Hampshire · Canopy and hood cleaning
South Weirs canopy cleaning
For canopy cleaning in South Weirs, one call is all it takes, from survey to sign-off. CHAS and SafeContractor accredited, ISO 9001 and fully insured.
- Grease dripping from the canopy edge
- A sticky, discoloured canopy
- Smoke hanging around the canopy during service
South Weirs: your questions answered
Who enforces fire safety at workplaces in South Weirs?
South Weirs is in the area of Hampshire and Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service. TR19® isn’t law, but it’s the benchmark many fire officers and insurers look to when they ask how often the extract is cleaned.
Who would carry out a food hygiene inspection at a kitchen in South Weirs?
Food hygiene inspections in South Weirs are carried out by New Forest council. An officer may look up into the canopy, so clean filters on the day and a recent certificate on file both help.
Do you look at the system first?
Yes. For many sites, photos and a few details are enough, and larger or hidden systems get a visit.
What does TR19 mean?
It’s the industry benchmark for cleaning ventilation and kitchen extract systems, written by BESA. It covers how systems are inspected, cleaned and checked, and it takes a risk-based approach.
How do you protect the area?
With sheeting and covers, before anything else happens. The work is kept contained and leave the area clean.
Do you offer emergency callouts?
Yes. Our emergency line runs 24/7, for problems that can’t wait. Call us any time and explain what’s happened.
Do we need to close while you work?
Not usually. Visits are timed for when the area is closed, such as overnight or at a weekend, so you keep your normal hours.
Do you clean inside the canopy as well as outside?
Everything from the outer face to the plenum behind the filters. Troughs, gutters and filter housings are cleaned too.
How we handle canopy cleaning in South Weirs
If the canopy in South Weirs is dripping, sticky or overdue a clean? A photo of the canopy and filters is a good start when you ring 0345 646 2711 or drop us a line, and you’ll get a fixed price, normally within one working day. If you have grease channels that no longer drain and filters that never seem to stay clean, we can help, from plenum chambers, baffle filters and grease gutters onwards.
Rural kitchens often have long, low duct runs through a roof space or along an outside wall, and those horizontal sections are where grease settles. Access, parking and timings are agreed before the day.
The sign-off is always in writing: a dated report with pictures of the work, and for TR19® Grease cleans, a certificate issued through the BESCA VHE portal. It shows what was done and what, if anything, couldn’t be reached.
- Where
- South Weirs (SO42)
- Wider area
- Hampshire
- Reporting
- TR19® certificate and photo report
- Price
- A fixed quote up front
- When we work
- Nights, weekends or holidays to suit you
- Phone
- 0345 646 2711
- Updated
- 30 October 2026
Kitchen extracts in South Weirs
The FSA’s food hygiene register shows about 18 cafés, restaurants and staff canteens in South Weirs and the streets around it, up to about 1.5 miles out. Every kitchen among them that cooks under a canopy has a hood, plenum and filters collecting grease. Kitchens in South Weirs get their food hygiene inspections from New Forest council. A greasy canopy or dripping filters are the sort of thing an inspection can pick up. Keeping each certificate and photo report on file helps show the extract is looked after. South Weirs is covered by Hampshire and Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service. Its fire safety officers can audit commercial kitchens, and grease in the extract is part of a kitchen’s fire risk.
For kitchens close to Brockenhurst station, where the day often starts early and ends late, the extract can be cleaned overnight. A hall kitchen that only cooks for events, whether near Church of St Saviour or elsewhere in South Weirs, still needs its extract cleaned, just less often.
South Weirs is about 4 miles north-west of Lymington, in Hampshire. From the centre of South Weirs to the outskirts, canopy cleaning is available to all kinds of commercial premises, from a single unit to a large public building. South Weirs is one of 683 towns, villages and districts in Hampshire we cover for canopy cleaning. You can also see our page for Southampton, roughly 11 miles from South Weirs.
Work in SO42 follows the same survey, fixed quote and written report as everywhere else we cover. Neighbouring places we cover for canopy cleaning include Brockenhurst (1 mile north-east), Setley (1 mile east), Balmerlawn (2 miles north-east), Emery Down (4 miles north) and Lyndhurst (4 miles north). Further out, we also cover Eastleigh (15 miles north-east), Totton (8 miles north-east), Chandler's Ford (15 miles north-east), Hedge End (15 miles north-east), Lymington (4 miles south-east) and Romsey (13 miles north).
