What hood cleaning costs in Houston
Real numbers, published, because you shouldn't have to make four phone calls to find out what a normal job costs. If a vendor won't tell you a range before they see your kitchen, that's a choice they made, not a rule of the trade.
The base price and what it covers
One number covers the whole system. The roof is not an add-on.
Single-hood kitchen
$425
Up to 12 linear feet · one exhaust fan · normal roof access
Typical range $425–$550 · 3 to 4 hours on site
- Hood interior, to bare metal
- Baffle filters removed, washed in a contained tray, reinstalled
- Plenum behind the filters
- Horizontal duct, through every access panel that exists
- Vertical riser
- Exhaust fan — housing and blades, fan hinged open
- Roof curb and the surface under the fan
- Containment, cleanup, dated tag, signed certificate, 16 photographs
Flashlight Guarantee: pull any filter, open any panel we listed. Not bare metal? We're back within 72 hours, free.
What moves the number
| Driver | Change |
|---|---|
| Each additional hood on the system | +$175 |
| Each additional exhaust fan | +$95 |
| Each linear foot over 12 | +$16 |
| Charbroiler or wok load | +15% |
| Solid fuel — wood, charcoal, mesquite | +25–40% |
| No roof hatch, two-story, ladder access | +$75 |
| Booked same night | +25% |
| Quarterly agreement | −12% |
| First cleaning after long neglect | $0 |
Every number on this page is the number on the invoice. If something on site changes it, we stop, photograph it, and text you before we touch anything.
Every price above covers all of this.
Worked examples
Three real Houston kitchen shapes, with the maths shown.
12 ft charbroil taquería
$491
One hood, one fan, ground-level roof access.
$425 base + 15% charbroil load.
3–4 hours.
Two-hood burger house, 20 ft
$859
Two hoods, two fans, 20 linear feet, charbroil.
$425 + $175 hood + $95 fan + 8 ft over + 15%.
4–5 hours.
Three-hood Tex-Mex, two-story Montrose
$1,015
Three hoods, two fans, no interior roof hatch.
$425 + 2×$175 + $95 + $75 access.
5–6 hours.
That number is what we text you, and it is what the invoice says.
If we find something on site that changes it — a collapsed duct, a welded seam with no access panel, a fan that has to come off the curb — we stop, photograph it, and text you before we touch anything. We do not re-quote a job after starting it.
Add-ons, priced
| Item | Price | Why you'd want it |
|---|---|---|
| Replacement baffle filter, installed | $32 ea | Bent or gapped filters fail an inspection and let grease straight into the plenum. |
| Rooftop grease containment — installed | $65 | Grease on the membrane is a lease problem. Your landlord bills you for it. |
| Rooftop grease containment — serviced each visit | $35 | Emptied, replaced, photographed for your landlord. |
| Access panel installed where none exists | $95 ea | Without one, that section of duct cannot be cleaned by anybody — and it goes on your certificate as unreachable until it exists. |
| Grease Check — documented inspection, no cleaning | $95 | Grease depth measured at six named points, photo report, dated. Credited in full against a cleaning booked within 14 days. |
| Back-of-house deep clean, same night as a hood cleaning | $275 | Floors degreased and scrubbed, walls and ceiling tiles, equipment exteriors, drains. We're already there with the line pulled out. Details → |
| Back-of-house deep clean, standalone | from $425 | Same scope, its own night. |
| Strip and wax | $0.65–0.95 / sq ft | Quoted from a photo of the floor. |
| Office cleaning, after hours | by quote | Quoted from photos. Floors, restrooms, common areas, break-room kitchens. |
The 606 Plan
Named after the code table, because that is literally all it is: your row of 2021 IFC Table 606.3.3.1, scheduled, so you never have to remember it again.
Monthly — solid fuel
$340 /visit
Wood, charcoal, mesquite. 12 visits a year.
Quarterly — high volume
$361 /visit
Charbroil, wok, open 24 hours. 4 visits a year.
Semiannual — most restaurants
$383 /visit
Grill, fryers, plancha. 2 visits a year.
Annual — low volume
$425 /visit
Places of worship, schools, senior centers, seasonal.
What comes with it
- Price locked 24 months.
- Every visit for the next 12 months on the calendar the day you sign — plus a text 10 days out and again the morning of.
- All your paperwork at one link that never changes. At insurance renewal you send one URL, not a folder of scans.
- Same person every visit.
- One free filter swap between visits.
- Free re-clean within 72 hours if you're written up on anything we cleaned.
The real benefit isn't the 12%. It's that your manager can quit, your calendar can die, and your hood still gets cleaned on time — because we're the ones remembering.
The terms, in the same size as the discount
12-month term. Cancel any time with 30 days' notice. No early-termination fee and no auto-renew. Billed per visit, not by monthly draft.
Send four photos, get a firm price tonight
The front of the hood, inside above the filters, the filter bank, and the rooftop fan. Can't get on the roof safely? Just say so.