The cleaning and restoration specialists for commercial, and industrial ceilings, walls, and carpets.
CEILING DOCTOR a Division of Rhonco Enterprises Ltd.
The best medicine for ceilings, walls, and carpets.
Ceiling Doctor uses exclusive equipment, products, and procedures to provide the best care for your ceilings, walls, and carpets.
Time for a checkup?
If you have ceilings, walls, and carpets that are looking a little tired and run down, then we can help. They’ll be looking and feeling
their best in no time at all.
Your Ceiling Doctor team is professionally supervised, trained, equipped, insured, and covered by WSIB,
and always endeavors to get the best result for you.
In the average office there can be over two million dust mites. They can double their numbers in ten hours and each mite produces
ten to twenty droppings per day. This can result in a total of one hundred thousand dead bodies and thirty million pieces of feces
added to your office every day. Microscopic mite feces and body fragments are small enough to be airborne, and approximately 80 percent
of all allergy sufferers are allergic to airborne mite refuse.
The symptoms of mite sensitization in humans are asthma (88%
of cases), rhinitis (90% of cases), conjunctivitis (57% of cases), and dermatitis (12% of cases).
Mites are arthropods, close relatives to spiders. They're found just about everywhere on our planet, even as deep as 15,000 feet
under the ocean, and they have been here a very long time. Mite fossils have been found that date back nearly 400 million years
and about 48,200 different kinds of mites have been discovered and described to date.
"Dust mites" at about 0.3 mm in length
are invisible to the naked eye, and reside in your carpets, upholstery, drapes, office partitions, and any other fabrics or surfaces
where they can feed on dead skin fragments. Dead skin cells commonly make up 80% of indoor dust.
Dust Mites Can Be Trouble.
What can you do to keep mites, and other unwanted pests under control?
Vacuum ceilings, carpets, upholstery, and fabric partitions,
at least once per week. However, mites use their hooked legs to hang on so well that only a fraction of these little pests can
be removed by vacuuming. That’s why it is important to steam/ extract/ deep clean these same surfaces, and to clean your HVAC duct
work periodically. Your employees will thank you by staying healthy and productive.
- The indoor air particles that you can see are usually only 10 per cent of the particles that are present.
- It can be possible
to see particles as small as 10 microns under favorable conditions.
- The majority of harmful particles are 3 microns or less in size.
Particles of this size can remain virtually suspended in the air until breathed in. Larger particles tend to settle out of the atmosphere.
About indoor air particles.
- Particles of 1 micron or less can adhere to surfaces by molecular adhesion. Scrubbing is generally the only way to remove them.
- Approximately
98-99% of all airborne particles by count are in the size range of 5 microns or less. These particles tend to remain in suspension
or settle out so slowly that only quality air cleaners such as HEPA air cleaners are effective in removing them.
- The average person
breathes in about 16,000 quarts of air per day. Each quart contains some 70,000 visible and invisible particles. That's over a billion
particles per day that our lungs have to filter out!
- The average office collects about 2 pounds of dust per week.
- A carpet 9' x 12'
or rug will collect an average of about 10 pounds of dust per year!
Managing Relative Humidity for Health.
You can measure the relative humidity of your indoor air with a reasonably priced relative humidity indicator, available
at most local hardware stores. To minimize bacteria, viruses, fungi, mould, mites, respiratory infections, allergic rhinitus and asthma
keep your relative humidity in the range of 35% to 50%. Adding moisture to the air with humidifiers in the winter months will help
to prevent the growth of bacteria and viruses. Drying the air with dehumidifiers and air conditioners in the summer months will help
to prevent the growth
of bacteria, viruses, mites, mould and fungi.
Even with careful management, the relative humidity of your indoor air may not stay fully optimal all of the time. Mould, mites, bacteria,
and other opportunistic pathogens may start to make their presence known. That’s why it is important to steam/ extract/ deep
clean ceilings, carpets, upholstery, and fabric partitions, as well as to clean your HVAC duct work periodically. Your employees
will thank you by staying healthy and productive.
Independent lab testing confirmed that Ceiling Doctor’s exclusive cleaning process kills mould, fungi, and bacteria on office acoustic t-bar ceilings. To date we estimate that Ceiling Doctor has helped over two million people to breathe easier at work.
The best medicine for ceilings, walls, and carpets.
Dust Mites
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This CEILING DOCTOR Web Site is operated by Rhonco Enterprises Ltd. - Copyright © 2007 Rhonco Enterprises Ltd.
This CEILING DOCTOR Web Site is operated by Rhonco Enterprises Ltd. - Copyright © 2007 Rhonco Enterprises Ltd.
