Start with the survey. Free for the venues we’re built for; yours either way.
One pass through your exhaust system with the same instruments, the same benchmark and the same evidence discipline as the certificate — and a written report you keep whether or not you engage Summit.
Seven steps.
Fifteen to thirty minutes.
The survey walks the exhaust system once, in a fixed order, capturing measurements and photographs as it goes. Each completed survey carries a sequential reference, SAM-SVY-####, and produces the written report.
| Step | What is looked at | What is captured |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | Canopy & filters Canopy condition, filter type, fit and condition, visible grease loading at the filter bank. | Photographs |
| 02 | Duct access points Every reachable access point located and opened where permitted; borescope both directions. | Comb reading in microns at each; photographs |
| 03 | Fan & discharge Fan chamber and discharge condition; grease trail at the discharge. | Photographs |
| 04 | System layout Route of the duct run, riser and horizontal sections, roof plant location. | Enough to scope a full service accurately |
| 05 | Grease loading Readings consolidated against the AIRAH Best Practice Guideline benchmark. | Readings vs benchmark |
| 06 | Access constraints Working-at-height needs, ceiling-space and tenancy constraints, confined-space screen. | Constraints recorded |
| 07 | Compliance evidence Existing service records sighted, or their absence recorded factually. | Evidence statement |
No instrument,
no survey.
An unmeasured walk-through is somebody else's product. The survey uses the certificate's kit, so the first document you receive from Summit is a working sample of the one you would be buying.
Grease-depth comb
A micron-scale wet-film reading on the duct's internal surface at every access point opened — taken at the heaviest visible accumulation within reach.
Borescope
Imagery into the duct run in both directions at each access point, labelled with the position.
Tripod light
Interior duct and plenum photography is lit so it can be assessed. A dark frame proves nothing.
Camera
Every position marked and framed so a later after-shot can be taken from the identical position.
Numbered, factual,
independently quotable.
Every observation that falls short of criteria or good installation practice becomes a numbered row — a discrete scope item. The schedule itself carries no prices; it carries the location, the severity, the observation, the photo reference and the recommended action.
Observations are measurements and facts. A reading in microns against the benchmark is an observation; an adjective is not.
Deficiency schedule
| # | Location | Severity | Recommended action |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Horizontal run, AP-2 | Major | Service to criteria |
| 2 | Riser above AP-2 | Major | Install access panel |
| 3 | Fan discharge cowl | Minor | Fit containment; monitor |
Free inside the profile. A paid condition report outside it.
The survey is free for the venues Summit is built for — hotel groups, aged care, centre food courts, venue operators and facilities-managed sites in metro Adelaide, from a single venue up.
Outside that profile, the same survey is available as a standalone condition-report engagement: same protocol, same instruments, same report. The free survey is a targeted first step, not a giveaway — evidence priced at nothing would undercut the standard the certificate exists to hold.
The asset speaks.
The report writes it down.
Name, grade or characterise any provider
The report measures the system and records what it finds. If you ask whether your current arrangement is working, the answer is the deficiency schedule — you draw the conclusion.
Manufacture a gap
A system found within criteria is reported within criteria. A padded report is discoverable, and fatal to a compliance brand.
Recommend servicing where a confined-space constraint is found
Summit holds no confined-space entry competency. The constraint is recorded and nothing is recommended that cannot be delivered safely.
Assert the standard's servicing frequency
Your interval is a professional recommendation from measured accumulation, written on the report — never presented as the standard's mandated frequency.
Report, proposal,
program.
Report delivered
Findings, the deficiency schedule and a compliance-evidence statement, in writing, kept by the venue.
Proposal built
Each schedule row maps to a scope item; the interval is proposed from what was measured.
Program begins
Interval set, first service booked, the year's schedule issued.
Report is yours
Where the survey was free, the report says so: provided without charge and without obligation.
Book the survey.
Fifteen to thirty minutes on site. A written report you keep. No obligation either way.
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