Clean kitchen hood with baffle filters after a cleaning, West Palm Beach, FL

Kitchen Hood Cleaning and Fire Suppression for South Florida Restaurants

By Done Right Hood & Fire Safety of So. Florida

Done Right Hood & Fire Safety of So. Florida · 6600 NW 16th Street, Suite 11, Plantation, FL 33313 · (954) 399-6161 · office@donerighthfs.com

The hood is overdue for a cleaning, your kitchen fire suppression tag is coming due, or the fire inspector is on the calendar. We clean kitchen hoods and ducts, inspect and service kitchen fire suppression systems, and handle preventive maintenance on exhaust fans, belts, make-up air and filters. We also check kitchen air balance and build new hood systems. Our staffed office is in Plantation, and we serve kitchens in Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties.

You get many of these essential kitchen services under one roof, with one person to call and one person to coordinate with, so your kitchen keeps cooking and making money.

Our signature visit puts hood and duct cleaning, the suppression inspection, a filter swap and an exhaust fan and belt check on one trip, with one report at the end.

Start with what’s going on in your kitchen

What we do for South Florida kitchens

Hood and exhaust cleaning

We clean the hood canopy, plenum, filters, ductwork and rooftop exhaust fan. You get a service sticker and a report with before-and-after photos, so you can see what came out of the system. Hood cleaning in South Florida.

Grease on a hood plenum behind the filters before cleaning, Palm Beach Gardens, FL
Before: grease on the plenum behind the filters, on a Palm Beach Gardens job.
A hood plenum after cleaning on the same job, Palm Beach Gardens, FL
After: the plenum on the same job, cleaned.

Kitchen fire suppression inspection and service

Twice a year we go over the wet chemical system above your cook line. That covers the fusible links and detection line, every nozzle cap, the agent cylinder, the pull station and the gas or electric shutoff. We also recharge systems after a discharge, make repairs and install new ones. Suppression inspection details.

Kitchen fire suppression piping and a nozzle inside a hood, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Suppression piping and a nozzle inside a hood in Fort Lauderdale.

Preventive maintenance for filters, fans and make-up air

We take out your hood’s baffle filters and put in clean ones, on a schedule we set with you. A sticker on the hood shows when they were last changed and when the next swap is due. Filter exchange.

We also maintain and repair exhaust fans, belts, motors and make-up air units, so a worn part gets fixed before it shuts down the line. Where a kitchen exhausts through an electrostatic precipitator, we clean that too. Filter exchange and fan service.

Rooftop upblast exhaust fan on a Boca Raton roof, Boca Raton, FL
A rooftop upblast exhaust fan in Boca Raton.
Clean baffle filters back in a hood after cleaning, Delray Beach, FL
Clean baffle filters back in the hood, Delray Beach.
New filters going into a make-up air unit, Miami, FL
New filters going into a make-up air unit in Miami.

Kitchen air balance check

We measure how much air your hoods pull out against how much make-up air comes back, and check the building’s pressure. We fix what’s on the exhaust side, like belts, filters and fan speed, and tell you and your HVAC contractor what’s off on the AC side. How the check works.

Hood design, fabrication and installation

Type I hoods, grease duct, fire wrap, exhaust fans and make-up air for new kitchens and remodels, from mechanical plans to the fire department test. Restaurant hood installation.

New kitchen hood over a grill, Davie, FL
A new hood over the grill in a Davie kitchen.
New kitchen hood over the fryers, Davie, FL
A new hood over the fryers on the same Davie job.

Everything on one schedule

We book cleaning, the suppression inspection, filters and the fan check together, for one kitchen or several. The tags and stickers are updated on the same date. Kitchen fire safety program.

We work in Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties, with scheduled trips to Central Florida

Broward County. Plantation, home of our office, plus Fort Lauderdale, Pembroke Pines, Miramar, Hollywood, Coral Springs, Davie, Pompano Beach and Sunrise, Weston and Cooper City. We cover the rest of the county too, including Deerfield Beach and Hallandale Beach.

Miami-Dade County. Miami and greater Miami-Dade, including Brickell, Wynwood, Doral and Aventura, plus Miami Beach, Hialeah and Coral Gables.

Palm Beach County. Boca Raton, West Palm Beach, and across the county in Delray Beach, Boynton Beach, Palm Beach, Wellington, Lake Worth Beach and Jupiter.

