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MEMBERSHIP CLASSIFICATIONS

Active Members provide kitchen exhaust system cleaning services on a regular basis.

Supplemental Members are branch/satellite offices of Active Member firms, located more than 200 miles away from the Active Member's Headquarters Office.

Associate Members are manufacturers of kitchen exhaust hood systems, cleaning equipment or supplies.

Guidelines and Best Practices of the
International Kitchen Exhaust Cleaning Association

Members shall agree to uphold the following Standards

• To provide for the customer one's best efforts toward the goal of cleaning and degreasing of the kitchen exhaust removal system.
• To make the customer aware of whatever may exist in the way of unusual and/or unorthodox fabrication methods utilized during the construction of the kitchen exhaust removal system.
• To properly, clearly, and completely educate the customer of any alterations or additions which may be necessary for the kitchen exhaust removal system to be rendered as cleanable as possible.
• To reach agreement with the customer on a definition of "clean" with respect to what is expected and attainable, within the bounds of whatever oddities may exist in the kitchen exhaust removal system in question.
• To be willing to respect the customer's special wishes regarding procedural aspects so far as they remain within the bounds of acceptable business practices.
• To be accessible to customer inquiries, comments, or complaints on a completed service, and be willing to reach mutually acceptable terms under which said complaint can and will be addressed.
• To make the customer aware of areas under which no degree of responsibility can be assumed with respect to regions of kitchen exhaust removal systems which, by virtue of the manner in which it was installed, is and will remain, inaccessible for cleaning.
• To understand and comply with all applicable municipal, state and NFPA 96 codes governing the cleaning and degreasing of kitchen exhaust removal systems.

Members shall agree to comply with the following Standards

• To strive to clean any readily accessible areas of the kitchen exhaust system, using methods which will remove any and all contaminants, thus rendering the interior surfaces of the system to their original state of bare metal.
• To limit, where possible/practical, the introduction of foreign substances (i.e. flame retardant powder, paint) and to remove on a regular basis, all old flame retardant powder so as to prevent ducting from being occluded.
• To clearly tag and mark any kitchen exhaust removal system which has been cleaned with a Certificate of Performance stating the date of service, service company name, staff member(s) initials, and date of next scheduled service, and if areas were not cleaned due to inaccessibility.

MEMBERSHIP CLASSIFICATIONS

Active Members provide kitchen exhaust system cleaning services on a regular basis.

Supplemental Members are branch/satellite offices of Active Member firms, located more than 200 miles away from the Active Member's Headquarters Office.

Associate Members are manufacturers of kitchen exhaust hood systems, cleaning equipment or supplies.