Kent · Canopy and hood cleaning
Canopy Cleaning in South Stour
We cover South Stour for canopy and hood cleaning. Fixed quotes, work around your opening hours and photo reports as standard.
- A hood coated in old grease
- Grease dripping from the canopy edge
- Condensation and grease dripping together
How we price canopy cleaning
Every site gets its own quote. This is what makes a difference:
- The times the site is available
- Any permits to work or inductions
- Travel, parking and unloading
- The number of sites or systems
What you pay reflects the actual work. That’s why every job is surveyed first, and why the quote is fixed before work begins.
Helping us quote
When you contact us, it’s useful to have:
- Where the site is and what kind of site it is
- Where the plant sits or the system leaves the building, such as a roof or outside wall
- When the site is open and when it’s quiet
- Any symptoms, from odd noises to smells or leaks
Photos are the quickest way to a quote: wide shots of the system, close-ups of anything that worries you and how we’d get to it. Add the site type and your opening hours, and many jobs can be priced from that alone.
About our canopy cleaning in South Stour
Canopy cleaning is part of every full TR19® Grease clean, but some sites need the canopy done between full cleans. Where that’s the case, we’ll be clear that the ducts and fan are not included, so your records stay accurate. The work covers wall canopies, baffle filters and plenum chambers, and the jobs we see most are filters that never seem to stay clean and a greasy hood noticed by an inspector.
Rural kitchens often have long, low duct runs through a roof space or along an outside wall, where grease settles in the flat sections. Access, parking and timings are agreed before the day.
Good records are part of the job. You get a written report with pictures after each visit, covering the work done, any areas we couldn’t access and a recommended next date. File it in your maintenance log so it’s ready for an insurer, fire officer or EHO.
- Where
- South Stour (TN25)
- Region
- Kent
- Reporting
- TR19® certificate and photo report
- Quote
- A fixed quote up front
- Working hours
- Nights, weekends or holidays to suit you
- Telephone
- 0345 646 2711
- Updated
- 30 October 2026
Also in South Stour
How it works
When we arrive, we check the system against the survey or the pictures 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 South Stour is set by you, and the travel is our side of the planning.
- The canopy is checked from photos or on a visit.
- Out of hours, the range is switched off, cooled and covered.
- 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.
Getting ready for the visit
- Clear the space around the work
- Name a contact who can let us in at the agreed time
- Dig out any earlier paperwork for the system
Getting a quote
Quotes are quick. 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.
Related advice
FAQs for South Stour
Can you come to South Stour after we close?
Yes, nights and weekends are routine for us. Your customers, staff or residents in South Stour needn’t be disturbed. When you give us a ring on 0345 646 2711 or drop us a line, mention when the site is quiet.
Who enforces fire safety at workplaces in South Stour?
South Stour is in the area of Kent 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.
How much does canopy cleaning cost?
It depends on the site, so we quote each one individually. To get one, call us on 0345 646 2711 or email us with the site type, opening hours and a few pictures.
Can one contract cover all our sites?
Yes. Send the list of sites and the work at each and you’ll get one fixed quote.
How much notice do you need?
For planned work, earlier is better, particularly if your next visit is nearly due. Emergencies are different, because our line is open 24/7.
Are the filters cleaned too?
We take them out, clean them and put them back. We also offer a filter exchange service for between cleans.
Can you set up regular visits?
Yes. Send details of the systems and how they’re used, and we will suggest a schedule and quote for it.
Is TR19 cleaning required by law?
No. The law sets the duty; TR19® is the benchmark used to show it’s met. Under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, the responsible person has to manage fire risk, and many insurers can refuse or reduce a claim without proof of cleaning.
What staff can safely do
A few tasks are always specialist work: opening up ductwork, cleaning fans, drop testing fire dampers and measuring grease need training, the right equipment and safe access. That’s our job.
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, and that is where we come in.
Leave it or put it right?
