Even good programs get fooled

This is the area above the hood the cleaning company did not take picture of. This was just cleaned the morning before. You can see clearly where the cleaning stopped.
Hi all,

Much has been going on the past 2 months and this will take several posts. The latest is about what I consider the prototype fire inspection program that is one of the first in the nation using pictures similar to what the Envirospection® national inspection program does. While assisting in looking over systems, I took pictures of the horizontal ducts were taken within a few hours or days after cleaning. The inspector had received pictures from the cleaning company as required showing the clean ductwork. The pictures I took showed massive buildup throughout the horizontals with clear lines where previous cleanings stopped in every single system I looked at. When the e-mailed pictures were reviewed and compared, it was found that there were NO pictures of the horizontal ductwork and that the 20-40 pictures were all of just some vertical runs, the outside of the fans, and the back walls of the hood. The areas we found not cleaned must have been left off the pictures on purpose in my opinion. The company was warned along with other companies working in the jurisdictional area. Exactly 2 weeks later(this monday) I was asked to re-look at 2 systems that had been re-cleaned and pictures sent to both the facility management and the fire inspection department. This must have taken some major courage, but again the same cleaning company did not clean the horizontals on one facility and only partially cleaned it at another one that had wok style cooking . They again sent pictures of the system WITHOUT any of the horizontal even after warning from both the fire department and the facility. The Fire department is now adjusting the program to include full sets of base line pictures so the inspector has something to compare with so this does not happen again. This is critical as I have seen pictures both on line and via e-mail from several national companies showing systems that I have baseline pictures of and every single one of them were missing pictures of MOST of the ductwork and included none or only a little of the horizontal runs including some Japanese Habachi style restaurants with multiple hoods, wood burning systems, large national chains, etc. Everyone needs to take a closer look and start holding these companies that are withholding proper pictures and only sending ones of the hoods, fans, and partial verticals often only from the roof areas to try to pass off jobs that are not done hardly at all. In my opinion, this is fraud and should be dealt with accordingly!! I will write more later. Please feel free to respond as I like hearing comments on my postings.