Hampshire · Canopy and hood cleaning
Canopy and hood cleaning in Priddy's Hard, Hampshire
Canopy cleaning for Priddy's Hard and the surrounding area: a survey, a fixed price, careful work and proper paperwork. Ask us for a fixed quote.
- Filters that never seem to stay clean
- A filter housing caked in grease
- A canopy flagged at an environmental health inspection
Canopy cleaning in Priddy's Hard, done properly
Think of the canopy as the mouth of the extract. If it’s coated in grease, everything downstream gets more of it. Our diagnosis starts there, and the cure is a thorough clean of the hood, the plenum and the filter housing. If you’re dealing with wet, greasy drips from the hood and a sticky, discoloured canopy, we can put it right, from island canopies, plenum chambers and baffle filters onwards.
Rural kitchens often have long, low duct runs through a roof space or along an outside wall, where grease settles in the flat sections. We agree access and timings in advance.
Our accreditations include CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, and we are fully insured. We are also a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease, and we have been trading since 2009.
- Location
- Priddy's Hard (PO12)
- Wider area
- Hampshire
- Paperwork
- Certificate and photo report
- Quotes
- A fixed quote up front
- When we work
- After hours by arrangement; emergencies any time
- Call
- 0345 646 2711
- Checked
- 30 October 2026
How we price canopy cleaning
A fixed price needs a few facts first. We check:
- The scale of the work
- How many systems or sites are involved
- Whether it’s a one-off visit or part of a schedule
- Whether we need access equipment or extra panels
When the work has to happen, how we reach it and how big the site is all affect the cost. We take each of them into account and give you a fixed price before we start.
Helping us quote
Photos and a few facts are often enough to price the work. Send what you can of the following:
- The roof, plant room or outside wall the system runs to
- The site address and the type of premises
- Close-ups of filters, grilles, hatches or access panels
- A few general shots of the system
Every quote begins with a look at the system, from your photos and details or, where that isn’t enough, a survey on site. After that, you get a fixed price for the work so you know the cost before we start.
What the work involves, part by part
Island canopies
Island canopies hang over cooking in the middle of the kitchen, which means grease settles on all four sides. We clean all of them, inside and out.
Wall canopies
A long wall canopy may hold several sections of filters. Each section’s plenum and housing is cleaned in turn, with pictures for each.
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Priddy's Hard kitchens: local notes
Sea air reaches Priddy's Hard, which sits within about 1 mile of the coast. Salt air speeds up corrosion of roof-level fans, discharge cowls and their fixings. The FSA’s food hygiene register shows about 157 restaurants, cafés and canteens and about 59 takeaways and sandwich shops within about 1.5 miles of central Priddy's Hard. Every kitchen among them that cooks under a canopy has a hood, plenum and filters collecting grease. Food hygiene inspections in Priddy's Hard are the job of Gosport council’s environmental health team. An officer looking round a kitchen will see the canopy, and grease there is hard to miss. Our report lists what was cleaned and when, which is useful to have ready.
If you run catering at a healthcare site, such as a hospital like Gosport War Memorial Hospital about 1.4 miles south-west, the extract may need cleaning more often than a part-time kitchen. For schools such as St Vincent College, kitchen extract cleaning is typically booked for the holidays, when the canteen is closed. Church and community hall kitchens, near Church of St Mary or anywhere around Priddy's Hard, are easy to forget, but their extracts collect grease like any other.
Priddy's Hard is about 1 mile east of Gosport, in Hampshire. Priddy's Hard gets the same approach as every site we work on: a survey first, a fixed quote, work timed around your hours and a report with pictures. Priddy's Hard is one of 683 places in Hampshire we cover for commercial clients.
All of PO12 is covered for canopy cleaning, from busy streets to back roads. Local streets include Weevil Lane, Orion Avenue and Salt Meat Lane, and we cover them all for canopy cleaning. We also cover the places around Priddy's Hard: Forton (1 mile south-west), Elson (1 mile north-west), Gosport (1 mile west), Bridgemary (2 miles north-west) and Rowner (2 miles north-west). Further out, we also cover Havant (7 miles north-east), Eastleigh (15 miles north-west), Fareham (4 miles north-west), Horndean (9 miles north-east), Hedge End (11 miles north-west) and Waterlooville (7 miles north-east).
