Greater London · Canopy and hood cleaning
Plashet canopy cleaning
For canopy and hood cleaning in Plashet, one call is all it takes: survey, fixed quote, work and sign-off. CHAS and SafeContractor accredited, ISO 9001 and fully insured.
- A canopy flagged at an environmental health inspection
- Fat running down the front of the hood
- Smoke hanging around the canopy during service
How it works
Everything the job needs comes with us, including protection sheets, the right tools and access kit. You only need to give us clear access and switch off what needs to be off. On site, the work takes a few hours for most canopies. In Plashet, as across London, we typically work overnight or at weekends and hand the site back ready to open.
- The canopy is checked from photos 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.
- Inside and out, the hood and its troughs are cleaned.
- Filters are refitted, the area cleaned down and the photo report put together.
How to prepare
- Mention any locked doors, roof access or ceiling voids
- Let us know about parking and loading
- Plan for cooking equipment or plant to be off before we arrive
Ask for a quote
Every quote begins with a look at the system, either from pictures and details you send or from a site visit. Then we send a fixed price so you know the cost before we start.
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Canopy cleaning in Plashet
A greasy canopy tells an inspector a lot before they’ve opened anything. What isn’t seen, behind the filters, tends to be worse. We clean both, so the canopy is clean where it shows and where it doesn’t. The work covers baffle filters, canopy light fittings and plenum chambers, and the jobs we see most are a plenum thick with grease behind the filters and grease dripping from the canopy edge.
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. In Plashet, as elsewhere in the capital, a long duct run means more access points to open and more grease to remove.
Insurers, fire officers and environmental health officers all look at records. That is why every job is written up in a report with photos, and grease extract cleans come with a TR19® certificate issued through the BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite portal.
- Place
- Plashet (E6, E12, E7)
- Wider area
- Greater London
- Paperwork
- TR19® certificate and photo report
- Price
- A fixed price before we start
- When we work
- When your site is closed, plus a 24/7 line
- Call
- 0345 646 2711
- Checked
- 30 October 2026
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Honest limits
We’d rather tell you now than book work that won’t help, so here are the limits:
- Bent or broken filters
- A dirty extract fan further along the system
- A canopy undersized for the equipment
Not sure which it is? You can call us on 0345 646 2711 or use the quote form and we’ll tell you honestly before booking.
Where we work
- Baffle filters
- Island canopies
- Wall canopies
- Grease gutters
- Plenum chambers
- Canopy light fittings
Landlords, agents and facilities managers
Where a tenant occupies the premises but the landlord owns the building, the lease normally sets out who maintains what. We can quote either party and send the paperwork to whoever needs it.
We also work for facilities teams across offices, schools and healthcare in Plashet and across Greater London. Work can be phased by floor, building or site to keep disruption down.
Your questions about canopy cleaning in Plashet
Can a school canteen extract in Plashet be done out of term time?
Yes, out-of-term visits are normal for schools. Around Plashet, the Food Standards Agency lists about 55 schools and colleges with registered kitchens within a mile and a half or so. Send us your term dates when you call 0345 646 2711, or send details by email, and we’ll fit the work in.
Does London parking affect a job in Plashet?
Parking and loading in London need planning, so tell us about bays, permits and building rules when you book. Night visits tend to make loading easier on London streets.
Do we need to close the kitchen for a canopy clean?
We clean out of hours as a matter of course, at night, early in the morning or at weekends. The kitchen is handed back ready to cook.
Do you clean inside the canopy as well as outside?
Everything from the outer face to the plenum behind the filters. Grease troughs and filter channels are emptied and degreased as part of the job.
Do you clean canopies in all kinds of kitchens?
We clean canopies in commercial kitchens of every kind. The routine stays the same whatever the kitchen, with the equipment off and cool.
What do you need from me for a quote?
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. After that, simply ring 0345 646 2711, or email photos.
Do you work with multi-site operators?
Yes. One number covers all your sites across London and the South East, with visits on a regular schedule.
