Commercial Cleaning Services in Hamilton
Commercial cleaning services for a kitchen exhaust system are the separate jobs that keep the path from the cook line to the rooftop fan in the condition the fire code requires. Hamilton Hood Cleaning offers six of them, and most Hamilton kitchens need two or three rather than all six. If you know your kitchen needs work but not what to call it, the fastest route is the decision table below: find the sentence that describes your situation and follow it to the service that fixes it. Everything here starts from $385 per visit, every visit ends with photographs and a signed certificate, and the free walk-through exists precisely so nobody buys a service their kitchen does not need.
Which service does my Hamilton kitchen need?
Start from the symptom or the situation, not from the service list. Most operators recognise their kitchen in one of these rows.
| What is happening in your kitchen | Book this | Why |
|---|---|---|
| You have an inspection coming and no idea what state the system is in | Commercial hood cleaning | One documented visit covers the whole path and produces the dated evidence an inspector asks for. |
| The last contractor never went on the roof | Kitchen exhaust cleaning | The duct and the fan are the sections a canopy visit never touches, and they are where a fire travels. |
| Filters are loading up long before the next scheduled visit | Hood filter cleaning | Filters on a shorter cycle, and a review of whether your volume has outgrown the interval. |
| Smoke hangs on the line and the kitchen runs hot | Hood vent cleaning | Lost capture is far more often a loaded blower wheel than a dirty canopy. |
| Your landlord has raised grease staining on the roof | Rooftop grease containment | This is a property damage question rather than a code one, and it usually arrives as a chargeback. |
| The rooftop fan cannot be tilted back safely | Exhaust fan hinge kit | A fan nobody can open stops being cleaned. Fitting a hinge kit makes every future visit complete. |
| You just want to know what the fire code actually requires | Read the NFPA 96 guide | It carries the frequency table by cooking volume and the grease deposit limit, with no sales pitch attached. |
The six services in one place
What each one is for, in a sentence, with the detail a page away.
Commercial Hood Cleaning
The core visit, walked through stage by stage: what gets covered, opened, scraped, photographed and signed off, and how it differs across Hamilton kitchen districts.
Service detailsKitchen Exhaust Cleaning
The full path including the horizontal and vertical duct and the rooftop fan. This is the scope the code interval refers to.
Service detailsHood Filter Cleaning
Baffle filters cleaned or exchanged on a short cycle so the first line of defence keeps draining instead of pushing grease up the duct.
Service detailsHood Vent Cleaning
The vent run, the fan housing and the blower wheel, for a kitchen that has lost airflow rather than one that has failed an inspection.
Service detailsRooftop Grease Containment
Containment fitted and serviced at the fan so discharge stops tracking across a roof membrane you do not own.
Service detailsExhaust Fan Hinge Kits
A one-time fitting that makes the top of the system serviceable, so the fan is genuinely cleaned on every visit from then on.
Service detailsWhat is outside the scope
Hamilton Hood Cleaning works on commercial kitchen exhaust systems and nothing else. Saying that plainly is more useful to an operator than a long list would be.
The following are not offered here, and if you need one of them you should hire a company that specialises in it: pressure washing and power washing, dryer vent cleaning, general air duct cleaning, barbecue and smoker cleaning, industrial odour removal, grease trap pumping, and servicing or inspection of the fire suppression system over your cook line. That last one matters most. The suppression system is a separate trade with its own licensing, and a hood cleaning visit does not certify it.
Residential range hoods are also outside the scope. The services on this page are built around the NFPA 96 standard, which governs commercial kitchen exhaust, so a home kitchen falls outside what any of these certificates could reasonably cover.
Coverage is Hamilton and its amalgamated communities, plus Brantford and Grimsby, with route days beyond. The areas served page has the full list. If your kitchen sits outside that area, say so on the call and you will get a straight answer rather than a maybe.
What these services cost in Hamilton in 2026
Every service on this page starts from $385 per visit for a single-hood kitchen up to ten feet and from $725 per visit for a multi-hood kitchen of two to four canopies, with campus, hospital, contract-catered and multi-tenant sites quoted after a free walk-through.
Included in every quote regardless of which service you book: before-and-after photographs of each cleaned surface, a signed health and safety certificate referencing the NFPA 96 standard, and proof of WSIB coverage and liability insurance supplied before the crew arrives. Work is scheduled overnight or between service hours. The quote is written, it arrives within 24 hours, and the invoice matches it.
The cost guide breaks down what moves the number, and the hood cleaning guides answer the code and frequency questions without a quote attached. To book the walk-through, call 289-796-0840 or use the contact page.
Choosing a service: frequently asked questions
What operators ask on this page before they pick one.
Can I book a single service on its own?
Yes. Filter cleaning, vent and fan work, containment servicing and hinge kit fitting are all available as standalone visits, and plenty of kitchens start with one. What you will be told honestly is when a single service leaves the compliance question open, because a canopy that looks perfect above a duct nobody opened is a presentable kitchen and an incomplete record.
How do I know which service a previous contractor actually performed?
Look at what the paperwork names rather than what the invoice cost. A record that lists the fan, the duct access points and the plenum separately describes a full-system visit. A line that reads hood cleaned, with no standard referenced and no photographs, could describe almost anything. If you have last year invoice in front of you and cannot tell, bring it to the walk-through and you will get a plain reading of it.
Do I need every service on this page?
Almost certainly not. Most Hamilton kitchens run a full exhaust clean on the interval their cooking volume calls for, filters on a shorter cycle between those visits, and nothing else. Containment applies where a fan discharges onto a roof surface that stains, and a hinge kit applies where the fan cannot be opened safely. Neither is fitted unless the site genuinely needs it.
Does one certificate cover a whole multi-tenant building?
No. Each kitchen is a separate operator with a separate obligation, so each gets its own visit record and its own certificate. Where units share a duct riser, that shared section belongs to the building rather than to any single tenant and needs its own scope and its own record, normally arranged through the property manager.
What if the walk-through says my kitchen needs less than I asked for?
Then the quote comes back smaller than you expected. The walk-through costs nothing and exists to size the job accurately in both directions, which is why it happens before the number rather than after it. Selling a kitchen a service it does not need is how a contractor loses the account on the second visit.