Range Hood & Kitchen Exhaust Cleaning in San Jose

Local notes

Range hoods in San Jose homes

San Jose kitchens range from 1940s Willow Glen hoods that vent through a short wall duct to remodeled Evergreen kitchens with 900 CFM hoods running to the roof. The high-output hoods in Berryessa, Evergreen and North San Jose, where daily high-heat cooking is the norm, carry the heaviest grease loads we see in the county.

A range hood that vents outside pulls grease-laden air through the filters, past the fan, and out a duct to a wall cap or roof jack. Grease sticks at every stage. After a few years the filters are saturated, the fan blades carry a coating, and the duct has a film that traps smoke instead of moving it. We clean all three.

Air and dust in San Jose

San Jose sits on the valley floor where an inversion layer traps smoke and dust, which is why the city posted some of the worst air readings in the Bay Area during the 2018 Camp Fire and the 2020 fire season. Homes in the Alum Rock and Almaden foothills also sit in the wildland interface. Grass pollen from the eastern foothills runs from March into June.

Getting to you

West San Jose and Cambrian are 15 minutes from our Cupertino base. Downtown and Willow Glen are 20. Almaden, Evergreen and Berryessa are 30 to 35 minutes. We group San Jose jobs by area so we can offer next-day slots most weeks.