Greater London · Canopy and hood cleaning
Maze Hill canopy cleaning
Professional canopy cleaning in and around Maze Hill, booked around your opening hours and finished with a written report and photos.
- Heavy deposits behind the grease filters
- Grease dripping from the canopy edge
- Grease channels that no longer drain
Canopy cleaning for kitchens and businesses in Maze Hill
If the canopy in Maze Hill is dripping, sticky or overdue a clean? Send us a photo of the hood and filters when you give us a ring on 0345 646 2711 or email us, and you will get a fixed price, typically within one working day. If you have a canopy flagged at an environmental health inspection and a plenum thick with grease behind the filters, we can help, from wall canopies, canopy light fittings and plenum chambers onwards.
London kitchens are often tucked into basements or the back of a building, and the duct may run up through several floors before it discharges at the roof. For a kitchen in Maze Hill, that normally means a longer system to clean and more access panels to plan around.
Each visit ends with a written report and pictures, so you have a record of what was done and when. Kitchen extract cleaning to TR19® Grease is certificated through the BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite portal.
- Location
- Maze Hill (SE10, SE3, E14)
- Region
- Greater London
- Paperwork
- Certificate plus before-and-after photos
- Quote
- A fixed price before work begins
- When we work
- Evenings, overnight and weekends; 24/7 emergencies
- Telephone
- 0345 646 2711
- Updated
- 30 October 2026
Maze Hill: your questions answered
Can school kitchens in Maze Hill be cleaned in the holidays?
Yes. The holidays are the usual time for school work. With about 47 schools and colleges on the FSA’s register within roughly a mile and a half of Maze Hill, it pays to plan holiday dates ahead. You can phone us on 0345 646 2711 or use the quote form with the dates the site is empty.
Do you work at weekends in Maze Hill?
Yes, nights and weekends are routine for us. That way a site in Maze Hill does not have to lose a day’s trading. Just call us on 0345 646 2711 or email us with your opening times and we will plan around them.
Do we lose a day’s trading?
Not normally. We work when the area is out of use, such as evenings, overnight, early mornings or weekends, so the site can carry on as normal.
What happens to the waste?
It leaves the site with us at the end of the visit. While we work, it’s kept contained to keep the area clean.
Which kinds of sites do you work on?
All kinds of commercial and public premises: from restaurants, pubs and hotels to schools, hospitals, care homes, offices, shops and food production sites. Work is timed around how each site runs.
Is Maze Hill in your area?
Yes. Our area takes in London and the counties of South East England, and that includes Maze Hill.
How do you protect the area?
By covering it before any work starts. The work is kept contained and leave the area clean.
Is TR19 a legal requirement?
No. The law sets the duty; TR19® is the benchmark used to show it’s met. Under the Fire Safety Order 2005, the responsible person must reduce fire risk, and many insurers can refuse or reduce a claim without proof of cleaning.
What we do, step by step
We’re used to working while the site is closed. Evenings, nights and weekends are when much of our work happens, so a kitchen or building can carry on as usual the next day. On site, the work takes a few hours, depending on the size of the canopy and how much grease has built up. For a job in Maze Hill, tell us about loading bays, permits, lifts and roof access when you book.
- We look at the canopy first, from photos or on a visit.
- Cooking equipment is left to cool and the area under the canopy protected.
- We remove the grease filters and clean the plenum and filter housing.
- The canopy is cleaned inside and out, including troughs and seams.
- Clean filters are refitted and before and after pictures go into your report.
Before we arrive
- Let us know how we reach the system, including roofs, risers and plant rooms
- Allow time for equipment near the work to be turned off and cool down
- Tell us the best time to work, such as after service or at a weekend
Ask for a quote
To get a fixed quote, ring 0345 646 2711 or drop us a line and tell us the type of site, your opening hours and roughly what the system looks like. Photos and the last report, if you have one, make the quote quicker. We normally come back within one working day.
Advice
What staff can safely do
Good housekeeping makes our visits easier, not unnecessary. Clean filters and tidy surfaces slow the build-up, but the parts you can’t see still need a specialist at the right interval.
Some jobs should never be done in-house: opening up ductwork, cleaning fans, drop testing fire dampers and measuring grease need training, the right equipment and safe access. That’s our job.
