Greater London · Canopy and hood cleaning
Canopy Cleaning in Stepney
We cover Stepney for canopy cleaning. Fixed quotes, work around your opening hours and photo reports on every job.
- Grease filters blocking between washes
- Overflowing grease troughs and gutters
- Condensation running down the canopy
FAQs for Stepney
Can you clean school kitchen extracts in Stepney during the holidays?
Yes, and it’s the easiest time to do it. There are about 89 schools, colleges and universities on the FSA’s food hygiene register within about 1.5 miles of Stepney. Send us your term dates when you phone us on 0345 646 2711 or send us an email, and we will fit the work in.
Who would carry out a food hygiene inspection at a kitchen in Stepney?
The local authority for Stepney is Tower Hamlets council, and its environmental health team does the inspecting. Have your latest TR19® certificate and photo report to hand, as an officer may ask how the extract is maintained.
How much does canopy cleaning cost?
There’s no set price, as it depends on the job: the size of the system, its condition, access and when we can work. You get a fixed price before work begins.
Who is the responsible person?
That depends on who controls the premises. The Fire Safety Order 2005 puts the duty on the responsible person, which can be the employer, the owner, a landlord, an FM or a managing agent.
Is Stepney in your area?
Yes. We cover Stepney and the rest of Greater London, as part of our work across South East England and London. To book, give us a ring on 0345 646 2711 or drop us a line.
How long will it take to clean the canopy?
A single canopy with a light build-up is fairly quick, while long canopies, several hoods or heavy deposits take more time. You’ll know before work begins.
Do you clean canopies in all kinds of kitchens?
Wall and island canopies, long cooking-line hoods and small single hoods. The method is the same: filters out, plenum and housing cleaned, canopy degreased inside and out.
Will we have to shut during the visit?
Normally not. Booking the work out of hours means the site can carry on as normal. Larger jobs can be phased over several visits to keep things running.
Canopy cleaning in Stepney, done properly
We clean canopies in Stepney when the kitchen is not cooking: evenings, overnight, early mornings or weekends. The equipment underneath is switched off, left to cool and sheeted so the kitchen is ready when we go. The work covers island canopies, canopy light fittings and wall canopies, and the jobs we see most are a canopy flagged at an environmental health inspection and grease dripping from the canopy edge.
In a London area like Stepney, a kitchen extract often passes through shared space on its way out: a riser, a service void, the floors above. Grease in a duct like that is a fire risk to the whole building, not just the kitchen, so a regular TR19® clean protects everyone in it.
We’re CHAS and SafeContractor accredited, we hold ISO 9001 and we’re fully insured. We are also a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease, and we’ve been trading since 2009.
- Where
- Stepney (E1, E2)
- Region
- Greater London
- Reporting
- TR19® certificate and photo report
- Quote
- A fixed price before we start
- Hours
- When your site is closed, plus a 24/7 line
- Call
- 0345 646 2711
- Page updated
- 30 October 2026
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Landlords, agents and facilities managers
Facilities teams in offices, schools and healthcare sites book us too across Greater London. Work can be phased by floor, building or site to keep disruption down.
When the building owner and the occupier are different, the lease normally sets out who maintains what. We are happy to deal with either side, and the report can go to both.
What happens on the day
Night work is normal for us. A lot of visits happen overnight or at weekends, so a kitchen or building can carry on as usual the next day. On site, the work takes a few hours for most canopies. Security desks and permits-to-work are routine in London, so let us know what your building in Stepney needs from us.
- We start by checking the canopy, filters and plenum.
- Equipment below is switched off and left to cool, then sheeted.
- With the filters out, the plenum and housing are cleaned back.
- The canopy is cleaned inside and out, including troughs and seams.
- Clean filters are refitted and before and after pictures go into your report.
Getting ready for the visit
- Let us know about parking and loading
- Mention any sign-in, permit or induction we need
- Have your last certificate or report to hand
How to get a quote
Quoting starts with a diagnosis, either from photos and details you send or from a site visit. After that, you get a fixed price for the work so you know the cost before work begins.
Related advice
What your team can do, and what needs us
Day-to-day cleaning is something your team can do: 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 need training, the right equipment and safe access. That’s our job.
Common problems we fix in Stepney
Any canopy in Stepney that is used for cooking will gather grease in the end. That grease is fuel sitting right above the heat, which is why a flare-up near a dirty canopy is so dangerous.
