Oxfordshire · Canopy and hood cleaning
Northmoor canopy cleaning
Need canopy cleaning in Northmoor? We diagnose first, fix the price and book the work around your hours, then sign off with a report and photos.
- A plenum thick with grease behind the filters
- A canopy that no longer draws the smoke away
- Condensation running down the canopy
About our canopy cleaning in Northmoor
Duct Doctor has cleaned canopies and hoods since 2009. We’re a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease, and we hold CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001. The work covers island canopies, wall canopies and canopy light fittings, and the jobs we see most are canopy gutters full of old fat and a greasy hood noticed by an inspector.
In a village or hamlet like Northmoor, the kitchens that need extract cleaning are typically a pub, a school, a care home or a hall kitchen, wherever there is one. Every one of them still needs its extract kept clear of grease, whatever the size of the place.
We’ve been trading since 2009, and we’re a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease. We also hold CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, and we’re fully insured.
- Location
- Northmoor (OX29)
- Wider area
- Oxfordshire
- Paperwork
- Certificate plus before-and-after pictures
- Quote
- A fixed price before work begins
- Working hours
- When your site is closed, plus a 24/7 line
- Call
- 0345 646 2711
- Checked
- 30 October 2026
What staff can safely do
Away from the kitchen, the in-house job is mainly checking: keeping grilles clear, noting unusual noise or smells and logging filter changes. Cleaning inside ducts and units is specialist work.
A few tasks are always specialist work: entering ducts, working on fans, testing dampers and taking grease readings call for the right kit, training and safe access. Leave those to us.
How the visit works
When we arrive, we check the system against the survey or the photos you sent. If anything is different, we talk it through with the person on site before carrying on. After that, the work takes a few hours, depending on the size of the canopy and how much grease has built up. The timing of a visit to Northmoor is set by you, and the travel is our side of the planning.
- We start by checking the canopy and what’s behind its filters.
- We protect everything below once it has cooled.
- Heavy deposits come off by hand, then the surfaces are degreased.
- Plenum, housing, troughs and canopy are all cleaned and checked.
- You get pictures of the result and a recommended date for the next clean.
How to prepare
- Tell us the best time to work, such as after service or at a weekend
- Make sure equipment near the work can be switched off and left to cool
- Clear the space around the work
Getting a quote
Getting a quote doesn’t take long. Call or email with a few details and you’ll usually have a fixed price within one working day. Where a survey is needed, we arrange a time that suits the site.
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What affects the cost of canopy cleaning
Your quote is based on your site. We consider:
- Travel, parking and unloading
- The size of the system
- What state the system is in
- Whether several sites go on one quote
What you pay reflects the actual work. That is why every job is surveyed first, and the price is agreed before any work starts.
What we need to know
Photos let us diagnose from a distance. The most useful are:
- Problems your staff have spotted
- Your last certificate, test record or report
- Any access panels or hatches you can see
- The postcode and the type of business
If you need canopy cleaning in Northmoor, phone us on 0345 646 2711, or send details by email. Tell us what kind of premises it is and when it’s open, plus pictures or the previous report if they’re to hand. A fixed quote normally follows within one working day.
Do you need canopy cleaning in Northmoor?
Any canopy in Northmoor that’s used for cooking will gather grease in the end. That grease is fuel sitting right above the heat, so a flare-up near a greasy hood can quickly become a fire.
It’s time to book a visit if you see:
- A greasy hood noticed by an inspector
- Filters that never seem to stay clean
- Smoke hanging around the canopy during service
- Fat running down the front of the hood
Volunteers running a hall kitchen near Church of St Denys, or anywhere in Northmoor, may not know when the extract was last cleaned, and a grease test settles it.
Questions to ask before you book
- What records you’ll receive afterwards
- Whether the price is fixed
- What insurance they carry
- What’s included in the scope, part by part
How the job changes from site to site
Island canopies
With filters on more than one side, an island canopy has more plenum to clean. We work round the canopy, cleaning each filter bank and plenum.
Pub and hotel kitchens
Pub and hotel kitchens can cook from breakfast to late evening. Long hours mean the canopy collects grease fast, so it may need cleaning between full TR19 cleans.
Northmoor: your questions answered
Can you come to Northmoor after we close?
