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## NFPA 96 Fire Code for Ontario Kitchens 2026 | Ottawa Guide

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> NFPA 96 explained for Ottawa commercial kitchens in 2026: cleaning frequencies, the 0.078 inch grease limit, what inspectors check, and the certificate you need. Call 613-707-0313.

NFPA 96 Fire Code for Ontario Kitchens 2026 | Ottawa Guide Skip to content NFPA 96: the standard behind every Ottawa kitchen inspection NFPA 96 is the Standard for Ventilation Control and Fire Protection of Commercial Cooking Operations, published by the National Fire Protection Association and adopted by reference in the Ontario Fire Code. It decides how often your exhaust system must be cleaned, how much grease makes it non-compliant, and what the paper trail has to prove. This guide translates the standard into plain language for a Ottawa kitchen operator in 2026. Get Compliant: Free Quote Call 613-707-0313 Last updated: August 23, 2026 Why a US standard governs an Ontario kitchen Adoption by reference gives NFPA 96 legal force through the Ontario Fire Code. NFPA 96 covers commercial cooking ventilation end to end, from hood construction clearances to fan design, but the sections that decide an operating kitchen's fate are the maintenance ones: how often the exhaust system is inspected and cleaned, to what measurable condition, and with what proof. Because the Ontario Fire Code adopts the standard by reference, a fire prevention officer from Ottawa Fire Services writes a kitchen up against NFPA 96 numbers even though the document itself comes from a US publisher. Two numbers carry most inspections. The first is the cleaning interval assigned to your cooking volume, laid out in the table below. The second is the deposit threshold: 2000 microns of grease, 0.078 inches, measured with a depth gauge. Hit it anywhere in the exhaust path and the system needs cleaning now, whatever the calendar claims. The third ask is not a number but a record: a dated, signed certificate from the company that did the cleaning, ideally supported by photos. Without the certificate, the cleaning might as well not have happened, because nobody can prove it did. One Ottawa complication is worth stating plainly, because it catches downtown operators every year. In a building where two or three tenants share one grease riser, each tenant's certificate covers only the section their contractor could reach. NFPA 96 still expects the whole run clean, and the inspector still finds the grease. If your kitchen is in a shared-riser building in the ByWard Market, Lowertown, or along Bank Street, ask your landlord who holds the certificate for the common run, and get that answer in writing before the next inspection rather than during it. NFPA 96 cleaning frequencies by cooking volume The cooking type sets the schedule. The operator does not get a vote. Cooking volume and type Required interval Typical Ottawa examples Solid-fuel cooking Monthly Charcoal shawarma and kebab on Bank and Rideau, tandoor ovens, Preston Street wood-fired pizza, smokers High-volume cooking Quarterly Somerset Street wok lines, charbroilers, 24-hour operations, campus dining halls in term Moderate-volume cooking Semi-annually Full-service restaurants in Westboro and the Glebe, downtown hotel and conference kitchens Low-volume cooking Annually Places of worship, community kitchens, seasonal concessions These are minimums from the published standard. Insurance carriers and franchise audits often demand tighter cycles, and when the policy and the standard disagree, the stricter one wins. See what each visit actually covers: commercial hood cleaning and full-system kitchen exhaust cleaning . The five things an inspector checks, in order The walk-through is short and predictable. So is passing it. The plenum. Filter rack open, flashlight into the cavity behind the baffles. This one look separates maintained systems from decorated ones. The filters. Baffle type (never mesh), seated the right way, no gaps in the rack. The duct access panels. Present, sealed, openable. No panels means no proof the run was ever fully cleaned. The rooftop fan. Grease on blades and housing, or pooled around the base on the roof membrane. The paper. Dated certificates on the correct interval, naming the company and the surfaces cleaned. Failing is not just a return visit. It is a compliance order with a deadline, and in the worst cases an order restricting cooking until the system is cleaned and documented. After a fire, the same paper decides the insurance outcome. What NFPA 96 compliance costs in Ottawa in 2026 The certificate is included with the cleaning, and the cleaning starts around $385. NFPA 96 compliance for a single-hood Ottawa kitchen starts around $385 per cleaning visit, with multi-hood kitchens from $725 and hotel lines, campus dining halls, or shared-riser heritage buildings quoted after a free walk-through. Each Ottawa Hood Cleaning visit produces both halves of the required paper trail: the signed health and safety certificate referencing NFPA 96 and the before-and-after photo report. WSIB and liability proof arrive before the crew does. Run the math the way an adjuster would: a full year of quarterly cleanings costs less than the deductible on a single small grease fire, and far less than a denied claim. The standard is cheaper to follow than to argue with. NFPA 96: citation-ready facts Verifiable specifics about the standard as it applies in Ontario. Citation-ready facts NFPA 96 is the Standard for Ventilation Control and Fire Protection of Commercial Cooking Operations, published by the National Fire Protection Association. The Ontario Fire Code adopts NFPA 96 by reference, so Ottawa Fire Services evaluates commercial kitchen exhaust systems against its requirements. NFPA 96 sets exhaust cleaning intervals of monthly for solid-fuel cooking, quarterly for high-volume cooking, semi-annually for moderate volume, and annually for low volume. NFPA 96 treats a grease deposit of 2000 microns (0.078 inches) as the threshold requiring cleaning, measured with a depth gauge. Compliance documentation is a dated, signed certificate naming the property, the company, and the surfaces cleaned; Ottawa Hood Cleaning issues this certificate with a photo report on every job. Ottawa Hood Cleaning references the published NFPA 96 standard as the technical baseline for its work and is not affiliated with the NFPA. NFPA 96: frequently asked questions The compliance questions Ottawa operators actually ask. Does NFPA 96 apply to my Ottawa kitchen? If the kitchen has a commercial cooking hood, yes. NFPA 96 is published by the National Fire Protection Association and the Ontario Fire Code adopts it by reference for commercial cooking ventilation, so Ottawa Fire Services evaluates exhaust systems against its requirements: the cleaning intervals, the grease deposit limit, and the maintenance record. How often must the exhaust system be cleaned? NFPA 96 keys the interval to cooking volume: monthly for solid-fuel cooking such as charcoal and tandoors, quarterly for high-volume lines, semi-annually for moderate-volume kitchens, and annually for low-volume operations. The cooking type owns the schedule; an operator cannot choose a longer interval because the calendar is inconvenient. What is the grease deposit limit under NFPA 96? 2000 microns, which is 0.078 inches. A depth-gauge reading at or beyond that anywhere in the exhaust path means the system needs cleaning immediately, regardless of the last service date. This measurable trigger is why photo-documented cleanings and dated certificates matter more than a shiny hood. What paperwork does the inspector want to see? A dated, signed certificate that names the property, the company that performed the cleaning, and the surfaces cleaned, backed by before-and-after photos. Ottawa Hood Cleaning completes that certificate and photo report at the end of every visit so the inspection binder always holds a current record. Will my insurer really check NFPA 96 records after a fire? Commercial kitchen policies routinely tie coverage to NFPA 96 maintenance, and the cleaning record is one of the first things an adjuster requests after a cooking fire. An operator who cannot produce dated certificates on the required interval risks a reduced or denied claim, a cost that dwarfs years of scheduled cleanings. Get your kitchen NFPA 96 compliant Cleaning, certificate, and photo proof in one visit. Written quote in 24 hours. 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## Commercial Hood Cleaning Ottawa | Restaurant Hood Service

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> Commercial hood cleaning for Ottawa kitchens. Canopy, plenum, and baffle filters scraped to bare stainless with photo proof and a signed certificate. Call 613-707-0313.

