Sioux Falls Hood Cleaning About Sioux Falls Hood Cleaning
Sioux Falls Hood Cleaning is an independently operated local service that connects restaurants and commercial kitchens across the Sioux Empire with certified, insured local companies for kitchen exhaust cleaning, grease trap pumping, and exhaust fan work. We are the front door and the scheduler; the cleaning is performed by crews carrying their own certifications and insurance. That’s the model, stated plainly, because a GM deciding who gets keys to the building after close deserves to know exactly who they’re dealing with.
Why the model works 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 we do is filtering. The companies we connect you with clean full systems — hood, filters, plenum, duct, and fan — to the bare-metal standard, document it with before-and-after photos, and leave the service report and dated sticker that inspectors and insurance carriers ask for. If a crew’s idea of a service is polishing the canopy and skipping the duct, they don’t get our calls.
What we will and won’t say
The honesty rules we hold ourselves to, in writing:
- We don’t hold IKECA certification ourselves and never claim to — the operating companies carry the credentials.
- We don’t issue compliance certificates. The service report and sticker come from the company that did 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. The full table is 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. You get a firm quote, not a range. Service is scheduled after close: crews protect the cookline, clean the system, and have the kitchen dry before morning prep. You open the next day to 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.
Where we work
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 the crews 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.