Kent · Ductwork cleaning
Duct cleaning in Adisham
Ductwork cleaning for businesses, landlords and public buildings in Adisham. CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, and fully insured.
- Heavy grease at the base of a riser
- Thick crusts of old grease along the duct
- High readings at a recent grease test
Adisham: your questions answered
Who is the fire and rescue service for Adisham?
Fire safety enforcement in Adisham is handled by Kent Fire and Rescue Service. It’s worth keeping your fire risk assessment, TR19® certificates and photo reports together, ready to show.
Can you work in Adisham outside opening hours?
Yes. We work evenings, overnight and at weekends. That way a site in Adisham doesn’t have to lose a day’s trading. Tell us your opening hours when you ask for a quote.
What types of premises do you cover?
We work for restaurants, pubs, hotels, schools, colleges, hospitals, care homes, offices and shops, as well as food production and leisure sites.
Is TR19 cleaning required by law?
No. TR19® itself is not law; it’s a BESA specification. The law is the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, which makes the responsible person assess and reduce fire risk, and TR19® is the benchmark for showing that grease in the extract is under control.
What accreditations do you have?
We hold 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.
What’s involved in cleaning extract ducts?
Through access panels along the duct. Heavy grease is scraped out by hand, then the surfaces are degreased with a method that suits the deposit, such as degreasers, hot water or steam.
Can you clean ductwork with no access panels?
We clean everything we can reach and record what we cannot. Extra panels can be installed, and we can do that for you.
Are you insured?
Yes, fully. We also hold CHAS and SafeContractor for clients who vet their contractors.
About our ductwork cleaning in Adisham
Duct cleaning is the hardest part of an extract clean, and the part most often skipped. Sections with no way in can go uncleaned for years. Each section we can reach is cleaned, and any we can’t is written down, so you know exactly where you stand. We’re often asked to deal with a rancid smell from the extract duct and a grease test showing the duct is overdue, across attenuators, horizontal duct runs and access panels.
Somewhere as small as Adisham, commercial kitchens are few: perhaps a pub, a school or care home kitchen, or a hall used for events. Each still has a canopy and duct that collect grease, whatever the size of the place.
Think of the report as the system’s health record: dated, with photos, and showing what was done. Grease extract cleans are also certificated to TR19® Grease through the BESCA VHE portal and sits alongside the report.
- Place
- Adisham (CT3)
- Wider area
- Kent
- Records
- TR19® certificate and photo report
- Quote
- A fixed quote up front
- Hours
- Out of hours as standard, 24/7 emergency line
- Phone
- 0345 646 2711
- Checked
- 30 October 2026
What we’re called out for in Adisham
Slow air leaves the most grease behind. Flat runs, bends, reducers and the base of risers are the usual hotspots, and those are the points we pay most attention to.
Signs it’s time to call us include:
- Fat dripping from the ductwork
- A duct nobody has opened in years
- Smells of old cooking grease from the ductwork
- Proof of duct cleaning for the insurer
Where a hall near Church of the Holy Innocents, or anywhere in Adisham, hosts lunch clubs or events, its extract gathers grease just as a café’s does.
What to look for in a quote
- Whether inaccessible sections are listed on the report
- Whether the figure could change on the day
- Whether the whole system is included, or only the parts that are easy to reach
- Their accreditations, such as BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite, CHAS or SafeContractor
Also near Adisham
What else we do in Adisham
What the work involves, part by part
Attenuators and discharge
Near the discharge, the air has cooled the most, so it can collect more grease than expected. We include it in the clean and the readings.
Access panels
Access panels are the doors that let us into the duct. Where there are none, those sections cannot be cleaned, and TR19 expects them to be recorded.
What staff can safely do
A few tasks are always specialist work: entering ducts, working on fans, testing dampers and taking grease readings call for the right kit, training and safe access. That’s our job.
Logging matters as much as cleaning. A dated log of in-house cleaning and checks shows an inspector that the system is looked after between visits, alongside our reports.