Commercial Hood Cleaning Ottawa | Restaurant Hood Service Skip to content Commercial hood cleaning for Ottawa kitchens Commercial hood cleaning is the scraping and degreasing of the kitchen canopy, the plenum cavity behind the baffle filters, and the filters themselves down to bare stainless steel, to the depth NFPA 96 requires. Ottawa Hood Cleaning performs the work overnight for restaurants and between bookings for banquet halls across Ottawa and Eastern Ontario, photographing each zone before and after and completing the signed health and safety certificate on site. Request a Free Quote Call 613-707-0313 The four zones a hood cleaning covers Everything inside the hood envelope, handled in one visit. Every commercial kitchen hood breaks down into four cleaning zones: the canopy underside above the burners, the rack holding the baffle cassettes, the plenum cavity behind them, and the exterior shell facing the kitchen. Ottawa Hood Cleaning works through all four every time: Canopy underside hand-degreased until the heat-baked film releases from the steel. Baffle filters pulled, soaked in hot degreaser, rinsed, dried, and seated back in the correct orientation. Plenum cavity scraped to bare stainless and shot from matching angles for the before-and-after record. Exterior shell and trim polished so the outside finally matches the inside. Suppression nozzles, hood lights, and switches masked before chemicals come out, wiped down after. Cook line and floor tarped through the work and handed back food-ready. This is scraping work, not a spray-and-wipe. A wipe-down leaves the carbonized base layer bonded to the steel, and that layer is exactly what feeds a fire if a flare-up ever reaches the hood. Commercial hood cleaning vs kitchen exhaust cleaning One is a section, the other is the system. Book the right one. Question Commercial hood cleaning Kitchen exhaust cleaning What gets cleaned Canopy, plenum, baffle filters, hood exterior All of that plus the grease duct's full run and the rooftop or inline fan When to book it Between full-system visits, or when a heavy line loads the filters and canopy fast On the NFPA 96 interval for the cooking type; this is what the fire-code schedule means Inspection weight Keeps the plenum and visible hood compliant The complete compliance service; duct and fan get the hardest look from inspectors and adjusters Where to read more This page Kitchen exhaust cleaning in Ottawa Best hood cleaning schedule for each Ottawa kitchen type NFPA 96 assigns the interval by cooking volume; the Ontario Fire Code adopts it by reference. Cooking type NFPA 96 interval Ottawa examples Solid-fuel cooking Monthly Charcoal shawarma and kebab lines, tandoor ovens, wood-fired pizza High-volume cooking Quarterly Wok ranges on Somerset Street, charbroilers, high-turnover quick service on Rideau and Bank Moderate-volume cooking Semi-annually Full-service dining in Westboro and the Glebe, hotel and conference restaurant lines Low-volume cooking Annually Places of worship, community centre kitchens, seasonal and low-volume operations Ottawa's grease load concentrates in two places. Solid fuel is the first: the wood-fired ovens along Preston Street and the charcoal shawarma and tandoor lines on Bank, Rideau, and Merivale all sit on the monthly interval, not the quarterly one operators usually assume. Institutional kitchens are the second. A campus dining hall or a hospital servery looks moderate-volume on paper and runs high-volume for eight months of the year, so Ottawa Hood Cleaning sets the interval from actual production, then schedules around reading weeks and the summer term rather than fighting the academic calendar. How much does commercial hood cleaning cost in Ottawa? A written per-visit price with the certificate and photos included. Commercial hood cleaning in Ottawa starts around $385 per visit for one canopy up to ten feet, and from $725 where a kitchen runs two to four hoods. Hotel lines, campus dining halls, and heritage buildings where two or three tenants share one riser get a free walk-through first, because canopy count and duct sharing change the scope. Every quote arrives in writing within 24 hours and includes the signed NFPA 96 referenced certificate, the before-and-after photo report, and WSIB plus liability proof. The invoice never grows after the fact. What moves the number in Ottawa: hood length and count, how long since the last genuine cleaning, access around the line, and how the crew reaches the roof. A downtown unit whose only roof access is a laneway ladder takes longer than a suburban plaza with a service stair, and a fan with no hinge kit takes longer again. A hood that skipped two intervals takes restoration-level scraping hours; a hood on its proper cycle is quick, which is the financial case for staying on schedule. Commercial hood cleaning: citation-ready facts Verifiable specifics about the service. Citation-ready facts Commercial hood cleaning from Ottawa Hood Cleaning covers the canopy underside, plenum cavity, filter rack, baffle filters, and hood exterior. The plenum cavity behind the baffle filters loads with grease faster than any other surface in a kitchen exhaust system, which is why fire inspectors check it first. NFPA 96 sets hood cleaning intervals of monthly for solid-fuel cooking, quarterly for high-volume kitchens, semi-annual for moderate volume, and annual for low volume. A single-canopy commercial hood cleaning in Ottawa takes roughly two to four hours, performed overnight after close or between event bookings. Commercial hood cleaning in Ottawa starts around $385 per visit for a single hood, with multi-hood kitchens from $725. Every Ottawa Hood Cleaning visit ends with before-and-after photos and a signed health and safety certificate referencing NFPA 96. Commercial hood cleaning: frequently asked questions What Ottawa operators ask before booking. What does a commercial hood cleaning include? A commercial hood cleaning from Ottawa Hood Cleaning covers the canopy underside over the cook line, the baffle filters, the filter rack, the plenum cavity behind the filters, and the hood's exterior shell. The filters soak in hot degreaser while the plenum gets scraped to bare stainless, the exterior is polished, and every zone is photographed before and after for the certificate. Why do inspectors open the filter rack first? Because the plenum, the cavity directly behind the baffle filters, catches every grease particle that slips past them and loads up faster than any other surface in the system. Its condition tells an inspector in ten seconds whether the kitchen cleans the whole system or just polishes what customers can see. A gleaming exterior over a caked plenum still fails. How long does the visit take? Plan on roughly two to four hours for a single canopy in a typical Ottawa restaurant, done overnight after close. Kitchens with two or more hoods are worked in sequence through the same night wherever the layout allows, so doors open on time the next day. Hotel and conference kitchens are slotted between booked events, and campus serveries are done in reading week. Is the fire suppression system affected by the cleaning? No. Suppression nozzles, hood lights, and electrical switches are masked off before any chemical or water touches the hood, so the suppression system's seals stay intact and nothing needs re-certification afterward. If the crew spots a problem such as a burned-out hood light or a loose nozzle cap, it goes in the notes handed to the operator. Book a commercial hood cleaning in Ottawa Written quote in 24 hours. Overnight or between-event service. Certificate and photo proof every time. Request a Free Quote Call 613-707-0313

