Kent · Canopy and hood cleaning
Westbere canopy cleaning
Canopy cleaning across Westbere and nearby, booked around your opening hours and finished with a written report and pictures.
- A plenum thick with grease behind the filters
- Smoke hanging around the canopy during service
- Greasy streaks across the canopy
FAQs for Westbere
Which fire and rescue service is responsible for Westbere?
Westbere is in the area of Kent Fire and Rescue Service. It’s worth keeping your fire risk assessment, TR19® certificates and photo reports together, ready to show.
Can you come to Westbere after we close?
Yes, evening, overnight and weekend work is normal for us. It means the site in Westbere keeps running as normal. Tell us your opening hours when you ask for a quote.
Are you insured?
Yes, we are fully insured. We also hold CHAS and SafeContractor, for sites that check contractor safety.
What’s TR19?
TR19® is the BESA specification for keeping ventilation systems clean. TR19® Grease, a standalone specification since 2019, covers grease in kitchen extract systems, while TR19® Air covers other supply and extract ductwork.
Who is the responsible person?
That depends on who controls the premises. Under the Fire Safety Order 2005, it’s the responsible person, which can be the employer, the owner, a landlord, an FM or a managing agent.
Does the law say we must follow TR19?
No. TR19® itself is not law; it’s a BESA specification. The legal duty comes from the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005: the responsible person must assess and reduce fire risk, and TR19® is the benchmark for showing that grease in the extract is under control.
What happens if you can’t reach some of it?
We record them on the report, with pictures where possible, and we tell you what would make it reachable, for example new access panels.
Does a canopy clean meet TR19?
A TR19® Grease clean covers the whole system, not just the canopy. Cleaning the canopy alone leaves the ducts, risers and fan untouched, and the report will say what was covered.
How we handle canopy cleaning in Westbere
A greasy canopy tells an inspector a lot before they’ve opened anything. Under the surface, the plenum behind the filters is usually in a worse state. Canopy cleaning deals with both, so the hood looks right and works properly. If you are dealing with fat running down the front of the hood and a canopy flagged at an environmental health inspection, we can put it right.
Rural kitchens often have long, low duct runs through a roof space or along an outside wall, where grease settles in the flat sections. We agree access and timings in advance.
Our accreditations include CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, and we’re fully insured. We’re also a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease, and we’ve been trading since 2009.
- Place
- Westbere (CT2)
- Wider area
- Kent
- Records
- Certificate and photo report
- Price
- A fixed price before any work starts
- Hours
- Out of hours as standard, 24/7 emergency line
- Telephone
- 0345 646 2711
- Updated
- 30 October 2026
Nearby places to Westbere
What else we do in Westbere
In-house cleaning or a specialist?
If your staff spot something between visits, such as dripping grease, a noisy fan, a smell or a filter that won’t come clean, they should report it rather than try to fix it. We will take a look and give you a fixed quote.
A few tasks are always specialist work: opening up ductwork, cleaning fans, drop testing fire dampers and measuring grease call for the right kit, training and safe access. Leave those to us.
Leave it or put it right?
Fresh grease comes off far more easily than old. Over months, the heat hardens it into a stubborn coating, so the longer it’s left, the longer the clean takes. It’s simpler to plan the work at Westbere now than to arrange it in a hurry later.
The price reflects the work, not guesswork. That is why every job is surveyed first, and the price is agreed before we start.
Why choose Duct Doctor in Westbere
- Work around your opening hours, with 24/7 emergency cover
- One number for every site across the South East and London
- Trading since 2009
- Fixed quotes from a survey or pictures
What affects the cost of canopy cleaning
Some jobs are bigger than they look, and some smaller. The main factors:
- What state the system is in
- Whether we need access equipment or extra panels
- When the work can happen, such as evenings, overnight or weekends
- The scale of the work
Whatever the type of site, the quote works the same way: the size of the job, access, condition and working hours. Call for a fixed quote and we’ll go through it with you.
What to send for a quote
We can often survey from pictures. The most useful are:
- Anything you’ve noticed, such as smells, noise, drips or poor airflow
- The roof, plant room or outside wall the system runs to
- The paperwork from the last visit, if you have it
- The postcode and the type of business
Some systems can be priced from photos; others need a survey. Big or complicated sites, and systems that are hard to see in photos, get a survey first. Either way, the quote is fixed before any work is booked.
