Guides
Straight answers about above-eye-level cleaning: what it costs, how often to do it, how the work is done and how to plan it for your building.
Facility Management
Don't Send Your Staff Up Ladders: Overhead Cleaning Safety
Why overhead cleaning is a safety issue for businesses, and how floor-based methods reduce ladder use.
What Affects the Cost of Above Eye Level Cleaning?
The factors that shape the price of high dusting and above-eye-level cleaning, and how to get an accurate local quote.
How High Dusting Is Priced: Height, Access and Scope
Why ceiling height, access equipment and overhead complexity matter more than square footage when pricing high dusting.
Planning Above-Eye-Level Cleaning for a Restaurant
What restaurants should include in an above-eye-level cleaning plan, how often, and how to get a local quote.
The Facility Manager's Above-Eye-Level Checklist
A printable LOOK UP. checklist of every overhead surface to inspect in a commercial building.
Preparing Overhead Areas for a Restaurant Health Inspection
Which overhead surfaces inspectors notice in restaurants and how to keep them clean.
How to Choose an Above Eye Level Cleaning Company
Questions to ask before hiring a high dusting or above-eye-level cleaning provider.
Above Eye Level Cleaning Scope of Work Template
A ready-to-use scope of work template for requesting above-eye-level cleaning bids.
Summer Overhead Cleaning Plan for Schools
How schools can plan above-eye-level cleaning over summer break, building by building.
Pre-Holiday Overhead Cleaning for Churches
How churches can schedule sanctuary ceiling, chandelier and beam cleaning before Easter and Christmas.
Warehouse High Dusting: Planning, Zones and Lifts
How to plan warehouse high dusting in zones around operations, with the right access equipment.
LOOK UP.: A 5-Minute Overhead Self-Audit
A quick self-audit to score how clean your building is above eye level.
Commercial Kitchen Overhead Cleaning Guide
Everything that should be cleaned above eye level in a commercial kitchen, who does it and how often.
Comparison
Ceiling Tile Cleaning vs. Replacement: Which Makes Sense?
When to clean acoustic ceiling tiles and when to replace them, compared on cost, downtime and results.
High Dusting vs. Above Eye Level Cleaning: What's the Difference?
How Above Eye Level Cleaning relates to high dusting, overhead cleaning and elevated cleaning.
Above Eye Level Cleaning vs. Air Duct Cleaning
Understand the difference between cleaning vents and exposed ductwork exteriors and cleaning the inside of HVAC ducts.
Method
Indoor Air Quality Starts at the Vent
How dust on vents, returns and overhead surfaces relates to indoor air quality and indoor environmental quality (IEQ), and what building owners can do.
What Is Source-Capture Cleaning?
Why capturing dust at the surface beats knocking it down, and how the AELC Source-Control Method works.
Feet on the Floor: Floor-Based High-Reach Cleaning
How floor-based source capture reduces ladder use, and when lifts are still required.
Red-Light Conditions: When Overhead Cleaning Must Stop
The hazardous and out-of-scope conditions that stop above-eye-level cleaning and who to call instead.
AELC Equipment Explained: START, PRO and PRODUCTION
The equipment behind above-eye-level cleaning, from entry kits to high-volume systems.
How to Clean Restaurant Ceiling Fans (DIY vs. Pro)
What staff can do between visits and why professional source-capture cleaning works better for greasy restaurant fans.
Reference
Why Does Dust Keep Falling From My Ceiling?
The common causes of dust falling from ceilings, vents and fans in commercial buildings, and how to stop it.
Why Do Ceiling Vents Turn Black?
What causes dark smudge rings around ceiling diffusers and how they are cleaned.
Above Eye Level Cleaning Glossary
Definitions of common overhead cleaning terms: diffuser, return, troffer, HVLS, FRP, source capture and more.
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