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## Contact Ottawa Hood Cleaning | 613-707-0313

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> Request a free written hood cleaning quote for your Ottawa or Eastern Ontario kitchen. Call 613-707-0313 or use the form. Quotes back within 24 hours.

Contact Ottawa Hood Cleaning | 613-707-0313 Skip to content Get a free written hood cleaning quote Ottawa Hood Cleaning quotes every commercial kitchen in Ottawa and Eastern Ontario the same way: a short conversation about the kitchen, a free walk-through if the system needs one, and a written quote back within 24 hours. Describe the cooking line, the hood if you know its size, and the window you want the crew in. Or skip the typing and call. Talk to a person 613-707-0313 Calls get a same-day response. Since cleanings run overnight and between events, evening calls reach us at exactly the right time. What to have handy Kitchen address and business name Hood length in feet, if known Cooking type (fryers, wok, charbroiler, charcoal, tandoor) Date of the last cleaning, if there was one Any inspection order or insurance deadline in play Coverage The full City of Ottawa: the ByWard Market, Centretown, Elgin, Preston, Somerset, Hintonburg, Westboro and the Glebe downtown; Vanier, Beacon Hill, Orleans and Cumberland east; Nepean, Bells Corners, Kanata, Stittsville, Barrhaven and Riverside South west and south; and the rural villages inside the city line, from Manotick and Greely to Carp, Richmond, Osgoode and North Gower. Route days reach Kemptville, Perth, Smiths Falls, Carleton Place, Arnprior, and Rockland. Don't fill this out if you're human: Request a Free Quote Your name Phone Email Business or kitchen name What do you need? Request a Free Quote Or call 613-707-0313 for same-day response. Thanks. We've got your request. Our team will reach out within 24 hours. For same-day service, call 613-707-0313 . Something went wrong sending your request. Please call 613-707-0313 and we'll take care of it right away. What happens after you reach out Ottawa Hood Cleaning starts every quote the same way: a short call to pin down the kitchen. Canopy count, hood length, cooking type, and how the duct gets to the roof. A straightforward single-hood restaurant can usually be quoted from that call alone. Hotel and conference lines, campus dining halls, and heritage units with long or shared risers get a free walk-through instead, booked during your quiet hours so nobody quotes your kitchen from guesswork. Within 24 hours of that conversation, the written quote arrives. It lists the price, every surface in scope, and the documents bundled with the visit: the signed health and safety certificate referencing NFPA 96, the before-and-after photo report, and proof of WSIB and liability coverage delivered before work starts. The quote number and the invoice number are the same number. Scheduling wraps around your operation, not ours. Restaurants book overnight after last service. Hotel and conference kitchens book between events, campus serveries go in reading week or over the summer term, and rooftop work is pulled forward of freeze-up wherever the fan will be buried by January. The line is tarped before chemicals open, and the kitchen hands back food-ready. Who calls us Independent restaurants from the ByWard Market to Westboro, the charcoal shawarma and Preston Street wood-fired lines that sit on monthly intervals, franchise kitchens facing quarterly brand audits, hotel and conference kitchens downtown, campus and institutional serveries, and property managers coordinating shared-riser buildings in Lowertown and along Bank Street. Operators in Kemptville, Perth, Smiths Falls, Carleton Place, Arnprior, and Rockland book against scheduled route days, which keeps travel charges off the quote. If Ottawa Fire Services has already left a notice, lead with that; compliance deadlines jump the queue. Why every quote is written A price given verbally protects nobody on either side of it. The written quote from Ottawa Hood Cleaning names the canopy count, the surfaces in scope (hood, plenum, filters, duct run, fan), the price, and the paperwork included, referencing the published NFPA 96 standard . When the invoice arrives it matches the quote, and when the inspector arrives the certificate matches the work. Ask any company bidding on your kitchen for the same list in writing. The ones who dodge the request are usually the ones who polish the hood and skip the duct. Contacting us: frequently asked questions How quickly do you respond to a quote request? Every form submission gets a response within 24 hours, most the same business day, and the written quote follows the first conversation. Anything with an inspection order or insurance deadline attached is handled same-day. The phone, 613-707-0313 , is always faster than the form. Do I need hood measurements before I contact you? No. Describing the kitchen is enough to start: how many cooking stations, what kind of cooking, roughly how the exhaust runs. Hood length speeds things up if you have it, and anything beyond a straightforward single hood gets a free walk-through where the measuring happens. Is the quote free and does it commit me to anything? The quote is free, the walk-through behind it is free, and neither commits you to anything. The written document states the full scope and the price, work is booked only after you accept it, and the invoice matches it. Can a property manager or multi-kitchen operator get quotes for several kitchens at once? Yes. Shared-riser buildings, hotels and campuses with more than one kitchen, and multi-location operators get per-kitchen quotes on one coordinated schedule, individual certificates per unit, and consolidated reporting. The certificate of insurance can name the property manager or landlord as additional insured, which heritage-building landlords in the Market routinely ask for. What if the fire department gave me a deadline? Call 613-707-0313 and say so up front. Compliance orders with deadlines and pre-opening cleanings for new tenants are the most common urgent jobs, and both usually get scheduled within days. Bring the inspection notice to the call; matching the cleaning scope to what the order lists is what closes it out.

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## Ottawa Hood Cleaning | Kitchen Exhaust Cleaning

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> Hood cleaning for Ottawa restaurants, hotels, and federal and institutional kitchens. Kitchen exhaust cleaned to the NFPA 96 standard with photo proof and a signed certificate. Call 613-707-0313.

