Oxfordshire · Canopy and hood cleaning
Drayton St Leonard canopy cleaning
Canopy and hood cleaning for Drayton St Leonard, with a survey first and a report with photos at the end. Call for a fixed quote.
- An EHO comment about the canopy
- Condensation and grease dripping together
- Canopy gutters full of old fat
Canopy cleaning in Drayton St Leonard
Think of the canopy as the mouth of the extract. If it’s coated in grease, everything downstream gets more of it. We start the check-up there, and the treatment is a thorough degrease of the hood, plenum and housing. If you have grease filters blocking between washes and condensation and grease dripping together, we can put it right.
Somewhere as small as Drayton St Leonard, commercial kitchens are few: perhaps a pub, a school or care home kitchen, or a hall used for events. Each still has a canopy and duct that collect grease, whatever the size of the place.
Good records are part of the job. You get a written report with pictures after every visit, covering the work done, any areas we couldn’t access and a recommended next date. File it in your maintenance log so it’s to hand when an insurer or inspector asks.
- Location
- Drayton St Leonard (OX10)
- Wider area
- Oxfordshire
- Records
- Certificate and photo report
- Price
- Fixed quote, typically within a working day
- Working hours
- Out of hours as standard, 24/7 emergency line
- Telephone
- 0345 646 2711
- Page updated
- 30 October 2026
What your team can do, and what needs us
In-house cleaning and specialist cleaning do different jobs. Wiping filters daily and washing them weekly keeps the visible parts in order, but they do not reach the grease that builds up further in. Reaching it takes a specialist with the right equipment.
Your own staff can handle the daily basics: wiping down canopy surfaces, cleaning filters and keeping a simple log. What they cannot safely do is clean inside the ductwork, the fan or the risers, and that is where we come in.
Kitchen extracts in Drayton St Leonard
In Drayton St Leonard, food businesses are inspected by environmental health officers from South Oxfordshire council. An officer looking round a kitchen will see the canopy, and grease there is hard to miss. Before-and-after photos from each clean are a simple way to show the extract is in hand. Drayton St Leonard sits within the area of Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service. Grease in a kitchen extract is a recognised fire risk, and the fire authority enforces the law on managing it in most commercial premises.
Healthcare kitchens cannot easily close, so their extracts are cleaned overnight or between meal services; the nearest hospital to Drayton St Leonard is Littlemore Hospital, about 5.3 miles north-west. Volunteers running a hall kitchen near Church of St Leonard, or anywhere in Drayton St Leonard, may not know when the extract was last cleaned, and a grease test settles it. If you run catering at a historic house or estate in the area (Clifton Hampden Manor is about 3.1 miles west), event kitchens in older buildings often have awkward duct runs that need planning.
Drayton St Leonard is about 6 miles north-east of Didcot, in Oxfordshire. Whatever kind of site you run in Drayton St Leonard, canopy cleaning is something we can help with. Visits can be booked for evenings, overnight or weekends so trading is not interrupted. Drayton St Leonard is one of 443 towns, villages and districts in Oxfordshire where we work for commercial clients. Oxford is in our area too, about 7 miles from Drayton St Leonard.
Every address in OX10 is within our area for canopy cleaning, from busy streets to back roads. Canopy cleaning is available to premises on High Street, Church Lane and Ford Lane and nearby roads. If your site is just outside Drayton St Leonard, we cover Great Holcombe (1 mile east), Newington (1 mile east), Brookhampton (1 mile north), Stadhampton (1 mile north) and Berinsfield (1 mile west). We also work in nearby towns such as Oxford (7 miles north-west), Didcot (6 miles south-west), Abingdon-on-Thames (6 miles west), Thame (9 miles north-east), Wantage (13 miles west) and Henley-on-Thames (13 miles south-east).
Near you in Drayton St Leonard
In Drayton St Leonard, that means kitchens and buildings near The Catherine Wheel pub. The nearest railway station is Culham station, about 4.3 miles west. Other landmarks nearby include Littlemore Hospital (5.3 miles north-west) and Aston Martin Heritage Trust Museum (under half a mile south). The countryside around Drayton St Leonard includes Wittenham Clumps and Wells Farm.