Central Florida, on scheduled trips. Tampa, and St. Cloud, Sebring and Titusville.

What happens from your first call to the next reminder

  1. Call or email. Give us the address, what’s due and when the kitchen is quiet.
  2. We book around your hours. Before opening, after close or overnight.
  3. The crew does the work. Cleaning, the suppression inspection, filters and the fan check, whichever the visit covers.
  4. You get the paperwork. Cleaning comes with a report and before-and-after photos. For the suppression system, Florida’s rules call for an inspection report after each service, with a signed copy for you. The system also gets a tag showing the technician’s name and state permit number.
  5. You hear from us before the next due date. Past reports and upcoming appointments are in the service portal.

What South Florida kitchens get from Done Right

  • Photo reports, reminders before each due date and online access to your records.
  • Fire suppression work done under our Florida Division of State Fire Marshal license.
  • On staff: a technician certified on CaptiveAire TANK systems.
  • Emergency repairs, with rapid response across South Florida from our Plantation office.
  • Electrostatic precipitators (pollution control units): few companies are licensed to service them, and we do.
  • Installs with the city filing handled for you.
  • 5-star rated on Google.
  • A staffed local office in Plantation, Broward County.
  • Hablamos español: someone answering (954) 399-6161 can help you in Spanish.

Questions South Florida kitchens ask

How often does a kitchen fire suppression inspection need to be done?

Plan on a kitchen fire suppression inspection and service every six months. Inspection checklists from Florida fire departments look for a service tag on the hood system that’s under six months old.

How often does a restaurant need kitchen hood and duct cleaning?

How often you need kitchen hood and duct cleaning depends on how you cook. Guidance from fire marshals, based on NFPA 96, sets grease inspections at monthly for solid-fuel cooking and quarterly for high-volume kitchens (24-hour, charbroil or wok). Moderate volume is every six months and low-volume operations once a year. If an inspection turns up grease buildup, cleaning is required.

Which fire code covers restaurant kitchen hood cleaning in Florida?

The Florida Fire Prevention Code covers restaurant kitchen hood cleaning. Its 8th Edition took effect December 31, 2023. That edition adopts the 2021 edition of NFPA 96, the national standard for commercial kitchen ventilation and fire protection. A new edition is proposed for December 31, 2026, and it would bring in the 2024 edition of NFPA 96.

Is Done Right licensed for kitchen fire suppression inspections in Florida?

Yes. We hold a Fire Equipment Dealer license from the Division of State Fire Marshal covering service, repair, installation and inspection of pre-engineered kitchen fire suppression systems. Florida law requires that kind of license for any business that inspects, services, installs or recharges pre-engineered fire suppression systems.

Can you do the kitchen hood cleaning and the kitchen fire suppression inspection in one visit, after we close?

Yes, we can do the kitchen hood cleaning, the kitchen fire suppression inspection, a filter swap and the fan check in one visit scheduled around your hours, overnight included. You get one report.

Do you do kitchen hood cleaning outside Broward County?

Yes. We do kitchen hood cleaning throughout Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties, and we make scheduled trips to Tampa, St. Cloud, Sebring and Titusville.

Call (954) 399-6161 with the kitchen’s address and what’s due

Call (954) 399-6161 or email office@donerighthfs.com. Tell us where the kitchen is, what’s due and when it’s quiet. We’ll book the visit and tell you up front what it covers.

Restaurant groups on ResQ and general contractors on BuildingConnected can add Done Right as a vendor and send work orders or bid invites to our Florida office there.

Sources
  1. https://www.firemarshal.ks.gov/DocumentCenter/View/340/Fire-Fact-066—Hood-Suppression-PDF
  2. https://captiveaire.com/manuals/cleaninginstructions/deep_cleaning_instructions.pdf
  3. https://www.myfloridacfo.com/docs-sf/state-fire-marshal-libraries/sfm-documents/bfp/florida-fire-prevention-code/florida-fire-prevention-code-8th-edition-nfpa-1-fl-sp.pdf
  4. https://www.charlottecountyfl.gov/core/fileparse.php/939/urlt/preinspection-2024.pdf
  5. https://www.sjcfl.us/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Hood-Annual-Checklist.pdf
  6. https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2025/633.304
  7. https://www.law.cornell.edu/regulations/florida/Fla-Admin-Code-Ann-R-69A-21-303
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