It’s a well-known fact that high-quality commercial painting will make you more attractive to clients and prevent costly problems with your property. What isn’t as widely known is that commercial painting has the potential to reduce the spread of diseases.

When you hire commercial painters to apply antimicrobial paint, you’re providing stronger protections for anyone on your premises. This is especially true if your primary clients or tenants are seniors. Microbicidal paint can reduce the chances that they’ll suffer devastating illnesses.

How Do Seniors Benefit From Antimicrobial Paint?

One major pathway to infection is contact with contaminated surfaces. Bacteria and viruses can multiply and spread on walls, doors, countertops, cabinets, and other surfaces people frequently touch.

For seniors, even a mild infection can take a heavy toll on physical and mental health. As the body ages, the immune system generally becomes weaker. Furthermore, seniors are often already dealing with chronic health issues, such as cardiovascular problems, diabetes, and arthritis.

In the state of Washington and throughout the country, we’ve recently seen how COVID-19 disproportionately harms older people. Other serious infections, such as MRSA and E. coli, may also result in death, diminished mobility, lingering health problems, and poorer quality of life.

What antimicrobial paint does is kill various germs that come into contact with it, including microbes that are notorious for resisting antibiotics. It reduces the potential for microbes to stick around on a surface, reproduce, and spread. Whether they’re living in a housing development that promotes an independent lifestyle or in a nursing home with medical supervision and daily assistance, seniors benefit from paint that helps cut down on disease.

Seniors Aren’t the Only People Who Benefit From Microbicidal Paint

If you’re operating any sort of facility that serves people with medical issues, a paint that kills microbes is a good choice. When your customers or residents are already fighting an illness or trying to rebuild their health during recovery, they benefit from an environment that suppresses the spread of disease.

Along with applying microbicidal paint in homes for seniors, we encourage its use in hospitals, clinics, medical offices, and pharmacies. These vital facilities regularly serve seniors and other medically vulnerable people.

Where Should Commercial Painters Apply Microbicidal Paint?

Once you’ve decided to use this potent type of paint, you need to figure out where to apply it in your facility. Surfaces that people regularly touch are good candidates for an application of microbicidal paint. There are also areas in your facilities that need special attention, including the following:

• Kitchens and other areas dedicated to food preparation. Various microbes, including those that cause serious bouts of food poisoning, often flourish in these areas. They can easily spread from a kitchen to residents, patients, and employees.
• Laundry rooms. Soiled clothing, towels, and sheets contain a multitude of germs, and they can easily multiply in the crowded, moist surroundings of a laundry room.
• Staff rooms. When employees relax in a staff room and take a break from their work, they’re more likely to be relaxed about hygienic standards. Limiting the multiplication of microbes in a staff room helps prevent diseases from spreading more widely around a facility.
• Areas dedicated to medical storage. Where does your facility store medications and medical equipment? These areas must be better protected from concentrations of microbes.

Microbicidal paint isn’t meant to be a substitute for other methods of disease prevention. People should still consistently wash their hands, wipe down surfaces, wear masks, use gloves, and take any other necessary steps to prevent infection.

What microbicidal paint offers is an additional layer of protection. People sometimes slip up and forget to wash their hands before touching their nose, mouth, or eyes. Even if they’re generally careful, they can still experience careless moments that heighten their risk of contracting or spreading infection. Microbicidal paint reduces the chances that they’ll come into contact with infectious agents.

What Other Benefits Can Microbicidal Paint Give You?

One reason to apply this kind of paint is its ability to curb the growth of mildew or mold. Less mold means healthier conditions for seniors and anyone else who spends a lot of time in your facilities. Consider using the paint in bathrooms, kitchens, and other rooms with high levels of moisture.

Microbicidal properties also slow down the degradation of the paint itself, which means you’ll need to renew your paint job less frequently. Over time, you won’t have to spend as much money on painting your facilities.

Cornerstone Painting Chooses Paint Shield

Among the microbicidal paints available on the market, we choose to work with Paint Shield, a product from Sherwin-Williams.

Registered with the Environmental Protection Agency, Paint Shield has passed rigorous tests that have proven its ability to eradicate various microbes. Staph infections, MRSA, and E. coli are among the pathogens it reliably kills. Its rate of eradication is roughly 99.9%, which means that treated surfaces don’t become breeding grounds for a high concentration of infectious agents.

Paint Shield has been around since 2015. Since then, it has been adopted by thousands of facilities where seniors live or receive treatment. Assuming it’s applied and maintained properly, it can enhance protection for seniors and other medically vulnerable people who rely on your facilities.

Working With Trustworthy Commercial Painters

Any sort of paint job is an investment, and we make sure you receive the full value of the work. Our workers are highly skilled, fully vetted, and knowledgeable about all the latest developments in paints, tools, and techniques. We consistently prioritize your needs and preferences, and we help you make cost-effective decisions that improve the attractiveness of your facilities and the quality of life for patients, residents, employees, and visitors.

If you have any concerns about your budget or how to schedule the work, you can be assured of honest estimates, fair prices, and consideration for your needs. For example, we work efficiently and find ways to reduce the level of disruption any paint project may cause. You shouldn’t have to suffer from wasted money or any unnecessary pauses to your operations.

Contact Cornerstone Painting

If you’re based in or around Woodinville WA, don’t hesitate to reach out to us. We’ll be happy to further explain the benefits of using microbicidal paint, and we’ll promptly respond to any other questions you may have about our services. You can reach us at 425-941-2050 or through our site. We strive to promote healthier buildings and help you and your customers thrive.