Kitchen exhaust and grease duct cleaning
Grease leaves the hood, moves through the plenum, travels up the duct and settles in the exhaust fan. The duct is where incomplete cleaning hides, because almost nobody looks.
Access decides what is possible
A duct run can only be cleaned where someone can reach it. Access panels are what make that possible.
If your system has no access panels, we tell you, we show you where they belong, and we quote the install separately. What we will not do is clean the first few reachable feet and write down that the duct is done.
What we write down
Included
- Duct run length and layout as we found it
- Where the access panels are, or that there are none
- Before-and-after photos at each access point
- Any section we could not reach, and why
- Recommended access work with a priority
How the run actually gets cleaned
Hand scraping at each access point first, then a high-temp pressure wash where the duct can take it. The wash water goes into containment and leaves with us. It does not go down a roof drain, a storm drain or the parking lot.
Vertical risers are the section skipped most often, because reaching one means working from the roof and the fan opening rather than from the kitchen. The report names which risers we entered and where we entered them from.
Inside the run
The duct interior from the first full clean, photographed during service. A report with no frame like this is a report about a hood.
Questions we get
Is grease duct cleaning the same as air duct cleaning?
No. Commercial grease exhaust is a different system with a different risk than HVAC or residential air ducts. We do not service air ducts or dryer vents.
Can you clean the whole duct run?
We clean what we can reach. Where we cannot reach, the report says so and says why. Adding access panels usually turns unreachable run into reachable run.
Where does the wash water go?
Into containment and off the site with us. Metro Nashville's vent hood cleaning guidance covers wastewater handling, and rinsing grease into a roof drain or a storm drain turns a cleaning job into a different kind of violation.
How long does a duct run take?
The number of access points matters more than the length. A thirty-foot run with two panels and the same run with six panels are not the same job, because the second one can be cleaned end to end and the first one cannot.
How do I know the duct was cleaned and not just the hood?
Ask for photographs taken at each access point, before and after, from the same angle. A report with hood pictures and nothing above the filters is a report about a hood.
Get a free duct quote
Tell us the hood and fan count and roughly when it was last cleaned. Photos of the hood, the filters and the rooftop fan speed the quote up considerably.