Hood cleaning

Hood cleaning in Nevada

What Nevada requires of a commercial kitchen, cited to the regulation, and the companies doing the work here.

6 obligations2 cities14 companies

What the law asks of you

State rules first, then the fire-code baseline that most of the country has adopted. Each one cites the regulation it came from.

Nevada

Your cleaner must be licensed by the State Fire Marshal

The company cleaning your Type 1 grease duct must hold a licence from the Nevada State Fire Marshal. Registration also requires the individual to pass a State Fire Marshal examination.

Ask before bookingAsk for their Nevada State Fire Marshal licence number before booking.

Nevada Administrative Code — NAC 477.770 — “A license must be obtained from the State Fire Marshal to service and clean Type 1 exhaust system grease ducts.” Read 12 Sep 2026.

Nevada

Keep the contract and reports on site — and know what gets reported about you

You must keep a copy of the cleaning contract and the cleaning reports at the restaurant, and hand them to the fire inspector on request. Separately, after each clean the company must send the authority a report of any deficiency it did not fix -- excessive grease, areas it could not reach, access panels that do not meet code, fans that are not cleanable, missing filters -- by close of business the next business day, on a report signed by someone representing you.

Ask before bookingAsk for the written report after every clean, and ask whether anything was left uncleaned. If it was, the fire authority is told within a day and you are asked to sign it.

Nevada Administrative Code — NAC 477.780 — “A copy of the cleaning contract and cleaning reports for a Type 1 exhaust system must be maintained at the site where the exhaust system is located and made available to the authority having jurisdiction upon request.” Read 12 Sep 2026.

Nevada

There must be a label on the hood

After servicing, the company must attach a tag or stick-on label, on a form the State Fire Marshal has approved, recording the service.

Ask before bookingLook for the label on the hood. If there is no label, the job is not finished.

Nevada Administrative Code — NAC 477.790 Read 12 Sep 2026.

Fire code

How often it must be inspected

Your hood, grease-removal devices, fans and ducts must be INSPECTED on a schedule set by how you cook: every month if you burn solid fuel, every 3 months for high-volume cooking such as 24-hour operations, charbroiling or wok cooking, every 12 months for low-volume operations such as places of worship, seasonal businesses and senior centres, and every 6 months for everything else. The inspection must be done by a qualified person.

How you cookInspect every
Solid fuel — wood, charcoal1 month
High volume — 24-hour, charbroiling, wok3 months
Everything else6 months
Low volume — worship, seasonal, senior centres12 months
Ask before bookingAsk which interval applies to your kitchen and why. A charbroiler or a wok range puts you on 3 months, not 6.

City of Charleston Fire Marshal's Office, publishing the adopted International Fire Code — 2015 IFC §609.3.3.1 and Table 609.3.3.1, adopted throughout South Carolina on 1 July 2016 Read 12 Sep 2026.

Fire code

Cleaning is triggered by grease, not by the calendar

Cleaning is not on the calendar — it is triggered by what the inspection finds. If the inspection finds grease built up, the system must then be cleaned to the ANSI/IKECA C10 standard. So the interval above buys you an inspection; whether you also buy a clean depends on the grease.

Ask before bookingAsk whether they work to ANSI/IKECA C10 — the code names that standard by name, so it is a fair question and a specific one.

City of Charleston Fire Marshal's Office, publishing the adopted International Fire Code — 2015 IFC §609.3.3.2 — “such components shall be cleaned in accordance with ANSI/IKECA C10” Read 12 Sep 2026.

Fire code

Your records must name a person, not just a company

Records of every inspection and every cleaning must be kept. Each must name the individual AND the company who did the work, describe it, and say when it happened. A dated invoice with only a company name on it does not meet this.

Ask before bookingAsk for a record naming the technician, not just the company. That is what the code asks for and what an inspector will look for.

City of Charleston Fire Marshal's Office, publishing the adopted International Fire Code — 2015 IFC §609.3.3.3 Read 12 Sep 2026.

Cities

Elsewhere in Nevada

3 more companies, in places with too few for a page of their own.

Burton Hood & Duct Inc

(775) 425-6683

Sparks, NV

We could not find a website for this company, so there is nothing further we can tell you about it. That is not a mark against them — plenty of good trade businesses run on a phone.

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