An IKECA member company serving the Los Banos market
IKECA member hood and exhaust cleaning for Los Banos commercial kitchens. Inspected by the Los Banos Fire Department. NFPA 96 compliant, photo-documented, and accepted by your fire authority.
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Los Banos sits on the west side, where the wind off the Pacheco Pass runs almost constantly and carries dust off open farmland and the grasslands around the refuges. A rooftop fan here works in moving grit year round, and that grit binds to grease vapor into a deposit that rinsing will not lift. Summers are long and hot, keeping the grease underneath soft and climbing the duct. Most kitchens in town sit along Pacheco Boulevard and the Highway 152 corridor, a mix of older storefronts with awkward duct runs and newer travel-oriented pads where the fan is straightforward to reach.
Los Banos serves both its own town and the traffic crossing between the Valley and the Bay Area. The Pacheco Boulevard main strip, the Highway 152 travel plazas and their kitchens, the downtown restaurants around Sixth Street, the hospital kitchen at Memorial Hospital Los Banos, and the school kitchens of Los Banos Unified.
A Los Banos hood cleaning covers the full system, with the rooftop unit taking the bulk of the work because of what the wind puts on it. Access panels come off, the hood interior and plenum are scraped and washed, the duct is cleaned along its length, and the fan is lifted so the housing, blades and curb are cleaned rather than hosed. The filters leave the site for the degreaser tank. The grit-and-grease shell on the blades is scraped away, and belt tension, bearing play and airflow go into the report at every visit, because a fan running unbalanced out here fails sooner than one in town. Every accessible surface is photographed and dated, and the report states plainly what was cleaned and what the system kept us out of.
IKECA membership fixes the method and the record; we work to both on the west side the same as anywhere.
Los Banos is on our regular route out of Merced, so scheduling here does not mean waiting weeks or paying a premium for the drive.
Timestamped photographs of every section of duct, a certificate and an NFPA 96 report, sealed in EvidLY the same day.
PECT Designated Technicians scrape the fan rather than rinsing it, under a founder holding the CECS (#200452) retained as an NFPA 96 expert witness.
Los Banos is not covered by CAL FIRE or the Merced County Fire Department. The city runs its own municipal fire department.
The Los Banos Fire Department runs its own fire-prevention bureau and conducts commercial kitchen inspections directly. 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 your Los Banos fire inspector needs.
See full Merced County fire safety profile →Give us the stretch when the line is shut down. Kitchens on the Highway 152 corridor run long hours for the through traffic, so the window here is narrower than in town and we plan around it.
The technician photographs the hood, the run and the rooftop unit before anything starts, checks panel access, blade loading and belt condition, and confirms the interval your cooking calls for.
The canopy and plenum first, filters next, the run after that, and the fan housing, blades and curb last. The shell that the wind and grease build on the blades is scraped off, not rinsed over.
Dated photographs, a written NFPA 96 inspection report, and a certificate, sealed the day of service and retrievable in full whenever it is needed.
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Cleaning Pros Plus handles fire safety on the hood. EvidLY identifies how Merced County evaluates your food safety and fire safety, scored exactly the way your county scores them. Stovio publishes the editorial standard. Cleaning Pros Plus is the hands. HoodOps is the tools. EvidLY is the eyes. Stovio is the lens.
The west side is part of our regular route, inside the 350+ services performed each year across the Valley. Cleaning Pros Plus carries IKECA membership, staffs every job with PECT Designated Technicians, and the founder holds the CECS and has been retained as an NFPA 96 expert witness. Reports and certificates from Los Banos work are sealed in EvidLY the same day, so the record an inspector reads later is the one written on the roof.
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.
