Surrey · Canopy and hood cleaning
Hersham canopy cleaning
Canopy cleaning for businesses, landlords and public buildings in Hersham. CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, and fully insured.
- Condensation running down the canopy
- Canopy gutters full of old fat
- Grease dripping from the canopy edge
How we handle canopy cleaning in Hersham
Has the canopy started to drip or look neglected? Send us a photo of the hood and filters when you call 0345 646 2711 or email us, and you’ll get a fixed price, typically within one working day. If you have a greasy hood noticed by an inspector and a canopy that no longer draws the smoke away, we can help.
In a smaller place like Hersham, many kitchens sit in older buildings or later extensions, where the duct may cross a roof void or climb an outside wall. Long horizontal runs like that hold grease and need access panels to reach.
Our accreditations include CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, and we’re fully insured. On top of that, we are a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease, trading since 2009.
- Location
- Hersham (KT12)
- Wider area
- Surrey
- Records
- TR19® certificate and photo report
- Quote
- A fixed price before any work starts
- Hours
- When your site is closed, plus a 24/7 line
- Telephone
- 0345 646 2711
- Checked
- 30 October 2026
When it’s something else
An honest diagnosis matters more to us than a booking, so here’s what canopy cleaning will not do:
- A fan that cannot pull enough air because it’s worn out
- Faulty canopy lights or wiring (a job for an electrician)
- A hood that does not cover the cooking line
If in doubt, ring 0345 646 2711, or send details by email and we’ll say what we think.
Parts of the system we cover
- Island canopies
- Canopy light fittings
- Baffle filters
- Plenum chambers
- Grease gutters
- Wall canopies
How it works
Your trading hours come first. We book the visit for a time the area is closed, whether that’s an evening, overnight or a weekend. Once we’re in, the area is sheeted and anything that has to be off is turned off and cooled, and the work takes an hour or two for one small canopy, longer where there are several. Because the survey comes first, a visit to Hersham can normally be finished without a second trip.
- We look at the canopy first, from photos or on a visit.
- 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.
Getting ready for the visit
- Mention any locked doors, roof access or ceiling voids
- Make sure someone can let us in and lock up afterwards
- Plan for cooking equipment or plant to be off before we arrive
Ask for a quote
Photos are enough for some jobs, while others need a look on site. 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.
Related advice
Part by part
Wall canopies
Long wall canopies often have several filter banks. We work along the canopy section by section, with photos for each.
Grease troughs and gutters
Some troughs drain to a cup or drawer, that is emptied and cleaned too, and we will show staff where it is.
Hersham questions
Do you do school kitchen extract cleaning in Hersham in the summer holidays?
Yes, holiday work suits schools best. Around Hersham, the Food Standards Agency lists about 7 schools and colleges with registered kitchens within a mile and a half or so. Tell us your holiday dates and we will book the visit for when the site is empty.
Which environmental health team covers Hersham?
Food hygiene inspections in Hersham are carried out by Elmbridge council. It helps to keep the extract cleaning records with your food safety paperwork, so they’re ready if asked for.
Who is the responsible person?
The Fire Safety Order 2005 calls them the responsible person: normally the employer or whoever controls the premises. In shared or managed buildings, a landlord, facilities manager or managing agent can share the duty.
What information do you need?
Where the site is, what it is and when it’s open, along with a few pictures and any previous report.
Which kinds of sites do you work on?
Any commercial site with kitchens or ventilation, from a single café to a large school. We work with hotels, schools, care homes, offices, retail and leisure sites.
Are you accredited?
We’re a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease. We also hold CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, and we carry full insurance.
What does TR19 mean?
It’s BESA’s specification and the benchmark insurers, fire officers and EHOs look to. It covers how systems are inspected, cleaned and checked and expects a risk-based approach.
Is canopy cleaning enough for TR19?
TR19® Grease is about the whole extract, from canopy to discharge. Cleaning the canopy alone leaves the ducts, risers and fan untouched, and the report will say what was covered.
Looking after it afterwards
To keep the system working properly between visits:
- Keep grease cups and drawers emptied
- Don’t scrape the canopy with metal tools
- Clean the baffle filters often
- Give the canopy a wipe after service
A before and after photo report follows the clean. The report lists what was cleaned and any part we couldn’t get to, so the record is honest and complete.
