An IKECA member company serving the Ceres market
Ceres kitchens deserve more than a surface rinse. We clean the full exhaust system to NFPA 96 standards, document every job, and hand you a certificate the Ceres Fire Department accepts — from an IKECA member company.
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Ceres runs the same hot, dusty summers as the rest of Stanislaus County, with one difference that matters: the town is small and dense, and a large share of its kitchens sit in older strip retail along Hatch Road and Mitchell Road where the buildings were put up before anyone thought hard about exhaust access. Long duct chases with two or three panels are common, and rooftop units often sit behind parapets that make a lazy cleaner’s job easier to fake. Summer heat past 100 degrees keeps grease moving up those runs, and winter fog keeps whatever reaches the curb sitting there wet.
Ceres has a compact, largely independent restaurant base that serves the town and the Highway 99 traffic passing through. The Hatch Road corridor, Mitchell Road and the retail around it, downtown along Fourth Street, the taquerias and family kitchens that make up much of the trade, and the school kitchens of Ceres Unified.
A Ceres hood cleaning covers the system from the cook line to the curb, and the duct run gets real attention because that is where the local building stock hides its problems. Panels come off, the hood interior and plenum are foamed, brushed and rinsed, the duct is cleaned along its length, and the fan is lifted so the housing, blades and curb underneath are cleaned rather than sprayed from a distance. Where a Hatch Road chase has no opening into the middle of the run, we quote the panel or hinge kit instead of writing down a length of duct nobody could reach. Grease at the curb is contained so the fog months do not work it into the roof. You get dated photographs of every accessible surface and a report naming what was cleaned and what was not.
Membership sets the standard the work is held to and the documentation that has to come with it.
A rooftop unit behind a parapet is easy to skip and hard for an owner to check. Ours come back with dated photographs of the fan housing and the blades, and the duct cleaned along its length.
A signed certificate and an NFPA 96 report, sealed in EvidLY the day of the job, formatted the way Ceres inspectors and insurers expect.
PECT Designated Technicians on site, and a founder holding the CECS (#200452) who has been retained as an NFPA 96 expert witness.
For a commercial kitchen inside Ceres city limits, fire services are provided by the Ceres Fire Department (Ceres Emergency Services) under a full-service contract with the Modesto Fire Department, and your exhaust has to meet NFPA 96. We clean to the standard and hand you the record before anyone asks.
Ceres runs its fire services under a contract with the Modesto Fire Department. Fire-prevention inspectors verify that your hood and exhaust system is cleaned per NFPA 96 schedule, your fire suppression system is current, and your cleaning certificate is on file. Cleaning Pros Plus provides the documentation — signed certificate, before-and-after photos, and IKECA credentials — that satisfies the inspection process.
See full Stanislaus County fire safety profile →Every commercial kitchen in Ceres must comply with NFPA 96. Your fire authority — Ceres Fire Department — enforces these cleaning frequency requirements:
| Type of Cooking | Cleaning Frequency |
|---|---|
| Solid fuel cooking operations (wood, charcoal, mesquite) | Monthly |
| High-volume cooking (24-hour operations, charbroiling, wok cooking) | Quarterly |
| Moderate-volume cooking (full-service restaurants) | Semi-Annually |
| Low-volume cooking (churches, day camps, senior centers, seasonal) | Annually |
Not sure which category your Ceres kitchen falls into? We'll assess your operation and recommend the right schedule.
Tell us the window when nothing is on. Ceres is twenty minutes from our base, so a job here rarely has to wait for a route to swing through.
The technician photographs the hood, the chase and the rooftop unit before starting, checks how many ways into the duct there actually are, and confirms the interval your cooking type calls for.
Canopy and plenum, the run itself, then the fan housing, blades and curb. Where the parapet hides the unit, the photographs show it cleaned anyway.
Dated photographs, a written NFPA 96 inspection report, and a certificate, sealed on the day of service so the record holds up whenever it is produced.
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Ceres sits inside the core of our route. Cleaning Pros Plus holds IKECA membership, the technicians are PECT Designated, and the founder holds the CECS and has been retained as an NFPA 96 expert witness. Every Ceres Report of Service and Certificate of Service is sealed in EvidLY on the day of the job, so the copy produced for an inspector later is the original and provably so.
If your fire inspector finds any issue with our work, we come back and re-clean at no charge. No questions asked. We stand behind every hood, every duct, every fan — because your compliance is our reputation.
