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Kitchen exhaust hood & vent cleaning

Grease accumulates in your hood, ducts, and exhaust fan every time the line fires up — and that grease is the leading cause of restaurant fires. We schedule, perform, and document NFPA 96 hood cleaning so your kitchen stays compliant, insurable, and safe, all under one certification and one invoice.

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Why it matters

The compliance driver behind hood cleaning

Exhaust cleaning is not optional housekeeping. It is a fire-code obligation that your fire marshal, health inspector, and insurance carrier all expect you to keep current.

Grease is fuel

Combustible grease builds up on hood surfaces, duct walls, and fan blades. A single flare-up on the line can ignite it — and a hidden duct fire spreads fast and out of sight.

NFPA 96 & fire code

The standard requires the entire exhaust system to be cleaned to bare metal on a set schedule, with the work dated and documented. Inspectors look for that record on the hood.

Insurance & frequency

Carriers can deny a grease-fire claim without current cleaning records. Frequency follows your cooking volume — monthly for high-volume frying, quarterly or semi-annually for moderate use, annually for light cooking.

What's included

A complete exhaust system service

Every visit covers the full system from the cook line to the rooftop fan — nothing left half-done, nothing surprising on the invoice.

  • Full hood, duct & fan cleaning — interior and exterior surfaces scraped, pressure-washed, and degreased to bare metal per NFPA 96.
  • Grease filter service — baffle filters removed, soaked, washed, and reinstalled; worn or missing filters flagged for replacement.
  • Rooftop grease containment — exhaust fan hinged back, fan housing and roof curb cleaned, and grease-catch containment serviced to protect your roof and lease.
  • Certification sticker + report — a dated cleaning sticker affixed to the hood and a written report with before/after documentation for inspectors and your insurer.

Cleaned to standard, stickered, and documented — proof on the hood and a report in your file.

How it works

Under your certification

You deal with Certified Restaurant. We manage the licensed, insured exhaust-cleaning crew behind the scenes.

One vetted partner

We dispatch a single licensed, insured hood-cleaning crew on a schedule matched to your cooking volume. No bidding out, no chasing trucks, no after-hours coordination on your end.

One invoice

Hood cleaning rolls onto the same monthly Certified Restaurant bill as your other services. One line item, one payment, one point of contact for any question.

Documentation

Every visit produces a dated sticker on the hood and a written report. We keep your cleaning history on file so you're always inspection-ready and claim-ready.

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Round out your back of house

Keep your kitchen fire-safe and inspection-ready.

Add NFPA 96 hood cleaning to your certification — scheduled, documented, and on one invoice with the rest of your back of house.

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