How we price canopy cleaning
We do not publish a price list, because sites vary so much. The quote depends on:
- The size of the system
- Parking and loading at the site
- Whether we need access equipment or extra panels
- A single visit or a regular plan
Kitchens, offices, schools and hospitals are all priced the same way: the size of the job, access, condition and working hours. Call for a fixed quote and we will explain each part.
Asking for a quote
To speed up the quote, send us:
- Anything you’ve noticed, such as smells, noise, drips or poor airflow
- Detail shots of panels, filters and grilles
- Any previous report or certificate
- Photos showing the whole system and its surroundings
Quotes are quick. Send a few details and pictures, and we typically reply with a fixed quote within one working day. Where a survey is needed, we arrange a time that suits the site.
Managing agents and facilities teams in Maze Hill
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 can quote for the whole system.
Running several sites is easier with one contractor. We work across London and the South East, so a run of sites can go into one programme and kept to a regular schedule.
Places near Maze Hill
Also in Maze Hill
Leave it or put it right?
A greasy canopy is fuel directly above the flame. A flare-up can catch it and be drawn into the plenum and duct, where a fire is much harder to stop. Cleaning it removes that fuel. A building in Maze Hill may have flats or offices above and alongside, and a fault in the system can affect them too.
Several systems or sites on one quote can make for a more efficient booking. Tell us about everything you’d like looked at, and you will get one fixed quote.
Why choose Duct Doctor in Maze Hill
- Work around your opening hours, with 24/7 emergency cover
- BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease
- CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001
- Survey first, then a fixed quote
See our cost guide and how to check a contractor.
Grease, kitchens and Maze Hill
Food Standards Agency records list about 394 restaurants, cafés and works canteens and about 155 sandwich bars and takeaways in Maze Hill 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. Most London extract cleaning happens at night, after the last service. Food hygiene inspections in Maze Hill are the job of Greenwich council’s environmental health team. A greasy canopy or dripping filters are the sort of thing an inspection can pick up. A dated certificate in the maintenance file answers the question before it’s asked.
Volunteers running a hall kitchen near Christ Church, or anywhere in Maze Hill, may not know when the extract was last cleaned, and a grease test settles it. A hospital like Greenwich District Hospital, about within half a mile north-east, is the kind of site where a kitchen may cook for patients, staff and visitors all day.
Maze Hill is about 1 mile north-east of Greenwich, in Greater London. Whatever kind of site you run in Maze Hill, we can take on canopy cleaning. We can work out of hours so the site keeps running. Our Greater London coverage runs to 764 places, Maze Hill among them.
Every address in SE10, SE3 and E14 is within our area for canopy cleaning, from busy streets to back roads. We cover sites on Webb Road, The Avenue and Hardy Road and nearby roads. We also cover the places around Maze Hill: Greenwich (1 mile south-west), Vanbrugh Park Estate (1 mile south-east), Westcombe Park (1 mile east), Blackheath (1 mile south) and Isle of Dogs (1 mile north-west). We also work in nearby towns such as London (4 miles west), City of Westminster (7 miles west), Marylebone (7 miles west), Kensington (9 miles west), St Pancras (6 miles north-west) and Shoreditch (5 miles north-west).
Near you in Maze Hill
Locally, jobs take us to businesses close to Wildwood Montessori School, East Greenwich Pleasaunce and Meridian Primary School. Maze Hill has its own railway station: Maze Hill station. Well-known places in the area include Lewisham Shopping Centre (1.5 miles south-west) and Greenwich District Hospital (less than half a mile north-east). Green spaces nearby include Tower Hill and Creekside Discovery Centre.
What we are called out for in Maze Hill
However carefully a kitchen in Maze Hill is run, the canopy still collects grease. That grease is fuel sitting right above the heat, so a flare-up near a greasy hood can quickly become a fire.
Clients normally contact us when they notice one of these:
- Grease channels that no longer drain
- Grease filters blocking between washes
- A hood coated in old grease
- Heavy deposits behind the grease filters
For schools such as John Roan School, kitchen extract cleaning is usually booked for the holidays, when the canteen is closed.
Questions to ask before you book
- Whether the whole system is included, or only the parts that are easy to reach
- Proof of insurance
- When the next visit should be, and why
- What paperwork you get at the end
Part by part
Plenums and filter housings
Filter housings hold the filters in place, and their channels fill with grease. Clean housings let the filters seat properly and leave no gaps.
Grease troughs and gutters
Grease channels around the canopy collect what runs down the inside. They’re emptied and cleaned during the job, so they can do their job again.