Canopy and hood cleaning in Godstow, Oxfordshire

How the job changes from site to site

Plenums and filter housings

Behind neglected filters, the plenum can be heavily coated. We remove thick grease by hand, then degrease.

School and staff canteen kitchens

Canteens and school kitchens tend to run to a timetable, which makes a canopy clean easy to schedule. We often clean them in holidays or at weekends.

Landlords, agents and facilities managers

Under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, the responsible person must assess and reduce fire risk, and that can be the employer, the owner, a landlord, a facilities manager or a managing agent. Where responsibility is shared, records matter even more.

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

Godstow kitchens: local notes

Look up Godstow on the FSA’s food hygiene register and you’ll find about 11 restaurants, cafés and works canteens in and around Godstow, up to about a mile and a half out. Where they cook under a hood, the plenum behind the filters is where grease hides. Food hygiene inspections in Godstow are the job of Oxford City council’s environmental health team. Extraction counts as kitchen equipment, so its condition can come up on the day. A dated certificate in the maintenance file answers the question before it’s asked. Godstow is covered by Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service. In most workplaces, including commercial kitchens, it’s the fire and rescue authority that enforces the Fire Safety Order.

Historic houses near Godstow, such as Holywell Manor about 2.7 miles south-east, are a reminder that older buildings with event kitchens can have long, awkward duct routes. School kitchens, at schools like Wolvercote Primary School for example, are typically cleaned in the holidays so no lunches are lost.

Godstow is about 3 miles south of Kidlington, in Oxfordshire. Anywhere in OX2, we can carry out canopy cleaning at your premises. Godstow is one of 443 towns, villages and districts in Oxfordshire where we work for commercial clients.

All of OX2 is covered for canopy cleaning, from the main roads to the quietest streets. If your site is just outside Godstow, we cover Wolvercote (1 mile north-east), Binsey (1 mile south), Sunnymead (1 mile east), Summertown (1 mile east) and North Oxford (1 mile east). We also work in nearby towns such as Oxford (4 miles south-east), Didcot (12 miles south), Bicester (10 miles north-east), Abingdon-on-Thames (7 miles south), Witney (8 miles west) and Carterton (13 miles west).

Local landmarks in Godstow

We work in commercial kitchens and buildings around St Edward's School, Oxford Academy and St Hugh's College Main Building Including Library, among other places. The closest station to Godstow is Oxford Parkway station, roughly 1.9 miles north-east of the centre. Well-known places in the area include Radcliffe Infirmary (2.1 miles south-east) and Clarendon Shopping Centre (2.6 miles south-east). The countryside around Godstow includes Hook Meadow and The Trap Grounds and Harcourt Hill.