Call for help from Competitor??

Looking up from the hood, the KEC company

"certified" this as clean

We look closer and see the areas you can see from below

do not look too bad and might have passed if the inspector

had not looked further up into the duct. We see only the

small part that they actually did get clean. It is almost

like they had someone spotting them to clean what can

visually be seen from below.

And looking up into the horizontal above the hood with

a camera on a monopod, this is what the rest of the

system actually looked like in this "Certified clean" system.

I got an interesting call from a KEC company owner cleaning an oriental concept with a longer horizontal duct run. The Fire Marshal had just failed the cleaning job and ordered it re-cleaned. The inspector had asked for pictures of the job, but the KEC company said he forgot, but he will certify that the system was indeed completely clean to NFPA96 standards. The inspector did not believe him for some reason and took pictures himself that I have posted above. The KEC company owner then asked how to get into the duct to clean it since we had a crew clean the system a couple years ago and the inspector had our pictures showing the same areas spotless. He also whined and complained on how hard these jobs are and how bad he underbid it. I told him there are access plates in the system that he should use and that he simply needs to get in there and get the job clean. He said the only access were above the hood and he sure wasn't going to "Crawl" up there!!??? Now one wonders how this company cleans systems that are not inspected with horizontal runs? Note: I made it to the access plate with ease and I am not a small person as those who know me can attest.

Don