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.
Leave it or put it right?
Drips from a dirty canopy land on the cooking line. It’s a food hygiene concern as much as a fire concern, and environmental health officers look at the cleanliness of equipment, extraction included. A planned visit to Hersham fits your hours; an emergency does not.
The price reflects the work, not guesswork. That is why we survey first, from pictures or on site, and why the quote is fixed before any work starts.
Why Hersham businesses choose us
- Every visit written up, with pictures
- Evenings, overnight and weekends, plus 24/7 emergency callout
- CHAS and SafeContractor accredited, with ISO 9001
- We diagnose before we treat
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Canopy cleaning in Hersham: the local picture
Food Standards Agency data counts about 42 restaurants, cafés and works canteens and about 20 sandwich bars and takeaways in and around Hersham, up to about a mile and a half out. Where they cook under a hood, the plenum behind the filters is where grease hides. Hersham is covered by Surrey 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. Environmental health officers from Elmbridge council inspect food businesses in Hersham. An officer looking round a kitchen will see the canopy, and grease there is hard to miss. Before-and-after pictures from each clean are a simple way to show the extract is in hand.
A hospital like No. 2 New Zealand General Hospital, about 1.6 miles north-west, is the kind of site where a kitchen may cook for patients, staff and visitors all day. A hall kitchen that only cooks for events, whether near Church of St Peter or elsewhere in Hersham, still needs its extract cleaned, just less often. If you cook for passing trade around Walton-On-Thames station, the extract can be cleaned between your last and first customer.
Hersham is about 1 mile south of Walton-on-Thames, in Surrey. We provide canopy cleaning for businesses, landlords and public buildings in Hersham and the rest of Surrey. Our area takes in 395 places across Surrey, large and small. For sites nearby, see our Guildford page, about 11 miles away.
Work in KT12 follows the same survey, fixed quote and written report as everywhere else we cover. Canopy cleaning is available to premises on Police Station Road, Queensway South and Queensway and nearby roads. You’ll find Hersham on the A244, which makes it straightforward for our technicians to reach for out-of-hours visits. If your site is just outside Hersham, we cover Burwood Park (1 mile south-west), Walton-on-Thames (1 mile north), Whiteley Village (2 miles south-west), St George's Hill (2 miles west) and Weybridge (2 miles west). We also work in nearby towns such as Guildford (11 miles south-west), Woking (8 miles south-west), Camberley (14 miles west), Epsom (6 miles east), Redhill (14 miles south-east) and Ewell (6 miles east).
What’s near Hersham
Typical jobs here are in premises near The Barley Mow Public House, West End Common and Three Rivers Academy. The closest station to Hersham is Walton-On-Thames station, about 0.6 miles north-west. Other landmarks nearby include No. 2 New Zealand General Hospital (1.6 miles north-west) and Chessington Castle Hill (4.8 miles east). For a walk, there’s Claremont Lake and Jubilee Wood.
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What affects the quote in Hersham
Your quote is based on your site. We take into account:
- How big the system is
- Access, including roofs, risers and ceiling voids
- The condition we find in the survey
- Site rules, permits and inductions
You will not find a price list here, because each job is priced on what it involves. For a fixed quote, call us on 0345 646 2711 or send us an email, and we will talk you through it.
What to send for a quote
We can often survey from pictures. Try to include:
- Anything you’ve noticed, such as smells, noise, drips or poor airflow
- The paperwork from the last visit, if you have it
- The roof, plant room or outside wall the system runs to
- The postcode and the type of business
Photos are the quickest way to a quote: wide shots of the system, close-ups of anything that worries you and how we’d get to it. Tell us what kind of site it is and when it’s open, and many jobs can be priced from that alone.
Managing agents and facilities teams in Hersham
Facilities teams in offices, schools and healthcare sites book us too in Hersham and across Surrey. Larger estates can be phased building by building to keep disruption down.
If you look after several sites, we can plan visits across the whole estate and price them together. Each site gets its own report and photos, so each one has its own record.