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LAYTON — The calls into Utah company Pure Maintenance started ramping up three weeks ago. Since then, their crews have been servicing homes, businesses, hotels, buses and planes across the country, trying to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus.
“We can’t stop the virus from spreading person to person,” owner Brandon Adams said. “Where we can help is stopping the spread of the virus from person to surface to another person.”
The company said their dry fog technology qualifies under products the EPA said can be used to kill COVID-19.
“The fog is able to denature mold, bacteria and viruses,” Adams said. “Coronavirus is an envelope virus, which is actually really low on the spectrum of things that are easy to kill.”
It may be easy to kill, but Adams said that is if you can get to it all. He said their second solution focuses on preventing the virus from sticking around if introduced again.
“It actually pierces the outer membrane of the spore of the cell and denatures it on contact,” he said.
Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. is just one of the many buildings the company has serviced recently. The company also sprayed private jets and buses around the country.
We can’t stop the virus from spreading person to person. Where we can help is stopping the spread of the virus from person to surface to another person.
–Brandon Adams, Pure Maintenance
Adams said word of the company’s work spread.
“Before you knew it we were doing the Hoover dam visitor’s center, U.S. Capitol building and we are in talks with NASA,” Adams said.
As the whole country deals with concerns about spreading the virus, Adams encouraging people at home to clean surfaces frequently.
“There’s a bunch of household products that will kill the coronavirus,” he said. “The hard part is getting every single square inch of every surface inside of a building because you don’t know where that coronavirus is sitting.”
The company has found the dirtiest places people often overlook when cleaning their homes are keyboards, remote controls and doorknobs.
