Nepean Hood Cleaning Pros offers three scopes and nothing else: hood cleaning, kitchen exhaust cleaning, and commercial hood cleaning. The three overlap deliberately, because a kitchen exhaust system is one continuous path from the canopy over the cook line to the fan on the roof, and a scope that stops halfway leaves grease exactly where a fire spreads fastest. This page is the routing map: what each service covers, where it ends, and which one a given Nepean kitchen actually needs.
Two questions settle it almost every time: how far does the ductwork run, and who has to read the paperwork afterwards.
Scope stops at the duct collar. The canopy, the baffle filters, the grease troughs and cups, and the plenum cavity behind the filters. Right for a low-volume kitchen with a short run to the roof, and for the in-between visit on a quarterly schedule.
Scope runs the whole path: hood, vertical riser, horizontal duct runs, access panels, and the rooftop exhaust fan lifted off its curb. Right for anything with a long or shared duct, and for any kitchen that has not been cleaned in over a year.
Same physical work, wrapped in a documented programme: a fixed frequency, certificates dated and filed, insurance and WSIB proof supplied before a purchase order is raised. Right for institutions, franchises and anyone with a compliance file.
The most common quoting mistake in this trade is comparing two prices that describe two different amounts of the system.
| What is included | Hood cleaning | Hood vs full exhaust cleaning |
|---|---|---|
| Canopy, baffle filters, troughs | Included | Included in both scopes |
| Plenum cavity behind the filters | Included | Included in both scopes |
| Vertical riser and horizontal duct | Not included | Included, through existing or newly cut access panels |
| Rooftop exhaust fan and curb | Not included | Included, fan lifted, blades and housing degreased, hinge checked |
| What the certificate can say | Hood assembly cleaned to the NFPA 96 standard, duct noted as excluded | Exhaust system cleaned to bare metal where accessible, with any inaccessible section named on the certificate |
| Typical Nepean kitchen it suits | A cafe or low-volume line with a short run straight to the roof | A restaurant, arena or campus kitchen with a long riser or a shared duct |
Pricing starts at $385 per visit for a single-hood kitchen and $725 per visit for a multi-hood line, with the duct and fan quoted after the free walk-through. The variables that move that number sit on the cost guide.
These are constants. They do not change with the size of the quote.
Residential range hoods are not serviced. NFPA 96 governs commercial cooking operations, and a domestic kitchen sits outside both the standard and this scope.
All three services are available across the same coverage area.
Nepean Hood Cleaning Pros works Nepean, Barrhaven, Bells Corners and Manotick. That takes in the Merivale Road and Baseline Road retail corridors, Centrepointe, City View, Craig Henry, Crestview, Manordale, Parkwood Hills and Arlington Woods, the Colonnade Road business park, the Strandherd Drive and Greenbank Road plazas in Barrhaven, the Robertson Road strip in Bells Corners, and the village businesses in Manotick. The areas served page lists the communities and the response expectations that go with them.
Ottawa Fire Services is the authority having jurisdiction across all of it. The NFPA 96 and Ontario Fire Code guide explains what an inspector is actually checking, and the frequency guide maps the inspection schedule to real kitchen types.
Yes, and it is a legitimate booking when the duct was cleaned recently and the hood needs an interim visit. It is not legitimate as a substitute for the full clean. A hood-only visit on a system that has never been cleaned leaves the riser and the fan loaded, which is the part of the path a fire travels along, so the certificate names the duct as excluded rather than implying a full system clean.
Access panels are cut where the duct run is otherwise unreachable, which is common in older Nepean buildings where the exhaust was installed before access requirements were routine. The need for panels is identified during the free walk-through and priced in the written quote, never added as a surprise on the invoice.
Baffle filters are removed, degreased and refitted as part of every hood clean. Replacement filters are a separate item, quoted only when a filter is warped, split or missing a baffle, because a damaged filter stops trapping grease and pushes the load straight into the plenum and duct.
Commercial hood cleaning, on a fixed frequency, because head office is buying evidence as much as a clean kitchen. That programme produces a dated certificate and a photo report after every visit, in a form that can be uploaded to a compliance portal or attached to a franchise audit.
The walk-through is free and it ends with a written quote inside 24 hours, naming exactly which surfaces are included and which are not.