An IKECA member company serving the Visalia market
Visalia 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 Visalia Fire Department accepts — from an IKECA member company.
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Visalia is the seat of Tulare County and the largest city between Fresno and Bakersfield, the staging point for anyone heading up Highway 198 toward Sequoia and Kings Canyon. Restaurant, hotel, campus and hospital kitchens all operate here, and every one of them loads a duct.
Heat handles the rest. Summer runs well beyond 100°F, which keeps rooftop fans labouring, shortens belt life, and thins deposits until they migrate past the plenum into the run itself. Agricultural dust off the surrounding county packs filters between services.
Kitchens run from the walkable downtown restaurant core and the Mooney Boulevard commercial corridor to the hotel and travel food service along the Highway 198 route to Sequoia, plus the healthcare and institutional dining a regional hub of this size carries.
Kaweah Health Medical Center, College of the Sequoias, Visalia Unified and the hotel and restaurant operations serving park visitors all run kitchens where inspection readiness is not optional. From one downtown hood to a hospital line, the scope holds: the full exhaust system, cleaned to NFPA 96 standards and documented to code.
Hood interior and baffles, the plenum, the duct along its full length, and the rooftop fan taken off its curb so blades, housing and the deck below are cleaned rather than sprayed past.
Downtown’s older storefronts carry the long flat runs, while the Mooney Boulevard and Packwood Creek pads are newer and shorter. On either, an unreachable midsection earns a quoted access panel instead of an assumption. Fan belts, bearings and airflow are checked while the unit is open.
Most of what is sold as hood cleaning in this county amounts to a rinse and a receipt. An inspector does not examine where the water reached; they examine where it did not.
IKECA membership ties us to a documented approach and to proving each job against NFPA 96, rather than asking you to take the outcome on trust.
Mechanical and foam cleaning through baffles, plenum, duct, fan and curb — not a pressure wash pointed down a riser and called finished.
A signed certificate and dated photographs, sealed in EvidLY so the record is present when the Fire Marshal’s office asks for it.
Arthur Haggerty founded the company, holds the CECS, and has been retained as an NFPA 96 expert witness. The standard used to judge a fire is the one we clean to.
For a commercial kitchen inside Visalia city limits, the Visalia Fire Department is your authority having jurisdiction — it runs its own fire prevention, fire code enforcement, and Fire Marshal’s office — and your exhaust has to meet NFPA 96. We clean to the standard and hand you the record before anyone asks.
Hoods, cooking type, roof access. We scope the system and put a price against it up front.
The entire run is worked through, with photographs recorded as the job progresses rather than assembled afterwards.
With the unit lifted we assess belts, bearings and airflow, so wear turns up on a service visit instead of a Friday night.
Certificate and photo report land in EvidLY, retrievable the moment an inspector, insurer or landlord asks.
Cleaning Pros Plus holds IKECA Membership ID 76716495 and staffs jobs with PECT Designated Technicians. Founder Arthur Haggerty carries CECS #200452 and has been retained as an NFPA 96 expert witness. Visalia services are sealed in EvidLY, which keeps certificate and photographs together instead of scattered across an email thread.
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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.