How Often Kitchen Ducts Must Be Cleaned in Dubai
Dubai Municipality requires commercial kitchen duct cleaning every six months by an approved contractor, to NFPA-96. A kitchen running 24/7 may need monthly cleaning. EZ Solutions cleans the hood, filters, ducts and extract fan, usually overnight, and issues a certificate.
The Municipality interval
In Dubai, commercial kitchen extraction must be cleaned at least every six months by an approved contractor, with a certificate an inspector can ask for. That is the legal floor. It is not always enough.
Match frequency to cooking hours
- Kitchen running 24/7: roughly once a month.
- Around 16 hours a day: every three months.
- Around 6 hours a day: every six months.
Grease in the duct is the fire load. Industry surveys attribute around 90% of restaurant-related fires to poor extraction maintenance. Meeting the six-month minimum on a round-the-clock kitchen still leaves grease in the run.
What has to be cleaned
The hood and filters, connecting horizontal ducts, the extract fan and the ecology unit where one is fitted. Vertical risers are assessed separately: grease settles first in the horizontal runs, but they cannot be ignored. Cleaning the canopy alone leaves the fire load in the duct.
Will it stop service?
Most kitchen work is overnight or on a closing day. We agree the window before the job. You receive a photographic pre and post clean report and a certificate valid for Municipality inspection, to NFPA-96.
Scope, chemicals and booking are on the kitchen hood and duct cleaning service page. Kitchens in Sharjah and Ajman are covered in a separate note on emirates coverage.