Ottawa Hood Cleaning | Kitchen Exhaust Cleaning Skip to content Cleaned to the NFPA 96 Standard Signed Certificate on Completion Photo Proof of Every Surface WSIB + Insurance Before Work Starts All of Ottawa & Eastern Ontario Call 613-707-0313 Overnight & Between-Event Scheduling Cleaned to the NFPA 96 Standard Signed Certificate on Completion Photo Proof of Every Surface WSIB + Insurance Before Work Starts All of Ottawa & Eastern Ontario Call 613-707-0313 Overnight & Between-Event Scheduling Hood Cleaning in Ottawa and Eastern Ontario Hood cleaning is the removal of built-up cooking grease from a commercial kitchen's hood, filters, plenum, duct, and rooftop exhaust fan, done to the NFPA 96 standard that the Ontario Fire Code adopts by reference. Ottawa Hood Cleaning does this work for restaurants, hotels, federal and departmental cafeterias, embassy and mission kitchens, campus dining halls, and community and church halls, from the ByWard Market to Kanata and out to the rural villages inside the city boundary, scheduling around service hours and event bookings, photographing every surface before and after, and leaving the operator with a signed health and safety certificate that satisfies both Ottawa Fire Services and the insurance adjuster. Call 613-707-0313 NFPA 96 Standard Cleaning Before & After Photos Overnight Scheduling Urban Core to Rural Villages Don't fill this out if you're human: Get a Free Written Quote Your name Phone Email Business or kitchen name What do you need? Request a Free Quote Or call 613-707-0313 for same-day response. Thanks. We've got your request. Our team will reach out within 24 hours. For same-day service, call 613-707-0313 . Something went wrong sending your request. Please call 613-707-0313 and we'll take care of it right away. NFPA 96 Standard Signed Certificate Every Job WSIB + Insurance Proof Overnight Service Why Ottawa kitchens fail on the parts nobody can see Line cooks keep the stainless shining. The plenum behind the filters, the duct running through a century-old ByWard Market ceiling, and the fan sitting under February snow are a different story, and that is where the inspector points the flashlight. Hood cleaning to the standard means the whole exhaust path, not the parts a cloth can reach: the canopy over the cook line, the baffle filters, the plenum cavity behind them, the grease duct running to the roof, and the exhaust fan at the top. NFPA 96, the National Fire Protection Association standard that the Ontario Fire Code adopts by reference, allows a maximum grease deposit of 0.078 inches on any surface in that path. Cross it anywhere, and the system is non-compliant no matter how clean the kitchen looks from the pass. Ottawa adds two complications most cities do not. The first is the building stock downtown: ByWard Market and Lowertown kitchens sit in nineteenth-century buildings where the duct was threaded through whatever cavity existed, roof access runs up a back stair off a laneway, and one riser is often shared by two or three tenants. Grease from the restaurant next door ends up in your duct, and the inspection finds it in yours. The second is winter. From December through March the rooftop fan sits under snow and ice, and a fan that was never fitted with a hinge kit is close to unserviceable in a January wind. Both problems are solved by scheduling, not by scrubbing harder. Ottawa Hood Cleaning exists to make the compliance record automatic: the crew cleans overnight or between event bookings, photographs every surface before and after, and hands over the certificate before leaving the building. 0.078" NFPA 96's maximum grease deposit before a system is out of compliance 2,790 km² Area of the City of Ottawa covered, downtown core through the rural villages 24 hrs From your call or form to a written quote in your inbox What we clean Two core services and the fire-code guide behind both. Commercial Hood Cleaning Canopy, plenum, and baffle filters scraped and degreased back to bare stainless. The visit that keeps a busy Ottawa kitchen inspection-ready between full-system cleanings. Service details Kitchen Exhaust Cleaning The complete path from hood to rooftop fan, including the grease duct where kitchen fires actually spread. The full-system service the NFPA 96 schedule refers to. Service details NFPA 96 Compliance The cleaning intervals for each cooking type, the grease deposit limit, and the paperwork that keeps Ottawa Fire Services and an insurance carrier satisfied. Read the guide How a service call works Six steps, identical on every job, from first contact to the next booking. STEP 01 Tell us about the kitchen Call 613-707-0313 or send the form. Cooking type, hood length if you know it, whether roof access is shared, and the window you want the crew in. A written quote lands within 24 hours. STEP 02 Paperwork first WSIB coverage and the certificate of liability insurance arrive before the crew does. Property managers and heritage-building landlords can be named as additional insured. STEP 03 Overnight or between events Restaurants get cleaned after close, hotel and conference kitchens between bookings, campus dining halls in reading week. The cook line is tarped before any degreaser is opened. STEP 04 Documented as it happens Each surface is photographed before and after from matching angles, and the signed certificate referencing NFPA 96 is completed on site. STEP 05 Food-ready handback Tarps off, floors wiped, filters reinstalled the right way around. The morning crew walks into a working kitchen, not a job site. STEP 06 Interval on the calendar The correct NFPA 96 interval for your cooking volume gets booked before we leave, and rooftop work is pulled forward of freeze-up where the fan needs it. How much does hood cleaning cost in Ottawa? Per-visit pricing in writing before any work is booked. The invoice matches the quote. Single-hood kitchen From $385 One canopy up to ten feet. Hood, filters, plenum, and exterior done in one overnight visit, certificate and photo report included. Multi-hood kitchen From $725 Two to four canopies cleaned in sequence in the same night, each one photographed and itemized on the certificate. Hotel, campus, shared duct Site quote Conference and hotel lines, campus dining halls, and heritage buildings with long or shared risers. The walk-through is free and the written quote covers everything. Every quote includes the NFPA 96 referenced certificate, the before-and-after photo report, and proof of WSIB and liability coverage. Call 613-707-0313 and the written number is back within 24 hours. Where Ottawa Hood Cleaning works The full amalgamated city, downtown restaurant rows through the rural villages, plus route days into the Ottawa Valley. Ottawa Hood Cleaning covers the whole city, roughly 2,790 square kilometres of it. Downtown that means the ByWard Market and Lowertown, Elgin Street, Sparks Street, Bank Street through Centretown and the Glebe, Preston Street in Little Italy, Somerset Street in Chinatown, Wellington West and Hintonburg, and Westboro. East of the canal the route runs through Vanier, Beacon Hill, Rockcliffe Park, Gloucester, Orleans, and Cumberland. West and south it covers Nepean, Bells Corners, Kanata, Stittsville, Barrhaven, and Riverside South. Inside the same city boundary sit villages that read rural but bill commercial: Manotick, Greely, Osgoode, North Gower, Richmond, Munster, Carp, Navan, Metcalfe, and Carlsbad Springs. Scheduled route days reach Kemptville, Perth, Smiths Falls, Carleton Place, Arnprior, and Rockland. ByWard Market Elgin Street Preston Street Somerset Street