About Nepean Hood Cleaning Pros
Nepean Hood Cleaning Pros is a commercial kitchen exhaust cleaning service covering Nepean, Barrhaven, Bells Corners and Manotick. The operating model is narrow on purpose: three services, one coverage area, work performed to the published NFPA 96 standard, and a documentation package produced after every visit. This page explains how a booking runs and, just as usefully, what this service does not do.
What this service does
Three scopes, described in full on their own pages, and nothing bolted on beside them.
Hood cleaning covers the canopy, the baffle filters, the grease troughs and cups, and the plenum cavity behind the filter bank. Kitchen exhaust cleaning covers everything past the duct collar: the vertical riser, horizontal runs, access panels and the rooftop exhaust fan. Commercial hood cleaning is the same physical work delivered as a scheduled programme, with the certificates, photo reports and insurance documentation an institution, a franchise or a facility file needs.
Pricing starts at $385 per visit for a single-hood kitchen and $725 per visit for a multi-hood line, with a written site quote beyond that. Every quote follows a free walk-through and arrives within 24 hours, and the invoice matches the quote.
What this service does not do
A short, specific list is more useful to an operator than a long list of everything a truck could theoretically be pointed at.
- Residential range hoods. NFPA 96 governs commercial cooking operations. A domestic kitchen sits outside the standard and outside this scope.
- Fire suppression service. Suppression nozzles and links are protected during cleaning and left alone. Servicing, recharging and recertifying that equipment is separate licensed work. Anything that looks wrong gets photographed and flagged so the right trade can be booked.
- General janitorial and floor care. Kitchen exhaust is the whole business here. Other fleet sites have tried carrying office cleaning alongside it and it produced enquiries that had nothing to do with fire safety.
- Duct fabrication and fan replacement. Access panels are cut and fitted where a duct cannot otherwise be reached. Replacing a failed fan or rebuilding a duct run is a mechanical contractor job.
- Work outside the coverage area. Ottawa core, Orleans, Gloucester and Vanier go to ottawahoodcleaning.ca, and Kanata, Stittsville, Carp and Richmond to kanatahoodcleaningpros.ca. A kitchen there gets referred rather than driven to.
Why the documentation matters more than the sales pitch
The certificate is the part of this job that still exists six months later.
A clean hood looks the same whoever cleaned it, for about a week. What distinguishes one visit from another is whether anyone can prove what happened. Every visit here closes with before-and-after photographs of every cleaned surface, a signed certificate of performance naming the published NFPA 96 standard, and a dated sticker on the hood. Anything that could not be reached, such as a horizontal duct run in an older Merivale Road unit with no access panel, is named on the certificate rather than left unsaid.
That last practice is the one worth judging a contractor on. A certificate that quietly implies full coverage is worth less than nothing after a fire, because it is a document that says something untrue. Naming the gap is what makes the rest of the record credible to an Ottawa Fire Services inspector or an insurer.
Proof of WSIB coverage and liability insurance is supplied before any crew enters the kitchen, not produced afterwards on request, because an institutional buyer needs both on file before a purchase order can be raised.
Common questions about how this works
Are there claims on this site that cannot be backed up?
There should not be, and that is deliberate. This site carries no founding year, no crew count, no job count, no star rating and no named customer, because none of those can be evidenced here yet. What it does state are things that are true on every visit: the pricing floor, the NFPA 96 limit of 0.078 inches, the documentation package, and the coverage area.
Is Nepean Hood Cleaning Pros NFPA certified?
No, and neither is any other cleaning company. The NFPA publishes standards and certifies no contractors to clean kitchen exhaust systems. Work here is performed to the published NFPA 96 standard, the certificate says exactly that, and this business is not affiliated with the NFPA.
Who actually turns up to do the work?
An insured commercial kitchen exhaust crew, carrying WSIB clearance and liability documentation supplied to the operator in advance. Bookings run overnight, early morning or between events so a kitchen never loses a service, and containment goes down before anything is sprayed.
How quickly can a first visit happen?
A walk-through is normally available within the same week across Nepean, Barrhaven, Bells Corners and Manotick, and the written quote follows inside 24 hours. The booking itself depends on the kitchen calendar more than on crew availability, which is why arena, campus and event kitchens plan further ahead than restaurants do.