Exhaust Hood and Exhaust Fan Installation
Professional commercial exhaust hood and upblast exhaust fan installation services. We match the right fan CFM to your hood for maximum performance.
A commercial kitchen ventilation system is essentially a giant set of lungs. The grease hood sits over your cooking line catching the smoke, but it's the exhaust fan on the roof doing all the heavy lifting. You can't just slap a giant fan on a small hood, or squeeze a tiny fan trying to pull air through sixty feet of duct running up a high-rise. At Express Kitchen Hoods, we specialize in hooking up the entire system so both sides work perfectly together.
The Roof Game: Upblast Exhaust Fans
The workhorse of your kitchen is sitting outside where no one looks at it. Upblast exhaust fans are designed to throw heavy, grease-laden air up and away from your roof deck. If you install the wrong one, or mount it poorly, you will end up with severe roof damage from grease pooling and intense shuddering vibrating right through your ceiling.
When we handle your exhaust fan installation, we do it by the book. That means heavy-duty hinge kits are installed immediately so hood cleaners can actually open the fan without breaking the electrical conduit. We also seal the curb perfectly and make sure grease containment catchers are mounted. No corners cut.
The Inside Setup: Type I and Type II Hoods
Sizing It Perfectly
You need the hood canopy to overhang your cooking equipment by specific margins dictated by fire codes. If it's too small, smoke rolls right out the sides and sets off your dining room alarms. We measure twice and fabricate once.
Matching The Airflow (CFM)
The exhaust fan pulls air out, and the hood captures it. But calculating how many Cubic Feet per Minute (CFM) you need depends entirely on if you're boiling water or flaming burgers. We run the mechanical math so your fans aren't underpowered or wasting electricity.
Connecting The Ducts
Hooking the hood to the roof fan requires grease ducting. It takes serious welding skills. Every single seam in that duct has to be liquid-tight, wrapped in fire-resistant material, and inspected before the walls get closed up.
Dealing With Make-Up Air
If your fan is pulling a massive amount of smoke out, you have to bring fresh air back into the building. We tie in the make-up air return plenums straight into the hood so your kitchen doesn't turn into a wind tunnel.
Why Trust Our Crews?
A lot of typical HVAC contractors will say they can install a kitchen fan, but restaurant ventilation is an entirely different beast. We live and breathe NFPA 96 codes. From getting the mechanical plans stamped, to wrestling the massive upblast fan onto the roof, to installing the Ansul fire suppression inside the hood canopy—we take care of the entire puzzle so you can actually get your restaurant opened.
- ✓We handle the entire package: Hood, Duct, Fan, and Suppression.
- ✓Local experts who know what the fire marshal wants to see.
- ✓Approved installers for the big names like CaptiveAire.
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Whether you need a fresh install from the ground up or a replacement on a rusty fan, give us a call.
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