Look out for these warning signs:
- Wet, greasy drips from the hood
- A sticky, discoloured canopy
- Overflowing grease troughs and gutters
- Drips from the canopy onto the range
If you cook for passing trade around Whitechapel station, the extract can be cleaned between your last and first customer.
Questions to ask before booking
- Whether a survey comes first
- Whether the work can be done while the site is closed
- Whether the quote shows VAT
- What’s included in the scope, part by part
What a clean won’t put right
Canopy cleaning cannot fix everything, and we’ll tell you before work begins. It will not put right:
- A canopy undersized for the equipment
- A dirty extract fan further along the system
- Filters that no longer seal in the housing
If in doubt, phone us on 0345 646 2711 or send us an email and we will say what we think before booking.
What we work on in Stepney
- Grease gutters
- Plenum chambers
- Baffle filters
- Wall canopies
- Canopy light fittings
- Island canopies
What canopy cleaning looks like in Stepney
Food Standards Agency data counts about 1,320 restaurants, cafés and works canteens and about 395 sandwich bars and takeaways in and around Stepney, up to about a mile and a half out. Every kitchen among them that cooks under a canopy has a hood, plenum and filters collecting grease. It’s Tower Hamlets council that sends environmental health officers to food businesses in Stepney. The cleanliness of the kitchen and its equipment, extraction included, is part of what they check. Keeping each certificate and photo report on file helps show the extract is looked after. The fire and rescue service for Stepney is London Fire Brigade. Grease in a kitchen extract is a recognised fire risk, and the fire authority enforces the law on managing it in most commercial premises.
Where a hall near St Peter's Church, or anywhere in Stepney, hosts lunch clubs or events, its extract gathers grease just as a café’s does. If you look after a school kitchen, at a school such as Redlands Primary School or anywhere near Stepney, the holidays are the usual time for a TR19® clean.
Stepney is about 2 miles south of Hackney, in Greater London. Whatever kind of site you run in Stepney, canopy cleaning is something we can help with. We can work out of hours so trading isn’t interrupted. 764 places in Greater London are on our list, large and small.
Here we cover the E1 and E2 postcode area for canopy cleaning. That includes premises on Beaumont Square, Rectory Square and Carlton Square and the roads around them. Stepney sits on or near the A11 and B120, so getting to you is simple for evening and night visits. Other places close to Stepney include East End of London (1 mile south-west), Ratcliff (1 mile south), Bethnal Green (1 mile north-west), Whitechapel (1 mile west) and Limehouse (1 mile east). Within a short drive, we also cover City of Westminster (4 miles west), Marylebone (4 miles west), Kensington (7 miles west), St Pancras (3 miles west), Walthamstow (5 miles north) and Hampstead (6 miles west).
What’s near Stepney
Typical jobs here are in premises near Stepney Green Mathematics and Computing College, Stepney Jewish School and Bishopsgate Institute Special Collections and Archives and the streets around them. Also close by are Stepney Green Park (less than half a mile south-east) and Black Horse Public House (less than half a mile north-east). There’s a railway station in Stepney itself: Whitechapel station. A little further out are Tower of London (1.4 miles south-west) and Young V&A (0.6 miles north). Green spaces nearby include St. James's Park Lake and Lavender Pond.
What the work involves, part by part
Island canopies
Everything about an island canopy is on show, so the finish matters. It’s degreased and photographed for your report.
Pub and hotel kitchens
A hotel or pub kitchen can rarely close for long. Canopy cleans are done late at night or early in the morning so the kitchen keeps trading.
Fixed quotes for canopy cleaning in Stepney
Some jobs are bigger than they look, and some smaller. The main factors:
- Working hours and out-of-hours timing
- The scale of the work
- Site rules, permits and inductions
- The condition we find in the survey
Whatever the type of site, the quote works the same way: how much there is, how we reach it, what state it’s in and when we can work. Ask for a fixed quote and we will go through it with you.
Helping us quote
Photos let us diagnose from a distance. The most useful are:
- Your last certificate, test record or report
- Your opening hours and when the area is out of use
- The roof, plant room or outside wall the system runs to
- Where the site is and what kind of site it is
To help us quote: where the site is, what it is and its opening hours, pictures of the system and the last certificate or report, if there is one. Once you have those, call 0345 646 2711 or drop us a line.