About us
About Professional Hood Cleaning LLC
One owner, one focus: the kitchen exhaust systems that restaurants in DC, Maryland and Virginia can’t afford to ignore.
Professional Hood Cleaning LLC is run by Herberth Gaitan from Hyattsville, Maryland. Herberth has operated the company himself from the start, working with a small crew on each job rather than a big office behind a call center. When you call about your hood, you are talking to the person responsible for the work.
Almost all of our business has come through referrals: restaurant owners and managers who tell the next restaurant owner who they use. Referrals are the best compliment in this trade, and they are also why we do not cut corners. A hood system that looks clean from the floor but is greasy where nobody checks is the kind of job that comes back on you at inspection time.
Some of our customers came back to us after trying cheaper crews. Their reasons were simple: the cleaning was not done well enough, and they did not want to go through an inspection worrying about it. We would rather do the job properly and earn the next cleaning than win it on the lowest quote.
What you can rely on
Only facts we can stand behind.
Insured
We carry insurance for the work we do on rooftops and over cooking lines.
A registered company
Professional Hood Cleaning LLC keeps its company registration current every year, not a crew working under the table.
Owner on the job
The owner runs the schedule and the crews, so decisions about your kitchen are made by someone who knows it.
How we think about the work
Grease inside a hood system is a fire risk, and in most places an inspector can ask to see how your system is maintained. Our approach is to clean the whole path, from the hood canopy and filters through the ductwork to the rooftop exhaust fan, and to tell you honestly what we find, including worn fan belts or tired motors that deserve attention before they fail.
We work with restaurants of every kind, run by owners from many different backgrounds. If a cleaning schedule, a quote or an inspection question is confusing, call us and we will walk you through it.
Talk to the owner about your kitchen
Tell us what you cook and when your system was last cleaned. We will get back to you with a quote.