Hotel and condo kitchen hood cleaning in South Florida

What we clean on a hotel or condo property

• Hood and duct cleaning for every hood: the canopy, filters and plenum, the vertical and horizontal duct through its access panels, the rooftop exhaust fan and its grease containment. More on hood cleaning.
• Pollution control units. Where a kitchen’s exhaust can’t discharge straight to the roof, we clean the pollution control unit or electrostatic precipitator that treats it on the way out.

One calendar for every kitchen on the property

Start with a list: every kitchen on the property, the hoods in it, the hours it’s quiet and the date of its last cleaning. We build the calendar from that list.

Each kitchen gets a slot that fits its own hours: the banquet kitchen between events, the restaurant line after the last seating, the clubhouse kitchen on its off days.

The hood cleaning is the core of each visit. When a kitchen’s dates line up, the suppression inspection, the filter swap and the fan check happen on the same trip, with one report and one set of stickers and tags. That’s our done-all-at-once visit.

Hood cleaning, suppression inspections, filter swaps and fan checks all come from one company. You have one person to call and one person coordinating every kitchen on the property, so the kitchens keep cooking.

Reminders go out before each kitchen comes due. Past reports and upcoming appointments are online in our customer service portal, so the engineering office has them on hand when the inspector, the insurer or a brand audit asks.

How often each kitchen needs cleaning

Fire-marshal guidance based on NFPA 96 ties grease inspections to how you cook. Solid-fuel cooking is inspected monthly, and high-volume kitchens such as 24-hour, charbroil or wok operations are inspected quarterly. Moderate volume is every six months. Low-volume operations like churches, day camps and seasonal businesses are inspected once a year. The schedule is for inspection; when an inspection finds grease buildup, the system has to be cleaned.

Kitchens on the same property can fall in different rows. Your fire inspector is the authority on which row each one is in. Each kitchen’s suppression system also has its own tag and its own date, covered under suppression inspection.

Guests and residents upstairs

In a tower, a kitchen’s exhaust can climb many floors before it reaches the fan on the roof. We clean that whole path: the plenum, the duct through its access panels and the fan. Broward County’s local fire code lets the fire department order grease buildup in kitchen exhaust ducts removed as a hazard.

On the roof, grease ducts serving Type I hoods must discharge at least 40 inches above the roof, and upblast fans serving them must be hinged. The hinge is what lets the crew tip the fan open and clean it, so we look at it on every visit, along with the belt and the grease containment.

Smoke rolling out of a hood, or doors that are hard to open or get pulled shut, can be signs your kitchen air is out of balance. That is a separate check, covered under kitchen air balance.

For condo buildings and community association managers

If the association runs a clubhouse kitchen, a café or a pool grill, the hood over it needs what any restaurant’s needs: cleaning on the schedule its cooking calls for and paperwork the fire inspector can see.

If a restaurant leases the ground floor, check the lease for who books the kitchen service. Either way, its exhaust runs up through the building you manage. Our guide for property managers with restaurant tenants lists what to ask a tenant for.

What fire inspectors look for on hotel and condo properties

Who inspects depends on where the building sits.

• Broward County, countywide. The county’s local fire code calls for fire inspections of buildings and premises at least once a year. For hood cleaning, the person inspecting the system for grease must meet IKECA training requirements, or those of another nationally recognized exhaust-cleaning association that the fire department accepts. The cleaner’s training certification goes to the local fire authority before cleaning, and a copy of the cleaning report, with before-and-after photos, goes to the local fire authority afterward.
• Fort Lauderdale. Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue’s Fire Prevention Bureau enforces the city’s fire code. For your kitchen hood and its fire suppression system, the bureau works from the service reports filed in The Compliance Engine rather than routine visits, and it sends an inspector when a report shows a clearly deficient system. More on how those reports work.
• Pompano Beach. Pompano Beach Fire Rescue performs annual fire inspections on all commercial properties and on residential properties of three or more living units.
• Hollywood. The city’s fire prevention division inspects commercial and multi-family buildings and takes requests for annual inspections.
• Miami-Dade Fire Rescue (unincorporated Miami-Dade and the cities it serves). Every business needs an annual inspection and a Life Safety Operating Permit, and the program exempts only single- and two-family homes. The hotel permit fee is set per building, plus a charge for each unit over 50.
• Miami Beach. The Fire Prevention Division’s annual checklists for existing buildings include a semi-annual report for cooking equipment fire extinguishing systems.
• Palm Beach County Fire Rescue (unincorporated Palm Beach County and the towns it serves). Hotels are on an annual inspection cycle. For kitchens with a UL 300 suppression system, its handout asks for current inspection reports on site and completed work orders for any deficiencies noted. It also asks for a hood cleaning sticker on the side of the hood and cooking equipment in its designed position.
• Boca Raton and West Palm Beach run their own fire service. Boca’s inspection types include fire hood suppression, and its inspectors periodically inspect existing commercial and multifamily buildings. West Palm Beach’s Fire Prevention Bureau runs regular fire safety inspections of commercial and residential properties.

Miami-Dade’s 575 hotels and Greater Fort Lauderdale’s busy season

The Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau’s January 13, 2026 inventory lists 575 hotels and 64,719 rooms in Miami-Dade County. By our count of that list, about 222 of those hotels are in Miami Beach, with about 20,900 rooms. More than 100 sit on Collins Avenue in Miami Beach alone, with about 13,300 rooms, and about 37 more line Ocean Drive.

Broward is busy too. Greater Fort Lauderdale drew more than 20.9 million visitors in 2025, and hotel occupancy reached 85% in March 2026. Fort Lauderdale also has many boutique hotels of 75 rooms or fewer.

One company for the hoods, the suppression systems and the paperwork

• Licensed by the Florida Division of State Fire Marshal to service, repair, install and inspect pre-engineered kitchen fire suppression systems.
• Reports with before-and-after photos for your engineering office’s files, scheduled service reminders, and online access to past reports and upcoming appointments.
• A CaptiveAire TANK certified technician on staff.
• Emergency repairs, with rapid response across South Florida from our Plantation office.
• Installs with the city filing handled for you.
• Electrostatic precipitators (pollution control units): few companies are licensed to service them, and we do.
• 5-star rated on Google.

Where we work

Our crews work out of a staffed office in Plantation and travel to kitchens across Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties. That includes Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood and Deerfield Beach in Broward; Miami Beach, Miami and Aventura in Miami-Dade; and Boca Raton, Delray Beach, Palm Beach and West Palm Beach in Palm Beach County. For the rest of the region, start at our South Florida page.

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