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Preventive Maintenance Sustains Good IAQ
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Preventive Maintenance Sustains Good IAQ
- Maintain Up-to-Date Building Records
- Establish an Effective PM Program
- Train Your Key Maintenance Employees on IAQ
- Maintain All Equipment on Time
- Keep a Clean Mechanical Room
- Periodically Check Exhaust Air Flows
- Periodically Check Pressure Relationships
- Periodically Check Temperature, Humidity, and CO2
- Periodically Check Supply Air and Outdoor Air Flows
- Make Use of I-BEAM Forms in Your Maintenance Program
- Monitoring IAQ in Occupied Spaces
- Monitoring PM Throughout Building
Keep a Clean Mechanical Room
Mouse over the picture above to see messages which are referenced in more detail below.
(Hot Spot broadly covering trash barrel and boxes.)
- Remember...“Pollutant sources in a mechanical room may pollute the supply air serving occupied areas.”
- The mechanical room is often a favorite place to store trash barrels, lubricants, paints or other pollutant sources. This is not a good idea when the mechanical room contains the air handler. Such contaminants can easily find their way into the supply air stream and contaminate the occupied spaces. This is especially true when the mechanical room itself acts as the outdoor air and return air mixing chamber.
- As a matter of policy, the mechanical room should be treated to housekeeping practices no less important than in the occupied spaces.
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