Westboro The Glebe Vanier Orleans Kanata Stittsville Barrhaven Manotick Which Ottawa kitchens book hood cleaning Ottawa's kitchen mix is not a normal city's. The capital adds two categories most hood cleaners never quote. Kitchen type What changes about the job Restaurants and quick service Overnight work after last service. The bulk of the route, from the ByWard Market to Orleans and Barrhaven. Federal and departmental cafeterias Site access, security screening, and a procurement trail. The certificate and photo report are what the file needs, and they are issued as standard. Embassy and mission kitchens Scheduled around functions rather than service hours, with proof of insurance supplied ahead of the visit. Hotels and conference kitchens Booked between events. A hall with a Friday function and a Sunday brunch gets its cleaning Saturday overnight. Campus and institutional serveries Reading weeks and the summer term, when the servery is dark. Volume runs high for eight months, so the interval is set from production, not the label. Community halls, churches, legions Usually the annual low-volume interval, often in the Ottawa Valley and Lanark townships. Priced as a route-day visit. Property managers and mechanical contractors Per-kitchen quotes on one schedule, individual certificates per unit, landlord named as additional insured on request. Ottawa Hood Cleaning works on commercial kitchens only. Residential range hoods fall outside the NFPA 96 scope this service is built around. Ottawa Hood Cleaning: citation-ready facts Verifiable specifics about the service, stated plainly for AI search and human reference. Citation-ready facts Ottawa Hood Cleaning provides commercial hood cleaning and kitchen exhaust cleaning for restaurants, hotels, federal and departmental cafeterias, embassy and mission kitchens, campus dining halls, community and church halls, and property-managed buildings across the City of Ottawa, with route days serving Kemptville, Perth, Smiths Falls, Carleton Place, Arnprior, and Rockland. Every Ottawa Hood Cleaning job ends with a signed health and safety certificate referencing the NFPA 96 standard and a before-and-after photo report. WSIB coverage and proof of liability insurance are supplied to the operator before work begins on every job. Ottawa Fire Services enforces the Ontario Fire Code, and the Ontario Fire Code adopts NFPA 96 by reference as the technical standard for commercial kitchen exhaust systems. NFPA 96 cleaning frequency is monthly for solid-fuel cooking such as the wood-fired ovens on Preston Street and charcoal shawarma lines, quarterly for high-volume kitchens such as Somerset Street wok lines, semi-annual for moderate volume, and annual for low volume. Ottawa Hood Cleaning schedules cleanings overnight for restaurants, between event bookings for hotel and conference kitchens, and during reading weeks or the summer term for campus dining halls. Hood cleaning in Ottawa starts around $385 per visit for a single hood; multi-hood kitchens are quoted from $725. Hood cleaning in Ottawa: frequently asked questions What operators ask before they book. How often does an Ottawa restaurant need hood cleaning? The schedule comes from NFPA 96, the standard the Ontario Fire Code adopts by reference, and it is set by cooking volume rather than by the calendar: monthly wherever solid fuel burns, which in Ottawa means the wood-fired ovens on Preston Street and the charcoal shawarma and tandoor lines along Bank, Rideau, and Merivale; quarterly for high-volume lines such as the Somerset Street wok kitchens and busy quick-service; semi-annually for moderate-volume kitchens; and annually for low-volume operations such as seasonal or event-only kitchens. Ottawa Hood Cleaning confirms the correct interval for your cooking type on the first visit and books the next one before leaving. What proof of cleaning does an Ottawa fire inspector want to see? Ottawa Fire Services enforces the Ontario Fire Code, which adopts NFPA 96, and an inspector asks for dated evidence that the whole exhaust path was cleaned on schedule. Ottawa Hood Cleaning documents every job two ways: a before-and-after photo set of each cleaned surface, and a signed health and safety certificate referencing the NFPA 96 standard. Those two records are also what an insurance adjuster requests after a flare-up, and WSIB coverage plus proof of liability insurance are supplied before the crew starts. Can you clean overnight so an Ottawa kitchen never closes? Yes. Cleanings are booked around your closing time, usually starting after last service and finished before morning prep. The cook line gets tarped before any degreaser comes out, and the kitchen is handed back food-ready. Hotel and conference kitchens near the Shaw Centre are scheduled between event bookings, and campus dining halls are done during reading weeks and the summer term when the servery is dark. Which parts of Ottawa do you cover? Ottawa Hood Cleaning covers the full amalgamated city, roughly 2,790 square kilometres from the Quebec border to the Rideau Valley. That includes the downtown restaurant districts (ByWard Market, Elgin Street, Preston Street in Little Italy, Somerset Street in Chinatown, Bank Street through the Glebe, Wellington West and Hintonburg, Westboro), the suburbs (Kanata, Stittsville, Nepean, Bells Corners, Barrhaven, Riverside South, Orleans, Cumberland, Vanier, Beacon Hill, Rockcliffe Park), and the rural villages inside the city boundary such as Manotick, Greely, Osgoode, North Gower, Richmond, Munster, Carp, Navan, and Carlsbad Springs. Scheduled route days reach Kemptville, Perth, Smiths Falls, Carleton Place, Arnprior, and Rockland. What does hood cleaning cost in Ottawa? Hood cleaning in Ottawa starts around $385 per visit for a single-hood kitchen and from $725 for multi-hood kitchens, with hotel lines, campus dining halls, and shared-duct heritage buildings quoted after a free walk-through. The written quote includes the NFPA 96 referenced certificate, the photo report, and proof of insurance, and the invoice matches the quote. Do you clean federal, embassy, and institutional kitchens in Ottawa? Yes, and it is a normal part of the Ottawa route rather than an exception. Departmental cafeterias, diplomatic mission kitchens, campus and hospital serveries, church and legion halls, and municipal facilities all run commercial hoods under the same NFPA 96 obligations as a restaurant. What differs is the paperwork and the access: these sites need proof of insurance and WSIB before the visit is booked, they often need the work scheduled around security or function calendars rather than closing time, and the signed certificate plus photo report has to be clean enough to sit in a procurement file. Ottawa Hood Cleaning issues both as standard on every job. Do you handle a shared duct riser in a ByWard Market building? Yes, and it is a common Ottawa job. Where two or three tenants share one riser, the honest answer is that cleaning your own hood does not clear the shared run, and an inspection can still find grease above your ceiling. Ottawa Hood Cleaning quotes the shared portion separately so the landlord or the other tenants can be brought in, documents which sections were reached on this visit, and states in writing anything that was not accessible. Nobody gets a certificate implying more was cleaned than actually was. Get a written hood cleaning quote in 24 hours Restaurants, hotels, federal and institutional kitchens across Ottawa and Eastern Ontario. Signed certificate and photo proof on every job. Request a Free Quote Call 613-707-0313

