Hampshire · Canopy and hood cleaning
Canopy Cleaning in Waltham Chase
Professional canopy cleaning in and around Waltham Chase, booked around your opening hours and finished with a written report and photos.
- Grease dripping from the canopy edge
- Smoke hanging around the canopy during service
- An EHO comment about the canopy
Canopy cleaning in Waltham Chase, done properly
A kitchen team can wipe the outside of a canopy, but the seams, gutters and inner skin need more. We scrape the heavy deposits, then degrease the surfaces with methods that suit the build-up, using hot water or steam where it helps. Typical jobs include canopy gutters full of old fat and smoke hanging around the canopy during service, across canopy light fittings, grease gutters and island canopies.
For a kitchen in or near Waltham Chase, the visit is planned around opening hours and the journey, and the clean itself is the same full TR19® job as in any town: canopy to discharge, then a TR19® certificate and a photo report.
The paperwork matters as much as the work. You get a written report with photos after every visit, listing what was done, anything we couldn’t reach and when the next visit is due. Keep it with your fire safety records so it’s to hand when an insurer or inspector asks.
- Location
- Waltham Chase (SO32)
- Region
- Hampshire
- Records
- Certificate plus before-and-after photos
- Quote
- A fixed quote up front
- Hours
- After hours by arrangement; emergencies any time
- Telephone
- 0345 646 2711
- Page updated
- 30 October 2026
What we do, step by step
When we arrive, we check the system against the survey or the photos 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 for most canopies. A quick note on how to find the site and where to park makes a visit to Waltham Chase run smoothly.
- First the canopy is surveyed, by photos or in person.
- The range is turned off and allowed to cool before we cover it.
- With the filters out, the plenum and housing are cleaned back.
- Inside and out, the canopy and its grease channels are degreased.
- Filters go back, the area is cleaned down and pictures are taken.
How to prepare
- Name a contact who can let us in at the agreed time
- Let us know when the site is closed or quiet
- Allow time for equipment near the work to be turned off and cool down
How to get a quote
Quotes are quick. Call or email with a few details and you will normally have a fixed price within one working day. If we need to see the system first, we book a survey around your hours.
Related advice
Grease, kitchens and Waltham Chase
There are about 12 cafés, restaurants and staff canteens and about 3 takeaways and sandwich shops across Waltham Chase and its immediate surroundings (about a mile and a half), according to the Food Standards Agency’s register. Every kitchen among them that cooks under a canopy has a hood, plenum and filters collecting grease. Fire safety in Waltham Chase falls to Hampshire and Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service. The Fire Safety Order puts the duty on whoever runs a kitchen to control its fire risk, and a greasy duct is fuel. Kitchens in Waltham Chase get their food hygiene inspections from Winchester City council. They look at how clean the premises and equipment are, and the kitchen extract is part of that. Keeping each certificate and photo report on file helps show the extract is looked after.
A hospital like Knowle Hospital, about 3.7 miles south, is the kind of site where a kitchen may cook for patients, staff and visitors all day. A hall kitchen that only cooks for events, whether near Waltham Chase Methodist Church or elsewhere in Waltham Chase, still needs its extract cleaned, just less often. Term dates shape school work: for a school like St John the Baptist Church of England Primary School, an extract clean fits neatly into a half-term or summer break.
Waltham Chase is about 5 miles east of Hedge End, in Hampshire. Whether your site is in the middle of Waltham Chase or further out, canopy cleaning is available to all kinds of commercial premises, from a single unit to a large public building. Across Hampshire, we cover 683 places, and Waltham Chase is one of them. You can also see our page for Southampton, about 8 miles away.
Our technicians cover all of the SO32 postcode area for canopy cleaning and the roads nearby. Streets in the area include Chase Grove, Club House Lane and Sandy Hill Close, and we cover them all for canopy cleaning. We also cover the places around Waltham Chase: Bishop's Waltham (2 miles north), Curdridge (2 miles south-west), Ashton (3 miles north), Durley Street (3 miles north-west) and Durley (3 miles west). Further out, we also cover Winchester (10 miles north-west), Gosport (9 miles south), Havant (11 miles south-east), Eastleigh (7 miles west), Fareham (6 miles south) and Horndean (9 miles east).
