An IKECA member company serving the Oakhurst market
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 an IKECA member company.
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Oakhurst sits at roughly 2,300 feet in the Sierra Nevada foothills, the southern gateway to Yosemite on Highway 41. Its kitchens live on park traffic: lodges, resort dining rooms and restaurants that run flat out through the Yosemite season and quietly the rest of the year.
The climate is a mountain one, and it works on an exhaust system from both directions. Hot dry summers drive grease deep into the duct, then winter freeze-thaw cycles work on fan housings and duct joints in a way no valley kitchen ever experiences. A system here ages faster than its service history suggests.
Kitchens run along the Highway 41 restaurant corridor, out to the resort and lodge dining around Bass Lake, and into the travel food service feeding Yosemite’s southern entrance.
Those operations share a problem the valley does not have: a year’s cooking compressed into a handful of months. Lodge kitchens, Bass Lake recreation dining and the restaurants serving park traffic all need to be inspection-ready during the season, which is exactly when nobody has the time to arrange it.
Hood and baffles, plenum, the duct along its run, and the rooftop fan lifted so blades, housing and the curb beneath get proper attention rather than a pass with a hose.
Foothill roofs add their own difficulty — pitch, snow load, and joints that have been through freeze-thaw. We inspect duct joints and fan housing condition as part of the clean, open what access exists, and price a panel where a section is sealed. Belts, bearings and airflow are logged while the unit is apart.
Contractors driving up from the valley tend to treat an Oakhurst kitchen like a valley kitchen. The building, the roof and the season all behave differently up here, and a cleaning that ignores that leaves the duct joints nobody checked.
It ties us to a documented process and to evidencing each job against NFPA 96, which matters more when services are months apart.
Baffles through to curb are worked by hand and foam, because a summer of hard cooking leaves deposits water will not shift.
A signed certificate and dated photographs, sealed in EvidLY so a record made in season is still there out of it.
PECT Designated Technicians on the roof, and a founder holding the CECS who has been retained as an NFPA 96 expert witness.
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.
Hoods, cooking type, and how the roof is reached in winter as well as summer. Scope and price come back before booking.
Baffles, plenum, duct, fan and curb, with photographs taken as each part is finished.
Duct joints, fan housing, belts, bearings and airflow are all assessed while access is open.
Certificate and photo report issued and sealed in EvidLY, ready long before the next inspection.
We hold IKECA Membership ID 76716495, and only PECT Designated Technicians work the systems we service. Arthur Haggerty founded the company, holds CECS #200452, and has been retained as an NFPA 96 expert witness. Oakhurst jobs are sealed in EvidLY, so a certificate issued in July is still to hand when an inspection lands in February.
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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.