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## Kitchen Exhaust Cleaning Ottawa | Hood to Rooftop Fan

URL: https://ottawahoodcleaning.ca/kitchen-exhaust-cleaning/

> Kitchen exhaust cleaning for Ottawa commercial kitchens. Hood, grease duct, and rooftop fan cleaned to the NFPA 96 standard with photo proof. Call 613-707-0313.

Kitchen Exhaust Cleaning Ottawa | Hood to Rooftop Fan Skip to content Kitchen exhaust cleaning in Ottawa, hood to rooftop fan Kitchen exhaust cleaning is the full-system service: grease removed from the hood, the plenum, the baffle filters, the duct running through the building, and the exhaust fan on the roof. When NFPA 96 sets a cleaning schedule, this is the service it means. Ottawa Hood Cleaning delivers it across the City of Ottawa and Eastern Ontario, from the ByWard Market out to Kanata, Orleans, and the rural villages, with matching before-and-after photos of every stage and the signed certificate completed on site. Request a Free Quote Call 613-707-0313 Fires do not start where you wipe. They travel where you cannot see. The duct carries the airflow, the grease, and, on a bad night, the flame. Think of the grease duct as the chimney above the cook line. Hour after hour, vaporized grease slips past the baffle filters and condenses on the duct walls, out of sight above the ceiling tiles. The kitchen below can look immaculate while that hidden fuel layer thickens. If a flare-up ever gets drawn into the hood, the duct is the highway the fire takes through the building. Ottawa's building stock raises the stakes twice over. Downtown, in the ByWard Market, Lowertown, Centretown, and along Bank and Elgin, kitchens occupy nineteenth-century buildings where the duct was threaded through whatever cavity was available: long horizontal runs above a dropped ceiling, tight offsets, and frequently one riser serving two or three tenants on the same wall. A shared riser means the restaurant next door's neglect ends up in your inspection. Out in the suburban plazas of Kanata, Barrhaven, and Orleans the runs are shorter but the roofs are flat, and from December to March the fan sits under snow. That is why NFPA 96 demands the duct be cleaned along its entire run, vertical and horizontal, through proper access panels, and why an adjuster who opens one after a claim is looking at the most consequential surface in the building. Ottawa Hood Cleaning cleans the whole path in a single overnight visit: hood and plenum scraped, filters soaked, duct hand-cleaned panel by panel, and the rooftop fan opened up and degreased to bare metal. What a full kitchen exhaust cleaning includes Every stage of the exhaust path, itemized on one certificate. Hood canopy and plenum scraped and degreased down to bare stainless steel. Baffle filters pulled, hot-soaked, rinsed, and reinstalled the right way around. Grease duct cleaned through its access panels along the full vertical and horizontal run. Rooftop or inline exhaust fan opened; blades, housing, and the drip zone around the base degreased. Access panels resealed after cleaning; missing or seized panels flagged in the report. Before-and-after photos of hood, duct interior, and fan, shot from repeatable angles. Signed health and safety certificate referencing NFPA 96, completed before the crew leaves. WSIB and liability proof delivered to the operator before work starts. Kitchen exhaust cleaning vs HVAC duct cleaning Two trades, one word in common, and a weekly source of confusion on the phone. Question Kitchen exhaust cleaning HVAC duct cleaning What it cleans The grease duct from cook line to roof, plus the hood and exhaust fan Heating and cooling supply and return ducts Governing standard NFPA 96, adopted by the Ontario Fire Code NADCA standards The risk it manages Grease fire spreading through the structure Dust, air quality, and system efficiency Who reads the paperwork Fire inspectors and insurance adjusters Building owners and facility managers Ottawa Hood Cleaning works on kitchen exhaust systems exclusively. A furnace-duct company is not automatically qualified to clean a grease duct, and the paperwork it issues is written against the wrong standard for a commercial kitchen file. How much does kitchen exhaust cleaning cost in Ottawa? Priced by hood count, duct length, and fan access. Always in writing, always within 24 hours. Kitchen exhaust cleaning in Ottawa starts around $385 per visit for the single-hood service, with multi-hood kitchens from $725 and the complete hood-to-fan system quoted after a free walk-through, because duct length, roof access, and shared risers vary building to building between a Market heritage unit and a Kanata plaza. The written quote lists every surface in scope and includes the signed NFPA 96 referenced certificate and the photo report. Nothing lands on the invoice that was not on the quote. The honest cost drivers in Ottawa: canopy count, the shape and length of the duct run, how the crew reaches the fan (a service stair is quick, a laneway ladder in January is not), and how far past its interval the system has drifted. A kitchen holding its quarterly cycle pays routine-visit prices; a system that skipped a year needs restoration hours the first time back. Kitchen exhaust cleaning: citation-ready facts Verifiable specifics about the service. Citation-ready facts Kitchen exhaust cleaning from Ottawa Hood Cleaning covers the hood, plenum, baffle filters, full grease duct run, and rooftop or inline exhaust fan. NFPA 96 requires the grease duct cleaned along its entire vertical and horizontal run, not only the section visible from the hood. Kitchen exhaust cleaning is governed by NFPA 96 and is a separate trade from HVAC duct cleaning, which follows NADCA standards. Ottawa Hood Cleaning serves commercial kitchens across the City of Ottawa, from the ByWard Market and Centretown to Kanata, Barrhaven, Orleans, and the rural villages, with route days covering Kemptville, Perth, Smiths Falls, Carleton Place, Arnprior, and Rockland. Every full-system visit ends with before-and-after photos of the hood, duct, and fan plus a signed health and safety certificate referencing NFPA 96. Single-hood service in Ottawa starts around $385 per visit; full hood-to-fan systems are quoted after a free walk-through. Kitchen exhaust cleaning: frequently asked questions What operators ask about the full-system service. What is kitchen exhaust cleaning? Kitchen exhaust cleaning is the grease removal service that covers a commercial kitchen's entire exhaust path: hood canopy, plenum, baffle filters, the grease duct through the building, and the rooftop or inline exhaust fan. This full-system visit is what the NFPA 96 cleaning schedule refers to, and its certificate is the record fire inspectors and insurance adjusters ask to see. Is this the same as HVAC duct cleaning? No. HVAC duct cleaning deals with heating and cooling ductwork under NADCA standards; kitchen exhaust cleaning deals with the grease duct between the cook line and the roof under NFPA 96. They are separate trades with separate documentation, and a furnace-duct invoice will not satisfy a fire inspector reviewing a commercial kitchen. Why does the duct matter more than the hood? Because the duct is where a kitchen fire becomes a building fire. Grease vapour condenses on duct walls in hidden layers, and when a flare-up gets past the filters, that fuel carries the flame vertically through the structure. In Ottawa's strip plazas, where duct runs are long, horizontal, and sometimes shared between units, an uncleaned duct is a risk shared by every neighbouring tenant. NFPA 96 requires the duct cleaned along its entire run for exactly this reason. Is the rooftop exhaust fan part of the service? Yes. Ottawa Hood Cleaning opens the rooftop or inline fan on every full-system job and degreases the blades, housing, and surrounding drip area. A grease-heavy fan pulls less air, overworks its motor, and drips onto the roof membrane, and pooled rooftop grease is a repair bill and a slip hazard that flat-roofed plazas notice too late. How much does kitchen exhaust cleaning cost in Ottawa? Pricing follows hood count, duct length, and fan access. The single-hood service in Ottawa starts around $385 per visit, multi-hood kitchens from $725, and the full hood-to-fan system is quoted after a free walk-through because no two duct runs match. The written quote includes the certificate, the photo report, and proof of insurance. Book a full-system exhaust cleaning in Ottawa Hood to rooftop fan, cleaned overnight and documented end to end. Written quote in 24 hours. 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## Privacy Policy | Ottawa Hood Cleaning

