West Berkshire · Canopy and hood cleaning
Great Lea Common canopy cleaning
Canopy cleaning in Great Lea Common, surveyed first and signed off with a written report and pictures. Call for a fixed quote.
- Canopy gutters full of old fat
- Filters that clog soon after cleaning
- A plenum thick with grease behind the filters
About our canopy cleaning in Great Lea Common
Grease troughs, seams and the inside edge of the canopy are the spots a daily wipe misses. Thick deposits are scraped off by hand, then the surfaces degreased to suit what’s there, using hot water or steam where it helps. If you have heavy deposits behind the grease filters and drips from the canopy onto the range, we can put it right, from baffle filters, grease gutters and wall canopies onwards.
Work in a small place like Great Lea Common starts with a call to agree access and timings, and the clean covers the whole system, as it would anywhere: canopy to discharge, then a TR19® certificate and a photo report.
The paperwork matters as much as the work. You get a written report with pictures after each visit, covering the work done, any areas we couldn’t access and a recommended next date. Keep it with your fire safety records so it’s ready for an insurer, fire officer or EHO.
- Where
- Great Lea Common (RG7)
- Region
- West Berkshire
- Reporting
- Certificate plus before-and-after photos
- Quotes
- A fixed quote up front
- When we work
- Out of hours as standard, 24/7 emergency line
- Call
- 0345 646 2711
- Page updated
- 30 October 2026
How the visit works
Each visit runs to the same pattern: protect the area, isolate whatever needs isolating, carry out the canopy cleaning, tidy up and leave you the report. On site, the work takes a few hours, depending on the size of the canopy and how much grease has built up. For a village or hamlet like Great Lea Common, tell us about narrow lanes, gates and parking when you book.
- Diagnosis first: we look behind the filters as well as at the hood.
- We protect everything below once it has cooled.
- Heavy deposits come off by hand, then the surfaces are degreased.
- Plenum, housing, troughs and canopy are all cleaned and checked.
- The canopy is signed off with before and after pictures and a next clean date.
How to prepare
- Allow time for equipment near the work to be turned off and cool down
- Have your last certificate or report to hand
- Move anything stored near the system
Ask for a quote
Want a quote for canopy cleaning? Please call 0345 646 2711 or send us an email and tell us about the site. We will talk you through the work and send you a fixed quote before anything is booked.
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Staff cleaning versus specialist work
Away from the kitchen, the in-house job is mainly checking: keeping grilles clear, noting unusual noise or smells and logging filter changes. Cleaning inside ducts and units is specialist work.
In-house cleaning and specialist cleaning do different jobs. A daily filter wipe and a weekly filter wash keep grease down at the front of the system, but grease that has passed the filters is out of reach. Reaching it takes a specialist with the right equipment.
Multi-site and managed buildings
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. Where responsibility is shared, records matter even more.
Landlords, managing agents and facilities managers book us, not only the businesses that use the systems. Where a system serves more than one tenant, such as a shared riser, it helps to agree who arranges the work, and we’re happy to quote for all of it.
Fixed quotes for canopy cleaning in Great Lea Common
The price is fixed before any work begins. It takes into account:
- Working hours and out-of-hours timing
- How big the system is
- Access, including roofs, risers and ceiling voids
- The condition of the system
No two sites are the same, so each one gets its own fixed quote. The size of the job, how we reach it, its condition and the working hours all play a part.
Helping us quote
To help us quote quickly, please include:
- Where the site is and what kind of site it is
- Any access panels or hatches you can see
- The times we could work without disrupting the site
- How we’d reach plant on a roof or in a plant room
Photos are the quickest way to a quote: the system from a couple of angles, plus any access panels or hatches. Add the site type and your opening hours, and many jobs can be priced from that alone.
When to call us in Great Lea Common
Filters that are missing, damaged or badly seated leave gaps. The plenum and housing behind them then take far more grease than they should, which shows up as heavy deposits when the filters come out.
Look out for any of the following:
- A sticky, discoloured canopy
- Grease filters blocking between washes
- A canopy flagged at an environmental health inspection
- Grease dripping from the canopy edge
If your kitchen is in a listed or historic building, like the houses around Great Lea Common (Stratfield Saye House is about 4.3 miles south), fitting access panels needs care.
