Essex · Canopy and hood cleaning
Jack's Hatch canopy cleaning
Professional canopy cleaning in and around Jack's Hatch, booked around your opening hours and finished with a written report and pictures.
- Fat running down the front of the hood
- Condensation and grease dripping together
- A canopy that no longer draws the smoke away
About our canopy cleaning in Jack's Hatch
Canopy cleaning is part of every full TR19® Grease clean, but some sites need the canopy done between full cleans. Where that’s the case, we’ll be clear that the ducts and fan are not included, so your records stay accurate. If you are dealing with a plenum thick with grease behind the filters and a canopy that no longer draws the smoke away, we can help, from island canopies, canopy light fittings and baffle filters onwards.
Rural kitchens often have long, low duct runs through a roof space or along an outside wall, and those horizontal sections are where grease settles. We agree access and timings in advance.
Nothing is signed off by word of mouth: a written report, dated and illustrated with pictures, and for TR19® Grease cleans, a certificate issued through the BESCA VHE portal. Any parts we couldn’t reach are recorded on it too.
- Location
- Jack's Hatch (CM16)
- Region
- Essex
- Records
- TR19® certificate and photo report
- Quotes
- A fixed quote up front
- Working hours
- Evenings, overnight and weekends; 24/7 emergencies
- Telephone
- 0345 646 2711
- Checked
- 30 October 2026
What canopy cleaning can’t fix
We’d rather tell you now than book work that will not help, so here are the limits:
- A canopy too small for the cooking under it (that’s a design question)
- A dirty extract fan further along the system
- Bent or broken filters
If you’re not sure, just call us on 0345 646 2711 or drop us a line and we’ll give you a straight answer.
Parts of the system we cover
- Island canopies
- Wall canopies
- Baffle filters
- Grease gutters
- Canopy light fittings
- Plenum chambers
Jack's Hatch questions
Can the work in Jack's Hatch be done at night or at weekends?
Yes, evening, overnight and weekend work is normal for us. The site is handed back ready to open. Let us know the hours you are closed and we’ll book within them.
Do you work in villages like Jack's Hatch?
Yes, Jack's Hatch is part of our area, however small the site. Let us know about access, parking and anything unusual about getting there when you book.
Who is responsible for fire safety on the premises?
In the words of the Fire Safety Order 2005, it’s the responsible person. That is generally the employer or the person in control of the premises, and where several people have control, each can have duties. If you’re not sure, check your lease and fire risk assessment.
What is TR19?
It’s the industry benchmark for cleaning ventilation and kitchen extract systems, written by BESA. It covers how systems are inspected, cleaned and checked and expects a risk-based approach.
What do you need from me for a quote?
Some pictures and a quick description of the system, with the address and opening hours. If we need more, we will ask.
What accreditations do you have?
Our accreditations are CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, alongside BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite membership, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease. Vent Hygiene Elite is run by BESCA and independently audited.
What happens if you cannot reach some of it?
We record them on the report, with pictures where possible, and we tell you what would make it reachable, for example new access panels.
Do we need to close while you work?
Not typically. The area we are working in has to be out of use while we are there, so we book a time when it would be closed anyway.
Kitchen extracts in Jack's Hatch
The FSA’s data shows about 8 pubs and bars registered within about 1.5 miles of central Jack's Hatch. Breakfasts, bar meals and functions all put grease into the extract wherever they’re cooked. Food hygiene inspections in Jack's Hatch are the job of Harlow council’s environmental health team. 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. Jack's Hatch is covered by Essex County Fire and Rescue Service. In most workplaces, including commercial kitchens, it’s the fire and rescue authority that enforces the Fire Safety Order.
Volunteers running a hall kitchen near St James with St Luke, or anywhere in Jack's Hatch, may not know when the extract was last cleaned, and a grease test settles it. If you run catering at a healthcare site, such as a hospital like Princess Alexandra Hospital about 2.2 miles north, the extract may need cleaning more often than a part-time kitchen. Bursars and site managers at schools such as Water Lane Primary Academy tend to book extract cleaning for when the kitchen is empty.
Jack's Hatch is about 3 miles south-west of Harlow, in Essex. Across the CM16 area, we can take on canopy cleaning. Jack's Hatch is one of 644 places in Essex where we work for commercial clients. We also work in London, about 18 miles from Jack's Hatch.
