Specialist cleaning of Apparatus Rooms — CAR, LAR, MAR and other technical spaces at the heart of broadcast infrastructure. Cleaned and validated to ISO 14644-1 Class 8.
IT Cleaning Ltd provides specialist Apps Room Broadcast Cleaning as part of our Broadcast Technical Cleaning Service. We clean all types of Apparatus Rooms — including CAR, LAR and MAR — that support broadcasting operations.
Apps rooms are the technical heart of broadcast infrastructure, housing sensitive equipment that operates continuously. Like data centres, these rooms are controlled environments — requiring precise contamination control to ensure system reliability, performance and compliance.
Dust and airborne particulates in apps room can:
- Block airflow and cause equipment overheating
- Increase power consumption due to fan strain
- Lead to intermittent faults and hardware degradation
- Compromise broadcast and transmission system integrity
“Contamination has been the indirect cause of more IT downtime than all the fires, floods, hurricanes, earthquakes and disgruntled employees combined.”
ISO 14644-1:2015 Class 8
Cleaned to the same protocol used for data centre environments — the recognised standard for controlled broadcast rooms.
HEPA air scrubbing
2,500 m³/hour of air filtered to 0.3 µm throughout the clean.
Certificate of Conformity
Full report and framed-display certificate — useful for audits and demonstrating best practice.
SC-cleared, 24/7
All technicians SC-cleared and CSCS-certified. Nationwide coverage, 24/7 availability.
01 · Airborne control
HEPA-filtered air scrubbers filter 2,500 m³/hour to 0.3 µm — preventing dust dislodged during cleaning from recontaminating the room.
02 · Settled dust removal
HEPA-filtered vacuums lift settled particulate from all accessible surfaces.
03 · Surface decontamination
Microfibre, damp and tacky wiping systems for precision surface cleaning.
04 · ISO 14644-3 validation
Calibrated airborne particle counter used to validate the room post-clean.
05 · Certification & report
Certificate of Conformity to ISO 14644-1:2015 Class 8 — valid 12 months.