Hampshire · Canopy and hood cleaning

Canopy and hood cleaning in Conford, Hampshire

Professional canopy cleaning in and around Conford, booked around your opening hours and signed off in writing with photos.

  • Poor capture at the hood
  • Heavy deposits behind the grease filters
  • A canopy flagged at an environmental health inspection

Canopy cleaning across Conford

Why deal with it now?

Grease on the canopy is sitting just above the heat source. A flare-up can catch it and be drawn into the plenum and duct, where a fire is much harder to stop. Cleaning it removes that fuel. In a place like Conford, ductwork and fans are easy to forget until something goes wrong.

Combining work into one visit or one programme often makes better use of the time. Mention every system or site you need covered and we’ll price it together.

Why choose Duct Doctor in Conford

  • In business since 2009
  • Out-of-hours work and a 24/7 emergency line
  • Every job surveyed first
  • We are fully insured

Read what affects the cost and our accreditations.

About our canopy cleaning in Conford

We clean canopies in Conford when the kitchen isn’t cooking: evenings, overnight, early mornings or weekends. Cooking equipment is turned off and cooled, then covered so the kitchen is ready when we go. If you have a hood coated in old grease and a canopy that no longer draws the smoke away, we can help, from baffle filters, canopy light fittings and plenum chambers onwards.

In a small place like Conford, kitchens are often in older or extended buildings, with long single-storey duct runs, where grease settles in the flat sections. We agree access and timings in advance.

It’s worth checking any contractor’s accreditations. Ours are BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite membership, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease, plus CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, with full insurance on top.

Location
Conford (GU30)
Wider area
Hampshire
Reporting
Certificate and photo report
Quotes
A fixed price before work begins
Working hours
When your site is closed, plus a 24/7 line
Call
0345 646 2711
Page updated
30 October 2026
Duct Doctor duct and vent cleaning vans lined up in a car park with the team

Questions from Conford

Can you get to a site in Conford?

Yes, we work in villages as well as towns, and Conford is covered. Photos of the system and directions to the site help us plan the visit.

Can you come to Conford after we close?

Yes. We work evenings, overnight and at weekends. The site is handed back ready to open. Let us know the hours you are closed and we’ll book within them.

Is TR19 cleaning required by law?

No, not in itself. TR19® is the benchmark insurers, fire officers and EHOs check against, and many insurance policies ask for proof of TR19® cleaning. The law behind it is the Fire Safety Order 2005, which applies in England and Wales.

Why does grease run off the canopy edge?

A full trough, gaps around the filters or a coated plenum. We clean all three and point out anything that is causing it.

Is canopy cleaning enough for TR19?

A canopy-only clean is possible, but it is not a full TR19 clean. For TR19, the whole system needs cleaning, at intervals set by BESA guidance.

Can we book visits on a schedule?

Yes. Tell us what you have and how it’s used, and we’ll suggest a schedule and quote for it.

Are you accredited?

Duct Doctor is a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease. We also hold CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, and we’re fully insured.

Where does the waste go?

Waste is contained during the work and removed when we leave, including grease, debris and dirty water. We do not leave it behind.

Looking after it afterwards

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

  • Use non-abrasive cloths on the hood
  • Refit filters the right way round and fully seated
  • Flag any change in how the canopy behaves
  • Check all filters are fitted before service

After the clean you get a photo report showing the canopy, plenum and housing before and after. It notes what was cleaned and anything we couldn’t reach, so the record is honest and complete.

A change in how the canopy behaves is worth reporting. It can mean the cooking has changed or the interval is too long, which a grease thickness test can confirm.

Multi-site and managed buildings

Keeping records across a portfolio is half the battle. Each visit produces a dated report with photos, so you can show an insurer or inspector what was done at each site.

Whether it’s one building or many, you get the same standard: the system surveyed, the price fixed, the visit fitted around trading and everything written up afterwards.

Signs you need canopy cleaning in Conford

Steam and condensation make canopy grease harder to deal with. As the canopy cools, condensation forms, carrying grease with it. Drips onto the cooking line are a common result.

