Essex · Canopy and hood cleaning
Great Burstead canopy cleaning
We cover Great Burstead for canopy cleaning. Out-of-hours visits, a fixed quote and a written report with pictures as standard.
- Heavy deposits behind the grease filters
- Canopy gutters full of old fat
- Grease dripping from the canopy edge
How we handle canopy cleaning in Great Burstead
Dripping edges and a sticky hood are the first things a visitor notices. What is not seen, behind the filters, tends to be worse. We clean both, so the canopy is clean where it shows and where it does not. If you have filters that never seem to stay clean and a sticky, discoloured canopy, we can put it right.
In a small place like Great Burstead, kitchens are often in older or extended buildings, with long single-storey duct runs, where grease settles in the flat sections. Access, parking and timings are agreed before the day.
Accreditations are easy to claim and worth checking. We are a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease, and we hold CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, and we are fully insured.
- Place
- Great Burstead (CM11, SS15)
- Wider area
- Essex
- Records
- TR19® certificate and photo report
- Price
- A fixed price before we start
- Hours
- Overnight and weekend work, 24/7 emergency callout
- Call
- 0345 646 2711
- Page updated
- 30 October 2026
What the work involves, part by part
Pub and hotel kitchens
In pubs and hotels, the kitchen may be busy for much of the day. That is a lot of grease on the canopy, so it may need cleaning between full TR19 cleans.
School and staff canteen kitchens
In a school or workplace canteen, the canopy is often the only part of the extract staff ever see. We clean it and the plenum behind the filters, so what’s out of sight is dealt with too.
Nearby places to Great Burstead
What else we do in Great Burstead
Between visits
How long the results last depends on use and care. Here’s what we suggest:
- Do not scrape the canopy with metal tools
- Give the canopy a wipe after service
- Leave the extract running until cooking stops
- Tell us when the canopy starts to drip
Where the canopy is cleaned as part of a full TR19® Grease clean, a TR19 certificate is issued through the BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite portal. Where only the canopy is done, the report says so clearly.
Empty the grease troughs and cups before they fill. Most canopy drips start with a full trough, so make emptying them part of the closing routine.
In-house cleaning or a specialist?
Your own staff can handle the daily basics: wiping canopies, washing grease filters and recording it in a log. What they can’t safely do is clean inside the ductwork, the fan or the risers, which is where we come in.
Some jobs should never be done in-house: entering ducts, working on fans, testing dampers and taking grease readings call for the right kit, training and safe access. That’s our job.
How it works
At the end of the visit, someone from your team can look over the work with us. Anything we couldn’t reach or that needs attention is pointed out there and then, and it goes on the report too. The visit takes a few hours for most canopies. The timing of a visit to Great Burstead is set by you, and the travel is our side of the planning.
- We start by checking the canopy, filters and plenum.
- The range is turned off and allowed to cool before we cover it.
- With the filters out, the plenum and housing are cleaned back.
- We degrease the canopy shell, its seams and the grease troughs.
- We refit the filters, clear up and photograph the finished canopy.
Preparing for the visit
- Name a contact who can let us in at the agreed time
- Move anything stored near the system
- Plan for cooking equipment or plant to be off before we arrive
Get a fixed quote
Some systems can be priced from photos; others need a survey. Larger sites, and anything hidden behind walls, ceilings or floors, are normally surveyed first. Either way, the quote is fixed before any work is booked.
Advice
Common questions in Great Burstead
Who enforces fire safety at workplaces in Great Burstead?
Essex County Fire and Rescue Service is the fire and rescue service for Great Burstead. It’s worth keeping your fire risk assessment, TR19® certificates and photo reports together, ready to show.
Do you clean school canteen extracts around Great Burstead out of term?
Yes. Half-terms and the summer break are the natural time for school work. With about 6 schools and colleges on the FSA’s register within roughly a mile and a half of Great Burstead, it pays to plan holiday dates ahead. Just give us a ring on 0345 646 2711 or use the quote form with your term dates and we’ll plan around them.
What do you need from me for a quote?
Just the basics: where it is, what kind of site, when it’s open and the access. Photos and any previous paperwork make it quicker. Then phone us on 0345 646 2711 or email us.
Which accreditations do you hold?
BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite membership, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease, plus CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001. We’re fully insured and have been trading since 2009.
