Curtain system for hoods

Rob,


I think if you saw how most guys drape the hoods with 1mil
and 2mil plastic to make a funnel to catch the water into a drum you'd be surprised how much less messy it would all be and how fast the job is to do. Check the Delco Kitchen Exhaust Cleaning School Page on their website. There are plenty of pictures that should help.

Best regards
 
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i just found that the plastic was always blowing out of the drum because of the air pressure that came down the shaft.
 
Rob,

The air pressure pulling out is only a problem when you are working alone, otherwise have the downstairs guy make sure it stays in the barrel. To protect yourself from pull outs - clip the plastic to the top of the barrel. You'll see pictures of this on the Delco website I mentioned. Check it out.

Try this :http://www.dcs1.com/del/kitsch.html
 
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Rob

You need to work with someone who knows what they are doing so that you can be pointed in the right direction.

The first thing I would do, would be to buy Phil Aklands book and Ed Przystas booklet on Hood cleaning.

You are trying to re invent the wheel.

David;)
 
Yeah I hate dead threads, I was looking and there are a ton of threads with questions about problem, then suggestions about how to solve them and the threads starter never comes back and let's us know if the suggestions worked.

It's like watching a good movie and leaving before it ends.
 
Looks good-just two questions.

1. How do you prepare the backwall? You have hung the easy part.

2. With employees I could just see this item in a bail of knots. How do you keep it ready for work-it seems that it would be more trouble than it is worth.

Please reply.

David
 
For the outside drape I always hope for a drop ceiling and clamp my plastic to the tracks of the ceiling. This allows me to pressure wash the outside of the hood. With care of course.
 
same here

:D I drape from the cieling has well just works out better for me. i find if i pull my can out about 2 feet out all the water just fals to the plastic. And do plenty of scaping before no big piecies of grease fall onto plastic...Well most of the time:(
 
Since this old thread was brought from the dead.... I read most of it and I think the spoons are the most impressive!!!

However, since spoons are sooooo expensive, I tend not to use them.

I use door shims instead. You can buy a pack of 50 for about $3 and they are reusable and generally do not break.
 
Door shims are the best thing going they are cheap and you can reuse them as many times as you need. I but 1 mill 12x200 plastic for about $35 from home depot. Its thin but if you know what you are doing and are carefull you wont have any problems. For all the gadgets old fashion clamps, magnetics, and door shims are the easiest quickest way they all fit in a pickel bucket and dont take up much room.
 
Regarding the use of magnets they do not stick on 100% stainless steel, but most of the hoods that appear to be stainless steel are steel dipped in stainless and magnets hold very well. They are like cheep stailess steel knives, I do several hoods that are stainless and are rusted. 90% of the stainless hoods are magnetic at least in my neck of the woods.
 
We reserve pickle buckets for rooftop grease containment devices around here. ;)
 
i'll find the time

yea ron that sounds ok, but your right i do sleep during the day most of the time..But i get buy on 4 hours..so we'll see...:D
 
dodsonish said:
We reserve pickle buckets for rooftop grease containment devices around here. ;)
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Are you in SOCAL now too Josh??
 
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:eek: :eek: that is sooooooo wrong...cris
 
Small Hoody set up.
Just cover eveything behind and around you in a reasonable distance.
 

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