Canopy and hood cleaning in Brookmans Park, Hertfordshire

Kitchen extracts in Brookmans Park

Look up Brookmans Park on the FSA’s food hygiene register and you’ll find about 12 cafés, restaurants and staff canteens in Brookmans Park and the streets around it, up to about 1.5 miles out. Wherever there’s a canopy over the cooking, its hood and plenum collect grease with every service. It’s Welwyn Hatfield council that sends environmental health officers to food businesses in Brookmans Park. They look at how clean the premises and equipment are, and the kitchen extract is part of that. Before-and-after photos from each clean are a simple way to show the extract is in hand. Fire safety in Brookmans Park falls to Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue Service. In most workplaces, including commercial kitchens, it’s the fire and rescue authority that enforces the Fire Safety Order.

Bursars and site managers at schools such as Chancellor's School tend to book extract cleaning for when the kitchen is empty. Healthcare kitchens can’t easily close, so their extracts are cleaned overnight or between meal services; the nearest hospital to Brookmans Park is Queen Elizabeth II Hospital, about 4.2 miles north. If you cook for passing trade around Brookmans Park station, the extract can be cleaned between your last and first customer.

Brookmans Park is about 2 miles north of Potters Bar, in Hertfordshire. If you need canopy cleaning in Brookmans Park, please ring 0345 646 2711, or send details by email for a fixed quote. Our area covers London and the South East, including Brookmans Park. Brookmans Park is one of 381 places in Hertfordshire we cover for canopy cleaning. For sites nearby, see our London page, about 16 miles away.

Our technicians cover all of the AL9 and EN6 postcode area for canopy cleaning and the streets around it. Local streets include Station Road, The Grove and Golf Club Road, all of which we cover for canopy cleaning. If your site is just outside Brookmans Park, we cover Bell Bar (1 mile north), Northaw (2 miles south-east), West End (3 miles north), Newgate Street (3 miles east) and Cuffley (3 miles east). Further out, we also cover Watford (10 miles south-west), Hemel Hempstead (12 miles west), Stevenage (13 miles north), St Albans (6 miles west), Welwyn Garden City (5 miles north) and Harpenden (10 miles north-west).

Around Brookmans Park

In Brookmans Park, that means kitchens and buildings near Brookmans pub and Brookmans Park Primary School, among other places. Brookmans Park’s nearest station is Brookmans Park station, roughly 0.8 miles west. Nearby you will also find Queen Elizabeth II Hospital (4.2 miles north) and Potters Bar Museum (1.8 miles south). The countryside around Brookmans Park includes Gobions Wood.

Different parts, different methods

School and staff canteen kitchens

Canteen staff see the canopy, not the duct behind it. We clean it and the plenum behind the filters, so what’s out of sight is dealt with too.

Island canopies

With filters on more than one side, an island canopy has more plenum to clean. Both sides are taken apart and cleaned.

Landlords, agents and facilities managers

The Fire Safety Order 2005 puts the duty to manage fire risk on the responsible person, and that can be the employer, the owner, a landlord, a facilities manager or a managing agent. With shared responsibility, good records help everyone.

Multi-site operators often want one contractor and one number. We cover South East England and London, so a run of sites can go into one programme and kept on a regular cycle.

What your team can do, and what needs us

Some jobs should never be done in-house: opening up ductwork, cleaning fans, drop testing fire dampers and measuring grease need training, the right equipment and safe access. Leave those to us.

If your staff spot something between visits, such as dripping grease, a noisy fan, a smell or a filter that won’t come clean, they should report it rather than try to fix it. We’ll take a look and give you a fixed quote.