Commercial hood cleaning for Tampa Bay restaurants

What we help with

Built for food-service operators, not homeowners. The local organic results for this query are independent hood cleaners, not national restoration brands. We do not list those firms as partners.

• Restaurant and hotel exhaust hoods

  Canopy hoods over ranges, fryers, and grills collect grease that fire codes and insurers treat as a maintenance item. Ask for a full hood, filter, and accessible duct clean — not a filter swap only.

• Recurring kitchen exhaust work

  Many kitchens run on a schedule tied to cooking volume. If you already have a cleaner on contract, say so. A one-time catch-up after an inspection finding is a different request than a new route stop.

• Not grease-trap pumping

  Hood cleaning is the exhaust system above the cook line. Grease-trap or interceptor pumping is a different trade. Use this page only for hoods, fans, and related exhaust cleaning.

• After-hours kitchen access

  Describe close time, alarm instructions, and whether the line must stay open. Do not send keys or codes in the form. The provider who accepts the lead will set access with you.

Guides

Short explainers for common Tampa Bay questions. They are not a diagnosis and not a bid. Use a request page when you want someone to look.

• NFPA 96

  NFPA 96 is the National Fire Protection Association standard most fire inspectors and insurers point to for commercial cooking exhaust. It is about the hood, grease filters, ducts, and fan — and how often that system gets cleaned. This page names the standard. It does not assign your kitchen a bucket and does not inspect you.

• Hood filter

  A hood filter is the baffle or mesh panel that sits in the canopy over the cook line. It catches some grease before air enters the plenum and duct. Line cooks can pull filters. They cannot clean the fan on the roof. Inspectors and insurers care about the system, not only a shiny filter edge.

• Kitchen exhaust cleaning

  Kitchen exhaust cleaning is the job of taking grease off the path that leaves a commercial cook line: canopy, filters, plenum, accessible duct, and exhaust fan. A filter rinse that leaves the fan packed is not that job. Tampa Bay kitchens request it on a volume-based interval, after a finding, or when the roof starts to tell on the fan.

• Ansul system

  Ansul is a brand of restaurant fire suppression. In kitchens the word is often used for the wet-chemical system over the cook line — tanks, nozzles, fusible links, and the pull station. It is a fire-suppression appliance. It is not the hood cleaning this site collects requests for.

All hood cleaning guides

Hood cleaning statistics

This page counts seating public food-service licenses in Hillsborough County from the Florida Division of Hotels and Restaurants District 3 extract, and quotes Tampa Fire Rescue’s published inspection fees. It is not a cleaning quote, not a certificate, and not the inspector. A licensed local hood cleaner may contact you if they accept a lead.

Tampa commercial hood cleaning statistics, 2026

How a request works

Phase 1 routing is provisional. There is no claimed contractor identity, license number, or shop address on this page.

1. 1

   Tell us the kitchen

   Restaurant name, city, hood type if you know it, and whether this is a first clean, a missed interval, or an inspection follow-up.

2. 2

   We pass a tracked request

   The form posts a tracked request with this site, service, and market. It is not a booking and not a price quote.

3. 3

   A local provider may call

   If a licensed Tampa Bay hood cleaner accepts the lead, they contact you to confirm access, scope, and price. You can decline.