The only IKECA member company serving Oakhurst · CECS-certified
Oakhurst 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 your fire authority accepts — from the region’s only IKECA member company.
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Oakhurst sits in the Sierra Nevada foothills at roughly 2,300 feet — the southern gateway to Yosemite National Park on Highway 41. Its kitchens are shaped by park tourism: lodges, resort dining, and restaurants that ramp hard through the Yosemite season and run lean in the off-months. Seasonal or year-round, a busy kitchen builds grease on the NFPA 96 clock.
And it’s a mountain climate, not a valley one. Hot, dry summers accelerate grease buildup, then winter freeze-thaw cycles stress rooftop fan housings and ductwork joints — a combination valley kitchens never see. We clean the full system, not just what a rooftop rinse can reach.
Oakhurst’s kitchens run from the Highway 41 restaurant corridor to the resort and lodge dining around Bass Lake and the travel food service feeding Yosemite’s southern entrance.
Market context: the lodges and resort dining of the Yosemite gateway, Bass Lake recreation food service, and the restaurants serving park traffic all run kitchens that depend on inspection readiness — often with peak volume compressed into a few months. From a single-hood diner to a resort 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.
Oakhurst is an unincorporated community, so your authority having jurisdiction is Madera County Fire / CAL FIRE, which covers the county’s foothill communities — and your exhaust has to meet NFPA 96. We clean to the standard and hand you the record before anyone asks.
Every commercial kitchen in Oakhurst must comply with NFPA 96. Your fire authority — Madera County Fire / CAL FIRE — 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 Oakhurst 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 your fire authority accepts.
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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.
