Canopy and hood cleaning in Nine Ashes, Essex

What your team can do, and what needs us

Staff cleaning and specialist work aren’t the same thing. Wiping filters daily and washing them weekly keeps the visible parts in order, but grease that has passed the filters is out of reach. That part needs specialist access and equipment.

Keep a record of what your team does. A simple log of filter washes, wipe-downs and checks helps show that the system is managed between specialist visits, next to our reports.

Grease, kitchens and Nine Ashes

The FSA’s food hygiene register shows about 4 restaurants, cafés and canteens within about 1.5 miles of central Nine Ashes. Where they cook under a hood, the plenum behind the filters is where grease hides. Kitchens in Nine Ashes get their food hygiene inspections from Epping Forest council. Extraction counts as kitchen equipment, so its condition can come up on the day. A dated certificate in the maintenance file answers the question before it’s asked. Essex County Fire and Rescue Service covers Nine Ashes. In most workplaces, including commercial kitchens, it’s the fire and rescue authority that enforces the Fire Safety Order.

Healthcare kitchens cannot easily close, so their extracts are cleaned overnight or between meal services; the nearest hospital to Nine Ashes is Brentwood Community Hospital, about 5.4 miles south. School kitchens, at schools like Blackmore Primary School for example, are normally cleaned in the holidays so no lunches are lost.

Nine Ashes is about 5 miles north of Brentwood, in Essex. We provide canopy cleaning for businesses, landlords and public buildings in Nine Ashes and the rest of Essex. We cover 644 places across Essex, large and small. Our Chelmsford page covers sites nearby, about 8 miles away.

All of CM4 is covered for canopy cleaning, from busy streets to back roads. You’ll find streets such as Rookery Road and Nine Ashes Road, and we cover them all for canopy cleaning. Other places close to Nine Ashes include Norton Heath (1 mile north), Radley Green (2 miles north-east), Willingale (3 miles north), Loves Green (3 miles east) and Berners Roding (3 miles north). Further out, we also cover Chelmsford (8 miles east), Basildon (11 miles south-east), Harlow (9 miles north-west), Brentwood (5 miles south), Billericay (7 miles south-east) and Rayleigh (15 miles south-east).

What’s near Nine Ashes

Around Nine Ashes, our work takes us to kitchens and buildings near The Bull Inn. Nine Ashes’s nearest station is Ingatestone station, roughly 4.1 miles south-east. Other landmarks nearby include Brentwood Community Hospital (5.4 miles south) and Willingale Doe (3.4 miles north).

What the work involves, part by part

Pub and hotel kitchens

In a pub or hotel, the canopy is often in view of staff all day, so drips and smells soon become a daily nuisance. A thorough clean puts that right.

Plenums and filter housings

The rails and channels that hold the filters collect grease. We clean them so the filters sit tight and leave no gaps.

Landlords, agents and facilities managers

We also work for facilities teams across offices, schools and healthcare in Nine Ashes and across Essex. Work can be phased by floor, building or site around the people who use them.

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. With shared responsibility, good records help everyone.