Chinese Restuarants --- should I do them

[rl1217]

Just recently I have been calls from a large number of chinese restaurants and I have been staying away from them? When I first started I took all the buisness I could and found the chinese just to be a big pain in ass. I am using the foamer with the black gold and all my other accounts are great and fairly easy but just something about going back to this makes me nervous for allot of reasons. But there is a large oppurtunity out this way and I wanted to see what others are doing and if you are doing it what are you using to do it to make it easier?

Thanks for your help in advance

[dig_dougpt]

I will do them if the price is right I charge three times my normal if they go for GREAT if not no big deal

[statewidehoodcleaning]

they suck Chinese is the enemy of all grease, i hate doing them, just make sure they have ben kept up in the past look through the whole exhaust system to make darn sure you can get it all, and what i do is did them really high, if they bit tell them you need to do them every 2 to 3 months some times every month. They have the hardest grease every to clean, it makes for long nights but if the pay is good, might as well if your up to it. good luck,

still have not found any thing that touches it, but good scapers lots of heat and as much pressure as you can get helps.

if any one has any good ideas on fighting the enemy let me know please....

[RMedbery]

My brain hurts.

[RPetry]

Ouch! Think we will stick with residential wood. Rough stuff.

Some of our biggest and best jobs over the years have been customers of Asian descent.

[mbryan]

We usually just foam them down and the grease comes right off with a water hose. Foam has its uses, Chinese is definitely one place where foam comes in handy.

[statewidehoodcleaning]

dang the foam even takes out the chines hu??? thats incredible, that stuff must be the bomb??? how long you let it set on there??? what you mixing with your foam??
what ever it is seems to do the trick, how often you guys clean that chines place there in the pics above? monthly.

that chines gets hard qiuick will the foam still penetrate the hard sticky grease??
you know that crap that want hardly scrap, it just dulls even the sharpest of scrapers.

[jetstream1]

This is off the beaten path but I was out at the farmers market and came across a dog cage and I was asking him how much he says 75 dollar
so I say 50 dollar he gave me the nasty look and ask me "HOW LONG YOU LIVE AMERICA" and walk away the cage sells new for 85...

[REaster]

Alot of people don't like to do chinese systems for obvious reasons. I would suggest taking only the accounts that will agree to keep regular cleanings not to mention will accept a reasonable price. I have had a few that would accept the intial cost to be cleaned, probaly because the health department was on their back. Afterwards they would tell me they didn't need to be cleaned. I would just explain to them that if cleanings were not kept as scheduled I would no longer clean the system, and I would have to let the AHJ know that we no longer cleaned them and a letter would be sent to them and the AHJ. Usually after they get a visit from the AHJ they are able to see the light. If not then no big loss.

[statewidehoodcleaning]

I agree with the last comment.

[mbryan]

Originally Posted by statewidehoodcleaning

dang the foam even takes out the chines hu??? thats incredible, that stuff must be the bomb??? how long you let it set on there??? what you mixing with your foam??
what ever it is seems to do the trick, how often you guys clean that chines place there in the pics above? monthly.

that chines gets hard qiuick will the foam still penetrate the hard sticky grease??
you know that crap that want hardly scrap, it just dulls even the sharpest of scrapers.

If mixed properly the foam can dwell in excess of 30 minutes. You can scrape, powerwash or let the chemicals do the work for you. Our guys choose the latter, some guys would rather powerwash or scrape. If there is one thing I have learned its that you can not get every hood cleaner to do it the same way regardless of how easy it is or the results you get.

[name is Lou]

Originally Posted by mbryan

If mixed properly the foam can dwell in excess of 30 minutes.

And sometimes you get a mix wrong.....

this pic 2min after I foamed....it was to dry

[BUNN]

Originally Posted by name is Lou

And sometimes you get a mix wrong.....

this pic 2min after I foamed....it was to dry

Rookie!

[name is Lou]

I made corrections and reapplied.

Not a rookie...

I think I'm to use to Chinese.

[statewidehoodcleaning]

MAN how you guys get your foam to stick so well, what you guys foaming with? i just started foaming, made me a home made foamer works really well, just cant get much hand time on it, about 5 min, when it runs off. I use a sodium hydroxide mix called big brute form a comp called technicem out of Idaho. Stuff works well just mixing it with dawn tho, does the true foam agents help with the hang time? Thinking about trying the Black gold you guys talk about.
but any tips you expert foamers could tell a rookie like me would be great,
do you think the more chem the heavy and wetter the foam? haven't found a perfect mix yet, went both two week and last time way to strong, guess it will take some trail and error to get it. any way you guys rock awesome foam videos and pics