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Commercial kitchen exhaust hood maintenance checklists
Commercial kitchen exhaust hood maintenance checklists for the quarterly and annual rounds: 2 free lists, 28 items and 27 photo requirements, each item naming what to look for and the photo evidence it needs. Work is commonly verified against NFPA 96 & 17A; the edition in force is the AHJ's call on each project.
The commercial kitchen exhaust hood rounds
Where each walk sits in the schedule
01quarterly
Commercial kitchen exhaust hood quarterly maintenance checklist
Every quarter, more often over a high-volume or wok/char line where grease loads the filters in weeks, not months.
Run by: The kitchen exhaust cleaning tech or building maintenance on the quarterly round.
02annual
Commercial kitchen exhaust hood annual maintenance checklist
The deep cleaning pass, sized around the appliance duty. This is the visit that reaches the plenum and the duct run the quarterly round can't.
Run by: The certified kitchen exhaust cleaning crew on the deep cleaning visit.
What most often fails on a commercial kitchen exhaust hood
- Baffle filters run through the dish machine and slotted back with two missing, leaving an open gap that pulls grease straight past into the plenum.
- Drip cup emptied at the hood but the fan-base grease cup on the roof forgotten until it's running down the membrane.
- Capture checked with the line cold, so nobody sees the roll-out that only happens once every burner is fired at lunch.
- Hood interior wiped bright at the front while the horizontal duct run stays coated because no access panel was opened.
- A cleaning sticker filled in for the whole system when only the reachable sections were done and the vertical riser was never touched.
Verified against
Families only, never clause numbers. Adoption varies by jurisdiction; confirm the edition your authority having jurisdiction enforces before you run a walk against it.
Common questions
5 answers
- Which commercial kitchen exhaust hood maintenance rounds do these checklists cover?
- Commercial kitchen exhaust hood quarterly maintenance checklist (quarterly): Every quarter, more often over a high-volume or wok/char line where grease loads the filters in weeks, not months. Commercial kitchen exhaust hood annual maintenance checklist (annual): The deep cleaning pass, sized around the appliance duty. This is the visit that reaches the plenum and the duct run the quarterly round can't.
- Who runs the commercial kitchen exhaust hood maintenance round?
- The kitchen exhaust cleaning tech or building maintenance on the quarterly round. The certified kitchen exhaust cleaning crew on the deep cleaning visit.
- What most often fails on a commercial kitchen exhaust hood?
- Baffle filters run through the dish machine and slotted back with two missing, leaving an open gap that pulls grease straight past into the plenum. Drip cup emptied at the hood but the fan-base grease cup on the roof forgotten until it's running down the membrane. Capture checked with the line cold, so nobody sees the roll-out that only happens once every burner is fired at lunch. Hood interior wiped bright at the front while the horizontal duct run stays coated because no access panel was opened.
- Which standards is commercial kitchen exhaust hood work verified against?
- NFPA 96 & 17A, published by the National Fire Protection Association. Adoption varies by jurisdiction. Confirm the edition your authority having jurisdiction enforces before you run a walk against it.
- Can I run these checklists in RTI?
- Yes. Start a free RTI workspace and load any of the 2 lists (28 items in total). The Photo Gate holds the submit button until every mandatory item is answered and its photos are attached, and approved inspections roll into a branded turnover package with a tamper evident audit trail.
Run these lists with the Photo Gate.
Tag one area, scan it, and the submit stays locked until the photos exist.
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