Air Curtains for Pest Control

Challenge

When you restore a historically important venue that once played host to luminaries like Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, and Duke Ellington, you install premium products to ensure you deliver a setting that pays due homage to its storied past.?Set in Miami’s Little Havana neighborhood, the club finds itself in a tropical monsoon climate with warm winters and long, hot, and humid summers where temperatures will rise to an average high of over 90.9°F in July. Such a convergence of climatic factors results in what experts suggest is mosquito season year–round. It’s also a haven for an abundance of other insects -- reportedly numbering around 373.

For the site’s new owners Bill Fuller and Zack and Ben Bush, installation of a dozen Mars Air Systems air curtains was their only choice when they were told by trusted allies, “gotta go with Mars”.

The Solution

Renovations at the club included the installation of an expanse of bi-fold doors that now give patrons access to the garden area.?A second, larger 50-foot stretch of accordion doors was installed to invite foot traffic and passersby on 8th Street and minimize the separation between indoors and out. Such welcoming openings augment the ambiance, but also invite in hot, humid air and serve as a welcome mat for flying pests that can bring contaminants and annoyance.

Savvy specifiers secured the openings with a blockade of protection using the Mars Standard series unheated models. Widely known as a commercial and industrial hybrid, the Standard units feature a ? hp motor and provide superior protection in heights up to 10 ft. Now secured is a lively indoor scene with music on two stages and Cuban tapas dishes served to crowds of locals and the city’s thousands of annual tourists. Guests remain pest-free while the owners have confidence that their utility spend is controlled and the number of disease-bearing flying insects is dramatically diminished.