In March of 2012, We welcomed our Texas Area manager in charge of the Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Arkansas areas. He brings aboard vast Restaurant management and construction experience and fits our vision of unequaled quality in customer service and grease exhaust cleaning.  Please feel free to contact him with your exhaust system needs. You may contact Andrew through our toll free line, 800-325-8476. Andrew will be headquartered out of our regional office in Houston. Also, with the January opening of our new offices in Ocala Florida with our Florida area supervisor Jerry Oliver , Greg Smith has been promoted to Southeastern Regional Supervisor. He is headquartered out of our Atlanta Regional office. Greg is in charge of the SE United States. This area includes Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Virginia.

Congratulation to Joe Houston, Colorado supervisor working out of our Denver shop. In addition to his CECS credentials from IKECA. He is now a CESI (certified inspector).

Upcoming Grease exhaust Inspection/DesignSeminars

*Thursday, May 17th , 2012
9am to 3pm
Polish Community Center
225 Washington Avenue Ext.
Albany, NY  12205

*Friday, May 18th, 2012
9am to 3pm
Capitol Plaza
100 State Street
Montpelier, VT  05602
People can register by calling 518-793-9274 or emailing Kathleen@paintersandcleaners.com.

* Wednesday June 20, 2012
9:00AM- Noon
Fire Inspection Seminar for Souther CA Code officials
330 N Coast Hwy, Oceanside, CA




*Friday Jan 17, 2013
State of Utah Winter Fire School-2013
Dixie Convention Center
St George, Utah
Contact: Oliver Moore, Utah Deputy State Fire Marshal, omoore@utah.gov

Course outline(6 hour course, shorter courses will be 1st half only):

Kitchen Grease Exhaust Vent Systems: Proper

installation, maintenance, and inspection.

PART 1 Maintenance and inspections (60 Minutes)

1) Cause and effect: Grease buildup causes and effects.

a) What is all this buildup in the ductwork and what to do about it

b) What quality is for grease exhaust cleaning.

c) NFPA and how ASNI standards work

d) IKECA

e) Pictures and articles on fires that resulted from inadequate cleanings.

f) Grease Fire statistics.

2) Quick look at Standard cleaning

a) Setup

b) Cleaning in progress

c) Before and after pictures of extreme buildups

d) Proper Documentations and pictures

e) Proper cleanup

f) Hood and access stickers (documentation)

3) Inspections and examples

a) NFPA96 Standards- new 2011 changes

b) Insurance regulations

c) Permit programs

d) Looking into the systems. Why inaccessible areas cannot be allowed.

e) Measuring the grease and the grease comb

f) Checking hidden areas outside the duct

g) Checking rooftop areas and fans

h) Several examples of hidden areas found by proper inspection showing

inadequate cleanings (all examples were just completed work)

4) National Inspection program proper inspection technics

a) What is the National inspection program and how you can use the concepts?

b) Example of a typical job that passes inspections

c) Examples of jobs that failed inspection with pictures showing why.

d) How the database picture inspection program works with example work

orders and pictures and picture/inspection guidelines.

e) Examples of areas of concern outside the duct covered by the

inspection program including leaking ductwork above hoods

f) How to use and integrate lessons from the National Inspection program into

your own program or scope of work

BREAK- 15 minutes

PART 2 Construction, design, and new Technologies (60 minutes)

1) Type of systems

a) Type 1 systems

b) Proper water leak testing

c) Examples of Non-compliant sealant use on ductwork

c) Type 2 systems- Why they should never be used for grease exhaust

d) Extreme buildup in Type 2 systems

2) Recommended equipment and design guidelines

a) Proper access plate layouts

b) Option for fan hinges on side wall fans

c) The virtual box method for access plates

d) Proper and improper types of access plates

e) Blocked access plates

3) Hoods

a) Water wash style hoods

b) Hood and back wall gaps and effects

c) Hood efficiencies

d) New technologies

4) Fans

a) Types of fans

b) Proper hinges and upblast fan layouts

c) Upblast fan clean out port requirement – updated 2011 NFPA96

d) Safe roof access to fans – updated 2011 NFPA96

e) Rooftop grease and grease containment concepts, units, and examples

f) Environmental units and New technologies including Electronic Precipitator

example, UV filtration systems, high efficiency hood filters, etc.

f) EPA Regulations: Where does all that cleaning solution and grease go?

PART 3: FINAL SUMMARY PAGE/ Q & A session (2-10 minutes)

Don's Bio:

With over 38 years of

experience in the Exhaust System Field

(1974), Don Pfleiderer is the current

president of Enviromatic Corporation. His

accomplishments include various product

patents and many innovative programs for

grease exhaust systems. He is head of a

renowned Envirospection® National

Inspection Program for kitchen grease exhaust systems for some of

North America's largest restaurant chains. He is also an IKECA

certified grease exhaust vent system cleaner (CESC #7308-09, exp

2/15/2013) and inspector (CESI #1001045, exp. 2/15/2014) and a

member of the IKECA - ANSI standards consensus body for kitchen

exhaust systems. Mr. Pfleiderer has done numerous presentations for

the past fifteen years for various Fire, Health, and Building

Departments!(as well as restaurant and building trade groups)

throughout Minnesota, Nebraska, Florida, New York, Massachusetts,

Ohio, Kansas, Texas, Wisconsin, California, Vermont, Utah, Ontario, 

and various other locations in the United States and Canada.

Recently, Mr. Pfleiderer has also been performing and setting

up presentations, training programs, inspections, and grease exhaust

maintenance programs for various nationals restaurant insurance

companies including Nationwide/ Allied insurance, Illinois Casualty

Insurance, and others. Mr. Pfleiderer annually conducts the

Minnesota Building Code Official's certification training for the

University of Minnesota, the State of New York accredited training at

the University of Albany, the Massachusetts!s training at Holyoke,

and just completed performing the inspector/ AHJ training at the 2011

IKECA technical seminar in Milwaukee. He has served or currently

serves on education and/or ethic committees for the Minnesota

Hospitality Association, IKECA, RFMA, and others. Mr. Pfleiderer has

also been a frequent contributing technical writer for the Restaurant

Facilities Business Magazine, Facilitator magazine, and the IKECA

Journal.