Before you book anyone
- If the quote is a fixed price or an estimate
- Whether they recommend a next date
- Whether the quote shows VAT
- Which accreditations they hold, and whether you can check them
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Looking after it afterwards
So the system stays in good health:
- Keep the fan on through service
- Report new drips or smells from the canopy
- Check all filters are fitted before service
- Keep grease cups and drawers emptied
Anything worth knowing goes into the report: damaged filters, gaps around the housing or troughs that need emptying more often. It’s a short list of what to watch, not a sales pitch.
Run the extract for as long as anything is cooking. Air that keeps moving carries less grease onto the canopy.
Common questions in Great Lea Common
Can a school canteen extract in Great Lea Common be done out of term time?
Yes, out-of-term visits are normal for schools. With about 3 schools and colleges on the FSA’s register within roughly a mile and a half of Great Lea Common, it pays to plan holiday dates ahead. Just ring 0345 646 2711, or email photos with your term dates and we’ll plan around them.
Which fire and rescue service is responsible for Great Lea Common?
That’s Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service. If a fire safety officer visits a commercial kitchen, they may ask about the fire risk assessment and how the extract is kept clean.
What if parts of the system can’t be reached?
We record them on the report, with a note of where it is, and we tell you what would make it reachable, for example new access panels.
Do you provide pictures of the cleaned canopy?
A photo report shows the canopy and plenum before and after. Full system cleans also come with a TR19 certificate.
What do you do with what you remove?
Anything we remove is contained as we work and taken away with us, including grease, debris and dirty water. None of it is left on site.
Which kinds of sites do you work on?
Commercial premises of every kind: kitchens, offices, schools, healthcare, retail, leisure and food production. We fit the work around how the site operates.
Does a canopy clean meet TR19?
On its own, a canopy clean is a useful extra rather than a full TR19 clean. Your report lists exactly what was cleaned so nobody mistakes it for a full system clean.
What happens to the filters during the clean?
We remove the filters to reach the plenum, and they’re cleaned before going back in. We’ll tell you if any need replacing.
Great Lea Common kitchens: local notes
The FSA’s food hygiene register shows about 25 restaurants, cafés and works canteens and about 8 takeaways and sandwich shops in Great Lea Common and the streets around it, up to about 1.5 miles out. Every kitchen among them that cooks under a canopy has a hood, plenum and filters collecting grease. Environmental health officers from Reading council inspect food businesses in Great Lea Common. An officer looking round a kitchen will see the canopy, and grease there is hard to miss. Keeping each certificate and photo report on file helps show the extract is looked after. Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service covers Great Lea Common. The Fire Safety Order puts the duty on whoever runs a kitchen to control its fire risk, and a greasy duct is fuel.
Healthcare kitchens, like those at hospitals such as Royal Berkshire Hospital (about 2.9 miles north), often cook for long hours, which puts them in BESA’s heavier-use bands. A hall kitchen that only cooks for events, whether near St Paul's Church or elsewhere in Great Lea Common, still needs its extract cleaned, just less often.
Great Lea Common is about 3 miles south of Reading, in West Berkshire. Across the RG7 area, we can take on canopy cleaning. Great Lea Common is one of 155 places in West Berkshire we cover for commercial clients.
Postcode districts we cover here for canopy cleaning: RG7. We also cover the places around Great Lea Common: Three Mile Cross (1 mile south-east), Whitley Wood (1 mile north-east), Ryeish Green (1 mile south-east), Green Park (1 mile north-west) and Shinfield (1 mile east). Larger places within reach include Newbury (15 miles west), Thatcham (12 miles west), Burghfield Common (4 miles west), Speenhamland (15 miles west), Calcot (4 miles north-west) and Shaw (14 miles west).
What’s near Great Lea Common
Around Great Lea Common, our work takes us to kitchens and buildings near Geoffrey Field Junior School, Ryeish Green School and Pearman's Copse. For rail, the closest station is Reading Green Park station, about 1.5 miles north-west. Nearby you will also find Berkshire Medical Heritage Centre Museum (3 miles north) and Royal Berkshire Hospital (2.9 miles north). For a walk, there’s Fobney Island Wetland Reserve and Longwater.
What the work involves, part by part
Grease troughs and gutters
Many canopies have troughs or gutters around the edge to catch running grease. We empty and degrease them, so they can do their job again.
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.