Hood cleaning

Hood cleaning in Utah

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

6 obligations7 cities59 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.

Utah

The company must hold a State Fire Marshal licence

The company must hold a Kitchen Exhaust System licence from the Utah State Fire Marshal. Getting one is not a formality: the applicant must pass a criminal background check through the Utah Bureau of Criminal Identification, produce proof of public liability insurance from a carrier, let the Fire Marshal inspect the premises and vehicles they service from, and pay to renew every year.

Ask before bookingYou do not have to ask — Utah publishes the list. Check the company against the State Fire Marshal's licensed-companies table before you book. Because a licence requires proof of insurance and a background check, being on that list says more than most states' licences do.

Utah Office of the State Fire Marshal, Kitchen Exhaust Duct Cleaning Systems — Utah Administrative Rule R710-7 — “No person or concern shall engage in the business of selling, installing, servicing, repairing, testing or modifying any kitchen exhaust system without obtaining a license from the Office of the State Fire Marshal” Read 12 Sep 2026.

Utah

The technician needs a Certificate of Registration too

The individual technician must ALSO hold a Certificate of Registration from the State Fire Marshal, and must be working for a licensed company. A licensed company sending an unregistered technician does not satisfy this — both halves are required.

Ask before bookingAsk for the name of the technician who will actually attend, then check it against the state's registered-technicians table. This is also what makes the fire code's record-keeping rule easy to satisfy in Utah: the record has to name a person, and that person is on a public list.

Utah Office of the State Fire Marshal, Kitchen Exhaust Duct Cleaning Systems — Utah Administrative Rule R710-7 — “No person shall service any KES without holding a certificate of registration issued by the Office of the State Fire Marshal” Read 12 Sep 2026.

Utah

There must be a service label on the system

A service label must be left on the system, printed to the State Fire Marshal's requirements.

Ask before bookingCheck the hood before they leave. No label, and the job is not finished.

Utah Office of the State Fire Marshal, Kitchen Exhaust Duct Cleaning Systems — Utah Administrative Rule R710-7 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 cook	Inspect every
Solid fuel — wood, charcoal	1 month
High volume — 24-hour, charbroiling, wok	3 months
Everything else	6 months
Low volume — worship, seasonal, senior centres	12 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 Utah

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

A TOUCH OF CLASS

(801) 489-8047

Springville, UT

Licensed by the Utah State Fire Marshal

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.