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Umm..wrong forum? On another note. You can make a living just cleaning people's exaust hoods. Like over the stove? Interesting..
Probably commercial work - restaurants, hotels, schools, etc..
Grease fires are a major cause in restaurants.
https://www.eater.com/2018/9/6/17820606/restaurant-fires-safety-causes-prevention
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It doesn't, but we get this every now and again. They've been logged out since 4 minutes after their first post. This thread will likely drift off out of sight in time.
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I think the connection is the pressure washing. And frankly, pressure washing has more to do with painting than even faux finishing does. But we warmly welcome our resident faux finishers.
Some of the more unusual client requests when in business involved exhaust hoods.
Just to name a few..one involved hunting down and changing out a discontinued exhaust fan/motor that sounded nearly identical to Alex Van Halen’s double bass intro on “Hot for Teacher” when turned on, installing dampers on a couple of occasions, troubleshooting water leaks at roof penetrations, repairing scratches and re-graining brushed stainless steel, hunting down and changing out grease trap filters and/or missing parts. Also had clients regularly requesting us to clean and polish metal hoods when refinishing kitchens.
One of the more recent requests when refinishing a kitchen was a client deferring to her painter (me) to bring in an architect to design a mixed metal range hood, and then outsource the fabrication to one of my artisan metalsmiths, the existing hood detracting from the newly refurbished cabinets. A conservative guess is that exhaust hoods accounted well in excess of $30K in revenues the past ten years.
One range hood request even resulted in being hired to perform a nut and bolt restoration of an antique South Bend commercial hotel range/oven, having sent out all the nickel plated steel components and porcelain finished castings for replating and re-porcelainizing, repacking the oven with new insulation, reworking all the gas fittings, media blasting and refinishing the painted components. When finished, it looked like a museum quality restoration. Shortly after completion, the architect hired me to do 2 more on another home.
Anything to make money and keep the clients happy and calling back, exhaust hoods being one of them.
Wow. That's a pretty bold stement. From what I recall, faux finishing was part of the painting decorating course I took to get my Red Seal. I certainly don't remember exaust cleaning.:vs_lol:
I totally agree. The whole construction trade is intermingled really. You pick up skills along the way. I'm a Red Sealed Painter which is known internationally.
However, I also install crown moulding, wallpaper and do taping and mudding, siding and carpentry.
It's nice to be diversified. It keeps me busy and keeps life interesting.
I can do repaints in my sleep so much enjoy new challenges. Welcome exaust guy.:biggrin:
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To tell the truth, I really don't know how industrial kitchen duct cleaning is performed with a steam cleaning pressure washer. But the member I mentioned, Pressure Pro, has a business that specifically does pressure washing, and I'm certain he mentioned duct cleaning.
As far as pressure washing and faux finishing, I've probably done 900 times more pressure washing than I've done faux finishing. Which reminds me of the handful of times I've painted walls in preparation for a faux finisher. It wasn't a great experience working with the decorator.
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You're on the wrong forum. This is a forum for professional painting contractors.
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Hello everyone. I bought this apartment a month ago. My wife complained that the smell does not evaporate during cooking. We realized that there were problems with the air duct. I was furious because we were not informed about this problem when buying an apartment. We had to call in specialists from the duct cleaning service to check it and perform the treatment. They cleaned it up pretty quickly and disinfected it. They said it was the duct that was contaminated with oil stains and dust. After that, I started proceedings with the agency that sold me the apartment to get my money back.
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