NFPA 96 and the Ontario Fire Code
What the standard covers, how the Ontario Fire Code and insurers use it, who enforces it in this city, and why no cleaning company is NFPA certified no matter what its website claims.
Read the compliance guideHood Cleaning Guides for Brampton Operators
The Brampton Hood Cleaning Pros guides library is a short set of plain-language answers to the three questions that account for almost every call this business receives: what the rule actually says, how often a kitchen has to be cleaned, and what the work costs. Each guide is written for an operator rather than for a search engine, because someone who understands the standard buys better than someone guessing, and because none of these answers change depending on who ends up doing the job.
The guides
Read them in this order if the kitchen has never been on a schedule.
How often should a hood be cleaned
The monthly, quarterly, semi-annual and annual schedule mapped onto real Brampton kitchen types, plus six signs a system is overdue that need no ladder to spot.
Read the frequency guideHood cleaning cost in Brampton
Published starting prices, the nine factors that move a quote, and a side-by-side look at what separates a full-scope quote from one that looks too good to be true.
Read the cost guideWhich guide answers your question?
Start from the question you actually have rather than from the top of the list.
| If you are asking | Read this |
|---|---|
| An inspector left an order and I do not understand it. | NFPA 96 and the Ontario Fire Code |
| My insurer is asking for proof of cleaning. | NFPA 96 and the Ontario Fire Code |
| How often does my kitchen really need this? | Cleaning frequency |
| The kitchen has got hot and smoky. Is that the hood? | Cleaning frequency, then the ductwork page |
| I have three quotes and they are wildly different. | Hood cleaning cost |
| What is the difference between the hood and the duct? | The services overview |
Why these three guides and not thirty
A short library that gets read beats a long one that does not.
Plenty of hood cleaning websites carry dozens of articles, and most of them exist to catch search traffic rather than to answer anything. The pattern is easy to spot once you know it: a page about how a range hood works in a home kitchen, sitting on the site of a company that only serves commercial kitchens, is not there for the reader.
Three guides cover what a Brampton operator actually needs before booking. The compliance guide answers what Brampton Fire and Emergency Services and an insurer will ask for. The frequency guide answers how often, using the NFPA 96 schedule rather than a rule of thumb. The cost guide publishes the numbers openly, starting at $385 per visit, so nobody has to sit through a sales call to find out whether this is affordable.
More guides will be added when there is a question worth answering that these three do not cover. Adding pages to look busy is not the same as being useful, and Google has been explicit that publishing at scale for its own sake is a problem rather than a strategy.
What every guide here will and will not do
Worth stating up front, so nobody reads these expecting something they are not.
- They state the standard, not an opinion. NFPA 96 sets a grease depth limit of 0.078 inches and an inspection frequency tied to cooking volume. Those are the numbers used throughout, rather than a contractor's preference.
- They publish prices. From $385 per visit for a single-hood kitchen, from $725 for a multi-hood line. Hiding pricing behind a phone call is a tactic, not a courtesy.
- They name what is not offered. Residential range hoods, fire suppression servicing, duct repair and roof membrane repair all sit outside this scope and are described as such.
- They do not give legal advice. The Ontario Fire Code is law and a fire inspector applies it to your specific kitchen. These pages explain how the standard is normally applied, not what an inspector will decide in your building.
- They do not invent credentials. No cleaning company is certified by the NFPA, and this one does not claim to be.
Questions about these guides
Are these guides specific to Brampton?
The standard is national and the Ontario Fire Code is provincial, so that part applies anywhere in the province. What is specific to this city is the enforcement, since Brampton Fire and Emergency Services is the authority having jurisdiction here, and the kitchen types the guides use as examples, which are drawn from what actually operates in Brampton.
Will reading these save me from needing a contractor?
Partly, and that is fine. Kitchen staff washing filters between visits genuinely helps and the frequency guide explains where that helps most. What cannot be done in house is the concealed path, the plenum, duct and rooftop fan, and the independent dated record that an inspector or an insurer will ask for.
Who wrote these and how current are they?
They are written and maintained by Brampton Hood Cleaning Pros and carry a last-updated date where the answer can go stale, which is the cost guide and the frequency guide. The compliance guide changes only when the standard or the Ontario Fire Code does. If something here contradicts what an inspector tells you about your kitchen, the inspector is the one applying the law to your building.
Can I send these to my landlord or my insurer?
Yes, and tenants in shared Brampton plaza buildings do exactly that. The compliance guide explains what NFPA 96 covers, and the rooftop grease containment page covers the lease side of roof damage, which is normally where a landlord conversation starts.
Do you publish prices openly?
Yes. Commercial hood cleaning starts at $385 per visit for a single-hood kitchen and $725 for a multi-hood line, and the figures sit on the cost guide and in machine-readable form at pricing.md. Hiding pricing behind a phone call wastes everyone's time.