Hampshire · Canopy and hood cleaning
Canopy and hood cleaning in Bentworth, Hampshire
We cover Bentworth for canopy cleaning. Fixed quotes, work around your opening hours and photo reports as standard.
- Smoke hanging around the canopy during service
- A sticky, discoloured canopy
- Heavy deposits behind the grease filters
Grease, kitchens and Bentworth
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service covers Bentworth. Fire and rescue authorities enforce the Fire Safety Order in most non-domestic premises, and in a kitchen that fire risk includes the grease in the extract. In Bentworth, food businesses are inspected by environmental health officers from East Hampshire council. An officer looking round a kitchen will see the canopy, and grease there is hard to miss. Before-and-after pictures from each clean are a simple way to show the extract is in hand.
A hospital like Alton Community Hospital, about 2.8 miles south-east, is the kind of site where a kitchen may cook for patients, staff and visitors all day. Term dates shape school work: for a school like St Mary's Bentworth Church of England Primary School, an extract clean fits neatly into a half-term or summer break.
Bentworth is about 3 miles west of Alton, in Hampshire. Wherever you are in the GU34 postcode area, we can carry out canopy cleaning at your premises. Our Hampshire coverage runs to 683 places, and Bentworth is one of them. There’s also a page for Reading, about 20 miles away.
Canopy cleaning in GU34 follows the same survey, fixed quote and written report as everywhere else we cover. We cover sites on Village Street, Church Street and Drury Lane and nearby roads. If your site is just outside Bentworth, we cover Holt End (1 mile south-west), Thedden (1 mile south-east), Wivelrod (1 mile south-east), New Copse (1 mile south-west) and Beech (2 miles south-east). We also work in nearby towns such as Basingstoke (8 miles north), Winchester (13 miles south-west), Farnborough (15 miles north-east), Fleet (12 miles north-east), Aldershot (14 miles north-east) and Alton (3 miles east).
Near you in Bentworth
Typical jobs here are in premises near The Star Inn. The nearest railway station is Alton station, about 3.5 miles east of the centre. Other landmarks nearby include Barton Castle (3.2 miles south-west) and Gliding Heritage Centre (2.2 miles north-east). Not far away are King's Hill.
About our canopy cleaning in Bentworth
The canopy is where the extract system breathes in. A dirty canopy passes more grease further into the system. Our diagnosis starts there, and the treatment is a thorough degrease of the hood, plenum and housing. The work covers baffle filters, island canopies and grease gutters, and the jobs we see most are grease channels that no longer drain and filters that clog soon after cleaning.
In a small place like Bentworth, kitchens are often in older or extended buildings, with long single-storey duct runs, and those horizontal sections are where grease settles. We agree access and timings in advance.
Insurers, fire officers and environmental health officers all look at records. So every job comes with a written report and photos, plus a TR19® certificate through the BESCA VHE portal where the work is a TR19® Grease clean.
- Where
- Bentworth (GU34)
- Wider area
- Hampshire
- Reporting
- Certificate plus before-and-after pictures
- Quotes
- A fixed price before any work starts
- When we work
- When your site is closed, plus a 24/7 line
- Telephone
- 0345 646 2711
- Page updated
- 30 October 2026
Between visits
Once we’ve finished, these simple steps help:
- Give the canopy a wipe after service
- Keep every filter in place while cooking
- Check filters are not leaving gaps
- Do not scrape the canopy with metal tools
File the report alongside your fire risk assessment, so it’s ready when an EHO, insurer or fire officer asks. Before and after pictures speak for themselves.
Empty the grease troughs and cups before they fill. Overflowing troughs are the usual cause of drips onto the range, so make emptying them part of the closing routine.
Questions from Bentworth
Who is the fire and rescue service for Bentworth?
Bentworth is in the area of Hampshire and Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service. TR19® is not law, but it’s the benchmark many fire officers and insurers look to when they ask how often the extract is cleaned.
Do you work overnight in Bentworth?
Yes, evening, overnight and weekend work is normal for us. The site is handed back ready to open. Just phone us on 0345 646 2711 or send us an email with your opening times and we will plan around them.
