Restaurant Hood Cleaning in Stettler, Alberta

Stettler sits about 140 km east of Red Deer, and if you run a kitchen here you already know the problem: there is no NFPA 96 kitchen exhaust cleaning company based in town. Every certified crew that services Stettler drives in — usually from Red Deer, sometimes from Calgary or Camrose. This site is an independent referral service. We're not a cleaning company; we connect callers in Stettler and the surrounding area with one vetted local trade partner who handles hood and exhaust work to NFPA 96 standard.

What that means for scheduling

Because the drive is two hours round trip on Highway 11 and 56, a technician doesn't come out for one hood on a Tuesday afternoon. The practical approach is a scheduled run — the tech books two or three Stettler businesses on the same trip and works through them back to back, often starting after close and running overnight. If you're flexible on the date, you get slotted into an existing run. That's also the cheapest way to be cleaned out here, because the travel time is shared rather than loaded onto one invoice.

If you're the only kitchen booking that week, expect a travel surcharge or a slightly longer wait. Worth asking neighbouring restaurants on Main Street whether they're due — a coordinated booking benefits everyone.

Typical Stettler kitchens

Most kitchens in town follow the same pattern: a single wall-canopy hood, eight to twelve feet, over a char broiler, a flat-top and one or two deep fryers. Hotel dining rooms and the licensed restaurants along 50 Avenue tend to run a bit bigger, with a second hood over the fryer bank. A straightforward single-hood job is a few hours of work — filters pulled and degreased, hood interior and plenum scraped to bare metal, ductwork cleaned as far as access panels allow, and the rooftop fan lifted, cleaned and re-seated.

Frequency and cost

Alberta fire code follows NFPA 96 inspection intervals. A kitchen with a char broiler or a wood/solid-fuel grill is high-volume — that's quarterly. A typical family restaurant or hotel dining room using fryers and griddles is generally semi-annual. A low-volume seasonal kitchen, a church hall or a seniors' lodge may only need annual service.

For a single-hood small-town restaurant, most jobs in central Alberta run $400–$800, with multi-hood or hotel kitchens landing in the $900–$1,800 range. Add travel for a standalone trip out to Stettler. Every clean should come with a dated service report and a sticker on the hood — that's what your insurer and the fire inspector want to see.

Nearby coverage

The same Red Deer-based crews cover a wide band of central Alberta. If you're in a neighbouring town, see Lacombe, Ponoka or Innisfail. For a plain-language walkthrough of the standard, read our NFPA 96 compliance guide.

Call for a quote on your Stettler kitchen and we'll get you onto the next scheduled run.