What happens on the day
Protection comes first: sheeting goes over floors and surfaces close to the work. Then we make the system safe and start. It takes a few hours, depending on the size of the canopy and how much grease has built up, and we clear up before we go. A few pictures of the system help us make the most of a visit to a place like Westbere.
- First the canopy is surveyed, by photos or in person.
- Equipment below is switched off and left to cool, then sheeted.
- We remove the grease filters and clean the plenum and filter housing.
- We degrease the canopy shell, its seams and the grease troughs.
- Clean filters are refitted and before and after photos go into your report.
Getting ready for the visit
- Tell us about access, such as roof hatches, plant rooms, ceilings or locked areas
- Let us know when the site is closed or quiet
- Let us know about parking and loading
Ask for a quote
Getting a quote doesn’t take long. Call or email with a few details and you’ll typically have a fixed price within one working day. Where a survey is needed, we arrange a time that suits the site.
Advice
When it’s something else
We’d rather tell you now than book work that will not help, so here are the limits:
- Faulty canopy lights or wiring (a job for an electrician)
- A canopy too small for the cooking under it (that’s a design question)
- A fan that cannot pull enough air because it’s worn out
If you’re not sure, just call us on 0345 646 2711, or send details by email and we will give you a straight answer.
What the work covers
- Baffle filters
- Island canopies
- Plenum chambers
- Canopy light fittings
- Grease gutters
- Wall canopies
Keeping the system healthy
Good habits slow the build-up between visits. A few tips:
- Use non-abrasive cloths on the hood
- Run the extract the whole time you are cooking
- Clean the baffle filters often
- Flag any change in how the canopy behaves
We point out anything we noticed while the canopy was apart: bent or poorly fitting filters, a light cover that is cracked, or troughs that fill too quickly. It’s a short list of what to watch, not a sales pitch.
A daily wipe of the hood keeps fresh grease from baking on. It doesn’t reach the plenum, but it stops the outside building up.
Grease, kitchens and Westbere
The Food Standards Agency lists about 5 pubs, bars and clubs as registered food businesses within 1.5 miles or so of the middle of Westbere. Wherever they cook, the canopy, duct and fan collect grease just as a restaurant’s do. The fire and rescue service for Westbere is Kent 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. Environmental health officers from Canterbury City council inspect food businesses in Westbere. 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.
Healthcare kitchens, like those at hospitals such as St Martins Hospital (about 2.8 miles south-west), often cook for long hours, which puts them in BESA’s heavier-use bands. Bursars and site managers at schools such as Spires Academy tend to book extract cleaning for when the kitchen is empty.
Westbere is about 3 miles north-east of Canterbury, in Kent. Whatever kind of site you run in Westbere, canopy cleaning is something we can help with. We can work out of hours so the site keeps running. We cover 922 places across Kent, from busy centres to quieter spots. For sites nearby, see our Maidstone page, about 27 miles away.
Our technicians cover all of CT2 for canopy cleaning and the roads nearby. Streets in the area include Island Road, Pennington Close and Bushy Hill Road, and we cover them all for canopy cleaning. Other places close to Westbere include Hersden (1 mile north-east), Sturry (1 mile west), Calcott (2 miles north-west), Broad Oak (2 miles west) and Stodmarsh (2 miles east). Further out, we also cover Canterbury (3 miles south-west), Margate (11 miles north-east), Dover (14 miles south-east), Ramsgate (12 miles east), Broadstairs (13 miles east) and Whitstable (6 miles north-west).
Near you in Westbere
Around Westbere, our work takes us to kitchens and buildings near Hersden Village Primary School, Ye Olde Yew Tree Inn and Frank Montgomery School, among other places. The closest station to Westbere is Sturry station, roughly 1.2 miles south-west. Well-known places in the area include Canterbury Castle (3.9 miles south-west) and Canterbury Roman Museum (3.5 miles south-west). Open spaces near Westbere include West Blean and Thornden Woods.
Signs you need canopy cleaning in Westbere
The plenum is hidden behind the filters, so nobody sees it build up. Kitchen staff clean what they can see, leaving the plenum and housing to collect grease between professional cleans.
It’s time to book a visit if you see:
- A canopy that no longer draws the smoke away
- Filters that clog soon after cleaning
- A canopy flagged at an environmental health inspection
- Condensation and grease dripping together
A hall kitchen that only cooks for events, whether near Church of All Saints or elsewhere in Westbere, still needs its extract cleaned, just less often.
What your quote should include
- If they look at the system before pricing
- What happens if part of the system cannot be accessed
- When the next visit should be, and why
- What hours they’ll be on site