Data Centre and Server Room Deep Cleaning Services

Cleaning Data Centres, Comms rooms and Server Rooms is a specialised job. Data centres are intricate and complex environments, containing sensitive components and requiring a thorough, meticulous and expert approach. If left unmaintained, dust and lint can accumulate and cause damage to expensive equipment as well as affect performance of hardware.

At Rentokil Specialist Hygiene we recognise the importance of ensuring data centres and server rooms are regularly cleaned and maintained, and provide specialist cleaning services across the UK to keep your IT infrastructure working to its optimal level. Post clean testing is also provided to validate cleaning is carried out in accordance with ISO 14644 industry standards.

Whether a small IT server room, or a cavernous data centre stretching hundreds of metres and supporting thousands of data processors, the need for cleaning remains the same.

Data centres, including comms rooms and server rooms, are any buildings or rooms where IT hardware such as servers, storage devices and networking equipment, and they act as the engine room for cloud storage across the country. As the IT revolution has gathered pace over the last few years, along with increasing energy costs, the need to maintain these rooms has come to the forefront of business maintenance planning.

Due to the sheer amount of equipment within, they present complex cleaning environments but must be cleaned and maintained regularly to ensure they operate effectively.

Due to the sheer amount of equipment within, they present complex cleaning environments but must be cleaned and maintained regularly to ensure they operate effectively.

If left unchecked, dust and lint build up on ledges, surfaces and within areas such as sub floor voids. This particulate build up can easily get inside computer equipment where it settles in delicate circuitry and can cause short circuits and small amounts of damage that can have disastrous consequences. For many customers, data is money, and a data loss or outage can be very expensive indeed. In extreme cases, electrical fires can occur, causing huge amounts of damage both in hardware and data loss.

A well maintained data centre is also an energy efficient one. Data centres are one of the primary users of UK energy countrywide and as such, energy efficiency is extremely important. By regularly maintaining and cleaning within data centres, hardware performs in an efficient manner and costs are kept to a minimum.

Cleaning a data centre is a clinical process that requires a balance of technical expertise and specialised experience. Because standard janitorial methods can introduce static or airborne pollutants, Rentokil Specialist Hygiene follows a rigorous, multi-stage protocol designed to protect your uptime and hardware integrity.

With the ever growing rise in information technology, the need for data centres to house large amounts of infrastructure has never been higher. Server room cleaning is vital for many customers, but in particular:

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  How are data centres cleaned?

  Carefully and professionally - using methods and materials that won't create electrostatic or cause harm to sensitive components.

  Experience and knowledge of the environments being cleaned are essential skills for data centre cleaning experts. Colleagues trained in testing standards are also a pre-requisite.

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  How Often Should a Data Centre Be Cleaned?

  To maintain hardware longevity and prevent downtime caused by particulate contamination, Rentokil Specialist Hygiene recommends a tiered frequency strategy aligned with ISO 14644.

  • Daily: High-Traffic Management Focus on "grey space" and entry points. Corridors, staging areas, and personnel airlocks should be cleaned daily to prevent dust and debris from being tracked into the sensitive white space.
  • Weekly: Tactical Maintenance Moderate to light traffic zones, including peripheral walkways and packing areas, require a thorough cleaning once or twice a week to maintain a baseline of environmental hygiene.
  • Monthly: Comprehensive Sanitation A full-facility sweep should be conducted monthly. This involves a more detailed cleaning of surfaces that don't see daily contact but still accumulate static-attracted dust.
  • Quarterly: Technical Deep Cleaning Engage experts, such as Rentokil Specialist Hygiene every quarter to carry out a deep cleaning including high-level cleaning of cable trays and technical infrastructure, as well as the critical cleaning of sub-floor voids (plenums) to ensure airflow remains uncontaminated.

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  How much does data centre cleansing cost?

  This varies enormously depending on the size of the room, from small cupboards, to vast warehouses. We will provide a free, no obligation quote based on your specific needs.

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  What is the biggest problem for data centres?

  Damage from surface and airborne particles to circuits can be catastrophic in terms of lost data and function. Data is money.

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  What is the data centre cleaning ISO standard?

  Cleanliness in data centres is based on the international ISO 14644 standard which dictates the levels of particulate acceptable in the room.

  ISO 14644 is an international standard for cleanrooms (which Data Centres and Server rooms are classified as). It defines requirements for monitoring and cleaning to ensure that they are properly maintained.

  Typically, data centres are classed as Class 8 environments, with set limits for the amount of airborne particles that can be present. Post clean testing to ISO 14644 standards ensures that data centres are cleaned to a set standard before being handed over.

  All data centre cleans from Rentokil Specialist Hygiene  are provided with post clean sampling to ensure the room or building is compliant.