A compliance vendor first, and a cleaning company second
Based in Golden, Colorado.
Pinnacle Specialty Services cleans commercial kitchen exhaust systems to the NFPA 96 standard and documents them well enough to survive a fire inspection, an insurance review, or a facility audit. That order matters. The cleaning is the service, but the documentation is what our clients are actually buying.
The gap this company exists to close
Kitchen exhaust cleaning is a trade where the customer usually cannot verify the work. The duct run is above a ceiling, the fan is on a roof, and the visible deliverable is a sticker. That gap between what is charged for and what an operator can reasonably verify is how a system gets invoiced as clean when the far end of the duct run was never touched.
We close it with evidence: access panels get opened, interior surfaces are photographed before and after, and anything unreachable goes on the report with a reason attached and usually a quote to correct the access. The result is a client who can see what they paid for, and an inspector who does not have to take anyone's word for it.
That approach matters most where oversight is heaviest: healthcare facilities audited on life safety, districts answering to several fire authorities, gaming and hospitality properties under brand standards, and public sector work where documentation is part of the contract. Everything else is held to the same standard, because running one standard is simpler than running two.
Thomas Ambrose, Owner
Thomas spent his career in operations and process improvement, most recently building planning systems for large distributed organizations, before acquiring Pinnacle Specialty Services. The documentation standard here is a direct import from that work: define the process, produce the same output every time, and make it verifiable by someone who was not on site.
Client-facing reports pass an ownership review before they are released. That review is a fixed step in the process rather than a courtesy, and it is why the documentation reads the same whichever crew was on site.
One person is accountable for your account, with the authority to commit to a date, a scope change, or a correction without escalating it. Crews are assigned to accounts and stay with them, which is what makes site access, building familiarity, and repeatable results possible across a district or a property.
Four things we do not flex on
These are the rules that decide what goes in a report, what we quote, and what we decline to promise.
Show the work
Photographs of the interior of the system go in every report, including the sections nobody would have checked. Where something could not be reached, it is written down with the reason rather than quietly left out.
The standard sets the schedule
Inspection frequency is set against NFPA 96 Table 12.4 for your actual cooking volume. If that means quarterly rather than the annual service you have been buying, we will say so and explain why, including when it costs us the quote.
Say what we can actually do
Mountain corridor properties are planned on seasonal schedules, not promised same-week service. A contractor who says yes to everything is a contractor who will miss your date.
Never promise what we cannot deliver yet
If a service or a document is in development, it does not appear here as though it exists. That rule costs us the occasional sale and it is worth keeping.
Everything runs from Golden, Colorado
Serving commercial kitchens throughout Colorado, southern Wyoming, eastern Utah, and northern New Mexico, with the same NFPA 96 documentation from every visit wherever the kitchen is.
Sitting at the mouth of the I-70 corridor is the reason mountain and gaming properties are core business here. Metro-based contractors treat those as reluctant travel. For us they are on the regular schedule.
Five services
Hood Cleaning
Full kitchen exhaust system cleaning performed in accordance with NFPA 96, with before and after photographs and a service report built for your compliance file.
Kitchen Exhaust Repair and Maintenance
Access panels, hinge kits, fan repairs, and the related components we find during cleaning, documented with photographs and quoted as a single job price.
Commercial Kitchen Deep Cleaning
Full deep cleaning of the kitchen and cafeteria, including surfaces, equipment, and flooring, performed after close of operations.
Exterior Pressure Washing
Building exteriors, entryways, dumpster pads, drive-through lanes, parking lots, and the rooftop grease containment around your exhaust fan.
Emergency and Priority Service
For a failed inspection, a shutdown order, or a system that cannot run. These situations receive priority scheduling.
Let us look at your system
We will walk it, photograph the ductwork, and tell you where it stands. Estimates are free, anywhere in our service area, with no obligation to schedule the work with us.