Local landmarks in South Weirs
South Weirs’s nearest station is Brockenhurst station, about 0.9 miles east of the centre. Well-known places in the area include Lymington New Forest Hospital (3.7 miles south-east).
What happens on the day
We work around your opening hours, not the other way round. We book the visit for a time the area is closed, whether that’s an evening, overnight or a weekend. When the team arrives, the work area is protected and the relevant equipment is switched off to cool, and the work takes an hour or two for one small canopy, longer where there are several. Somewhere like South Weirs, lanes, gates and parking are worth mentioning in advance.
- Diagnosis first: we look behind the filters as well as at the hood.
- Equipment is turned off and cooled, and the area under the canopy is protected.
- Thick grease is scraped away before the canopy is degreased.
- We finish the plenum, troughs and canopy and check them over.
- The canopy is signed off with before and after pictures and a next clean date.
Getting ready for the visit
- Move anything stored near the system
- Arrange a key holder or contact on site
- Mention any sign-in, permit or induction we need
Ask for a quote
Every quote begins with a look at the system, from your pictures and details or, where that is not enough, a survey on site. Then we send a fixed price, before work begins.
Advice
Multi-site and managed buildings
Running several sites is easier with one contractor. We work across London and the South East, so a run of sites can go into one programme and kept on a regular cycle.
Managing agents often deal with us directly. Tell us the site, the work and the access arrangements and we’ll come back with a fixed quote.
What your team can do, and what needs us
Some jobs should never be done in-house: entering ducts, working on fans, testing dampers and taking grease readings call for the right kit, training and safe access. Leave those to us.
Keep a record of what your team does. A dated log of in-house cleaning and checks helps show that the system is managed between specialist visits, next to our reports.
What we are called out for in South Weirs
A canopy in South Weirs picks up grease at much the same rate as one anywhere else with the same cooking: the hours and the type of cooking decide how fast. Frying and grilling load a canopy far faster than steaming or boiling.
Any of these means the system needs a check-up:
- Greasy streaks across the canopy
- Wet, greasy drips from the hood
- Filters that clog soon after cleaning
- Smoke hanging around the canopy during service
Healthcare kitchens, like those at hospitals such as Lymington New Forest Hospital (about 3.7 miles south-east), often cook for long hours, which puts them in BESA’s heavier-use bands.
Questions to ask before booking
- Whether a written report and photos are included
- Whether the whole system is included, or only the parts that are easy to reach
- If they look at the system before pricing
- What hours they’ll be on site
Nearby places to South Weirs
Other services in South Weirs
How the job changes from site to site
Wall canopies
The back of a wall canopy is hard to reach and easy to miss. With the filters out we can get to it and scrape it clean.
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. Cleaning the canopy and plenum sorts it.
Aftercare tips
No system stays clean for ever, but care slows the build-up. Our tips:
- Leave the extract running until cooking stops
- Flag any change in how the canopy behaves
- Clean the hood’s outer surfaces daily
- Check filters aren’t leaving gaps
Anything worth knowing goes into the report: damaged filters, gaps around the housing or troughs that need emptying more often. It’s a short list of what to watch, not a sales pitch.
Tell us if the canopy starts dripping or the filters clog sooner than usual. More drips or quicker clogging often mean the cleaning interval needs looking at, which a grease thickness test can confirm.
What affects the cost of canopy cleaning
There’s no set price list, because sites vary so much. The quote depends on:
- How many systems or sites are involved
- How big the system is
- Site rules, permits and inductions
- What state the system is in
What you pay depends on the size of the system, the condition it’s in and access to every part of it. We give you a fixed price before work begins, so there are no surprises.
What to send for a quote
When you contact us, it’s useful to have:
- Any access panels or hatches you can see
- The postcode and the type of business
- The times we could work without disrupting the site
- A few general shots of the system
There’s no standard price list, because every site is different. We look at your system first, from photos or on a visit, and then send you a fixed quote. To get going, phone us on 0345 646 2711, or email photos.