A canopy clean in South Stour now stops the grease spreading further. It takes an hour or two for one small canopy, longer where there are several, out of hours so service carries on. Left alone, grease keeps moving into the plenum and duct. Somewhere as small as South Stour, losing a kitchen or building to a fault is felt by everyone who uses it.
What you pay depends on the size of the system, the condition it’s in and access to every part of it. You get a fixed price before work begins, so you know where you stand.
Why book with us
- Ventilation hygiene specialists since 2009
- Photo reports with every job
- CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001
- Evenings, overnight and weekends, plus 24/7 emergency callout
See what affects the cost and our accreditations.
Signs you need canopy cleaning in South Stour
Grease that runs down the inside of a canopy gathers in its gutters and troughs. If they’re not emptied, they fill and overflow, and grease ends up dripping from the canopy edge.
Look out for any of the following:
- Canopy gutters full of old fat
- A canopy that no longer draws the smoke away
- Greasy streaks across the canopy
- Fat running down the front of the hood
Kitchens that cook twelve hours or more a day, as some healthcare kitchens do, fall into BESA’s three-monthly minimum; William Harvey Hospital is the nearest hospital to South Stour, about 2.4 miles north.
Before booking anyone
- What records you will receive afterwards
- How VAT is shown on the quote
- What happens if part of the system can’t be accessed
- Exactly which parts of the system are covered
For landlords and multi-site operators
When the building owner and the occupier are different, it’s worth checking the lease for who maintains the systems. We can quote either party and send the paperwork to whoever needs it.
We regularly work with managing agents. Tell us the site, the work and the access arrangements, and we’ll send a fixed quote.
Canopy cleaning around South Stour
Food hygiene inspections in South Stour are the job of Ashford council’s environmental health team. They look at how clean the premises and equipment are, and the kitchen extract is part of that. A TR19® certificate and photo report after each clean gives you a record to show an inspector. Fire safety in South Stour falls to Kent Fire and Rescue Service. Grease in a kitchen extract is a recognised fire risk, and the fire authority enforces the law on managing it in most commercial premises.
Godinton House, about 4.8 miles north-west, is one of the historic houses near South Stour; if you run event catering at a venue like that, cleans can be booked between functions. For schools such as Finberry Primary School, kitchen extract cleaning is typically booked for the holidays, when the canteen is closed.
South Stour is about 3 miles south-east of Ashford, in Kent. For canopy cleaning in and around South Stour, it’s easy to get a fixed quote: please call us on 0345 646 2711 or drop us a line. We work across South East England and London, South Stour included. Our Kent coverage runs to 922 places, and South Stour is one of them. You can also see our page for Maidstone, roughly 20 miles from South Stour.
Work in TN25 follows the same survey, fixed quote and written report as everywhere else we cover. Close by, we work in Mersham (1 mile north-east), Sevington (2 miles north), Hinxhill Park (2 miles north), Ridgeway (3 miles north-east) and Hinxhill (3 miles north-east). We also work in nearby towns such as Ashford (3 miles north-west), Canterbury (14 miles north-east), Folkestone (11 miles east), Faversham (14 miles north), Hythe (8 miles east) and Davington (15 miles north).
Near you in South Stour
Typical jobs here are in premises near Poulton Wood, among other places. The nearest railway station is Ashford International station, about 2.8 miles north-west of the centre. Nearby you’ll also find William Harvey Hospital (2.4 miles north) and Ashford Designer Outlet (2.3 miles north-west). Green spaces nearby include Hatch Park.
What canopy cleaning can’t fix
We’d rather tell you now than book work that won’t help, so these are the things it won’t cover:
- Filters that no longer seal in the housing
- Poor airflow from a fan that needs repair
- A dirty extract fan further along the system
If you are not sure, just phone us on 0345 646 2711, or email photos and we will give you a straight answer.
Where we work
- Baffle filters
- Wall canopies
- Grease gutters
- Plenum chambers
- Island canopies
- Canopy light fittings