Any of these means the system needs a check-up:

  • A canopy that no longer draws the smoke away
  • A filter housing caked in grease
  • Grease channels that no longer drain
  • A greasy hood noticed by an inspector

A hospital like Chase Community Hospital, about 1.9 miles north-west, is the kind of site where a kitchen may cook for patients, staff and visitors all day.

Before you book anyone

  • When the next visit should be, and why
  • Whether the price is fixed
  • Exactly which parts of the system are covered
  • How areas they cannot reach will be recorded

Questions to ask before booking

Canopy cleaning around Conford

Look up Conford on the FSA’s food hygiene register and you will find about 3 restaurants, cafés and works canteens and about 4 takeaways and sandwich shops in Conford 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. Hampshire and Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service covers Conford. Grease in a kitchen extract is a recognised fire risk, and the fire authority enforces the law on managing it in most commercial premises. In Conford, food businesses are inspected by environmental health officers from East Hampshire council. Extraction counts as kitchen equipment, so its condition can come up on the day. A TR19® certificate and photo report after each clean gives you a record to show an inspector.

Term dates shape school work: for a school like Liphook Infant School, an extract clean fits neatly into a half-term or summer break.

Conford is about 2 miles south-east of Bordon, in Hampshire. Across the GU30 area, we can take on canopy cleaning. Conford is one of 683 towns, villages and districts in Hampshire we cover for commercial clients. You can also see our page for Guildford, roughly 15 miles from Conford.

Work in GU30 follows the same survey, fixed quote and written report as everywhere else we cover. Neighbouring places we cover for canopy cleaning include Passfield (1 mile north-west), Weavers Down (1 mile south), Liphook (1 mile south-east), Longmoor (2 miles south-west) and Woolmer (2 miles west). Larger places within reach include Farnborough (14 miles north), Fleet (13 miles north), Horndean (15 miles south-west), Aldershot (11 miles north), Alton (8 miles north-west) and Petersfield (8 miles south-west).

Local landmarks in Conford

Typical jobs here are in premises near Bohunt School. The closest station to Conford is Liphook station, about 1.8 miles south-east. Other landmarks nearby include Chase Community Hospital (1.9 miles north-west). Not far away are Wheeler's Down and Deadwater Valley.

Map of Conford © OpenStreetMap contributors

How the job changes from site to site

Wall canopies

Long wall canopies often have several filter banks. We work along the canopy section by section, with pictures for each.

Plenums and filter housings

Filter housings hold the filters in place, and their channels fill with grease. Clean housings let the filters seat properly and leave no gaps.

The process

The first job on site is protection: floors, worktops and anything near the work are covered. Then we make the system safe and start. The work on site takes an hour or two for one small canopy, longer where there are several, and the area is cleaned down before we leave. In a small place like Conford, the journey is planned ahead and the visit arranged around the site’s hours.

  1. The canopy is checked from pictures or on a visit.
  2. Out of hours, the range is switched off, cooled and covered.
  3. We lift out the filters and scrape the plenum and housing.
  4. Inside and out, the hood and its troughs are cleaned.
  5. We put the filters back, tidy up and photograph the finished canopy.

Preparing for the visit

  • Mention any locked doors, roof access or ceiling voids
  • Clear the space around the work
  • Make sure someone can let us in and lock up afterwards

Get a fixed quote

Quoting starts with a diagnosis, either from pictures and details you send or from a site visit. After that, you get a fixed price for the work so you know the cost before we start.

Get a quick quote

Related advice

Honest limits

It’s worth knowing the limits before booking:

  • Grease in the duct runs and risers behind the canopy
  • A canopy too small for the cooking under it (that’s a design question)
  • Bent or broken filters

If you’re not sure, just call 0345 646 2711 or drop us a line and we’ll give you a straight answer.

What the work covers

  • Baffle filters
  • Grease gutters
  • Canopy light fittings
  • Island canopies
  • Wall canopies
  • Plenum chambers
BESCA Vent Hygiene EliteMember, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease
CHAS · SafeContractorISO 9001 and fully insured
Certificate and photo reportWith every clean
24/7 emergency calloutEvenings, nights and weekends
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