Hood cleaning: why you should hire a certified company
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Hood cleaning: why you should hire a certified company

Things to consider when hiring a hood cleaning company: First, you need to make sure that the company you hire is certified. You should ask if they have photos of the work they have done. Be sure to check their references, many times hood cleaning companies request work from establishments and are not certified and have never cleaned kitchen exhaust systems before. Some pressure washing companies think they can clean hoods just because they have equipment.

This is far from the truth, actually certified hood cleaners are certified hood cleaners for a reason. They have gone through rigorous training and field testing behind a book and a desk. If you don’t heed my advice to hire one of these overnight riders, make sure they clean your entire kitchen exhaust system, not just the range hood. Proper kitchen exhaust cleaning consists of cleaning the kitchen hood, exhaust duct, and exhaust fan.

Checking access panels, opening access panels if present, scraping, degreasing and power washing interior if necessary to meet NFPA 96 codes and standards. Many times inferior companies will just power wash his hood. This is unacceptable in Massachusetts it is illegal, Massachusetts requires a technician to be state certified. If you search the web, you can find a list of all certified hood cleaners.

Any self-respecting hood cleaner will have a few basic things on their Persona when they come to your establishment. This is not an exhaustive list, just some basic tools. A pressure washer with heating coils in it. This is the heart of our team. 100 to 300 feet of high pressure hose, long pressure washer gun, one flexible pressure washer gun, 100 to 200 feet of hose, pump sprayer, degreaser, steel scouring pad, various scrapers.

Remember this is just a basic list of tools that every hood cleaner should have on their truck.

I just want to let everyone know that I wrote this article in hopes of preventing you from being ripped off by night hood cleaners. Offering you some good advice, hire an IKECA certified hood cleaner, even if you’re not required to, because pretty soon you will anyway. A good practice would be to check on the work of the hood cleaners who clean your kitchen exhaust system after they leave. You need to check the duct, behind the filters and the kitchen hood fan.

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