Landmarks near Waltham Chase
Typical jobs here are in premises near The Black Dog pub and Swanmore College of Technology and the streets around them. The nearest railway station is Botley station, about 2.7 miles south-west. A little further out are Bishop's Waltham Museum (1.4 miles north-west) and Knowle Hospital (3.7 miles south). Green spaces nearby include Bishops Waltham Branch LNR.
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Waltham Chase: your questions answered
Can a school canteen extract in Waltham Chase be done out of term time?
Yes. The holidays are the usual time for school work. There are about 7 schools, colleges and universities on the FSA’s food hygiene register within about 1.5 miles of Waltham Chase. Just call us on 0345 646 2711 or email us with your term dates and we’ll plan around them.
Is Waltham Chase within the area you cover?
Yes, Waltham Chase is part of our area, however small the site. The journey is planned ahead, so a few details about the route help.
How do you keep the site clean during the work?
With sheeting and covers, before anything else happens. We keep the work contained and clean down when we finish.
Can one contract cover all our sites?
Yes. Tell us the addresses and what each needs and we will quote them together.
How much of the canopy do you clean?
We clean the canopy inside and out, including the seams, troughs and gutters. The plenum and filter housing behind the filters are cleaned too.
Which accreditations do you hold?
Our accreditations are CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, alongside BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite membership, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease. Vent Hygiene Elite is run by BESCA and independently audited.
Is there a survey before the work?
Yes. Photos often do the job, while bigger or harder-to-see systems are surveyed on site.
Who is responsible for fire safety on the premises?
In the words of the Fire Safety Order 2005, it’s the responsible person. It’s normally the employer, or whoever controls the building, and where several people have control, each can have duties. If you’re not sure, check your lease and fire risk assessment.
Why it’s worth doing now in Waltham Chase
Leaving the canopy until the next full clean can mean months of build-up. Some kitchens need the canopy cleaning more often than the whole system, and readings or a look behind the filters will show it. In a place like Waltham Chase, ductwork and fans are easy to forget until something goes wrong.
Every site is different, so we price each one individually. The size of the job, how we reach it, its condition and the working hours all play a part.
Why book with us
- Fully insured
- Out-of-hours work and a 24/7 emergency line
- CHAS and SafeContractor accredited, with ISO 9001
- A fixed price before any work starts
Take a look at our cost guide or our accreditations.
Multi-site and managed buildings
Keeping records across a portfolio is half the battle. Every visit ends with a dated report and photos, ready to show insurers, fire officers or EHOs.
The Fire Safety Order 2005 puts the duty to manage fire risk on the responsible person, and that can be the employer, the owner, a landlord, a facilities manager or a managing agent. Where responsibility is shared, records matter even more.
What a clean won’t put right
A few issues sit outside what this work can do:
- A canopy too small for the cooking under it (that’s a design question)
- Faulty canopy lights or wiring (a job for an electrician)
- Filters that no longer seal in the housing
If in doubt, give us a ring on 0345 646 2711, or email photos and we’ll say what we think.
What the work covers
- Island canopies
- Baffle filters
- Grease gutters
- Canopy light fittings
- Plenum chambers
- Wall canopies
What your team can do, and what needs us
Day-to-day cleaning is something your team can do: wiping down canopy surfaces, cleaning filters and keeping a simple log. Inside the ducts, risers and fan is specialist work, and that is where we come in.
If your staff spot something between visits, like drips, unusual noise, smells or damaged filters, it’s best reported rather than tackled in-house. We can diagnose it and quote.
Keeping the system healthy
After the visit, a few habits help the work last:
- Keep the fan on through service
- Keep filters on a set cleaning routine
- Empty the grease troughs before they fill
- Wipe the canopy down at close every day
Anything worth knowing goes into the report: bent or poorly fitting filters, a light cover that’s cracked, or troughs that fill too quickly. We keep it to what matters.
Don’t let canopy gutters fill to the brim. Overflowing troughs are the usual cause of drips onto the range, so make emptying them part of the closing routine.
What the work involves, part by part
School and staff canteen kitchens
Canteens and school kitchens tend to run to a timetable, which makes a canopy clean easy to schedule. We often clean them in holidays or at weekends.
Plenums and filter housings
Behind neglected filters, the plenum can be heavily coated. Heavy deposits are scraped out by hand before degreasing.