We work across CM16 for canopy cleaning and the streets around it. Being close to the B181, Jack's Hatch is easy for our technicians to reach at any hour. If your site is just outside Jack's Hatch, we cover Broadley Common (1 mile west), Epping Green (1 mile south), Tylerscross (1 mile north-west), Staple Tye (1 mile north-east) and Great Parndon (1 mile north). We also work in nearby towns such as Harlow (3 miles north-east), Brentwood (13 miles south-east), Loughton (6 miles south), Waltham Abbey (5 miles south-west), Great Dunmow (15 miles north-east) and Epping (3 miles south-east).
Near you in Jack's Hatch
In Jack's Hatch, that means kitchens and buildings near Travellers Friend pub, Nazeing Triangle and Stewards School, among other places. The nearest railway station is Roydon station, about 3 miles north-west of the centre. Other landmarks nearby include Harlow Mill (4.1 miles north-east) and Nazeing Glass Museum (3.3 miles west). Open spaces near Jack's Hatch include Cheshunt Lake and Hunsdon Mead.
The process
The visit has three parts: set-up, the treatment itself and the sign-off. Set-up means sheeting and making equipment safe, while signing off means the written report and photos. The middle part takes longest, which takes a few hours, depending on the size of the canopy and how much grease has built up. Somewhere as small as Jack's Hatch, the date and timings are agreed with you well before the day.
- The canopy is checked from pictures or on a visit.
- Once the kitchen has closed, the cooking line is cooled and sheeted.
- We lift out the filters and scrape the plenum and housing.
- The canopy shell, seams, troughs and gutters are degreased inside and out.
- We put the filters back, tidy up and photograph the finished canopy.
Getting ready for the visit
- Arrange a key holder or contact on site
- Find the previous report, if there is one
- Clear the space around the work
Get a fixed quote
For canopy cleaning in Jack's Hatch, call us on 0345 646 2711 or send us an email. Tell us what kind of premises it is and when it’s open, and send pictures or your last report if you can. We normally send a fixed quote within one working day.
Advice
What happens if it’s left?
A canopy clean in Jack's Hatch now stops the grease spreading further. It takes an hour or two for one small canopy, longer where there are several, out of hours so service carries on. Left alone, grease keeps moving into the plenum and duct. A fault that closes a site in a village like Jack's Hatch affects everyone who depends on it.
You won’t find a price list here, because each job is priced on what it involves. For a fixed quote, phone us on 0345 646 2711 or use the quote form, and we’ll talk you through it.
What you get with us
- Photo reports with every job
- Survey first, then a fixed quote
- A fixed price before any work starts
- Full insurance on every job
Take a look at how cleaning jobs are priced or how to check a contractor.
Fixed quotes for canopy cleaning in Jack's Hatch
Some jobs are bigger than they look, and some smaller. What affects the quote:
- How big the system is
- What state the system is in
- Any permits to work or inductions
- Whether several sites go on one quote
Every site is different, so each one gets its own fixed quote. Size, access, the condition of the system and when we can work all play a part.
Asking for a quote
When you contact us, it’s useful to have:
- Your opening hours and when the area is out of use
- The postcode and the type of business
- Wide pictures of the system and the area around it
- How we’d reach plant on a roof or in a plant room
Quoting starts with a diagnosis, either from pictures and details you send or from a site visit. After that, you get a fixed price for the work, before work begins.
What staff can safely do
A few tasks are always specialist work: opening up ductwork, cleaning fans, drop testing fire dampers and measuring grease call for the right kit, training and safe access. Leave those to us.
For ventilation and air handling systems, in-house care is mostly about checks: clear grilles, a log of filter changes and reporting anything odd. Cleaning inside ducts and units is specialist work.
For landlords and multi-site operators
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.
If you look after several sites, we can plan visits across the whole estate and price them together. Every building has its own written report, so records stay tidy.
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Different parts, different methods
Plenums and filter housings
Behind the grease filters is the plenum. Grease that slips past the filters settles there, so it’s scraped and degreased on every canopy clean.
Island canopies
Island canopies often have filters on two sides. Both sides are taken apart and cleaned.