Do we need to close the kitchen for a canopy clean?
The clean is done out of hours: evenings, overnight, early mornings or weekends. Equipment under the canopy needs to be off and cool.
Why is my canopy dripping grease?
Grease that builds up inside the canopy has to go somewhere. When the gutters fill, it overflows onto the range, often mixed with condensation. A thorough clean stops it.
What happens to the filters during the clean?
The filters come out so the plenum behind them can be cleaned, and they’re cleaned before going back in. We will tell you if any need replacing.
How much notice should we give?
For planned work, earlier is better, especially if the next clean or test is due soon. For emergencies, we take calls 24/7.
How we price canopy cleaning
The survey tells us what the work involves. The main factors are:
- The times the site is available
- The scale of the work
- Access, including roofs, risers and ceiling voids
- The condition we find in the survey
Combining work into one visit or one programme can make for a more efficient booking. Tell us about everything you’d like looked at, and you will get one fixed quote.
Helping us quote
What to send for a quote:
- Wide pictures of the system and the area around it
- Where the site is and what kind of site it is
- How we’d reach plant on a roof or in a plant room
- The times we could work without disrupting the site
We do not publish a price list, because no two systems are the same. Instead, we look at your site first, from pictures or a survey, then send a fixed quote. To start, call 0345 646 2711 or use the quote form.
Landlords, agents and facilities managers
Where a tenant occupies the premises but the landlord owns the building, the lease normally sets out who maintains what. We are happy to deal with either side, and the report can go to both.
The Fire Safety Order 2005 puts the duty to manage fire risk on the responsible person, which may be the employer, owner, landlord, FM or managing agent. Where responsibility is shared, records matter even more.
When it’s something else
We’ll always give you a straight diagnosis, so here’s what this work cannot put right:
- A dirty extract fan further along the system
- A fan that cannot pull enough air because it’s worn out
- Faulty canopy lights or wiring (a job for an electrician)
Not sure which it is? You can give us a ring on 0345 646 2711, or send details by email and we will tell you honestly.
Parts of the system we cover
- Plenum chambers
- Wall canopies
- Grease gutters
- Canopy light fittings
- Island canopies
- Baffle filters
Kitchen extracts in Great Burstead
Food Standards Agency records list about 25 cafés, restaurants and staff canteens and about 7 takeaways in and around Great Burstead, up to about a mile and a half out. Where they cook under a hood, the plenum behind the filters is where grease hides. Essex County Fire and Rescue Service covers Great Burstead. 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 Great Burstead, food businesses are inspected by environmental health officers from Basildon council. 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.
Church and community hall kitchens, near Church of St Mary Magdalene or anywhere around Great Burstead, are easy to forget, but their extracts collect grease like any other. A hospital like Mayflower Community Hospital, about 2.1 miles north-west, is the kind of site where a kitchen may cook for patients, staff and visitors all day. For schools such as St Peter's Catholic Primary School, kitchen extract cleaning is normally booked for the holidays, when the canteen is closed.
Great Burstead is about 2 miles south-east of Billericay, in Essex. Across the CM11 area, we can take on canopy cleaning. Across Essex, we cover 644 places, Great Burstead among them. Chelmsford is in our area too, around 9 miles away.
Every address in CM11 and SS15 is within our area for canopy cleaning, from busy streets to back roads. Whether your site is on Mill Road, Southend Road and Tyrrells Road or a nearby road, we can help. Neighbouring places we cover for canopy cleaning include Crays Hill (1 mile east), Little Burstead (1 mile west), Billericay (2 miles north-west), Ramsden Bellhouse (2 miles north-east) and Ramsden Heath (3 miles north-east). Within a short drive, we also cover Chelmsford (9 miles north), Brentwood (6 miles west), Maldon (13 miles north-east), Canvey Island (8 miles south-east), Rayleigh (7 miles east) and Wickford (4 miles east).
Landmarks near Great Burstead
In Great Burstead, that means kitchens and buildings near Kings Head pub and The Billericay School, among other places. The closest station to Great Burstead is Billericay station, about 2.1 miles north-west of the centre. Other landmarks nearby include Eastgate Shopping Centre (2.5 miles south) and Barleylands Farm Museum (within half a mile south). Open spaces near Great Burstead include Norsey Wood.