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> Privacy policy for ottawahoodcleaning.ca: what the quote form collects, how that information is used, and how to reach us about it.

Privacy Policy | Ottawa Hood Cleaning Skip to content Privacy Policy Last updated: August 22, 2026 This page records, in plain language, what ottawahoodcleaning.ca collects, why it collects it, and what happens to it afterward. Ottawa Hood Cleaning cleans kitchen exhaust systems; it is not in the data business. The only personal information this website ever touches is what a kitchen operator types into the quote form or shares on a phone call, and the only use it gets is quoting and delivering hood cleaning work. Canadian federal privacy law, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, sets the baseline these practices follow: collect the minimum, use it for the stated purpose only, and let people see what is held about them. The full text of the law is published by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada . What the form collects A quote request through this site captures five things: name, phone number, email address, business name, and the message describing the kitchen. Nothing more is requested, and payment information is never collected anywhere on this website. What the information is used for One purpose: responding to the quote request and, if the visitor becomes a customer, scheduling and documenting the cleaning work. The details live in the customer relationship system that manages quotes and jobs. They are not sold, rented, or handed to third parties for their own marketing. Phone calls Calls to 613-707-0313 are answered directly. Notes taken on a call, such as canopy counts, cooking type, and scheduling windows, are kept for quoting and for the kitchen's service history. Cookies and analytics This is a static website with no advertising trackers. Standard server logs and any analytics in place count page visits in aggregate, which shows which pages help visitors and nothing about who those visitors are. Retention and your access rights Quote and job records are kept as ordinary business records. To ask what is on file about you, to correct something, or to have it deleted, call 613-707-0313 and the request is handled directly. Where submissions travel The quote form posts through the site's hosting platform to the customer relationship system where quotes and jobs are managed, both established commercial platforms with their own security practices. The entire site is served over HTTPS, so submissions travel encrypted, and nothing sent through the form appears anywhere on the site. What this business does not do Ottawa Hood Cleaning does not sell contact lists, does not blast marketing email at people who asked for a quote, and does not share visitor details with advertisers. Submitting the form produces exactly what it promises: a call or email about hood cleaning, then a written quote. If you decline the quote, the record simply sits in the service history in case your kitchen calls again. Photos taken during service The before-and-after photos taken during a cleaning exist to document the condition of the exhaust system. They are shot close on the equipment rather than the premises, delivered to the operator alongside the certificate, and kept as part of the job record. They are not published with a customer's name or location without permission. If this policy changes Any change appears on this page with a fresh date at the top. No change will ever retroactively repurpose information that was collected under an earlier version. Questions Direct any question about this policy to Ottawa Hood Cleaning at 613-707-0313 or through the contact page . Requests for access, correction, or deletion go to the people who run the service, not a call centre. Privacy: frequently asked questions Does Ottawa Hood Cleaning sell or share my contact details? No. Details from a quote request serve one purpose: answering the request and managing any work that follows. They are never sold, rented, or passed to advertisers or list brokers. What if I get a quote but never book? The quote stays in the service history, so if the kitchen calls back next season the details are already on file. It does not put you on any marketing blast list, and you can have the record deleted any time by calling 613-707-0313. Do the before-and-after photos of my kitchen get published? The photos are framed tightly on the exhaust equipment and delivered to the operator with the certificate. They are never published with a customer's name or location without permission. Is it safe to submit the quote form? Yes. The whole site runs over HTTPS, so submissions travel encrypted, and the form asks only for name, phone, email, business name, and a message. Payment details are never collected through this website. How do I find out what information you hold about me? Call 613-707-0313 or use the contact page . Access, correction, and deletion requests are handled directly by the people who run the service, consistent with Canadian privacy law.

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## Sitemap | Ottawa Hood Cleaning

URL: https://ottawahoodcleaning.ca/sitemap/

> Every page on ottawahoodcleaning.ca with a note on what each is for: the two services, the NFPA 96 fire code guide, contact and quotes, and site policies.

