Dry Fog Disinfection: What Is It and What Are the Benefits?

Disinfecting your home and corporate areas periodically is essential. Unfortunately, cleaning alone is not sufficient for ensuring spaces are contaminant-free. Getting regular decontamination service should be a routine part of your space maintenance. Here we’ll focus on one popular disinfection method and its benefits.

What is Dry Fogging Disinfection?

In dry fog disinfection, disinfectant is administered to surfaces via a specialized fogging machine which disperses the disinfectant in a mist or fog. There are different types of disinfectant fogger machines, including metal bowls and backpacks. Foggers can also be manual, electrostatic, or automatic.

These methods are great for disinfecting hard-to-reach areas such as cracks and crevices. Electronic devices, including keyboards and touchscreens, are also best disinfected using dry fogging.

What Are the Benefits?

Dry fog disinfection stands out among other methods thanks to its many benefits, including outstanding performance, short process times, low environmental impact, and ease of use. 

Outstanding Performance

Fogging is very effective at getting rid of bacteria, viruses, allergens, and mold. It has proven very effective at disinfecting against the COVID-19 virus. The method is 99.9999% effective when carried out correctly.

Short Process Time

Most places that need disinfection are regularly used. This means it’s not easy for people to keep such spaces vacant during disinfection. To reduce disruptions, disinfection needs to be done quickly. 

Most disinfection methods require quite a bit of time for application and drying. The dry fog disinfection application process is particularly quick because it leaves surfaces immediately dry thanks to the disinfectant being dispersed in tiny particles. 

When there are suspected cases of COVID-19, this allows for quick action. A space can be disinfected and ready for business again within a few hours.

Environmentally Friendly (EPA & FDA Approved)

Dry fog disinfection is an environmentally friendly procedure when using a disinfectant that has been approved by the FDA and the EPA. This means it does not pose a risk to the environment if delivered by a professional decontamination service provider. 

Not Labour-intensive

Other delivery methods, such as manual cleaning, leave plenty of room for human error. If the disinfectant does not touch an area, the place is left unsanitized. With the dry fog delivery, the operator is not responsible for delivering the active ingredients. The system delivers the ingredients automatically until the cycle is completed, and even hard-to-reach areas are disinfected. This also means the operator is not exposed in any way and the labor cost is low.

Why should you disinfect your space?

Disinfecting your spaces is essential because it reduces the risk of disease. This has taken on even more importance in the era of COVID-19. People unconsciously touch surfaces in crowded spaces and are therefore at risk of spreading infections. 

Unfortunately, it is so hard to keep your hands off your face and it is easy to transfer a contaminated hand to your nose, eyes, or mouth.

Disinfecting spaces regularly reduces the risk of spreading disease.

Talk to the Experts

Although disinfection may look easy, it’s best left to the experts. Professionals follow guidelines to ensure proper sanitization that poses no risk to the person applying the disinfectant and the people who use the space. Do you need help keeping your workspaces, event centers, homes, or other high-traffic areas sanitized? Mold Masters offers a wide range of decontamination services.

The team of specialists at Mold Masters has been dealing with mold for over 20 years all across Florida. To discuss mold removal in your home today, call us at one of our offices (Central Florida: 813-606-6668, South Florida: 239-961-9995, North Florida: 904-397-4030. You can also contact us online.