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HEPA Vacuum Information

The HEPA vacuum is the gold standard for all commercial janitorial and house cleaning services. Whether it is your house, office or business demand a HEPA vacuum.

What is a HEPA vacuum?

HEPA stands for High-Efficiency Particulate Air (filter) and this type of filtration can remove 99.97% of all particles 0.3 microns and larger. This is the size range of a lot of very nasty stuff (see chart, right). HEPA vacuums are essential for mold clean-ups and they can make an exceptional difference in the air quality of your home or business.

A HEPA vacuum is a vacuum cleaner designed with a HEPA filter as the last filtration stage. HEPA is the legal standard for lead abatement and asbestos mitigation.

Make sure your cleaning service uses a true HEPA or genuine HEPA filtration. Avoid lesser grade lookalike systems with names like hospital-grade HEPA, HEPA-like, or Gore-Tex micro filters. It is also important that the vacuum be designed and constructed so that all the air taken in is passed through the HEPA filter before it is exhausted. This is sometimes referred to as a "HEPA sealed system."

The original HEPA filter was designed in the 1940s and was used in the Manhattan Project to prevent the spread of airborne radioactive contaminants. It was commercialized in the 1950s, and the original term became a registered trademark and a generic term for highly efficient filters. Over the decades filters have evolved to satisfy the higher and higher demands for air quality in various high technology industries, such as aerospace, pharmaceutical processing, hospitals, health mcare, nuclear fuels, nuclear power, and electronic micro circuitry (computer chips).

Today, a HEPA filter rating is applicable to any highly efficient air filter that can attain the same filter efficiency performance standards as a minimum and is equivalent to the more recent NOSH N100 rating.

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