What affects the cost of canopy cleaning
Your quote is based on your site. We take into account:
- The condition we find in the survey
- Site rules, permits and inductions
- Parking and loading at the site
- One-off work versus a regular cycle
What you pay reflects the actual work. That is why every job is surveyed first, and why the quote is fixed before we start.
What we need to know
To speed up the quote, send us:
- The roof, plant room or outside wall the system runs to
- Wide pictures of the system and the area around it
- When the site is open and when it’s quiet
- Detail shots of panels, filters and grilles
To get a fixed quote, phone us on 0345 646 2711, or send details by email and tell us the type of site, your opening hours and roughly what the system looks like. A few pictures and your last certificate or report help a lot. You will normally have a quote within one working day.
Between visits
No system stays clean for ever, but care slows the build-up. A few tips:
- Use non-abrasive cloths on the hood
- Never run the range with a filter out
- Wipe the canopy down at close every day
- Empty the grease troughs before they fill
The kitchen is handed back clean, with the sheeting gone and the waste removed. Every filter is refitted and checked, and the kitchen is ready to cook.
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
Plenums and filter housings
The rails and channels that hold the filters collect grease. Clean housings let the filters seat properly and leave no gaps.
Wall canopies
The back of a wall canopy is hard to reach and easy to miss. With the filters out we can get to it and degrease it properly.
What canopy cleaning can’t fix
We will always give you a straight diagnosis, so here’s what this work cannot put right:
- Ductwork and fans beyond the canopy (those need a full TR19 clean)
- A light fitting that does not work
- A fan that can’t pull enough air because it’s worn out
If in doubt, phone us on 0345 646 2711, or send details by email and we will say what we think before booking.
What the work covers
- Island canopies
- Baffle filters
- Plenum chambers
- Canopy light fittings
- Wall canopies
- Grease gutters
Multi-site and managed buildings
Keeping records across a portfolio is half the battle. Each visit ends with a dated report and photos, ready to show insurers, fire officers or EHOs.
Running several sites is easier with one contractor. We cover South East England and London, so visits at different addresses can be planned together and kept to a regular schedule.
FAQs for Drayton St Leonard
Can the work in Drayton St Leonard be done at night or at weekends?
Yes, out-of-hours work is a big part of what we do. The site is handed back ready to open. Your opening times are the first thing we ask for.
Which council inspects kitchens in Drayton St Leonard?
Food hygiene inspections in Drayton St Leonard are carried out by South Oxfordshire council. Ratings are published by the Food Standards Agency, so a clean extract and good records are worth keeping up.
Which accreditations do you hold?
BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite membership, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease, plus CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001. We are fully insured and have been trading since 2009.
How do you protect the area?
We cover floors and nearby surfaces with sheeting before work begins, and waste is contained as we go. Before we leave, we tidy up and clean down.
How much of the canopy do you clean?
We clean the canopy inside and out, along with its seams and grease channels. With the filters out, the plenum and housing are cleaned as well.
What if parts of the system cannot be reached?
We record them on the report, with a note of where it is, and we tell you what would make it reachable, such as extra access panels in ductwork.
How long is a canopy clean?
Allow an hour or two for one small canopy, longer where there are several. Your quote will give a time.
Does the law say we must follow TR19?
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 in England and Wales.
What we do, step by step
We start by comparing what we find with the survey or your pictures. If anything is different, we talk it through with the person on site before carrying on. From there, it takes a few hours for most canopies. The timing of a visit to Drayton St Leonard is set by you, and the travel is our side of the planning.
- First the canopy is surveyed, by photos or in person.
- Cooking equipment is left to cool and the area under the canopy protected.
- Filters come out and the plenum behind them is scraped and degreased.
- The canopy is cleaned inside and out, including troughs and seams.
- Filters go back, the area is cleaned down and photos are taken.
Before we arrive
- Clear loose items from the work area
- Let us know about permits to work or site inductions
- Make sure equipment near the work can be switched off and left to cool
Ask for a quote
Every quote begins with a look at the system, from your pictures and details or, where that is not enough, a survey on site. After that, you get a fixed price for the work so you know the cost before any work starts.