Australians are fast embracing the new, city-living lifestyle of apartment living. Many new developments incorporate luxury apartments above restaurants and retail outlets, providing modern conveniences to suit a fast paced lifestyle. An inherent danger for residents lies within the commercial kitchens below. “Grease build up in kitchen canopies and deep inside exhausts presents a huge fire risk to the hundreds of residents sleeping in their apartments above,” explains Jason Mittenzwei, Airgene’s Operations Manager. “As we’ve seen in a number of commercial kitchen fires, it doesn’t take much for grease to ignite and fire to quickly take hold.” By law, restaurant and fast food outlets are required to clean their kitchen canopies and exhausts annually. However, depending on the size of the kitchen and cooking methods, some need cleaning half yearly, quarterly and even monthly. Importantly, it takes more than a visual inspection to make sure the grease is not trapped further up the exhaust. “Most restauranteurs are pretty good at making sure the surfaces of canopies and easy to reach parts of the exhausts and filters are clean, because they are easy for their guests to see,” said Jason.  “The real problem lies just that little bit further inside the … Continue reading Commercial kitchen exhausts a huge risk for residential tower residents