Kitchen exhaust cleaning is a process to remove grease from commercial and restaurant kitchen hood system by having a professional kitchen exhaust cleaning company can reduce fire risk.
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Exhaust systems must be inspected regularly, at intervals consistent with usage, to determine whether cleaning is needed before a dangerous amount of grease has accumulated. Kitchen exhaust is a ventilation system that extracts smoke, heat, and odor from cooking surfaces. If you are a restaurant manager, this device can come in handy for your restaurants. Large-scale cooking is bound to get messy at some point, and if commercial owners do not take precautions, a fire outburst will occur. The kitchen exhaust protects the restaurant from hazards, but more importantly, clients and staff. The kitchen exhaust is great, no doubt, but over time depending on the cooking scale, grease does build up in parts of the system.
Restaurant managers are often clueless about what a properly cleaned exhaust system looks like and might find it difficult to choose the right equipment or the right professional cleaning service for the job. Complete kitchen exhaust is fitted with a hood, hood filters, exhaust fan, and horizontal and vertical ductwork; this is necessary to keep in compliance with certain standards for protection. Commercial facility owners should always have a guideline from a standard association on the safety requirements for public and private cooking operations. A great guideline is the NFPA-96 Standard (National Fire Protection Association Standard for Ventilation Control and Fire Protection of Commercial Cooking Operations 2021 edition). Understanding the requirements for proper equipment and cleaning procedures provides a foundational guideline for owners of commercial cooking establishments to ensure compliance with kitchen exhaust cleaning standards.
Stay In Compliance with your local fire code.
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Commercial facilities' kitchen exhaust system comes with an exhaust fan to extract all the smoke and fumes from the kitchen. Up-blast fan is the most common exhaust fan found in a commercial kitchen is typically located on the rooftop however is also found at the sidewall of the building. Another type of exhaust fan found on commercial facilities is a utility fan and Pollution Control Unit (PCU).
Vertical and horizontal ductwork must be cleaned per NFPA 96 codes to prevent grease accumulation and potential fire hazards. Horizontal ductwork requires an access panel every 12 ft and at changing direction.
The purpose of any Type I hood is safety and comfort—removing heat, grease, smoke and odors from the kitchen reduces the likelihood of a fire and keeps those elements out of the dining area, making for a better customer experience.
Hood filters (also referred to as Baffle filters) must be cleaned weekly. Some facilities are required to clean daily because use solid fuel to cook. To ensure your facility is at less risk we create a Filter Exchange Program to help your facility be in compliance and keep fire hazard risk at the lowest.
Cleaning a commercial kitchen exhaust system would have to depend on how frequently the kitchen is used and what type of system that has been installed. The kitchen exhaust system is composed with hood, vent filters, ductwork, and exhaust fan to remove smoke from kitchens, but some of the exhaust gases have a residual impact on the ductwork.
Generally, it is advisable to clean every three months, but if the restaurant uses wood-burning or charcoal-burning stoves, you should clean as often as two weeks, the type of fuel and how much food you cook can also be a determining factors.
For solid fuel cooking, you should clean the exhaust systems on a monthly basis. Clean exhaust systems in kitchens that cook meals moderately on a semi-annual basis and kitchens that cook a lot of food every 24-hours. Open cooking, Chinese cooking that involves cooking on the wok should quarterly cleaning. Clean exhaust systems in restaurants that use low volume cooking, for instance, seasonal restaurants even less frequently. These are baseline requirements for cleaning, but local fire codes and the type and quantity of food might require different cleaning frequencies.
Few photo of a commercial kitchen exhaust system including: Hood system, Horizontal ductwork and vertical, exhaust fan.
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The above Picture from years of Grease Build-up with poorly cleaning from other companies.
The above Picture after Elite Hood Service, LLC team Clean & Service the hood system the first time. Reducing by 99% fire hazard. Our team can clean your restaurant or commercial hood system on just the first visit.
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