe products. Shop our stock for all your wipers, swabs, apparel, and more.