London and the South East

Canopy Cleaning in Medway

We cover 68 towns and villages across Medway for canopy cleaning, working out of hours with a written report and photos after every visit., planned around your opening hours, with a fixed quote before we start and a report with photos afterwards.

Canopy Cleaning across Medway

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Canopy cleaning in every part of Medway

Deep cleaning of kitchen canopies, hoods, plenums and grease filters, inside and out. Choose your town from the list to see local details, or get in touch for a quick quote.

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Our canopy cleaning service in Medway

The canopy is the part of the extract everyone in the kitchen sees. Being first in line, it collects grease on the inside surfaces, along the seams and in the troughs. Our canopy clean covers the shell inside and out, plus the plenum and the filter housing. We are often asked to deal with a hood coated in old grease and overflowing grease troughs and gutters, on canopy light fittings, grease gutters and plenum chambers.

A visit follows the same order every time: protect the area, isolate whatever needs isolating, carry out the canopy cleaning, clear away and leave you the report. On site, the work takes a few hours for most canopies.

We look at the canopy first, from photos or on a visit.
Equipment below is switched off and left to cool, then sheeted.
With the filters out, the plenum and housing are cleaned back.
Inside and out, the canopy and its grease channels are degreased.
Filters go back, the area is cleaned down and photos are taken.

Pricing in Medway

No two sites are the same, so we price each one individually. The size of the job, how we reach it, its condition and the working hours all play a part.

Why book with us

Every visit written up, with pictures
Fixed quotes from a survey or photos
Fully insured
One contact for all your sites in London and the South East

Ask for a quote

Quotes are quick. Call or email with a few details and you’ll usually have a fixed price within one working day. Where a survey is needed, we arrange a time that suits the site.

Near you in Gillingham

We work in commercial kitchens and buildings around The Robert Napier School, Featherby Junior School and The Robert Napier School and the streets around them. Nearby too are Holy Trinity Church (less than half a mile north-east), The Star pub (0.6 miles west) and Ambley Wood (0.8 miles south). For rail, the closest station is Gillingham (Kent) station, roughly 1.5 miles north-west. Other landmarks nearby include Medway Maritime Hospital (1.6 miles west) and Six Poor Travellers House (3.3 miles west). Not far away are Blue Bell Hill and Bishop Saltings.

Canopy cleaning across Medway: local notes

Kitchens across Medway cook for very different hours, from all-day town-centre sites to part-time hall and school kitchens. The right interval comes from hours of use and grease readings.

Across London and the South East, we work evenings, overnight and weekends, so sites across Medway don’t have to lose a day. Parts of Medway are on or near the coast, where salt air is hard on rooftop fans, discharge cowls and fixings. We look for corrosion as well as dirt on coastal sites.

Gillingham: Volunteers running a hall kitchen near Holy Trinity Church, or anywhere in Gillingham, may not know when the extract was last cleaned, and a grease test settles it. Restoration House, about 3.3 miles west, is one of the historic houses near Gillingham; if you run event catering at a venue like that, cleans can be booked between functions.

What affects the cost of canopy cleaning

Sites vary more than people expect. What affects the quote:

How many systems or sites are involved
Site requirements such as sign-in and permits
The scale of the work
Where the site is and how we reach it

A single site or a whole portfolio, we price it on the same basis: what needs doing, how we get to it and when. The price is fixed before work begins.

What to send for a quote

What to send for a quote:

Any symptoms, from odd noises to smells or leaks
Photos showing the whole system and its surroundings
The roof, plant room or outside wall the system runs to
Your opening hours and when the area is out of use

For a fixed quote, phone us on 0345 646 2711 or drop us a line and tell us the type of site, your opening hours and roughly what the system looks like. A few photos and your last certificate or report help a lot. We typically come back within one working day.

For landlords and multi-site operators

If you look after several sites, we can schedule visits across all of them on one quote. Every building has its own written report, so each one has its own record.

We work for landlords, managing agents and facilities managers as well as the people running the site. Where a system serves more than one tenant, such as a shared riser, it helps to agree who arranges the work, and we are happy to quote for all of it.

Between visits

After the visit, a few habits help the work last:

Check filters aren’t leaving gaps
Clean the hood’s outer surfaces daily
Keep the fan on through service
Keep every filter in place while cooking

We clear away the sheeting, waste grease and water before we leave. Filters are back in place and seated properly ready for the next service.

Don’t let canopy gutters fill to the brim. Overflowing troughs are the usual cause of drips onto the range, so make emptying them part of the closing routine.

What the work involves, part by part

School and staff canteen kitchens

School and canteen kitchens often cook to set hours, so the canopy can be cleaned when the kitchen is closed. We often clean them in holidays or at weekends.

Wall canopies

Wall canopies sit against a wall over a cooking line. The joint between canopy and wall is a common grease trap, so we clean along it as well as the inner skin.

Why deal with it now?

Baked-on grease gets harder to shift the longer it stays. Heat from the range bakes canopy grease into a hard, dark layer, which makes a later clean slower and harder.

Questions to ask before booking

Which accreditations they hold, and whether you can check them
What happens if part of the system can’t be accessed
Exactly which parts of the system are covered
What records you will receive afterwards

Questions from Medway

Does the law say we must follow TR19?

No, not in itself. Insurers, fire officers and EHOs look to TR19® as the benchmark, and many insurers ask for proof of cleaning to it. The law behind it is the Fire Safety Order 2005 in England and Wales.

What happens to the waste?

Anything we remove is contained as we work and taken away with us, from grease and debris to used cleaning water. We don’t leave it behind.

Which canopies and hoods do you clean?

Wall and island canopies, long cooking-line hoods and small single hoods. Each one is cleaned inside and out, with the plenum behind the filters.

Which kinds of sites do you work on?

Any site with a kitchen or a ventilation system to look after, from a single café to a large school. Hotels, schools, care homes, offices, shops and leisure sites are all part of our work.

How long does canopy cleaning take?

That depends on the size of the canopy and how much grease is on it. As a guide, it takes an hour or two for one small canopy, longer where there are several.

Can I just have the canopy cleaned instead of the whole system?

Canopy cleaning is part of TR19, not the whole of it. We will make clear on the report which parts were cleaned, so your records stay accurate.

How do you protect the area?

We cover floors and nearby surfaces with sheeting before any work starts, and anything we remove is contained. Before we leave, we tidy up and clean down.

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Certificate and photo reportWith every clean

24/7 emergency calloutEvenings, nights and weekends

Since 2009South East England and London