Watch us Cleaning the Nastiest Brisbane Chinese Duct & Canopy Every Seen (Greasebusters)

Watch us cleaning this Brisbane duct hood and canopy.,. The poor owner devastated as he has been paying over a $1000 a clean for years for me to come along and show him how his previous contractor had only cleaned what you see and left the rest.

The inside of these two ducts have never been cleaned before, and as and you can see from the video that there are two access panels in plain sight at the front of the kitchen canopy that no-one has ever opened.

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TRANSCRIPT OF RECORDING
We're in a very busy Chinese restaurant in South Brisbane area. It's perhaps one of the busiest restaurants in the area.

Now, the owner called me in, because he was a bit concerned. He wasn't quite sure about the quality of work that he was currently getting with their upper canopies. So, what we've decided, I took a look and I know what it is.

So, why had brought the camera along, is just to show you how bad your canopy can look and you don't even know.

Come on, let's have a look. The black is just grease that has actually been melted on, and that's probably 10, 20 years of absolute neglect. So, if you look down here, this is pretty scary. This is 10, 20, 30 plus years of residual grease, that has never been cleaned. And remember, here's the access panel, it's as plain as day to see, but no one's ever opened it. So, this is a fire just waiting to happen.

It's so putrid up there, he's actually clearing a space. What's it like in there, Nick?
It's quite filthy. Look at that residual grease. That's quite inflammatory at the same time. So, what he's going to do now, is clean the hole area, which will allow him to actually climb in without getting too putrid.

The grease itself over time of lifting the canopy, actually starts to eat away at the silicon that holds the middle work together, causing leaks throughout the system. What I mean by that is, the joints in which the middle is joined, the silicon gets eaten away at by the grease. Over time the grease can spill out and many of times the manager has called us into a roof full of grease. And they have no idea where it's come from. And the problem always seems to arise from the same thing.

An unmaintained exhaust system, that started leaking grease. Should I go get the soap from the van? What'd you want? Should I go get the soap, while you do this? [crosstalk] As you can see, it's not a job for the faint hearted. These fellas here have probably done this five, six thousand times now. So, you know, what you're getting is an expertise by the sheer repetition. And the venue manager of this venue was horrified when he looked up here. But you know, Nick's probably done one like this, hundreds, and hundreds, and hundreds of times. That takes the scare out of it. Doesn't it, Nick?

The ironic thing about it, is being so dirty that once you peel off the layer, it's actually like, brand new underneath. I'll show you. There are like 100 layers. See. The other thing to keep in mind with this work is, why a lot of my opposition don't do this, is because it's too bloody hard. You know?
Nick and Marcus have been with me for five years now, and this is just our daily work.

Nick's got this about 70% done, haven't you?
Yep, about 70%.

And as you can see, we've got probably 20 leagues of combustible grease from this area, which in turn will be fire hazards, you know? Just show how you can step up and touch the fan there.
Yeah. There you go, all the way up. And he's going to actually clean the fan. And as you can see, the fan's just a couple more feet up there. So, you can see the difference where I've scratched and where I haven't, especially on this side. No, really Marcus what...

What I wanted to emphasise is there's a big difference between price and quality of work. A lot of companies do a cheaper price, but as you can see, that's what you get for your money.
So, if you don't know what your ducting looks like, give us a call, and I'll come and give you a free fire risk assessment.

See you then.

[alexpeters]

What kind of crazy boss would allow a worker to scrape overhead with our eye protection or a face shield

[schnitzlercrew]

38 plus years here....not to bad ...the guys who are haters lack and safe and smile

[charlie]

Horizontal grease Ducting is nasty. I was called to weld in some cleanouts in a restaurant in Florida. I had to scrape the same gunk out to prevent a fire from the welding arc. You have some great workers.

[roysandi]

I did hood cleaning for 5 years, in this area a job like such I would charge no lest then $2, 000 US. To complete a job like such will take at least 8 hours 3 guy's.

[Hassounah]

If y’all think this is the worst, you never been in the field before. This is not even close to the worse, and get this man a razor scraper

[kcyasharahla]

I'm impressed. I use to get in and do the same years ago. The pay was comical. After scraping everything out of the duct like these they would leak at times from little pin wholes so ours not an easy job but very possible to clean. Most companies don't do this and they don't last. I've worked for 3-4

[salemcrow]

Love that you guys provide an audio transcription in the description! Rare to see but always greaty appreciated!! Dropping a suscribe just for that.

[BryanExhaustTools]

This is the greatest kitchen exhaust cleaning video ever made. You guys are legends!

[unterscharfuhrer]

Dirty job, I clean restaurants in the uk, the indian restaurants always expect it to be done for next to no money, and to only take 2 hours, they never want to pay, keep going good job.

[SoulSoundMuisc]

Six years in the business and I can tell you that stuff will come out without hand scraping (or minimal hand scraping) provided you use: the proper chemicals, enough heat, and enough pressure and output of water.

Worst places I've cleaned are the ones that cook with corn oil and sesame oil ('mexican' and 'asian' foods, typically). That kind of grease just doesn't want to budge an inch without physical contact. Comes off in layers and at least a little bit of it will always need to be bladed out.

[westchesterairductcleaning]

Very hard work. Could not pay me enough to do it. Although for some residential or non prophet organizations I do go out my way to help them out these bad situations but nothing near this big situation. Take off my hat to this crew and company. Great work.

[Aligator]

It is good that videos can not give us the smell and the heat of the workarea.

But i am sure better if it would be able. The guys are doing great job.. 💪

[Aawsomeguy]

I remember a chinese noodle factory in downtown Seattle that the hoods and duct work were just as disgusting or worse. It was a building fire waiting to happen.

[linararcondicionado]

Congratulations on the service provided

[jhasvinking]

how to apply to your company i have that same job in here in philipines

[brentwilson]

I did it for eleven years that grease look way to easy for a Chinese place thank God I only ever had to crawl into two ducts my whole time there but the company would pay us like shit so we just half ass everything

[kurtys]

Shouldnt those joints be welded and not silicone?

[TheSnipaholic]

Why the fuck are you scraping at all 😅 degreaser, heat, and pressure with a pressure machine would save you so much time and money.

[laurilmberg]

use alot of hard chemicals and steam then pressure wash it inside, like real mens do :D

[southeaststclub]

I do this and tbh scrapers are not much cop and can break or snap I find using wide wood chisels work wonders as there sharp and get the burned on grease of easily try it you be wow much better and quicker