Southampton · Canopy and hood cleaning
Canopy and hood cleaning in Hounsdown, Southampton
Need canopy cleaning in Hounsdown? We survey first, send you a fixed quote and work around your opening hours, then sign off with a report and pictures.
- Filters that clog soon after cleaning
- Fat running down the front of the hood
- Wet, greasy drips from the hood
How we handle canopy cleaning in Hounsdown
The canopy is the part of the extract everyone in the kitchen sees. It’s also the first place cooking vapour meets, so grease gathers on its inner skin, seams and gutters. Our canopy clean covers the shell inside and out, plus the plenum and the filter housing. Typical jobs include a canopy flagged at an environmental health inspection and grease channels that no longer drain, on canopy light fittings, wall canopies and grease gutters.
In a smaller place like Hounsdown, the kitchens with extract systems are more likely to be a pub, a café, a takeaway or a school or care home kitchen than a big restaurant. A kitchen that cooks fewer hours still builds up grease, so cleaning is planned around how much it cooks and what the readings show.
We have been trading since 2009, as a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease. CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001 are in place too, and we are fully insured.
- Place
- Hounsdown (SO40)
- Region
- Southampton
- Records
- Certificate and photo report
- Quote
- A fixed quote up front
- Working hours
- When your site is closed, plus a 24/7 line
- Phone
- 0345 646 2711
- Checked
- 30 October 2026
How the job changes from site to site
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, and canopy cleans between full cleans can help.
Grease troughs and gutters
Where a trough drains into a grease cup, we empty and clean that as well, and we’ll show staff where it is.
When something else is needed
A few issues sit outside what this work can do:
- Grease filters too damaged to refit (they need replacing)
- Electrical faults in the canopy
- A canopy too small for the cooking under it (that is a design question)
Not sure which it is? You can give us a ring on 0345 646 2711, or email photos and we will tell you honestly before you book.
What the work covers
- Plenum chambers
- Baffle filters
- Wall canopies
- Island canopies
- Canopy light fittings
- Grease gutters
Hounsdown questions
Which fire and rescue service is responsible for Hounsdown?
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service is the fire and rescue service for Hounsdown. It’s worth keeping your fire risk assessment, TR19® certificates and photo reports together, ready to show.
Can you get to a site in Hounsdown?
Yes. Villages and rural sites across the South East are part of our work, Hounsdown included. Photos of the system and directions to the site help us plan the visit.
Who has the legal duty for fire safety?
It depends on the building. Under the Fire Safety Order 2005, it’s the responsible person, which may be the employer, owner, landlord, facilities manager or managing agent.
Will we have to shut during the visit?
Not usually. We need the work area to ourselves while we’re on site, so the visit goes in a quiet slot.
Can you look after several sites?
Yes. You deal with one contact for every site across London and the South East, with visits on a regular schedule.
What paperwork do I get after a canopy clean?
You get a photo report with before and after photos. If the canopy is cleaned as part of a full TR19 clean, a TR19 certificate is issued too.
Do you clean canopies in all kinds of kitchens?
Wall and island canopies, long cooking-line hoods and small single hoods. The method is the same: filters out, plenum and housing cleaned, canopy degreased inside and out.
Do you clean inside the canopy as well as outside?
All of it: the outer surfaces, the inner skin, the seams and the troughs. The plenum behind the filters is included because that is often the dirtiest part.
Do you need canopy cleaning in Hounsdown?
The canopy takes the hottest, wettest air in the kitchen. Grease from the vapour lands on the canopy’s inner surfaces, its joints and its filters before what gets through reaches the plenum.
Any of these means the system needs a check-up:
- Drips from the canopy onto the range
- Condensation and grease dripping together
- A greasy hood noticed by an inspector
- A canopy that no longer draws the smoke away
Kitchens that cook twelve hours or more a day, as some healthcare kitchens do, fall into BESA’s three-monthly minimum; Ashurst Hospital is the nearest hospital to Hounsdown, about 1.4 miles south-west.
