Pennsylvania

Hood cleaning in Harrisburg

What Pennsylvania requires of your kitchen, what to ask before you book, and the 3 companies we can find doing this work in Harrisburg.

3 companies3 obligations, each citedChecked 13 Sep 2026

What the law asks of you

These are obligations on you, the restaurant — not on the cleaner. Each links to the regulation it came from, so you can check us.

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.

Companies doing this work in Harrisburg

3, listed alphabetically. We show what we could establish about each and, just as plainly, what we could not. Nothing here is a recommendation and no company has paid to appear.

What “their website says” means. We read each company's own site and recorded the claims it makes, with the sentence each came from. We have not verified them — which is exactly why the questions above matter more than any badge we could print.