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Catch it at the fan, not on the roof.
A containment unit fitted around the rooftop fan discharge catches the grease the exhaust system carries outside, before it reaches the roof membrane, the gutters and the stormwater. Summit supplies and fits the unit, changes the media on the program’s cycle, and photographs it to the site record every visit.
Fan discharge — containment
| Visit | Finding | Action |
|---|---|---|
| [Month] | Grease on roof around cowl | Containment proposed · register item 2 |
| [Month] | Unit fitted, photographed | Item 2 closed |
| [Month] | Media 60% loaded | Media changed · photo pair |
| [Month] | Roof surround clean | Monitored · next change set |
The system is cleaned inside. The roof is where it shows.
Every kitchen exhaust fan throws a fine mist of grease out of its discharge. Over a cycle it settles on the roof around the plant: a slip surface for anyone working up there, a load on the roof membrane and the gutters, and a trail that runs to the stormwater when it rains. The building owner wears the roof; the tenant wears the discharge.
A containment unit sits around the discharge and catches the grease in a replaceable media before it lands. It is not a substitute for cleaning the system; it is what keeps a clean system from staining everything around it.
Supplied, fitted and maintained.
Proposed from the record
Where a survey or a service visit finds grease reaching the roof, containment is written on the register as a recommended action with a photograph, and proposed separately from the program. Nothing is fitted that the record did not call for.
Sized and fitted
The unit is sized to the fan discharge and fitted around it on a scheduled visit, with the roof surround photographed before and after.
Media changed on cycle
The media is checked at each exhaust service and changed when it is loaded, on the same calendar as the system, so the unit never becomes a second thing to remember.
Photographed every visit
The unit, the media and the surround are photographed at every service, so the owner, the insurer and the next contractor can see the state of the roof without climbing it.
Where the discharge lands on someone else’s roof.
Tenanted kitchens
Most leases put the roof on the landlord and the kitchen on the tenant, and the discharge sits between them. A fitted unit with a record settles who looked after it and when.
Centres and multi-tenant buildings
Several discharges on one roof, maintained on one program, with each unit on the register by asset number and the roof surround photographed on cycle.
Kitchens with a flagged roof
Where a Summit survey or certificate carries a rooftop finding, containment is the usual remedy, proposed with the photograph that found it.
Finding to fitted, on one record.
Found
Grease reaching the roof is photographed and written on the register at the survey or a service visit.
Proposed
The unit is proposed as a register item, separately from the program, with the photograph and the recommended action.
Fitted
Sized to the discharge and fitted on a scheduled visit; the surround photographed before and after; the register item closed.
Maintained
Media checked at every service and changed on cycle; unit and surround photographed each time.
Put the roof on the record.
A survey walks the discharge and the roof surround, and anything found is written on the register with its remedy.
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