Before booking anyone
- Whether the quote is based on a survey or pictures
- Whether the figure could change on the day
- Proof of insurance
- Which accreditations they hold, and whether you can check them
Also near Hounsdown
Other services in Hounsdown
Grease, kitchens and Hounsdown
Sea air reaches Hounsdown, which sits within about 2 miles of the coast. Salt in the air is hard on rooftop fans, discharge cowls and fixings, so we check them for corrosion as well as grease. There are about 21 restaurants, cafés and works canteens and about 19 takeaways across Hounsdown and its immediate surroundings (about a mile and a half), according to the Food Standards Agency’s register. Any of those kitchens with a canopy has a hood that needs cleaning inside and out. Hounsdown is covered by Hampshire and Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service. The Fire Safety Order puts the duty on whoever runs a kitchen to control its fire risk, and a greasy duct is fuel.
Term dates shape school work: for a school like Hounsdown School, an extract clean fits neatly into a half-term or summer break. Where a hall near Colbury Christ Church, or anywhere in Hounsdown, hosts lunch clubs or events, its extract gathers grease just as a café’s does.
Hounsdown is about 1 mile south of Totton, in Southampton. From the centre of Hounsdown to the outskirts, we cover canopy cleaning for every kind of premises, from small sites to large estates. Across Southampton, we cover 40 places, Hounsdown among them.
Our technicians cover all of SO40 for canopy cleaning and the streets around it. Streets in the area include Main Road, Pound Lane and Chapel Lane, and we cover them all for canopy cleaning. We also cover the places around Hounsdown: Ashurst Bridge (1 mile north-west), Totton (1 mile north), Netley Marsh (1 mile north-west), Woodlands (2 miles west) and Winsor (3 miles north-west). We also work in nearby towns such as Southampton (5 miles east), Shirley (3 miles east), Regents Park (3 miles east), Townhill Park (6 miles east), Midanbury (6 miles east) and Thornhill (7 miles east).
Local landmarks in Hounsdown
Around Hounsdown, our work takes us to kitchens and buildings near Foxhills Infant School and The Forest Inn. For rail, the closest station is Totton station, about 1.1 miles north-east of the centre. A little further out are National Dairy Museum (0.8 miles south) and Ashurst Hospital (1.4 miles south-west). The countryside around Hounsdown includes Testwood Lakes.
Managing agents and facilities teams in Hounsdown
If you look after several sites, we can schedule visits across all of them on one quote. Each site gets its own report and photos, so records stay tidy.
When the building owner and the occupier are different, the lease normally sets out who maintains what. We are happy to deal with either side, and the report can go to both.
Keeping the system healthy
To keep the system working properly between visits:
- Check filters aren’t leaving gaps
- Flag any change in how the canopy behaves
- Clean the hood’s outer surfaces daily
- Check all filters are fitted before service
Anything worth knowing goes into the report: bent or poorly fitting filters, a light cover that’s cracked, or troughs that fill too quickly. We keep it to what matters.
A daily wipe of the hood keeps fresh grease from baking on. It won’t replace a professional clean, but it slows the build-up you can see.
How we price canopy cleaning
Every site gets its own quote. This is what makes a difference:
- The condition of the system
- How many systems or sites are involved
- The times the site is available
- Whether we need access equipment or extra panels
Several systems or sites on one quote can make for a more efficient booking. Tell us about everything you’d like looked at and we’ll price it together.
What we need to know
You don’t need the technical terms. Just send:
- Anything you’ve noticed, such as smells, noise, drips or poor airflow
- Any previous report or certificate
- Where the site is and what kind of site it is
- The roof, plant room or outside wall the system runs to
For canopy cleaning in Hounsdown, phone us on 0345 646 2711, or send details by email. Let us know the site type and the opening hours, and send pictures or your last report if you can. We normally send a fixed quote within one working day.
What we do, step by step
Every visit runs to the same pattern: sheeting and protection first, make the system safe, do the work, tidy up and leave you the report. The visit itself takes an hour or two for one small canopy, longer where there are several. Tell us when your site near Hounsdown is quiet and the visit will be booked for then.
- 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.
- We finish the plenum, troughs and canopy and check them over.
- You get pictures of the result and a recommended date for the next clean.
Preparing for the visit
- Make sure equipment near the work can be switched off and left to cool
- Have your last certificate or report to hand
- Mention any parking or loading restrictions
How to get a quote
Quoting starts with a diagnosis, from your photos and details or, where that isn’t enough, a survey on site. After that, you get a fixed price for the work, before work begins.