The only IKECA member company serving Madera · CECS-certified
Madera 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 Madera Fire Department accepts — from the region’s only IKECA member company.
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Madera is the seat of Madera County and the heart of one of California’s major wine and agricultural regions — sitting on Highway 99 between Fresno and Merced, with the wineries and ag-processing operations that give the county its name. Restaurant, processing, and institutional kitchens all build grease on the NFPA 96 clock.
And it’s valley heat. Madera summers routinely push past 105°F, loading rooftop exhaust fans hard — motors and bearings run hotter, belts wear faster, and grease softens and re-flows deeper into the ductwork. The ag dust of the surrounding farmland packs the filters. We clean the full system, not just what a rooftop rinse can reach.
Madera’s kitchens run from its historic downtown and the Highway 99 commercial corridor to the tasting rooms and event kitchens of the Madera Wine Trail, plus the food service tied to the county’s ag and processing operations.
Madera Community Hospital, Madera Unified, the Madera Wine Trail tasting rooms, and the county’s ag-processing operations all run kitchens that depend on inspection readiness. From a single-hood taqueria to a winery event kitchen, the work is the same: the full exhaust system, cleaned to NFPA 96 standards and documented to code.
Most hood cleaning in this market is a truck, a pressure washer, and a rinse that leaves grease exactly where an inspector will find it. If your current provider hands you an invoice and nothing else — no photos, no certificate, no proof — you don’t actually have a compliant cleaning. You have a receipt.
The nearest other IKECA member company is 70+ miles away, in the Bay Area. IKECA membership isn’t a logo — it’s a standard, with insurance and training requirements behind it.
We don’t surface-rinse. Hood, filters, ductwork, fan, rooftop — the entire system, scraped and cleaned to the metal, the way NFPA 96 actually intends.
Before-and-after photos, timestamps, and a signed certificate — documented through EvidLY, so it’s there when the inspector, landlord, or insurer asks.
Founder Arthur Haggerty is a CECS-certified specialist and a retained NFPA 96 expert witness. The same standard that gets examined after a fire is the standard we clean to every service.
For a commercial kitchen inside Madera city limits, the Madera Fire Department — operated in partnership between the City and Madera County — is your authority having jurisdiction, and your exhaust has to meet NFPA 96. (Kitchens in the unincorporated county and the foothills fall under Madera County Fire / CAL FIRE.) We clean to the standard and hand you the record before anyone asks.
Every commercial kitchen in Madera must comply with NFPA 96. Your fire authority — Madera 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 Madera kitchen falls into? We'll assess your operation and recommend the right schedule — no charge.
Tell us about your kitchen — number of hoods, cooking type, roof access. We scope the system, give you clear pricing, and schedule around your service, not ours.
Our IKECA member company assesses the full exhaust system, cleans hood to rooftop, and documents everything with photos and timestamps.
Photo-verified compliance documentation and a signed certificate the Madera Fire Department accepts. Hand it over with confidence.
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Cleaning Pros Plus handles fire safety on the hood. EvidLY identifies how Madera 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.
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.
