Range and hood cleaning in the Los Angeles area
A range hood collects everything that comes off the cooktop, and it does it invisibly until the filters stop sitting flat and the kitchen starts holding on to last night's dinner. Range and hood cleaning is its own service on Royal Appliance's published list — residential and commercial — and it is booked as a cleaning rather than as a repair.
What people call about
If one of these is what yours is doing, it is worth a visit.
- The filters are heavy with grease and no longer slide back in flat.
- Cooking smells hang around the kitchen hours after dinner.
- There is a tacky film on the underside of the hood and on the cabinet above it.
- The fan is louder than it used to be and moving less air.
- The range has baked-on grease around and behind the burners.
- It has not been cleaned since the kitchen was, and nobody remembers when that was.
What the $75 visit establishes
The $75 and $175 figures printed elsewhere on this site are the diagnostic and the flat labor on a repair. A cleaning is a different service and it is booked as one — choose "Range and hood cleaning" on the booking form and say what the hood sits over, roughly how big it is, and when it was last done. What a visit settles is how much has built up, whether the filters can be washed or have reached the end of their life, and whether what you are noticing is the grease or something behind it.
When replacing beats repairing
Cleaning has a limit, and it is worth naming. Grease that has been baking on for years does come off. A filter that has been through too many cycles is a part rather than a cleaning job. And a hood whose fan or ducting has failed is not going to be put right by degreasing it. A cleaning is the cheapest way to find out which of those you have — but it is not a promise to make an old hood move air it was not moving before.
Range and hood cleaning — questions people ask
Is this only for home kitchens?
No. Residential and commercial range and hood cleaning are both on the published service list. The rest of this site is written for a homeowner because that is who most of the work is for.
Does the range get cleaned as well as the hood?
That is what the service is — range and hood cleaning, as it is published. The two collect the same grease from the same cooking, and doing one without the other leaves half of it in the kitchen.
Can the filters just go through the dishwasher?
Metal mesh filters often can, and if that is all yours need it is worth doing before booking anything. What a dishwasher will not reach is the inside of the canopy, the fan housing and the duct opening above it, which is where most of what you can smell actually lives.
Will a cleaning fix a hood that has stopped pulling air?
Sometimes, and sometimes not. A blade pack and a filter loaded with grease genuinely move less air, and clearing them genuinely helps. A hood that has stopped altogether is a different problem, and a cleaning will not stand in for it.
The other machines
Royal Appliance works on eight, in the room they already stand in.