Windsor and Maidenhead · Canopy and hood cleaning
Canopy and hood cleaning in Windsor, Windsor and Maidenhead
For deep cleaning of kitchen canopies, hoods, plenums and grease filters, inside and out in Windsor, one call is all it takes, from survey to sign-off. Fully insured, with CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001.
- Drips from the canopy onto the range
- Filters that clog soon after cleaning
- Wet, greasy drips from the hood
Windsor: your questions answered
Can the work in Windsor be done at night or at weekends?
Yes, out-of-hours work is a big part of what we do. The work in Windsor can fit around your hours. Your opening times are the first thing we ask for.
Who is the fire and rescue service for Windsor?
It’s Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service, which covers Windsor. Records of extract cleaning are a sensible thing to have ready if a fire safety officer carries out an audit.
What information do you need?
A short description and a few photos plus the address and your hours. If we need more, we will ask.
How much of the canopy do you clean?
All of it: the outer surfaces, the inner skin, the seams and the troughs. The plenum behind the filters is included, since that is where grease hides.
Who has the legal duty for fire safety?
The law calls them the responsible person. It’s normally the employer, or whoever controls the building, and in shared buildings more than one person can have duties. If you’re not sure, check your lease and fire risk assessment.
Do you offer emergency callouts?
Yes, any time. For anything urgent, such as a fan failure or damage after a fire, ring the 24/7 line, and we will advise on what to do next.
How long is a canopy clean?
It takes part of a shift for most kitchens, more where there are several canopies or heavy deposits. Your quote will give a time.
How much notice should we give?
That depends on the slot you want and the size of the job. Tell us your preferred dates when you ask for a quote, and if it’s an emergency, call us any time.
Canopy cleaning in Windsor, done properly
Every canopy we clean in Windsor gets the same treatment: filters out, plenum scraped and degreased, then the canopy cleaned inside and out. You get photos of the canopy before and after. The work covers island canopies, baffle filters and plenum chambers, and common reasons people get in touch are smoke hanging around the canopy during service and wet, greasy drips from the hood.
Kitchens in towns like Windsor are often in older buildings that were never designed for them, which can mean awkward duct routes, long flat runs and not enough access panels. Sections we can’t reach are listed on the report, and access panels can be added.
Think of the report as the system’s health record: dated, with photos, and showing what was done. For TR19® Grease cleans, the certificate comes through the BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite portal, ready for your insurer.
- Location
- Windsor (SL4)
- Region
- Windsor and Maidenhead
- Paperwork
- Certificate and photo report
- Price
- Fixed quote, normally within a working day
- When we work
- After hours by arrangement; emergencies any time
- Call
- 0345 646 2711
- Page updated
- 30 October 2026
Also in Windsor
What we’re called out for in Windsor
A canopy with gaps around its filters lets grease straight through. More grease reaches the plenum and housing than they’re designed to take, which shows up as heavy deposits when the filters come out.
Most sites get in touch when they notice one of these:
- Drips from the canopy onto the range
- A canopy flagged at an environmental health inspection
- Poor capture at the hood
- Heavy deposits behind the grease filters
If you run catering at a historic house or estate in the area (St Leonard's Hill is about 1 mile south-west), event kitchens in older buildings often have awkward duct runs that need planning.
Questions to ask before booking
- If the quote is a fixed price or an estimate
- Exactly which parts of the system are covered
- What happens if part of the system cannot be accessed
- How VAT is shown on the quote
Between visits
So the system stays in good health:
- Avoid harsh scourers that scratch the canopy
- Wipe the canopy down at close every day
- Tell us when the canopy starts to drip
- Clean the baffle filters often
We point out anything we noticed while the canopy was apart: damaged filters, gaps around the housing or troughs that need emptying more often. We keep it to what matters.
Wipe the canopy surfaces at the end of each day. It does not reach the plenum, but it stops the outside building up.
Fixed quotes for canopy cleaning in Windsor
We do not publish a price list, because no two systems are the same. What we look at:
- The condition we find in the survey
- The scale of the work
- Where the site is and how we reach it
- Site requirements such as sign-in and permits
Kitchens, offices, schools and hospitals are all priced the same way: the size of the job, access, condition and working hours. Call for a fixed quote and we will explain each part.
Helping us quote
When you call or email, it’s useful to have:
- How we’d reach plant on a roof or in a plant room
- Photos showing the whole system and its surroundings
- Any access panels or hatches you can see
- The site address and the type of premises
We do not publish a price list, because every site is different. Instead, we look at your site first, from photos or a survey, then send a fixed quote. To get going, call 0345 646 2711 or drop us a line.
