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Australian Standard A.S. 3666.2-2011 outlines a minimum set of requirements for the cleaning of building HVAC systems including:
- Building air intakes and outlets shall be inspected monthly and cleaned where necessary,
- Air filters shall be inspected monthly and cleaned or replaced, where necessary,
- Coils inspected monthly and cleaned where necessary.
In this new COVID-19 world it is often not enough just to meet relevant Australian standards. Our IAQ Program goes further and includes:
- Periodic ventilation and airflow Audits,
- UV light treatment to kill biofilm within the HVAC system,
- Periodic bacterial swabs & NATA Laboratory Testing of all relevant indoor 'sites'.
Australian Standard A.S. 1851-2018 outlines a set of requirements for the cleaning of commercial kitchen exhausts, filters, and canopies. including:
- Monthly inspections of grease filters,
- Monthly cleaning of grease filters as required,
- Monthly inspection of grease gutters,
- Annual cleaning of exhaust hood and exhaust plenum.
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Although Australian Standard AS 3666.2 details that HVAC ducts & coils should be inspected monthly, in practice this is not always necessary. A professional HVAC cleaning company like Clean Air Filtration Services will be able to advise you on how frequent your HVAC ducts should be inspected in order to comply with the standard.
The relevant standard, AS 3666.2 specifies that ducts and coils are cleaned \’when necessary\’. In practice, for most systems, this would be once per year at least.
Australian Standard AS181 states that canopies and exhausts should be cleaned at least once every 12 months.
However, best practice is very often a lot higher than that. It will depend on the fuel (solid / non-solid), the food cooked and the cooking frequency.
A better way to define the frequency is that the canopy and exhaust system should be cleaned when the grease build-up exceeds 0.2 mm on average across the system or if the grease build-up exceeds 2 mm in any one spot.
The primary reason to clean your Commercial Kitchen Canopy and Exhaust is to prevent a kitchen fire. However, fire is just one reason to clean your system. Here are 5 more reasons:
