West Sussex · Canopy and hood cleaning
Canopy and hood cleaning in Westerton, West Sussex
Canopy cleaning across Westerton and nearby, booked around your opening hours and signed off in writing with photos.
- Condensation and grease dripping together
- Greasy streaks across the canopy
- Smoke hanging around the canopy during service
What happens on the day
There are three stages on the day: set-up, the treatment itself and the sign-off. Set-up means sheeting and making equipment safe, and the sign-off is a written report with photos. The middle part takes longest, which takes part of a shift for most kitchens, more where there are several canopies or heavy deposits. A few photos of the system help us make the most of a visit to a place like Westerton.
- First the canopy is surveyed, by photos or in person.
- Cooking equipment is left to cool and the area under the canopy protected.
- We remove the grease filters and clean the plenum and filter housing.
- Inside and out, the canopy and its grease channels are degreased.
- We refit the filters, clear up and photograph the finished canopy.
How to prepare
- Tell us where we can park and unload
- Tell us about site rules, permits or sign-in
- Dig out any earlier paperwork for the system
How to get a quote
For a fixed quote, call us on 0345 646 2711 or drop us a line with the site type, your trading hours and a short description of the system. A few photos and your last certificate or report help a lot. You will usually have a quote within one working day.
Advice
About our canopy cleaning in Westerton
Grease troughs, seams and the inside edge of the canopy are the spots a daily wipe misses. Thick deposits are scraped off by hand, then the surfaces degreased to suit what’s there, using hot water or steam where it helps. The work covers baffle filters, plenum chambers and wall canopies, and people most often call us about a hood coated in old grease and grease dripping from the canopy edge.
In a village or hamlet like Westerton, the kitchens that need extract cleaning are normally a pub, a school, a care home or a hall kitchen, wherever there is one. Every one of them still needs its extract kept clear of grease, whatever the size of the place.
For insurers and inspectors, the record counts. So every job comes with a written report and pictures, plus a TR19® certificate through the BESCA VHE portal where the work is a TR19® Grease clean.
- Place
- Westerton (PO18)
- Region
- West Sussex
- Paperwork
- Certificate and photo report
- Quotes
- A fixed price before any work starts
- When we work
- Nights, weekends or holidays to suit you
- Phone
- 0345 646 2711
- Updated
- 30 October 2026
Westerton: your questions answered
Which fire and rescue service is responsible for Westerton?
Westerton is in the area of West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service. Records of extract cleaning are a sensible thing to have ready if a fire safety officer carries out an audit.
Which council inspects kitchens in Westerton?
The local authority for Westerton is Chichester council, and its environmental health team does the inspecting. An officer may look up into the canopy, so clean filters on the day and a recent certificate on file both help.
What do you do to protect the area?
We start with protection: sheeting over floors, worktops and anything close to the work. The area is left tidy, with our waste taken away.
Will I get a report after the canopy clean?
Before and after pictures go into a report, listing what was cleaned. Where the whole system is cleaned, you also get a TR19 certificate through the BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite portal.
Will we have to shut during the visit?
Not typically. The area we are working in has to be out of use while we’re there, so the visit goes in a quiet slot.
Which accreditations do you hold?
Duct Doctor is a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease. CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001 are in place too, and we carry full insurance.
Is TR19 cleaning required by law?
No. TR19® is BESA’s specification, not legislation. The legal duty comes from the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005: the responsible person must assess and reduce fire risk, and cleaning to TR19® is the recognised way to show grease is under control.
Can you come out in an emergency?
Yes, any time. For anything urgent, such as a fan failure or damage after a fire, ring the 24/7 line and we will talk you through the next steps.
Common problems we fix in Westerton
Moisture in the air mixes with the grease on the canopy. Water vapour condenses on the cooler canopy surfaces and drips, carrying grease with it. The result is sticky streaks and drips onto the range.
The symptoms we’re asked about most are:
- An EHO comment about the canopy
- Smoke hanging around the canopy during service
- A filter housing caked in grease
- Fat running down the front of the hood
A hospital like Chichester Centre, about 1.5 miles south-west, is the kind of site where a kitchen may cook for patients, staff and visitors all day.