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, such as extra access panels in ductwork.
Aftercare tips
Once we have finished, these simple steps help:
- Don’t scrape the canopy with metal tools
- Check and empty canopy gutters regularly
- Tell us when the canopy starts to drip
- Never run the range with a filter out
File the report alongside your fire risk assessment where an inspector can see it. Before and after photos speak for themselves.
Run the extract for as long as anything is cooking. Turning the fan off early lets vapour settle on the hood.
Leave it or put it right?
Drips from a dirty canopy land on the cooking line. That’s a hygiene problem as well as a fire one, and environmental health officers look at the cleanliness of equipment, extraction included. London buildings are shared, so a fire or failure in one system can reach the neighbours above and beside you.
Combining work into one visit or one programme often makes better use of the time. Mention every system or site you need covered, and you’ll get one fixed quote.
Why book with us
- Survey first, then a fixed quote
- Fixed quotes, normally within one working day
- One number for every site across the South East and London
- Member of BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease
Read how cleaning jobs are priced or how to check a contractor.
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. That’s our job.
Staff cleaning and specialist work aren’t the same thing. A daily filter wipe and a weekly filter wash keep grease down at the front of the system, but grease that has passed the filters is out of reach. Reaching it takes a specialist with the right equipment.
When to call us in Plashet
Air straight off the range hits the canopy first. Grease from the vapour lands on the canopy’s inner surfaces, its joints and its filters, and the plenum behind them collects the rest.
Any of these means the system needs a check-up:
- A canopy flagged at an environmental health inspection
- Drips from the canopy onto the range
- Grease filters blocking between washes
- Heavy deposits behind the grease filters
Church and community hall kitchens, near Church of St Barnabas or anywhere around Plashet, are easy to forget, but their extracts collect grease like any other.
What to look for in a quote
- What records you’ll receive afterwards
- Which accreditations they hold, and whether you can check them
- If the quote is a fixed price or an estimate
- When they can work, and whether that is outside your opening hours
What canopy cleaning looks like in Plashet
Food Standards Agency records list about 358 restaurants, cafés and works canteens and about 295 sandwich bars and takeaways within about 1.5 miles of central Plashet. Each canopy in those kitchens catches grease on the inside of the hood and behind the filters. London jobs normally start after the last service, with loading and roof access agreed with the building first. The fire and rescue service for Plashet is London Fire Brigade. Its fire safety officers can audit commercial kitchens, and grease in the extract is part of a kitchen’s fire risk.
A hospital like Newham University Hospital, about 1.5 miles south, is the kind of site where a kitchen may cook for patients, staff and visitors all day. For kitchens close to Woodgrange Park station, where the day often starts early and ends late, the extract can be cleaned overnight.
Plashet is about 2 miles north-east of Plaistow, in Greater London. Sites in Plashet get the same service as everywhere we cover: a survey first, a fixed quote, work timed around your hours and a report with pictures. Our area takes in 764 places across Greater London, large and small. Our London page covers sites nearby, about 7 miles away.
Work in E6, E12 and E7 is surveyed, quoted and booked the same way as anywhere else. Streets in the area include Fry Road, Edith Road and Hilda Road, and we cover them all for canopy cleaning. If your site is just outside Plashet, we cover Manor Park (1 mile north-east), Little Ilford (1 mile north-east), Upton Park (1 mile south-west), Upton (1 mile west) and Wallend (1 mile south-east). Larger places within reach include London (7 miles south-west), City of Westminster (9 miles west), Marylebone (9 miles west), Kensington (11 miles west), St Pancras (7 miles west) and Shoreditch (6 miles west).
What’s near Plashet
Locally, jobs take us to businesses close to Monega Primary School, The Overdraft Tavern and West Ham Park, among other places. The closest station to Plashet is Woodgrange Park station, about 0.5 miles north. Well-known places in the area include Newham University Hospital (1.5 miles south) and Stratford Centre (2.1 miles west). Open spaces near Plashet include Old Ford Island and Hollow Pond.