About Sioux Falls Hood Cleaning

Sioux Falls Hood Cleaning is an independently operated local service doing kitchen exhaust cleaning, grease trap pumping, and exhaust fan work for restaurants and commercial kitchens across the Sioux Empire. We don’t advertise certifications or coverage on this site; ask us, like any vendor, to show you credentials and proof of insurance before we start. We say that plainly because a GM deciding who gets keys to the building after close deserves to know exactly who they’re dealing with.

What governs the work in this market

South Dakota has no state license for hood cleaners. Anyone can claim the trade. What governs the work instead is NFPA 96’s requirement that cleaning be done by properly trained, qualified, and certified persons acceptable to the authority having jurisdiction, which in Sioux Falls means Sioux Falls Fire Rescue enforcing the city’s adopted 2021 International Fire Code. The industry credentials that answer that requirement are IKECA’s CECS, CECT, and CESI designations.

So the useful thing to know is what a proper service looks like: the full system (hood, filters, plenum, duct, and fan) cleaned to the bare-metal standard, documented with before-and-after photos, with the service report and dated sticker that inspectors and insurance carriers ask for. If a company’s idea of a service is polishing the canopy and skipping the duct, that is the wrong company; ask any vendor, us included, to put the full scope in writing.

What we will and won’t say

The honesty rules we hold ourselves to, in writing:

• We don’t claim IKECA certification on this site. Ask us, or anyone bidding, which credential the person cleaning your system holds.
• We don’t issue compliance certificates. Compliance is the fire inspector’s call; a service report and dated sticker only document the work.
• We never guarantee an inspection outcome. Nobody honest can. What a proper cleaning delivers is a system at the standard and documentation that proves it.
• We publish real price ranges (single-hood cleanings typically $300–$700, indoor trap pump-outs $150–$450) instead of hiding numbers behind a sales call. Every range we quote sits on one table on the pricing page.
• We won’t invent reviews, years in business, or credentials. The work speaks in photos.

How a first service goes

You call (605) 675-7391 or send the form. The walkthrough covers hood count, duct run length, roof access, cooking volume, and, if drains are in scope, trap size and location. Ask us for a firm quote in writing, not a range. Hood cleaning is normally done after close: our techs protect the cookline, clean the system, and leave the kitchen dry before morning prep; confirm the start and reset-by times when you book. A proper service ends with a bare-metal system, a stack of photos, and a dated sticker on the hood.

From there, most kitchens move to a standing schedule matched to their cooking volume under NFPA 96 Table 12.4 (quarterly for high-volume lines, semiannual for moderate) so compliance stops being a scramble. The NFPA 96 compliance page explains the frequency framework; restaurant hood cleaning covers the work itself.

Service area

Sioux Falls first (downtown and Phillips Avenue’s restaurant rows, the 41st Street corridor, and the new commercial pads on the growing edges) plus the satellite towns: Brandon, Harrisburg, Tea, and Dell Rapids. Inside city limits your kitchen is licensed by Sioux Falls’ municipal health department, the only one in South Dakota; in the satellite towns, licensing runs through the state Department of Health. Either way, the fire-code obligations on your exhaust system are the same, and we cover the whole map.

If you’re comparing bids right now, ask every bidder the same three questions: who exactly is certified, will the duct and fan be photographed, and what does the report include. The answers sort the field fast.