Hood cleaning in Seattle, Washington
Seattle has more than 3,300 restaurants and more hood cleaning companies than any city in our territory. We are not going to pretend to be a Seattle company. We are an Oregon company with a three-state footprint that serves King County on scheduled trips, and the reason a Seattle operator calls us is usually that they also have kitchens in Portland, Salem, Eugene, or Spokane and want one vendor, one standard, and one compliance file across all of them.
The kitchens we clean in Seattle
Seattle's institutional kitchens are among the largest in the Northwest: UW Medicine, Harborview, Swedish, and Virginia Mason hospitals; the University of Washington and Seattle University; Lumen Field, T-Mobile Park, and Climate Pledge Arena concessions; Amazon and Microsoft campus dining; Sea-Tac airport concessions; and the Muckleshoot and Snoqualmie casinos on the metro edge. Hotel banquet kitchens downtown run multiple hoods each. All of that is quarterly or better under NFPA 96.
Who inspects hood cleaning in Seattle
The Seattle Fire Department's Fire Marshal's Office enforces the Seattle Fire Code, which is Washington's adopted International Fire Code with city amendments. Commercial cooking systems must be maintained per NFPA 96 Chapter 12. Seattle certifies the technicians who service hood fire suppression systems, but it does not license hood cleaning companies, so the standard your cleaner works to is the thing to ask about.
How we schedule Seattle
Seattle is about three and a half hours from Salem. We serve it on planned Puget Sound trips built around multi-location and multi-hood accounts. That is the honest version: if you have one hood in Ballard and need it done Tuesday, a local company is the right call. If you have kitchens across the region, or a brand standard you need enforced in Seattle the same way it is enforced in Portland, we are the right call.
What we run into in Seattle kitchens
For a regional operator, the Seattle problem is not finding a hood cleaner. It is keeping five of them to one standard. The store in Ballard gets a different cleaning than the store in Beaverton, and the compliance file for the brand is a stack of unrelated reports. One vendor with one photo report format fixes that.
Bare metal, rooftop to stovetop, with proof
Every Seattle job gets a certificate of service, a dated hood sticker, and a time-stamped photo report the office checks against the job checklist before it goes out. Fire marshal, insurer, and health inspector each get what they ask for from one packet.
Hood cleaning
The full system to NFPA 96: hood, plenum, filters, duct run, and rooftop fan. Scheduled around your hours in Seattle.
Exhaust fan maintenance
Belts, bearings, and motors checked on the roof in Seattle, so the fan does not quit mid-shift.
NFPA 96 compliance guide
How often you need it, what Seattle Fire Department checks, what your insurer asks for, and what the certificate shows.
Multi-location accounts
More than one kitchen? One vendor, one schedule, and one compliance file across three states.
Seattle hood cleaning questions
Why would a Seattle kitchen hire an Oregon company?
For multi-location operators, one vendor across Oregon, Washington, and Northern California means one standard, one schedule, and one set of paperwork. That is worth more than a local truck if you run kitchens in several cities.
Does Seattle require a certified hood cleaner?
Seattle's fire code requires maintenance per NFPA 96, which calls for cleaning by properly trained, qualified, and certified persons acceptable to the fire authority. Seattle does not license hood cleaning companies itself, so ask any cleaner what standard they work to and what proof they leave behind.
Get a Seattle hood cleaning estimate
Tell us what you cook and how many hoods you run. We come back with a number and a recommended NFPA 96 schedule.
Seattle kitchens
- Fill in the form. If you do not know a field, skip it.
- We call back, confirm details, and give you a straight number.
- We schedule around your hours.