What we do, step by step
There’s very little for your team to do on the day. A contact on site lets us in at the agreed time and points us to the system, and the rest is down to us. Before we leave, the area is tidied and the paperwork follows. Parking in a town like Windsor is typically straightforward, so the main questions are access and timing.
- We look at the canopy, filters and troughs first.
- Once the kitchen has closed, the cooking line is cooled and sheeted.
- With the filters removed, the plenum and filter channels are cleaned.
- The canopy shell, seams, troughs and gutters are degreased inside and out.
- We put the filters back, tidy up and photograph the finished canopy.
Getting ready for the visit
- Let us know how we reach the system, including roofs, risers and plant rooms
- Mention any parking or loading restrictions
- Let us know when the site is closed or quiet
Getting a quote
Quoting starts with a diagnosis, from your photos and details or, where that isn’t enough, a survey on site. After that, you get a fixed price for the work so you know the cost before we start.
Advice
Multi-site and managed buildings
Multi-site operators often want one contractor and one number. We cover South East England and London, so visits at different addresses can be planned together and kept on a regular cycle.
Records are where multi-site compliance often slips. Every visit ends with a dated report and pictures, so you can show an insurer or inspector what was done at each site.
Why it’s worth doing now in Windsor
Baked-on grease gets harder to shift the longer it stays. Heat from the range bakes canopy grease into a hard, dark layer, which makes a later clean slower and harder. The sooner the work is done, the simpler the job for a site in Windsor.
A single site or a whole portfolio, we price it on the same basis: the work involved, the access and the timing. The price is fixed before we start.
What you get with us
- Out-of-hours work and a 24/7 emergency line
- Fully insured
- Fixed quotes from a survey or photos
- Survey first, then a fixed quote
Take a look at what affects the cost and our accreditations.
In-house cleaning or a specialist?
Some jobs should never be done in-house: opening up ductwork, cleaning fans, drop testing fire dampers and measuring grease need training, the right equipment and safe access. Leave those to us.
Keep a record of what your team does. A dated log of in-house cleaning and checks shows an inspector that the system is looked after between visits, alongside our reports.
Canopy cleaning around Windsor
Look up Windsor on the FSA’s food hygiene register and you’ll find about 164 restaurants, cafés and canteens and about 19 takeaways and sandwich shops within roughly a mile and a half of the centre of Windsor. Every kitchen among them that cooks under a canopy has a hood, plenum and filters collecting grease. It’s Windsor and Maidenhead council that sends environmental health officers to food businesses in Windsor. Extraction counts as kitchen equipment, so its condition can come up on the day. Keeping each certificate and photo report on file helps show the extract is looked after. Fire safety in Windsor falls to Royal Berkshire 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.
Term dates shape school work: for a school like St Edward's Catholic First School, an extract clean fits neatly into a half-term or summer break. If you run a church or community hall kitchen, near All Saints Church or elsewhere in Windsor, its extract still collects grease from every lunch and event.
Windsor is about 3 miles south of Slough, in Windsor and Maidenhead. Windsor 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 pictures. Across Windsor and Maidenhead, we cover 57 places, and Windsor is one of them. You can also see our page for Reading, about 15 miles away.
Postcode districts we cover here for canopy cleaning: SL4. Whether your site is on Athlone Square, Leigh Square and Furness Square or a nearby road, our technicians can take on the work. With the A308 and A332 close by, Windsor is easy for our technicians to reach for canopy cleaning. Close by, we work in Clewer (1 mile north), Dedworth (1 mile west), Boveney (1 mile north-west), Eton Wick (1 mile north) and Oakley Green (1 mile west). We also work in nearby towns such as Maidenhead (5 miles north-west), Boyn Hill (5 miles north-west), North Ascot (5 miles south-west), Cookham (7 miles north-west), Furze Platt (6 miles north-west) and Broomhall (6 miles south). As one of the bigger places in Windsor and Maidenhead, Windsor has commercial sites of every size, all within our area for canopy cleaning.
Near you in Windsor
Locally, jobs take us to businesses close to The Prince Albert pub, Windsor Girls' School and Sutherland Grange and the streets around them. For rail, the closest station is Windsor & Eton Central station, roughly 1 mile north-east. Nearby you’ll also find Berkshire Yeomanry Museum (1 mile south-east) and Windsor Castle (1.3 miles east). Open spaces near Windsor include Bray Pit and Taplow Lake.