This is one of the "AFTER" pictures sent by a cleaning company to their customer!!
The following e-mail was actually sent to the facilities manager at a large chain about a store in the SE United States. There area several stores they are cleaning and I included the Facilities Manager's comment afterwards about the attached picture. This is hard to stomach, but it is often what a lot of exhaust system cleaners think. These people need to be held accountable and forced to start doing their job or go away and stop putting peoples lives and properties in danger. They are NOT a certified company. They also do janitorial work. Of course I hid the name to protect the guilty as always. This is the 2nd janitorial company attempting to do hood cleaning in this blog in the past 2 months. The other one was up north. Any company following IKECA, NFPA96, and Viro specifications would do the standard exhaust cleaning procedure of simply scraping out and power washing the duct(which is what I think this guy calls "Flooding the duct") so all grease is removed down to the metal. Burnt on grease is still grease and in truth, this job is not near as bad as several others in previous posts. My opinion is that all this company's excuses are simple BS for not doing their job!!
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Attached are the pictures for ******, *************, and *************
"****** Mall store, you can see the grease is burnt on the wall of the duct. This is the best I can do unless we go in and scrape it and flood the duct. I think it's o.k. to operate as long we can stop future buildup. The mall is 3 levels as you can see in one of the pix's and not accessible." Thanks, ***********
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And the FM's comment when I asked him if these were before or after pictures plus his comments on the first letter:
"They're all after pictures sadly enough. I also like how he leaves out all the horizontals in the other store pics."
"I've explained that nothing short of of down to bare metal will be sufficient over and over again and he just doesn't seem to get it......" We'll see, Thanks ******** ********