The only IKECA member company serving Sacramento · CECS-certified
Sacramento 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 Sacramento Fire Department accepts — from the region’s only IKECA member company.
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Sacramento is California’s capital and America’s Farm-to-Fork Capital — a city with one of the densest, most celebrated restaurant scenes in the state, from the Midtown grid and K Street to Old Sacramento and the riverfront, layered on top of massive government and institutional food service. That’s an enormous concentration of high-volume kitchens, and they build grease on the NFPA 96 clock.
And it’s Sacramento Valley heat. Summers routinely push past 100°F — the Delta breeze helps in the evening, but the daytime load still lands hard on rooftop exhaust fans: motors and bearings run hotter, belts wear faster, and grease softens and re-flows deeper into the ductwork. Valley dust settles into the filters. We clean the full system, not just what a rooftop rinse can reach.
Sacramento’s kitchens run from the dense Midtown grid and the downtown and K Street corridors to Old Sacramento, the R Street district, and the riverfront — one of the most celebrated farm-to-fork restaurant scenes in the country — plus the enormous institutional and government food service that comes with being the state capital.
Market context, not client claims: the State Capitol and government food service, UC Davis Medical Center, Sacramento City Unified, and the Golden 1 Center and convention-center kitchens all run high-volume operations that live and die by inspection readiness. From a single-hood Midtown cafe to a downtown arena 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 the City of Sacramento, the Sacramento Fire Department is your authority having jurisdiction — its fire prevention division handles plan review, permits, and California Fire Code enforcement — and your exhaust has to meet NFPA 96. (Kitchens in unincorporated Sacramento County fall under the Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District.) We clean to the standard and hand you the record before anyone asks.
Every commercial kitchen in Sacramento must comply with NFPA 96. Your fire authority — Sacramento 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 Sacramento 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 Sacramento Fire Department accepts. Hand it over with confidence.
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Cleaning Pros Plus handles fire safety on the hood. EvidLY identifies how Sacramento 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.
