Commercial Kitchen Hood Cleaning Services

Thorough Vent Hood Cleaning for a Safer Kitchen

Part of maintaining a safe, efficient, and tidy commercial kitchen is making sure your equipment and surfaces stay clean. Besides sanitary needs, a clean kitchen also minimizes the chance of fires breaking out from grease, clutter, and other flammable materials. Therefore, this underscores the need for regular commercial kitchen hood cleaning services Rockford in restaurants and other establishments.

Your staff often scrubs down the range, prep stations, and other surfaces to keep them clean and free of germs and stains, and the floors get swept and mopped regularly so that dinner rush messes don’t linger on the floor overnight.

However, your vent hoods are exposed continuously to grease and can accumulate over time, posing a serious fire risk. RPW ProWash can help restaurants throughout Illinois to maintain a safe kitchen with top-quality vent hood cleaning.

All commercial kitchens require vent hood cleaning at least twice a year to prevent cooking grease from building up in the system. Our team of professionals has spent years performing this service for restaurants, schools, hotels, and many other establishments that prepare food in a professional setting. We make sure to clean your vent hood thoroughly because we understand that grease can be a serious fire hazard.

Kitchen exhaust cleaning (popularly known as “vent hood cleaning”) is an intensive cleaning process that includes the removal of the excess grease that has accumulated inside the hoods, ductwork, vents, and fans of exhaust systems of commercial kitchens.

The grease collected on the exhaust can lead to extremely hazardous situations such as kitchen fires and huge flare-ups that could cause intense fire breakout. Moreover, if left to accumulate for a longer period, kitchen grease can become extremely difficult to remove and clean down to the bare metal.

Cleaning kitchen exhaust systems is a demanding process that requires intense labor work, a significant amount of time, the right set of tools and equipment, and chemicals to remove the grease and other contaminants.

At RPW ProWash, we take proper steps and precautions to ensure that the cleaning process does not interfere with the rest of the kitchen space and maintain its cleanliness.

Disinfecting kitchen floors, shelves, appliances, and other equipment is also an essential process that helps maintain the cleanliness and hygiene of your kitchen. It is done by using special chemicals which scrape off any hardened residue of burnt, leftover, or cooked meals. It also entails dissolving grease, oil stains that seem permanent on the metal surfaces in your kitchen.

Kitchen Exhaust Cleaning Process

Cleaning a commercial kitchen exhaust is a step-by-step process that requires intensive work and professional expertise. Here is the process that we follow when cleaning kitchen exhaust systems for our customers:

Prepping up the Kitchen

Before we begin with the intensive process of exhaust cleaning and draining your ducts of the extra grease, we protect your kitchen appliances and floors from being splattered with grease. We cover them with tarps to prevent any grease or cleaning detergents from splashing onto them during the hood cleaning process.

We handle every step of the process meticulously so that we deliver outstanding customer experience and satisfaction in our provision of commercial kitchen hood cleaning services Rockford.

Removing the Hardened Grease

Once the kitchen appliances are covered and safe, we move on to remove the kitchen baffle filters and soak them in cleaning chemicals for a few hours. The chemicals loosen the grease build-up before we pressure wash them to remove the hardened grease.

A major part of the kitchen exhaust cleaning process entails manually scraping off the grease build-up from the insides of the ductwork. After the hardened grease has been removed, a chemical mixture is sprayed on and allowed to sit for 30 minutes to an hour.

Cleaning the Exhaust Fan

We remove the kitchen exhaust fan so that we can clean both, the top and bottom of the fan with cleaning chemicals and disinfectants. We change the fan belt before we delve in to pressure wash the grease from the metal surface.

The time taken for cleaning the exhaust fan depends on its size, amount of grease accumulated and the chemicals used. Our professionals use safe, non-intoxicating, and potent chemicals that easily remove grease without producing any side effects to the metal surface.

Pressure Wash

Once the chemicals loosen out the hardened grease, our cleaners blast out any remaining grease with a pressure washer. The pressure washer allows the leftover grease to flow down with the water as it is collected in a container placed right below.

Replacing Filters and Polishing

Once the kitchen exhaust filters and hood are cleaned, they are ready to be placed back in their original position. To enhance the shine and give a neat look, our professionals will also polish the outer surface of the kitchen hood so that it maintains its look through weeks to come.

Inspection of Kitchen Exhaust System

After the filters are replaced, our professionals will check the entire system to ensure it is working in proper condition without any issues. They will check the exhaust to ensure that it is safe and ready to be used.

Clean up Kitchen

The tarps are removed and the floors are cleaned just in case the kitchen exhaust cleaning process messed it up. After the service is completed, thorough feedback is taken which is evaluated and taken care of by our team to deliver the best services.

How Often Should You Schedule a Kitchen Exhaust Cleaning and Disinfecting?

You should usually schedule kitchen exhaust cleaning and disinfecting at least twice a year for restaurants. The entire kitchen hood cleaning process takes anywhere between 3-6 hours, depending on the size of the area to be cleaned and the severity of grease accumulated.

It is imperative to stick with a scheduled plan for your routine kitchen exhaust cleaning to ensure that you stay code-compliant. Not only is it mandatory according to the law enforcement officials but also to provide a safe environment for staff and customers.