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Commercial hood cleaning guides
Plain-language explainers for common Tampa Bay questions about hood cleaning. They are not a site visit and not a bid. When you need someone to look, use a request page.
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.
Related pages
These are more request pages on this site, not a list of partner shops. A licensed local provider may contact you if they accept a lead.
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