Codes, Cleaning and Checklists

Kitchen ventilation sits under codes that your local authority having jurisdiction (AHJ) enforces, and the adopted edition matters. These pages do not reproduce any code text or tables. They explain in our own words what NFPA 96 covers and where to read it, give you a printable cleaning schedule and a list of questions to take to your AHJ, designer or supplier, and provide one worksheet to gather a project’s hood, air balance, duct and fan numbers on a single printed sheet.

Tools in this group

• Commercial Kitchen Ventilation Worksheet — Type your hoods, appliances and air quantities; the sheet works out face velocity, air balance, duct velocity and fan horsepower and prints with sign-off lines.
• Hood and Duct Cleaning Schedule — Type the last cleaning date and the interval you were given; the sheet counts the due dates and prints check boxes and a service record.
• NFPA 96: What It Covers and Where to Look — Pick a topic to see the NFPA 96 chapter title it sits in, a plain-words description and a list of questions to take to your authority having jurisdiction.
• Restaurant Hood Requirements Checklist — Choose your situation and who you will ask; get a printable list of questions with Y / N / N/A boxes and room for the answers.