Straight numbers, with the honest caveat that hood count, duct length and complexity, and rooftop access move every quote. Budget from your tier, not from the lowest bid.
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 Madison 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.
A single-hood restaurant with a straightforward run and reachable rooftop fan typically lands at $400–$600 per full-system cleaning. Multi-hood kitchens, long horizontal runs, ducts needing new access panels, and hard roof access run higher. First visits on neglected systems cost more — more grease, often panels to install — then the price settles into maintenance mode.
Multiply by your NFPA 96 frequency: semi-annual at $500 a visit is ~$1,000 a year; quarterly ~$2,000; a monthly solid-fuel operation $6,000+. Against a duct fire, a failed inspection, or a contested insurance claim, each is a rounding error — but it belongs in the budget as a line item, not a surprise.
A bid far under the field is almost always a bid for less system: canopy and filters, not duct and fan. It buys a shiny hood, a sticker, and an unchanged fire risk overhead — often with no compliant report behind it. Four questions price any quote correctly: Full duct run and rooftop fan included? Access panels installed where the duct needs them? Before/after photos? Signed report and dated sticker? What compliant includes.
Tell us about your kitchen — hoods, cooking style, hours — and we’ll connect you with a trained, insured company that quotes the whole system.
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 Madison 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.
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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. Madison Hood Cleaning is a referral service and does not itself perform exhaust cleaning, inspection, or certification.