Near you in Priddy's Hard
Around Priddy's Hard, our work takes us to kitchens and buildings near Brune Park Community School, The Windsor Castle pub and Elson Junior School and the streets around them. The nearest railway station is Portsmouth Harbour station, about 1 mile south-east of the centre. Other landmarks nearby include Tricorn Centre (1.6 miles east) and Search (0.8 miles south). The countryside around Priddy's Hard includes West of the River Alver and Portsdown Hill.
Why act early in Priddy's Hard
Drips from a dirty canopy land on the cooking line. It’s a food hygiene concern as much as a fire concern, and EHOs look at the cleanliness of the premises and equipment. Equipment tucked in a roof space or outbuilding near Priddy's Hard rarely gets looked at unless someone books it.
Combining work into one visit or one programme often makes better use of the time. Tell us about everything you’d like looked at, and you will get one fixed quote.
What you get with us
- A BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease
- A fixed price before any work starts
- Trading since 2009
- One number for every site across the South East and London
Take a look at our cost guide or how to check a contractor.
Questions from Priddy's Hard
Who is the fire and rescue service for Priddy's Hard?
Fire safety enforcement in Priddy's Hard is handled by Hampshire and Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service. A recent cleaning certificate and a note of the next clean date show that grease in the extract is being managed.
Do you clean school canteen extracts around Priddy's Hard out of term?
Yes, out-of-term visits are normal for schools. There are about 26 schools, colleges and universities on the FSA’s food hygiene register within about 1.5 miles of Priddy's Hard. Send us your term dates when you call us on 0345 646 2711 or send us an email, and we will fit the work in.
What causes grease to drip from the hood?
A full trough, gaps around the filters or a coated plenum. We clean all three and point out anything that is causing it.
How long does canopy cleaning take?
Size and build-up decide it. Typically it takes part of a shift for most kitchens, more where there are several canopies or heavy deposits.
What accreditations do you have?
Duct Doctor is a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease. We also hold CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, and we are fully insured.
What happens if you can’t reach some of it?
They’re marked on the report. Often the fix is extra access, such as new panels in ductwork, which we can install.
What do you do with what you remove?
We contain it and take it with us. We collect grease, debris and waste water as we go rather than letting it spread.
Do we lose a day’s trading?
Typically not. Out-of-hours visits keep the disruption down. Bigger sites can be done in stages to keep things running.
Managing agents and facilities teams in Priddy's Hard
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.
We regularly work with managing agents. Send the address, what’s needed and how access works, and we’ll send a fixed quote.
What a clean will not put right
A few issues sit outside what this work can do:
- A fan that can’t pull enough air because it’s worn out
- A dirty extract fan further along the system
- A light fitting that does not work
Not sure which it is? You can call 0345 646 2711 or use the quote form and we will tell you honestly before booking.
Parts of the system we cover
- Grease gutters
- Canopy light fittings
- Wall canopies
- Island canopies
- Plenum chambers
- Baffle filters
What we do, step by step
At the end of the visit, someone from your team can look over the work with us. Anything we couldn’t reach or that needs attention is pointed out there and then, and it goes on the report too. All told, the work takes a few hours, depending on the size of the canopy and how much grease has built up. Pictures of the system and its access let us plan the work in Priddy's Hard before we set off.
- First the canopy is surveyed, by photos or in person.
- Equipment below is switched off and left to cool, then sheeted.
- With the filters out, the plenum and housing are cleaned back.
- We degrease the canopy shell, its seams and the grease troughs.
- Clean filters are refitted and before and after pictures go into your report.
Getting ready for the visit
- Plan for cooking equipment or plant to be off before we arrive
- Let us know about parking and loading
- Tell us the best time to work, such as after service or at a weekend
Getting a quote
Getting a quote doesn’t take long. Call or email with a few details and you will typically 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 staff can safely do
Your own staff can handle the daily basics: wiping canopies, washing grease filters and recording it in a log. What they cannot safely do is clean inside the ductwork, the fan or the risers, which is where we come in.
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. That is our job.