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Operating a commercial / restaurant kitchen is reliant heavily on a functioning exhaust hood system. The exhaust hood system is not only your first line of defense against a kitchen grease fire, but it also proactively pulls grease, dirt, and other airborne particles out of the kitchen and replaces it with clean air. By removing the airborne contaminants and replacing the air with clean air the exhaust hood system helps prevent grease build ups that can lead to grease fires, provides fresh air clean of contaminants for the kitchen staff, removes smoke and odors from the kitchen, and more. The importance of the exhaust hood system to a clean, functioning system is exactly why it is imperative to keep up with all cleaning, maintenance, and repairs that your exhaust hood system may need.

There are a few tell-tale signs that it may be time to call in a professional hood cleaning or hood repair company. For one if you start to notice a constant smoke or lingering haze in the kitchen, or if there are odors from outside the kitchen that are noticeable inside the kitchen, it is possible that the system is having problems pulling out the dirty air and / or replacing it with clean air. If you begin to detect changes in the indoor temperature or it fees like the heating / cooling is inconsistent in regulating the temperature then your make up air unit may be having problems. Another sign of this is irregular pressurization, which is made apparent by difficulty opening or closing outside doors to your kitchen. Lastly - if you b...