Oxfordshire · Canopy and hood cleaning
Canopy and hood cleaning in Longcot, Oxfordshire
Our technicians work in Longcot on canopy cleaning. Fixed quotes, work around your opening hours and photo reports as standard.
- A filter housing caked in grease
- Condensation and grease dripping together
- Smoke hanging around the canopy during service
Keeping the system healthy
Good habits slow the build-up between visits. A few tips:
- Keep the fan on through service
- Don’t scrape the canopy with metal tools
- Tell us when the canopy starts to drip
- Empty the grease troughs before they fill
The kitchen is handed back clean, with the sheeting gone and the waste removed. Every filter is refitted and checked ready for the next service.
Keep the fan running throughout service and for a short while after. Air that keeps moving carries less grease onto the canopy.
Canopy cleaning for kitchens and businesses in Longcot
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’re dealing with a plenum thick with grease behind the filters and grease channels that no longer drain, we can help, from baffle filters, wall canopies and grease gutters onwards.
Work in a small place like Longcot starts with a call to agree access and timings, and the clean itself is the same full TR19® job as in any town: canopy to discharge, then a TR19® certificate and a photo report.
Nothing is signed off by word of mouth: a dated report with photos of the work, 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
- Longcot (SN7)
- Region
- Oxfordshire
- Reporting
- Certificate plus before-and-after pictures
- Quote
- A fixed price before work begins
- When we work
- When your site is closed, plus a 24/7 line
- Call
- 0345 646 2711
- Page updated
- 30 October 2026
Longcot questions
Which fire authority looks after Longcot?
It’s Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service, which covers Longcot. A recent cleaning certificate and a note of the next clean date show that grease in the extract is being managed.
Do you work in villages like Longcot?
Yes, smaller places are covered as well as towns. Photos of the system and directions to the site help us plan the visit.
Is TR19 cleaning required by law?
Not in itself. TR19® is the benchmark insurers, fire officers and EHOs check against, and many insurers ask for proof of cleaning to it. The legal duty sits in the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, which applies in England and Wales.
Can you look after several sites?
Yes. Send the list of sites and the work at each and we will quote them together.
Do you look at the system first?
Yes. For many sites, photos and a few details are enough, and larger or hidden systems get a visit.
How do you keep the site clean during the work?
With sheeting and covers, before anything else happens. We keep the work contained and clean down when we finish.
Can I just have the canopy cleaned instead of the whole system?
A canopy-only clean is possible, but it isn’t a full TR19 clean. For TR19, the whole system needs cleaning, at intervals set by BESA guidance.
What about areas you can’t get to?
They’re marked on the report. Often the fix is extra access, such as new panels in ductwork, which we can install.
The process
We work around your opening hours, not the other way round. Most visits are booked for when the area is out of use, such as evenings, overnight, early mornings or weekends. Once we’re in, the area is sheeted and anything that has to be off is turned off and cooled, and the job takes an hour or two for one small canopy, longer where there are several. Pictures of the system and its access let us plan the work in Longcot before we set off.
- We start by checking the canopy and what’s behind its filters.
- Equipment is turned off and cooled, and the area under the canopy is protected.
- Thick grease is scraped away before the canopy is 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
- Allow time for equipment near the work to be turned off and cool down
- Tell us about access, such as roof hatches, plant rooms, ceilings or locked areas
- Dig out any earlier paperwork for the system
Getting a quote
To help us quote: the address, the type of site and when it’s open, photos of the system and the last certificate or report, if there is one. Then call 0345 646 2711, or send details by email.
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How we price canopy cleaning
We do not publish a price list, because no two systems are the same. The quote depends on:
- The times the site is available
- Whether several sites go on one quote
- Site rules, permits and inductions
- The scale of the work
The price reflects the work, not guesswork. That’s why we survey first, from photos or on site, and the price is agreed before we start.
What to send for a quote
When you call or email, it’s useful to have:
- The times we could work without disrupting the site
- The site address and the type of premises
- Any access panels or hatches you can see
- Any symptoms, from odd noises to smells or leaks
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. Add the site type and your opening hours, and we can price many jobs without a visit.
Different parts, different methods
School and staff canteen kitchens
Canteens and school kitchens tend to run to a timetable, so the canopy can be cleaned when the kitchen is closed. Holidays and weekends work well.
Island canopies
Island canopies hang over cooking in the middle of the kitchen, which means grease settles on all four sides. Each face is cleaned inside and out.
Multi-site and managed buildings
From a single site to a large estate, the standard is the same: the system surveyed, the price fixed, the visit fitted around trading and everything written up afterwards.
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. With shared responsibility, good records help everyone.
What happens if it’s left?
For a kitchen in Longcot, a canopy that looks greasy can colour a whole inspection. Keeping it clean shows the rest of the kitchen is being looked after, and it’s far easier to keep clean than to rescue. If the system at a site near Longcot fails, there may be nowhere nearby to move to.
What you pay depends on how big the system is, the condition it’s in and access to every part of it. You get a fixed price before any work starts, so there are no surprises.
What you get with us
- One contact for all your sites in London and the South East
- Work around your opening hours, with 24/7 emergency cover
- Member of BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease
- Full insurance on every job
Take a look at what affects the cost and our accreditations.
When to call us in Longcot
Most canopies have troughs or channels that catch running grease. If they’re not emptied, they fill and overflow, and grease ends up dripping from the canopy edge.
Any of these means the system needs a check-up:
- Wet, greasy drips from the hood
- A greasy hood noticed by an inspector
- Fat running down the front of the hood
- A canopy that no longer draws the smoke away
Historic houses near Longcot, such as Buscot Park about 4.1 miles north-west, are a reminder that older buildings with event kitchens can have long, awkward duct routes.
Questions to ask before you book
- What records you will receive afterwards
- Whether the quote is based on a survey or photos
- Whether the price is fixed
- Proof of accreditation you can verify
Grease, kitchens and Longcot
It’s Vale of White Horse council that sends environmental health officers to food businesses in Longcot. An officer looking round a kitchen will see the canopy, and grease there is hard to miss. A TR19® certificate and photo report after each clean gives you a record to show an inspector. Fire safety in Longcot falls to Oxfordshire 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.
For schools such as Longcot and Fernham Church of England Primary School, kitchen extract cleaning is normally booked for the holidays, when the canteen is closed. If you run a church or community hall kitchen, near Church of St Mary or elsewhere in Longcot, its extract still collects grease from every lunch and event.
Longcot is in Oxfordshire. Across the SN7 area, we can take on canopy cleaning. We cover 443 places across Oxfordshire, large and small. There’s also a page for Oxford, about 19 miles away.
Here we cover the SN7 postcode area for canopy cleaning. If you need canopy cleaning at premises on The Green, Church Close and Hughes Crescent or a nearby road, our technicians can take on the work. We also cover the places around Longcot: Fernham (1 mile north-east), Little Coxwell (2 miles north), Great Coxwell (2 miles north), Woolstone (2 miles south-east) and Uffington (2 miles south-east). Within a short drive, we also cover Abingdon-on-Thames (15 miles east), Witney (13 miles north-east), Carterton (10 miles north), Wantage (8 miles east), Grove (8 miles east) and Faringdon (3 miles north).
Landmarks near Longcot
Typical jobs here are in premises near Bricklayers Arms and Faringdon Community College and the streets around them. A little further out are Faringdon Day Hospital (2.9 miles north) and Uffington Museum (2.1 miles south-east). Not far away are Badbury Hill.