A contract is not worth anything if there is no follow up. This is a good example. Numerous locations of a chain of stores in one area of the country were inspected to check on current conditions. The head of the National KEC vendor who is cleaning them became very upset that the company who is also a competitor is taking pictures of his KEC jobs. He traveled to this area around Christmas time to deal with the issue and promises that this is an exception and that it would never happen again. He states that he was on top of the cleanings and personally checking the jobs. Right after he returns back to his home office, his crews clean up several jobs including the one shown here. I have seen this company's jobs for many years and this is the norm. I picked this job as it was a newer location(only a year or so old so it is not too bad yet),had access, was easy to clean, so there should be no excuse not to get it clean. These systems were just cleaned on the night of Dec 30th. Imagine after a few years of this neglect. As you can see, the access plates in the horizontals were never removed and there are clear lines where the cleaning stopped. You can also see what was left on the back of the fan blades. This is a good location as it looked very clean at first glance. I will show first the pictures of the clean areas that were the easiest to see, then what it really looks like further into the system. As normal, I had to eliminate some pictures to protect the name of the guilty. This is why we are trying to assist restaurant managers, facilities departments, and owners that not only do they need to get strong language in the contracts, but that they MUST follow up. The facilities department for this location receives pictures every time it is cleaned and do have strong language in their contracts. Even with that, here is how the job was left. I guess these companies never learn. May of us are trying to put trust and integrity into KEC services. These National companies (and many unscrupulous local and regional companies also) are destroying trust and integrity for ill gotten profit alone (and sometimes just sure laziness)! The KEC vendors low bid the jobs and as you can see, these kind of KEC companies have no intention of actually cleaning the entire systems or sometimes the owners of these companies simply do not want to know as long as they get the jobs and get their money. I wonder sometimes if these same KEC vendors have a clue how dangerous and catastrophic grease fires are.
Looking from below at an angle.
Looking down from roof looks perfect on both systems!
And the fan intakes also both look good.
HOWEVER........... Lets look past what you can see
from above and below using our monopod.
Looking up the vertical from the hood you can see
where the cleaning stopped.
and this is inside the horizontal above the ceiling.
Remember that this was just cleaned!
And looking up the other side that has little use
The back of the fan blades look far different
than the intake side
And using a camera monopod from the roof, we
can see what was around the corner AND the access
plate that was not used.
Upside down from camera pole into horiz.
The back of the other fan blades, even
with little use, it was left dirty
Here is the access plate from the outside. They must not
have recognized it as an access plate.
