Canopy and hood cleaning in Well Street, Kent

How the job changes from site to site

Plenums and filter housings

Behind neglected filters, the plenum can be heavily coated. Heavy deposits are scraped out by hand before degreasing.

Pub and hotel kitchens

In a pub or hotel, the canopy is often in view of staff all day, so a dripping hood quickly becomes everyone’s problem. A thorough clean puts that right.

What your team can do, and what needs us

For ventilation and air handling systems, in-house care is mostly about checks: keeping grilles clear, noting unusual noise or smells and logging filter changes. Cleaning inside ducts and units is specialist work.

In-house cleaning and specialist cleaning do different jobs. A daily filter wipe and a weekly filter wash keep grease down at the front of the system, but grease that has passed the filters is out of reach. That part needs specialist access and equipment.

Grease, kitchens and Well Street

Food Standards Agency records list about 31 restaurants, cafés and works canteens and about 18 takeaways within roughly a mile and a half of the centre of Well Street. Any of those kitchens with a canopy has a hood that needs cleaning inside and out. Kitchens in Well Street get their food hygiene inspections from Tonbridge and Malling council. An officer looking round a kitchen will see the canopy, and grease there is hard to miss. A TR19® certificate and photo report after each clean gives you a record to show an inspector. The fire and rescue service for Well Street is Kent Fire and Rescue Service. In most workplaces, including commercial kitchens, it’s the fire and rescue authority that enforces the Fire Safety Order.

If you look after a school kitchen, at a school such as The Malling School or anywhere near Well Street, the holidays are the usual time for a TR19® clean. A kitchen near East Malling station that serves breakfast and dinner can run its extract twelve hours or more, which shortens the cleaning interval. Where a hall near Church of St James, or anywhere in Well Street, hosts lunch clubs or events, its extract gathers grease just as a café’s does.

Well Street is about 4 miles west of Maidstone, in Kent. Sites in Well Street get the same service as everywhere we cover: a survey first, a fixed quote, work timed around your hours and a report with photos. Across Kent, we cover 922 places, Well Street among them.

We work across ME19 for canopy cleaning and the roads nearby. If your site is just outside Well Street, we cover East Malling (1 mile north), West Malling (1 mile north-west), Kings Hill (1 mile south-west), Ditton (1 mile north-east) and Red Hill (2 miles south). Within a short drive, we also cover Maidstone (4 miles east), Sittingbourne (14 miles east), Dartford (14 miles north-west), Sevenoaks (10 miles west), Royal Tunbridge Wells (12 miles south-west) and Gravesend (10 miles north).

What’s near Well Street

Locally, jobs take us to businesses close to St James the Great Academy, The Rising Sun pub and Manor Park Country Park, among other places. The closest station to Well Street is East Malling station, roughly 0.5 miles east. A little further out are Coldrum Long Barrow (3.5 miles north-west) and Leybourne Castle (1.4 miles north). The countryside around Well Street includes Blue Bell Hill and Burham Down.

For landlords and multi-site operators

Under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, the responsible person must assess and reduce fire risk, which may be the employer, owner, landlord, FM or managing agent. With shared responsibility, good records help everyone.

Managing agents often deal with us directly. Send the address, what’s needed and how access works, and we will send a fixed quote.