Do we lose a day’s trading?
Not typically. We need the work area to ourselves while we are on site, so the visit goes in a quiet slot.
Do you have a 24/7 line?
Yes, day and night, every day of the year. Our office is open from 8am to 6pm on weekdays, and the emergency line covers the rest.
Is TR19 a legal requirement?
No. The law sets the duty, and TR19® is the recognised benchmark for meeting it. Under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, the responsible person has to manage fire risk, and without records, many insurers may refuse or reduce a claim.
Are you accredited?
CHAS, SafeContractor, ISO 9001 and BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite membership, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease. We’ve been trading since 2009 and we are fully insured.
Is the inside of the hood cleaned?
Everything from the outer face to the plenum behind the filters. Grease troughs and filter channels are emptied and degreased as part of the job.
Are you insured?
Yes. We are fully insured, and the details are available on request.
What staff can safely do
Away from the kitchen, the in-house job is mainly checking: clear grilles, a log of filter changes and reporting anything odd. The inside of ducts and units needs a specialist.
When your team notices a problem between visits, such as dripping grease, a noisy fan, a smell or a filter that will not come clean, they should report it rather than try to fix it. We can diagnose it and quote.
What a clean won’t put right
An honest diagnosis matters more to us than a booking, so here’s what canopy cleaning won’t do:
- A dirty extract fan further along the system
- Filters that no longer seal in the housing
- Faulty canopy lights or wiring (a job for an electrician)
Not sure which it is? You can phone us on 0345 646 2711, or email photos and we will tell you honestly before you book.
Where we work
- Plenum chambers
- Grease gutters
- Island canopies
- Canopy light fittings
- Wall canopies
- Baffle filters
What else we do in Bentworth
Why deal with it now?
In Bentworth, as elsewhere, a greasy canopy is one of the first things an inspector sees. Keeping it clean shows the rest of the kitchen is being looked after and keeping it that way is easier than catching up. A fault that closes a site in a village like Bentworth affects everyone who depends on it.
You will not find a price list here, because each job is priced on what it involves. Call for a fixed quote, and we will explain what it covers.
Why Bentworth businesses choose us
- CHAS and SafeContractor accredited, with ISO 9001
- Fixed quotes from a survey or photos
- Trading since 2009
- Each visit written up, with photos
See our cost guide or our accreditations.
How the job changes from site to site
Island canopies
Everything about an island canopy is on show so a clean, even finish matters. We degrease it thoroughly and photograph the result.
Plenums and filter housings
Behind the grease filters is the plenum. Grease that slips past the filters settles there, and it’s cleaned every time we clean the canopy.
When to call us in Bentworth
Grease that runs down the inside of a canopy gathers in its gutters and troughs. Left to fill up, they spill over, and grease ends up dripping from the canopy edge.
Look out for these warning signs:
- Drips from the canopy onto the range
- Canopy gutters full of old fat
- Condensation and grease dripping together
- A canopy flagged at an environmental health inspection
If you run catering at a historic house or estate in the area (Hall Place is about 0.2 miles south-west), event kitchens in older buildings often have awkward duct runs that need planning.
What your quote should include
- Exactly which parts of the system are covered
- Whether the price is fixed
- How VAT is shown on the quote
- How they set the interval to the next visit
The process
Your staff do not need to do much on the day. A contact on site lets us in at the agreed time and points us to the system, and we take it from there. Before we leave, the area is tidied and the paperwork follows. We agree a date with you, plan the drive to Bentworth and turn up when the site is quiet.
- We start by checking the canopy, filters and plenum.
- Cooking equipment is left to cool and the area under the canopy protected.
- We remove the grease filters and clean the plenum and filter housing.
- Inside and out, the canopy and its grease channels are degreased.
- Filters go back, the area is cleaned down and pictures are taken.
Preparing for the visit
- Clear the space around the work
- Tell us about site rules, permits or sign-in
- Let us know about parking and loading
Ask for a quote
Quoting starts with a diagnosis, from your pictures and details or, where that isn’t enough, a survey on site. After that, you get a fixed price for the work, before we start.