Comparing quotes
- Whether inaccessible sections are listed on the report
- Whether the work can be done while the site is closed
- What paperwork you get at the end
- Whether the quote shows VAT
Also near Westerton
Also in Westerton
How the job changes from site to site
Island canopies
With filters on more than one side, an island canopy has more plenum to clean. Both sides are taken apart and cleaned.
Plenums and filter housings
Behind neglected filters, the plenum can be heavily coated. We remove thick grease by hand, then degrease.
Why it’s worth doing now in Westerton
A blocked plenum and clogged filters cut the airflow at the canopy. Smoke and heat hang around the cooking line while the fan strains. Cleaning restores the path the air should take. Rural sites cannot always move to another kitchen or room when something fails.
One small site or a whole estate, the quote is built the same way: the work involved, the access and the timing. You’ll have a fixed price before we start.
Why book with us
- One contact for all your sites in London and the South East
- We diagnose before we treat
- Fully insured
- BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease
Between visits
Here’s the after-treatment advice, short and simple:
- Keep filters on a set cleaning routine
- Wipe the canopy down at close every day
- Make sure filters sit tight in the housing
- Flag any change in how the canopy behaves
Keep the photo report with your maintenance log where an inspector can see it. Before and after photos speak for themselves.
Do not let canopy gutters fill to the brim. Most canopy drips start with a full trough, so make emptying them part of the closing routine.
Staff cleaning versus 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 they don’t reach the grease that builds up further in. That part needs specialist access and equipment.
Good housekeeping makes our visits easier, not unnecessary. Regular in-house cleaning slows the build-up, but hidden parts of the system still need specialist attention.
Canopy cleaning in Westerton: the local picture
Food Standards Agency records include about 4 hotels and B&Bs within roughly a mile and a half of the centre of Westerton. A pub or hotel kitchen that cooks every day builds up grease in its extract like any other. Kitchens in Westerton get their food hygiene inspections from Chichester council. The cleanliness of the kitchen and its equipment, extraction included, is part of what they check. Our report lists what was cleaned and when, which is useful to have ready. Westerton is covered by West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service. Grease in a kitchen extract is a recognised fire risk, and the fire authority enforces the law on managing it in most commercial premises.
Volunteers running a hall kitchen near The Parish Church of St Peter, or anywhere in Westerton, may not know when the extract was last cleaned, and a grease test settles it. If your kitchen is in a listed or historic building, like the houses around Westerton (Goodwood House is about 0.8 miles north), fitting access panels needs care.
Westerton is about 2 miles north-east of Chichester, in West Sussex. Westerton gets the same approach as every site we work on: a survey first, a fixed quote, work timed around your hours and a report with photos. Our West Sussex coverage runs to 371 places, Westerton among them. You can also see our page for Portsmouth, about 15 miles away.
We cover every part of the PO18 postcode area for canopy cleaning and the streets around it. Other places close to Westerton include Strettington (1 mile east), Waterbeach (1 mile north-east), Maudlin (1 mile south), Westhampnett (1 mile south-west) and Shopwyke (1 mile south). We also work in nearby towns such as Worthing (15 miles east), Bognor Regis (5 miles south-east), Selsey (9 miles south), Littlehampton (10 miles east), Emsworth (8 miles west) and Rustington (11 miles east).
Local landmarks in Westerton
Typical jobs here are in premises near Chichester High School For Girls, Westbourne House School and The Coach And Horses Public House, among other places. Westerton’s nearest station is Chichester station, about 2.5 miles south-west. A little further out are Chichester Castle (2 miles south-west) and Chichester Centre (1.5 miles south-west). For a walk, there’s Kingley Vale National Nature Reserve and Levin Down.
Honest limits
In fairness, there are a few things this work will not fix:
- Poor airflow from a fan that needs repair
- A light fitting that doesn’t work
- Bent or broken filters
If in doubt, ring 0345 646 2711 or email us and we’ll say what we think.
What we work on in Westerton
- Plenum chambers
- Wall canopies
- Island canopies
- Canopy light fittings
- Grease gutters
- Baffle filters