Greenville’s restaurant scene has earned its reputation — and every one of those kitchens, from a Main Street dining room to a Woodruff Road franchise to a food hall stall, shares three obligations most owners learn from their fire inspector. Your exhaust system is on a cleaning schedule set by NFPA 96, the kitchen ventilation standard adopted under the South Carolina Fire Code — monthly, quarterly, semi-annually, or annually depending on what and how much you cook. Every cleaning must be documented, with the record kept on site. And the grease in that duct is the most preventable fire risk in the building: NFPA’s restaurant fire data found 61% of these fires involve cooking equipment, with failure to clean a factor in 22%.
This site does one thing: connects Upstate operators with trained, insured kitchen exhaust cleaning companies that clean the whole system — hood, filters, duct, rooftop fan — and leave the paperwork behind. Owner to owner, no drama.
We’re a local referral service for commercial kitchens. Call or send the form and we’ll connect you with a trained, insured kitchen exhaust cleaning company serving the Greenville area — one that cleans the full system to NFPA 96 and leaves the documentation your fire inspector and insurer expect. No charge for the referral.
NFPA 96 sorts kitchens by grease production. Monthly: solid fuel — wood or charcoal (that smoker out back put you here). Quarterly: high volume — 24-hour lines, charbroiling, woks, heavy frying. Semi-annually: the typical full-service restaurant. Annually: low volume — churches, camps, seasonal and senior-center kitchens. Heavy grease at inspection moves you up. Find your tier here.
There’s a version of hood cleaning where someone shines the canopy, swaps filters, and leaves a sticker. It isn’t the version the standard describes, and it isn’t the version that stops a duct fire — the fire lives in the duct, not on the canopy. A compliant cleaning goes hood to rooftop fan, to bare metal, with access panels where the duct needs them, photos before and after, and a signed report on your premises.
A single-hood restaurant typically lands in the $400–$600 per visit range for a full-system cleaning, with multi-hood kitchens and long duct runs higher. Multiply by your tier and you have the annual line item — the prices page does the math and explains why the cheapest quote usually isn’t cleaning the duct.
Institutional kitchens carry the same schedule with more auditors and harder scheduling windows. Facility managers start here — including Greenville’s hotel kitchens, where banquet volume quietly pushes many operations into the quarterly tier.
Yes. South Carolina’s Fire Code (S.C. Code Regs. 71-8300.2) adopts the International Fire Code, which requires commercial kitchen exhaust systems to be inspected and cleaned per NFPA 96. Locally, the City of Greenville Fire Department’s Fire Prevention Division conducts commercial inspections — and the hood sticker and cleaning records are standard checks. Citations here.
The service sticker’s date against your tier, the documentation on file, grease at the hood and filters, and often the duct access panels and rooftop fan. Inspection prep here.
Very much. Insurers expect NFPA 96 maintenance, and a kitchen fire with an overdue system is a claim conversation nobody wins. Your documentation binder is for your adjuster as much as your inspector.
The companies we refer are trained, insured, clean the full system to NFPA 96, and provide compliant documentation. South Carolina doesn’t license hood cleaning as a trade, so the credentials that matter are training, insurance, and the paperwork — ask any bidder for all three.
We’re a local referral service for commercial kitchens. Call or send the form and we’ll connect you with a trained, insured kitchen exhaust cleaning company serving the Greenville area — one that cleans the full system to NFPA 96 and leaves the documentation your fire inspector and insurer expect. No charge for the referral.
Greenville Hood Cleaning — Connecting Upstate restaurants and commercial kitchens with trained, insured kitchen exhaust cleaning companies.
Serving Greenville, Spartanburg, Greer, Mauldin, Simpsonville, Taylors, Travelers Rest, Easley, and the Upstate.
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Information on this site is general guidance on NFPA 96 and commercial kitchen exhaust maintenance, not a compliance determination for your specific kitchen — your local fire authority makes that call. Greenville Hood Cleaning is a referral service and does not itself perform exhaust cleaning, inspection, or certification.