How it works
We turn up at the time agreed with you, which is often after service, overnight or at a weekend. Anything that needs to be off for the work is switched off and left to cool first, and floors and nearby surfaces are sheeted. The work itself takes a shift or more, depending on the length of the runs and the number of access points. Somewhere as small as Adisham, the date and timings are agreed with you well before the day.
- We trace the duct and find every way in.
- Grease thickness is measured at set points.
- Once the kitchen has closed, we protect the area and open the panels.
- Heavy deposits come out by hand, then each section is degreased.
- We close up, re-test, photograph and record anything out of reach.
Preparing for the visit
- Move anything stored near the system
- Let us know about parking and loading
- Tell us about access, such as roof hatches, plant rooms, ceilings or locked areas
Get a fixed quote
Getting a quote doesn’t take long. Send a few details and photos, and we typically reply with a fixed quote within one working day. Where a survey is needed, we arrange a time that suits the site.
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For landlords and multi-site operators
Under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, the responsible person must assess and reduce fire risk, and that can be the employer, the owner, a landlord, a facilities manager or a managing agent. With shared responsibility, good records help everyone.
Records are where multi-site compliance often slips. Each visit produces a dated report with pictures, ready to show insurers, fire officers or EHOs.
What affects the cost of ductwork cleaning
The price is fixed before any work begins. It’s based on:
- Access, including roofs, risers and ceiling voids
- The condition we find in the survey
- When the work can happen, such as evenings, overnight or weekends
- Where the site is and how we reach it
Several systems or sites on one quote can make for a more efficient booking. Mention every system or site you need covered and we will price it together.
What to send for a quote
The more you tell us, the more accurate the quote. With your enquiry, please include:
- Detail shots of panels, filters and grilles
- Your last certificate, test record or report
- The postcode and the type of business
- Anything you’ve noticed, such as smells, noise, drips or poor airflow
Photos are enough for some jobs, while others need a look on site. Larger sites, and anything hidden behind walls, ceilings or floors, are normally surveyed first. Either way, the quote is fixed before any work is booked.
When something else is needed
A few issues sit outside what this work can do:
- An extract fan that has stopped working
- Fire dampers that do not close (they need testing and remedials)
- Ductwork that was poorly designed
If you are not sure, just call us on 0345 646 2711 or drop us a line and we will give you a straight answer before booking.
What the work covers
- Access panels
- Attenuators
- Multi-storey ducts
- Bends and junctions
- Vertical risers
- Horizontal duct runs
Kitchen extracts in Adisham
Food Standards Agency records list about 3 cafés, restaurants and staff canteens and about 5 takeaways and sandwich shops within roughly a mile and a half of the centre of Adisham. Behind every canopy among them is a run of ductwork that collects grease out of sight. Environmental health officers from Canterbury City council inspect food businesses in Adisham. They look at how clean the premises and equipment are, and the kitchen extract is part of that. Before-and-after photos from each clean are a simple way to show the extract is in hand. The fire and rescue service for Adisham is Kent 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.
A hospital like St Martins Hospital, about 4.3 miles north-west, is the kind of site where a kitchen may cook for patients, staff and visitors all day. Bursars and site managers at schools such as Adisham Church of England Primary School tend to book extract cleaning for when the kitchen is empty.
Adisham is about 5 miles south-east of Canterbury, in Kent. We carry out ductwork cleaning for commercial premises of every kind in Adisham and the rest of Kent. We cover 922 places across Kent, from busy centres to quieter spots. For sites nearby, see our Maidstone page (29 miles or so).
Work in CT3 is surveyed, quoted and booked the same way as anywhere else. Streets in the area include Station Road, The Street and Church Lane, and we cover them all for ductwork cleaning. If your site is just outside Adisham, we cover Bloodden (1 mile south-east), Aylesham (1 mile south), Bramling (2 miles north), Bekesbourne (2 miles north-west) and Womenswold (2 miles south). We also work in nearby towns such as Canterbury (5 miles north-west), Margate (13 miles north-east), Dover (9 miles south-east), Folkestone (11 miles south), Ramsgate (12 miles north-east) and Broadstairs (13 miles north-east).
Landmarks near Adisham
Adisham has its own railway station: Adisham station. Well-known places in the area include St Martins Hospital (4.3 miles north-west).