An IKECA member company serving the Merced market
Full-system Hood Cleaning for Merced restaurants and commercial kitchens — hood, ductwork, and fan cleaned to NFPA 96 Standards, with a Report of Service and a Certificate of Service on every job.
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Merced sits in the middle of farm country, and its kitchens carry the consequences. Dust off the fields and orchards rides the summer air and settles into rooftop fan housings, where it binds with grease vapor into a deposit that behaves more like a crust than a film. Tule fog through the winter keeps roofs damp for weeks, so grease on a curb stays put and works into the membrane rather than drying. Between them, the fan takes more punishment here than the hood does. Downtown Main Street storefronts and the older buildings near the fairgrounds run duct chases with few openings, while the newer pads out toward Campus Parkway and the highway sit under short, straight runs.
A Merced hood cleaning covers everything from the cook line to the curb, with the rooftop unit getting the time it needs. Access 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 properly. Field dust bakes onto blades here in a way that a rinse will not touch, so it gets brushed, and belt tension, bearing play and airflow are recorded in the report every visit rather than only when something has already gone wrong. Curb grease is contained so winter damp does not carry it into the roof. You get dated photographs of every accessible surface and a report naming what was cleaned and anything that could not be reached.
Merced is the base we work from, and we know its kitchens. Downtown along Main and Canal, the Olive Avenue and R Street corridors, the retail pads near the Merced Mall and along Highway 99, campus dining at UC Merced and Merced College, the hospital kitchens at Mercy Medical Center, and the school kitchens across Merced City and Merced Union High districts.
This is our home county, and most Merced kitchens switch to us because response time stops being a problem. A missed access panel or a belt does not wait on a route through town. The company behind that is an IKECA member, Membership ID 76716495, sending PECT Designated Technicians to every job, founded by a CECS holder (#200452) who has been retained as an NFPA 96 expert witness. What the Merced City Fire Department sees is a written report and a certificate from every visit, sealed in EvidLY the day it is issued.
For a commercial kitchen inside Merced city limits, the Merced City Fire Department is your authority having jurisdiction — its Community Risk Reduction division handles the life-safety inspections of commercial buildings, and your kitchen exhaust system has to meet NFPA 96, so when they ask for your cleaning records you need to have them.
Kitchens in the unincorporated areas around the city fall under Merced County Fire / CAL FIRE. We clean to the standard and hand you the record before anyone asks for it.
Frequency follows what you cook. NFPA 96 sorts it into four bands — solid-fuel grills at the top, then high-volume, then moderate and low. Match your Merced kitchen to the table.
| 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 Merced kitchen falls into? We'll assess your operation and recommend the right schedule.
Tell us when the line goes cold. We are based here, so a Merced job does not have to wait for a route to come through town.
The technician photographs the hood, the run and the rooftop unit before anything is touched, checks panels, blade loading, belt and bearings, and confirms the interval your cooking calls for.
Hood and plenum, the duct along its length, then the fan housing, blades and curb. Baked-on field dust is brushed off, not rinsed and left to unbalance the wheel.
Dated photographs, a written NFPA 96 inspection report, and a certificate, sealed the day of service so it is fixed and retrievable long after the truck leaves.
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This is our home county, and it is where most of our work is performed. Cleaning Pros Plus is an IKECA member company, the technicians hold PECT Designated status, and the founder holds the CECS and has been retained as an NFPA 96 expert witness. Every Merced Report of Service and Certificate of Service is sealed in EvidLY on the day of service, so the record cannot be changed, misplaced or backdated afterwards.
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.
