Northern Hood & Exhaust cleans commercial pizza ovens in Calgary — deck ovens, conveyor ovens, and solid-fuel ovens — as part of the appliance work done by the same crew that services your hood. A pizza oven is cleaned differently from a fryer or a range, because a stone hearth cannot be treated the way steel can.
Commercial pizza oven cleaning covers the cooking chamber, the door faces and seals, the control panel, and the exterior steel, with the hearth cleared dry rather than chemically treated. The work is finished with before-and-after photographs and a dated service report.
The part operators tend to underestimate is the outside of the oven. Grease and flour paste settle on the control panel and run down the door faces, and because the oven runs hot all service, that film bakes on in layers rather than wiping away. On the oven photographed below, the manufacturer badge on the control panel was not legible until the panel had been cleaned.
A deck oven has a porous stone hearth that absorbs anything applied to it, so the deck is cleared dry and degreasing is limited to the steel. A conveyor oven is stripped instead — belt and crumb trays out, carbonized crumb removed from the chamber and air fingers.
| Oven type | What it is made of | How it is cleaned |
|---|---|---|
| Deck oven | Stone or refractory hearth, steel frame, stacked chambers | The hearth is cleared dry, because a porous stone deck absorbs whatever is applied to it. Degreasing is kept to the steel: frame, door faces, control panel and exterior. |
| Conveyor oven | Steel belt, crumb trays, internal fingers and panels | The belt and crumb trays come out for separate cleaning. Carbonized crumb build-up is removed from the chamber and the air fingers, which is where it collects and where it eventually smokes. |
| Wood-fired or solid-fuel oven | Masonry chamber, flue, spark arrester, dedicated exhaust | Assessed on site before any quote. Solid-fuel equipment is treated separately under NFPA 96 from gas and electric cooking, and the exhaust serving it is a different system with different requirements. |
The exhaust system above a commercial pizza oven falls under NFPA 96, which Alberta adopts through the National Fire Code – 2023 Alberta Edition. Solid-fuel ovens are handled separately from gas and electric equipment and carry their own requirements.
In practice this means the oven and the system above it are not the same job. Cleaning the oven does not discharge the obligation on the hood and duct, and cleaning the hood does not address what has baked onto the oven. Both are covered on a hood cleaning visit when they are booked together.
Code references reviewed September 2026.
The three-deck oven below was photographed on a Calgary job before and after cleaning. The control panel had enough baked-on film that the manufacturer badge was obscured, and the door faces had yellowed and streaked.
Yes. The same crew services the hood, the exhaust system, and the appliances underneath it, so the kitchen is taken down once and the work arrives as a single service report.
Pizza ovens are one part of the commercial appliance cleaning service, alongside fryers, ranges, grills, and ice machines. The full list of what the company services is on the services page.
Yes. Northern Hood and Exhaust cleans commercial pizza ovens in Calgary, including deck ovens, conveyor ovens, and solid-fuel ovens, as part of the appliance cleaning service.
No. A stone or refractory hearth is porous and absorbs whatever is applied to it, which then bakes into the next product cooked on it. The deck is cleared dry and degreasing is kept to the steel parts of the oven.
Yes. The same crew services the hood, the exhaust system, and the appliances underneath it, so both can be completed on one visit with a single service report.
The exhaust system above a commercial pizza oven falls under NFPA 96, which Alberta adopts through the National Fire Code. Solid-fuel ovens are treated separately from gas and electric equipment and carry additional requirements.
Before-and-after photographs of the equipment serviced and a dated service report. The records are suitable for insurance, a lease audit, or a health inspection.
Airdrie, Chestermere, Okotoks, High River, and Cochrane, on the same routes as the hood and exhaust work.
We look at the oven on site and quote from what is actually there.
