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Philadelphia Hood Cleaning
If Philadelphia Restaurant Hood Cleaning is the service you are searching for, you are presumably a restaurant owner or another type of commercial cooking establishment, you are aware that by law, your kitchen exhaust must be cleaned by a professional cleaner on a regular basis. Hotels, hospital employee cafeterias, restaurants, and most food service locations have an exhaust hood and duct work installed to vent harmful fumes and oil gases that are generated by the stoves and ovens. When food is fried on the stove top, oil's are being released into the air, and unless they are properly exhausted through the roof it can create a very dangerous atmosphere for employees and customers alike.

Philadelphia Kitchen Exhaust Hood Cleaning

Aside from dangerous fumes being left in the air, when your kitchen exhaust system is not cleaned on a regular basis, it becomes a serious fire hazard. Approximately one and three Philadelphia restaurant fires are caused by grease, so you can see how incredibly important it is to have your hoods cleaned on a regular basis.

If you are Philadelphia restaurant owner, you may have gone the cheaper route a few times in the past and hired a fly-by-night hood cleaner, or even worse, a hood polisher. What this does, is it causes your hood to be cleaned only where it is seen, and the most important duct work between the hood and roof are completely left untouched, causing a build up of grease and charcoal to accumulate over the years. The extremely dangerous scenario occurs then, when a flame jumps from the stove while cooking. The flame can ignite the thick build up of grease in the duct work and immediately cause a fire that is unstoppable due to the amount of flammable elements that are inside the kitchen exhaust system. You may think you are saving money by using a cheap cleaner or hood polisher, but in essence you could be in an expensive lawsuit due to your negligence.

Restaurant Hood Cleaning Services
A professional Hood Cleaner will come in and remove all panels in the bottom of your hood, then get on the roof and remove your roof top assembly. This is the crucial step that most hood cleaners skip. Everything is then sprayed down with a degreasing solution, or soaked, and then pressure washed with hot steaming water to completely eradicate the grease and charcoal build up on your assembly.

According to law, your Philadelphia kitchen exhaust system must be cleaned down to the metal with, with no residual grease left. This is the only way we go about our cleanings, so you know you are in safe hands with Philadelphia Hood Cleaning. Scraping must be done along with pressure washing or steam cleaning, usually done consequently. The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) spells out in NFPA standard 96, that steam cleaning will clean effectively clean duct work down to bare metal. Completely eradicating risk of fire in your kitchen Exhaust system for the time being.

Commercial Kitchen Cleaning Philadelphia

So how many times does your hood and kitchen exhaust system need to be cleaned? Many restaurants have scheduled cleanings every three months. This negates any risk of build up from heavy cooking, while taking away 80% of the fire risk in your kitchen exhaust systems. Many wood-burning, stoves, or charcoal stoves that experience heavy usage may be required a cleaning every 30 days or so. A quick cleaning is pennies when compared to the cost of repairs after a traumatic kitchen fire due to negligence.

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