Yes, out-of-hours work is a big part of what we do. The work in Northmoor can fit around your hours. Let us know the hours you are closed and we’ll book within them.
Which environmental health team covers Northmoor?
In Northmoor, it’s West Oxfordshire council that carries out food hygiene inspections. An officer may look up into the canopy, so clean filters on the day and a recent certificate on file both help.
Can you set up regular visits?
Yes. We run scheduled maintenance contracts, set at the interval the system needs. Each report recommends when the next visit should be.
What should I send you?
Just the basics: the address, the site type, your opening hours and how we reach the system. Photos and any previous paperwork make it quicker. Then ring 0345 646 2711 or send us an email.
Which kinds of sites do you work on?
All kinds of commercial and public premises: kitchens, offices, schools, healthcare, retail, leisure and food production. Work is timed around how each site runs.
How long does canopy cleaning take?
A single canopy with a light build-up is fairly quick, while long canopies, several hoods or heavy deposits take more time. We will tell you what to expect.
Is there a survey before the work?
Yes, always. Diagnosis comes before treatment: the survey shows what needs doing and what access we need and the fixed quote is built on it.
Is TR19 a legal requirement?
No. The law sets the duty, and TR19® is the recognised benchmark for meeting it. 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.
Places near Northmoor
What else we do in Northmoor
Kitchen extracts in Northmoor
The Food Standards Agency lists about 4 pubs and bars as registered food businesses in Northmoor and the streets around it, up to about 1.5 miles out. Any of them serving cooked food has an extract to keep clean, from canopy to discharge. Northmoor sits within the area of 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. In Northmoor, food businesses are inspected by environmental health officers from West Oxfordshire council. Extraction counts as kitchen equipment, so its condition can come up on the day. A TR19® certificate and photo report after each clean gives you a record to show an inspector.
If you run catering at a historic house or estate in the area (Appleton Manor is about 1.7 miles south-east), event kitchens in older buildings often have awkward duct runs that need planning. Healthcare kitchens cannot easily close, so their extracts are cleaned overnight or between meal services; the nearest hospital to Northmoor is Abingdon Community Hospital, about 5.4 miles south-east.
Northmoor is about 6 miles north-west of Abingdon-on-Thames, in Oxfordshire. Whether your site is in the middle of Northmoor or further out, we cover canopy cleaning for every kind of premises, from a single unit to a large public building. Across Oxfordshire, we cover 443 places, Northmoor among them. For sites nearby, see our Oxford page, about 7 miles away.
Postcode districts we cover here for canopy cleaning: OX29. Canopy cleaning is available to premises on Chapel Lane and Bints Place and the roads around them. If your site is just outside Northmoor, we cover Appleton (2 miles south-east), Sutton (2 miles north), Cumnor (3 miles east), Filchampstead (3 miles north-east) and Farmoor (3 miles north-east). Larger places within reach include Oxford (7 miles east), Didcot (10 miles south-east), Abingdon-on-Thames (6 miles south-east), Witney (6 miles north-west), Carterton (9 miles west) and Wantage (9 miles south).
Local landmarks in Northmoor
Around Northmoor, our work takes us to kitchens and buildings near The Red Lion Public House, among other places. A little further out are Abingdon Community Hospital (5.4 miles south-east) and Hinton Waldrist Castle (3.7 miles south-west). For a walk, there’s Hitchcopse Pit and Cumnor Hill.
Honest limits
To be straight with you, some problems need a different fix:
- A canopy too small for the cooking under it (that is a design question)
- Faulty canopy lights or wiring (a job for an electrician)
- Weak extraction caused by a failing fan motor
If you are not sure, just ring 0345 646 2711 or send us an email and we will give you a straight answer.
What we work on in Northmoor
- Plenum chambers
- Island canopies
- Wall canopies
- Canopy light fittings
- Grease gutters
- Baffle filters
Looking after it afterwards
So the system stays in good health:
- Keep grease cups and drawers emptied
- Check filters are not leaving gaps
- Clean the baffle filters often
- Keep every filter in place while cooking
We recommend when the canopy, or the whole system, should next be cleaned. It reflects how long the kitchen cooks and how much grease we removed, in line with BESA guidance.
A change in how the canopy behaves is worth reporting. More drips or quicker clogging often mean the cleaning interval needs looking at, which a grease thickness test can confirm.