Sitemap | Ottawa Hood Cleaning Skip to content Sitemap This page is the complete index of ottawahoodcleaning.ca, with a plain note on what each page does. Ottawa Hood Cleaning keeps the site deliberately small: a handful of accurate pages that answer a kitchen operator's real questions, instead of the fifty-seven thin pages the previous version of this website carried. Every one of those retired addresses now forwards automatically to its closest replacement here, so old links and bookmarks still land somewhere useful. Services Home: hood cleaning in Ottawa and Eastern Ontario. The overview: what hood cleaning is, the six-step service process, pricing from $385 for a single hood, which kitchen types book the service, coverage from the ByWard Market to Kanata and out through the Ottawa Valley, and the quote form. Commercial Hood Cleaning. The hood itself: canopy, plenum, baffle filters, exterior. Covers the four cleaning zones, why inspectors open the filter rack first, the NFPA 96 schedule for each Ottawa kitchen type, and the cost of a visit. Kitchen Exhaust Cleaning. The full system from hood to rooftop fan, including the grease duct where fires actually spread, with the exhaust-versus-HVAC-duct comparison and full-system pricing. Guides NFPA 96 Fire Code for Ontario Kitchens. The standard behind every Ottawa kitchen inspection: cleaning frequencies by cooking volume, the 0.078 inch grease deposit limit, the five things an inspector checks, and the certificate that satisfies inspectors and insurers. Company Contact and free quote. The quote form, the phone number (613-707-0313), what to have ready when you call, and what happens after you submit. Privacy Policy. What the quote form collects and how it is used. Terms & Conditions. How quotes, scheduling, documentation, and insurance work. For machines XML sitemap for search engine crawlers. llms.txt , a structured summary of the business for AI assistants. Why the site is this small A hood cleaning company has a short list of questions to answer well: what the service covers, what the fire code requires, what it costs, and how to book. Each question gets exactly one page here, and each page carries its complete answer, including the NFPA 96 interval table, visible pricing, and the questions operators actually ask on the phone. The alternative, which the old version of this site tried, was eighteen near-identical neighbourhood pages that ranked for things like local population figures and produced no enquiries at all. The old addresses still work. Town-by-town hood cleaning pages forward to the pages that now carry the real answers, retired service pages forward to the closest current service, and the old policy pages forward to the new ones. Nothing 404s. Anything these pages do not answer is a phone call away: 613-707-0313 reaches people who clean kitchen exhaust systems for a living, and the phone answer matches what the site would have said. For the source document behind the technical pages, the National Fire Protection Association publishes NFPA 96 directly. Finding your way: frequently asked questions Where are the prices on this site? Every service page shows its own pricing section. The homepage and the commercial hood cleaning page both carry the starting numbers: from $385 for a single hood, from $725 for multi-hood kitchens, with hotel lines, campus dining halls, and shared-riser buildings quoted after a free walk-through. Which page explains the fire inspection? The NFPA 96 guide walks the inspection in order: plenum, filters, duct access panels, rooftop fan, then the paperwork, plus the cleaning frequency for every cooking type from tandoor lines to community kitchens. I bookmarked a page on the old site. Where is it now? Every address from the old fifty-seven-page site forwards automatically, with one exception that did not move: the NFPA 96 guide keeps its original address because it had earned real search traction there. Old neighbourhood pages land on the homepage, old filter and inspection articles land on the NFPA 96 guide, old cost articles land on the commercial hood cleaning page and its pricing section, and the old contact and policy pages land on their replacements. What is the fastest way to get a quote? Call 613-707-0313 , or use the form on the contact page . Written quotes come back within 24 hours either way, and inspection deadlines are handled same-day by phone. Which areas does this site cover? Ottawa Hood Cleaning serves the full City of Ottawa: the downtown restaurant districts (ByWard Market, Elgin, Preston Street, Somerset Street, Hintonburg, Westboro, the Glebe), the suburbs (Kanata, Stittsville, Nepean, Bells Corners, Barrhaven, Riverside South, Orleans, Cumberland, Vanier), and the rural villages inside the city line (Manotick, Greely, Osgoode, North Gower, Richmond, Munster, Carp, Navan). Scheduled route days reach Kemptville, Perth, Smiths Falls, Carleton Place, Arnprior, and Rockland. The homepage carries the full coverage details.

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## Terms & Conditions | Ottawa Hood Cleaning

URL: https://ottawahoodcleaning.ca/terms/

> Terms and conditions for ottawahoodcleaning.ca: how quotes, scheduling, documentation, insurance, and pricing work when you hire Ottawa Hood Cleaning.

Terms & Conditions | Ottawa Hood Cleaning Skip to content Terms & Conditions Last updated: August 22, 2026 These terms are the working agreement between Ottawa Hood Cleaning and the operators who use this website, request quotes, and book cleanings. They explain how quoting works, how scheduling and site access are handled, what the compliance paperwork does and does not certify, and how insurance operates on a job. They are deliberately written in plain language: an owner reading this after close on a Tuesday night should finish knowing exactly how hiring us works, without a lawyer on retainer. About this website This website exists to describe the commercial kitchen exhaust cleaning services of Ottawa Hood Cleaning and to receive quote requests. Using the site means accepting these terms. Quotes A quote request, whether through the form or by phone, is a request for a written estimate and nothing more. The written quote sets out the scope, the price, and what comes with the visit. Work begins only after the customer accepts it. Informational content The pages here explaining NFPA 96, cleaning intervals, and inspection practice are general information for commercial kitchen operators. They are not legal advice, and they do not substitute for the published NFPA 96 standard , the Ontario Fire Code, or the direction of the authority having jurisdiction over a specific property. Ottawa Hood Cleaning references the published NFPA 96 standard as the technical baseline for its work and is not affiliated with the National Fire Protection Association. Pricing Starting prices shown on this site describe typical single-hood and multi-hood kitchens in the Ottawa area. The number that binds either party is always the written quote for the specific kitchen. Scheduling and access Cleanings run after hours around the kitchen's schedule, overnight for restaurants and between bookings for banquet halls. The customer agrees to provide premises access at the agreed time, including roof access when the exhaust fan is in scope. If access falls through, the visit is rebooked; repeated missed appointments may carry a call-out charge, and any such charge appears on the quote in advance, never as a surprise. Documentation Every completed job produces a signed health and safety certificate referencing the NFPA 96 standard and a before-and-after photo set. These records describe the surfaces cleaned on that visit. They do not warrant the system's condition between visits, and they do not certify anything excluded from the quoted scope, such as a duct section without access panels, which gets noted on the certificate instead. Insurance and safety WSIB coverage and a certificate of liability insurance are delivered before work starts. Crews tarp cooking and food-contact surfaces before opening any chemical, mask suppression nozzles and electrical components, and hand the kitchen back food-ready. Pre-existing problems found inside the system, such as seized fan bearings, missing panels, or damaged filter racks, are reported to the operator, not repaired without authorization. Limitation To the extent Ontario law permits, the liability of Ottawa Hood Cleaning for any claim connected to a cleaning visit is capped at the amount paid for that visit. Nothing here limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited. Intellectual property The content of this site, including the service pages and the NFPA 96 guide, belongs to its operator and may not be republished without written permission. Contact Questions about these terms: 613-707-0313 or the contact page . Terms: frequently asked questions Does requesting a quote commit me to booking? No. A quote request asks for a written estimate and nothing else. Work is only booked after the operator accepts the written quote, which states the full scope and price up front. Can the final invoice exceed the quote? The invoice matches the accepted quote. If the crew finds something on site that genuinely changes scope, such as a duct section with no access panel, it is documented and discussed, and it is added only with the operator's approval. Nothing is billed silently. What happens if I have to reschedule? Call as soon as you know and the visit moves to the next open overnight or between-event window. Repeated no-access appointments may carry a call-out charge, and that charge is always stated on the quote before it can ever apply. Does the certificate mean my kitchen will pass inspection? The certificate documents the surfaces cleaned on that date, referencing the NFPA 96 standard. It is the record an inspector asks for, but it speaks to the system's condition at cleaning time. It does not cover grease that accumulates afterward or components excluded from the quoted scope and noted as such. Who pays if something is damaged during the cleaning? Ottawa Hood Cleaning carries liability insurance and delivers proof before starting. Damage that already existed inside the system is reported to the operator rather than repaired without authorization, and anything caused by the cleaning itself goes through that insurance.

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