The exhaust system
One row per part of the system. Minutes are one technician’s time. Pick a component to start from a common figure, then replace it with minutes timed from your own crew.
Kitchen and schedule
Grease load scales the production minutes. Cleans per year is the contract cadence you and the operator agree — it is not a code interval and this tool does not determine how often a hood must be cleaned.
Your costs
Common questions
How do you price kitchen hood cleaning?
Add the canopy, filters, duct, and fan as separate labor. Multiply by grease load and access, add after-hours and travel, then chemicals, disposal, overhead, and the margin you intend to keep.
Why do per-hood quotes lose money?
Two kitchens can share a 10-foot canopy and have completely different labor. A short horizontal run is a small add-on. A vertical chase and a rooftop fan through a hatch is most of the job.
How often should a restaurant hood be cleaned?
Operators commonly schedule from annually on light cooking to monthly on solid-fuel or 24-hour lines. Frequency is an operator and authority-having-jurisdiction decision. This calculator does not determine a required interval.
How much does duct and fan work add over a per-hood price?
On a default mix of a 40 sq ft canopy, six filters, 12 feet of horizontal duct, 20 feet of vertical duct, and a rooftop fan at heavy grease load, canopy and filters alone price near $495. Add the duct and fan and the same job prices near $1,982 — a $1,487 gap, because duct work is 68.6% of the production hours in this mix, not the hood.
Does grease load only change the price, or also how often the job repeats?
Both, and frequency usually matters more. Moving the same system from light to extra-heavy grease load roughly doubles the per-visit price (about $1,336 to $2,520 here), but the suggested cleaning frequency moves from once a year to monthly — 12 visits. That takes annual revenue from about $1,336 to roughly $30,237: the visit count, not the per-visit multiplier, drives most of the swing.
Why does access — rooftop versus kitchen floor — matter so much?
The access multiplier applies per component, and it can be the biggest single number in the bid. The same 20 feet of vertical duct at kitchen-floor access prices near $803 for the job; make it a ladder-and-hatch rooftop climb and the identical footage prices near $1,199 — about $396 more from access alone, before grease load or crew size are even considered.
Your bid
- On-site tech hours
- Wall-clock with this crew
- Travel labor
- Loaded labor (incl. after-hours)
- Consumables & disposal
- Overhead
- Total job cost
- Profit on this clean
- Effective hourly rate
- Walk-away price
- If you bid the hood only
- Duct & fan add
- Annual contract
- Monthly equivalent
Where the hours go
Transparent arithmetic from your own inputs. Starting minutes and grease-load figures are common ballpark starting points, not a standard, a code requirement, or a guarantee. Time your own crews and replace them.
Hand the customer a proposal
The price above is for you. This is the page you print or save as a PDF and give to the customer — your details, their details, the scope, the deposit split, and a line for them to sign. Your business details are saved on this device so you only type them once; the customer’s details are never saved.
Everything on the printed page is text you typed or a number this calculator worked out. It contains no warranty, lien, or cancellation wording — those depend on your jurisdiction and your contract, and this tool is not the place to invent them.