Fargo Kitchen Exhaust Cleaning About Fargo Kitchen Exhaust Cleaning
Fargo Kitchen Exhaust Cleaning is an independently operated local service that does one thing for restaurants and commercial kitchens across the Fargo–Moorhead metro: NFPA 96 kitchen exhaust cleaning, rooftop fan service, and grease trap pumping. Our crews are the people on your roof and under your sinks, and you should ask us, like any vendor, for the IKECA credential.
That’s the whole business, explained plainly.
How it works
You call (701) 765-5584 or send the form. We ask the questions that actually set scope: how many hoods, what you cook, when you close, how your roof is accessed, whether you have an indoor trap or an in-ground interceptor. Then we set the service window with you and give you a quote after a walkthrough. Get the quote and the scope in writing.
After the service, ask for what the job is supposed to produce, from us or anyone: before-and-after photos, a written service report, a dated certification sticker on the hood, and, on the grease side, a disposal manifest. That paperwork is the point. It’s what a Fargo Fire Department inspector asks to see, and it’s what an insurance adjuster asks for after any incident.
What this service is not
- We are not a national franchise. No call center in another time zone.
- We don’t ask you to take credentials on faith. The certifications that matter are IKECA’s CECS, CECT, and CESI. North Dakota imposes no state license for hood cleaners, which is exactly why you should ask any vendor, us included, for those credentials and proof of insurance.
- We never guarantee an inspection outcome. Nobody honest can. What a documented, bare-metal cleaning does is remove every reason for an inspector to write your kitchen up on exhaust grounds.
- We don’t invent credentials, reviews, or history. What you see on this site is what the service is.
Why one service for hood, fan, and trap makes sense here
The Fargo–Moorhead market has plenty of kitchens, downtown Fargo’s Broadway corridor alone holds the densest restaurant block in North Dakota, but hood cleaning, fan repair, and grease hauling are three different trades with three different trucks. Most GMs end up juggling separate vendors, separate invoices, and separate stickers, and the thing that slips is the schedule. A hood that was supposed to be inspected quarterly quietly goes eight months.
The fix is knowing your kitchen’s cadence: the NFPA 96 Table 12.4 frequency for your cooking volume on the exhaust side, the 25% rule on the grease trap side, and booking service before the interval lapses, not after an inspector notices it did.
The standard to ask for
The exhaust job to ask for is the full NFPA 96 job: hood, filters, plenum, ductwork, and rooftop fan, cleaned to the bare-metal endpoint by the ANSI/IKECA C10 method, not a canopy wipe-down with a fresh sticker. The trap job to ask for is a full pump-out with the waste hauled to city-approved discharge points, not a skim. Ask us, or anyone you hire, to document that standard with photos, in writing.
The service covers Fargo and the metro core, West Fargo, Horace, Casselton, and Grand Forks. Market price ranges are published on the pricing page.
If that’s the kind of help you want for your kitchen, call (701) 765-5584 or send the form. We’ll take it from there.