New to Hood & Vent

[tigerzak]

I am thinking about adding Hood & Vent cleaning to my pressure washing business. I don't know where to begin to find out what equipment I would need, training, etc.

Can anyone reccomend a website where I can get this info?

Thanks
Tiger

[Alexy]

You can go here or The Grease Police Forums . it is a hood cleaner specific web page. Hood cleaning requires a completely diffrent kind of insurance and a little diffrent machines than most pressurewashers use. Also it has a very diffrent skill set.

[Greasebuster]

I have been cleaning commercial restaurants hoods/fans ducts for threes years. You have high turn over, night work, high insurance, and you really need to find good people, high expenses. Go to our website Nationwide Kitchen Exhaust Cleaning - The Greasebusters from Industrial Steam Cleaning about 45 dealers in the franchise now. Email me back if you are serious and I can talk to you on the phone to answer all your questions. I clean about 500 restaurants but you need to be organized otherwise forget it. - Greg

[One Tough Pressure]

Howdy fellows,
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[mbryan]

I would say if you already have a pressure washing business, then adding hoods would be pretty simple. You have the equipment, all you really need is a way to apply chemicals and rinse them off on regularly maintained accounts. Scraping would be required on first service accounts only if you are doing the job right.

If you would like to get more information on our industry, there are a few websites that you can visit to obtain more information. There is a great free kitchen exhaust cleaning manual here:
IKECA Kitchen Grease Exhaust Cleaning Manual

And this bulletin board as well as Pressure Washing Institute Power Wash Network - powered by vBulletin and The Grease Police Forums all have great information on kitchen exhaust cleaning.

If you get serious about it, your next step would be to become certified.

Once you get in to it, you will see that having the right knowledge, tools and chemicals, just like in any other cleaning industry, is priceless.Right now we are down to applying chemicals with a foamer, and rinsing with a water hose on most accounts. We have sold all of our large pressure washing equipment, and our jobs are getting easier and easier (read more profitable) each day.

I see the kitchen exhaust cleaning industry moving farther and farther away from the pressure washing industry in the future, but that does not mean you should not or could not pressure wash an exhaust system. Get your feet wet with the tools that you have and see if it is right for you. If you like it talk to some different guys on the boards and see if they have some suggestions on making it easier.

Here is an example of a charbroiler system that was cleaned with nothing but a foamer and a water hose, can't get any easier than that.

[Tmrrptr]

Mt hat is off to all those KEC guys...

smokehouse bbq ??? oriental ??? ductwork ???

Grease police guys way tougher than me...

Yes, I FEAR the FOAM!
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[soapwarehouse]

Alexy, here at Soap Warehouse we have products made esspecialy just for the heavy grease like found in the Chinese and Bar-B-Que restaurants. Added to a foamer like one other member answered is the way to go. You can move to a steam cleaner instead of a regualr pressure washer but you can start with what you have.

[Beth n Rod]

Soapwarehouse,
Please provide a signature and also read the forum rules regarding vendors.
Thanks,
Beth

[soapwarehouse]

Sorry guys but I just found this and got logged in Friday and did not find the spot to put that all in until I went back today. I have done it now. Thanks