Portsmouth · Ductwork cleaning
Ductwork cleaning in Baffins, Portsmouth
Ductwork cleaning across Baffins and nearby, booked around your opening hours and finished with a written report and pictures.
- Heavy grease at the base of a riser
- Smells of old cooking grease from the ductwork
- Grease leaking from duct joints
What the work involves, part by part
Bends and transitions
Wherever the duct turns or changes size, grease builds up. The air slows and drops its load, so these points get extra attention.
Horizontal duct runs
Horizontal runs carry the extract along ceilings and through voids. They collect grease as the air cools and slows, and we clean them section by section through access panels.
Ductwork cleaning in Baffins
Every duct has its own route. Some run a short distance to an outside wall, others climb several floors to the roof. The survey traces the route and finds every access point before we quote. The work covers attenuators, access panels and multi-storey ducts, and common reasons people get in touch are an insurer asking for TR19 evidence and high readings at a recent grease test.
Kitchens around a place like Baffins are often in older buildings or single-storey extensions, with the duct running through a roof space or up an outside wall. Flat runs collect grease and need proper access to clean.
For insurers and inspectors, the record counts. So every job comes with a written report and photos, plus a TR19® certificate through the BESCA VHE portal where the work is a TR19® Grease clean.
- Place
- Baffins (PO3, PO4, PO2)
- Region
- Portsmouth
- Records
- TR19® certificate and photo report
- Quotes
- Fixed quote, usually within a working day
- Hours
- Overnight and weekend work, 24/7 emergency callout
- Telephone
- 0345 646 2711
- Updated
- 30 October 2026
Grease, kitchens and Baffins
At about 1 mile from the coast, Baffins is close enough for sea air to matter. Metal on the roof weathers faster close to the coast, and the extract fan and cowl are no exception. The FSA’s food hygiene register includes about 52 pubs and bars and about 3 hotels, B&Bs and guest houses within roughly a mile and a half of the centre of Baffins. Any of them serving cooked food has an extract to keep clean, from canopy to discharge. In Baffins, food businesses are inspected by environmental health officers from Portsmouth council. Extraction counts as kitchen equipment, so its condition can come up on the day. A dated certificate in the maintenance file answers the question before it’s asked.
School kitchens, at schools like Langstone Junior Academy for example, are typically cleaned in the holidays so no lunches are lost. Historic houses near Baffins, such as Warblington Castle about 4.8 miles north-east, are a reminder that older buildings with event kitchens can have long, awkward duct routes.
Baffins is about 1 mile east of Portsmouth, in Portsmouth. From the centre of Baffins to the outskirts, we cover ductwork cleaning for every kind of premises, from small sites to large estates. Across Portsmouth, we cover 19 places, Baffins among them.
Here we cover the PO3, PO4 and PO2 postcode area for ductwork cleaning. That includes premises on Byron Road, James Road and Dover Road and nearby roads. You will find Baffins on the A288, which makes it straightforward for our technicians to reach for out-of-hours visits. We also cover Copnor (1 mile north-west), Kingston (1 mile south-west), Fratton (1 mile south-west), Portsmouth (1 mile west) and North End (1 mile north-west). Larger places within reach include Wymering (3 miles north), Paulsgrove (3 miles north-west), Drayton (3 miles north) and Farlington (3 miles north).
What’s near Baffins
Locally, jobs take us to businesses close to The Baffins pub, St Edmund's Catholic School and Alexandra Park. The nearest railway station is Fratton station, about 1 mile south-west. Well-known places in the area include The Bridge Shopping Centre (1.1 miles south-west) and Southsea Castle (2.4 miles south-west). Green spaces nearby include Portsdown Hill and Milton Locks.
How it works
The visit has three parts: getting the area ready, doing the work and signing it off. Set-up means sheeting and making equipment safe, while signing off means the written report and pictures. Most of the time goes on the work itself, and that takes from a few hours to more than one visit, depending on duct length and access. Evenings, weekends or a closed day all work for a site in a place like Baffins.
- We map the duct route and check where the access panels are.
- Set points along the runs are tested for grease.
- Through the access panels, thick grease is removed by hand first.
- Next the ducts and risers are degreased, using whatever suits the deposit.
- Post-clean readings and pictures go into the report, with any unreachable section listed.
Before we arrive
- Arrange a key holder or contact on site
- Tell us about site rules, permits or sign-in
- Let us know how we reach the system, including roofs, risers and plant rooms
Ask for a quote
Quoting starts with a diagnosis, from your photos and details or, where that is not enough, a survey on site. Then we send a fixed price, before any work starts.
Advice
Multi-site and managed buildings
Running several sites is easier with one contractor. We work across London and the South East, so a run of sites can go into one programme and kept to a regular schedule.
Landlords, managing agents and facilities managers book us, not only the businesses that use the systems. Where a system serves more than one tenant, such as a shared riser, it helps to agree who arranges the work, and we can quote for the whole system.
What else we do in Baffins
Leave it or put it right?
BESA guidance says grease shouldn’t exceed a mean of 200 microns between cleans. Anywhere that reaches 500 microns or more needs immediate spot cleaning. Putting off the clean only pushes readings higher. Light use slows the build-up but doesn’t stop it.
Combining work into one visit or one programme can make for a more efficient booking. Tell us about everything you’d like looked at and we will price it together.
Why book with us
- One number for every site across the South East and London
- CHAS and SafeContractor accredited, with ISO 9001
- Photo reports with every job
- Work around your opening hours, with 24/7 emergency cover
Questions from Baffins
Can you clean school kitchen extracts in Baffins during the holidays?
Yes, and it’s the easiest time to do it. With about 31 schools and colleges on the FSA’s register within roughly a mile and a half of Baffins, it pays to plan holiday dates ahead. Send us your term dates when you give us a ring on 0345 646 2711, or email photos, and we’ll fit the work in.
Who inspects food businesses in Baffins?
In Baffins, it’s Portsmouth council that carries out food hygiene inspections. Have your latest TR19® certificate and photo report to hand, as an officer may ask how the extract is maintained.
What if part of the duct can’t be reached?
We clean everything we can reach and record what we cannot. Extra panels can be installed, and we can do that for you.
What should I send you?
Where the site is, what it is and when it’s open, along with a few photos and any previous report.
How much does ductwork cleaning cost?
We don’t publish prices, because the cost depends on the job: the size of the system, its condition, access and when we can work. You get a fixed price before any work starts.
Can you set up regular visits?
Yes. We run scheduled maintenance contracts, with visits at the interval your system needs. The report from each visit recommends the next date.
How is kitchen extract ductwork cleaned?
We get into the duct through its access panels. 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.
Do I get a certificate for ductwork cleaning?
Every clean comes with a photo report, plus a TR19 certificate when the whole system is cleaned. File them with the fire risk assessment.
How we price ductwork cleaning
Every site gets its own quote. This is what makes a difference:
- The times the site is available
- Parking and loading at the site
- Whether we need access equipment or extra panels
- The condition we find in the survey
What you pay reflects the actual work. That’s why every job is surveyed first, and the price is agreed before we start.
What to send for a quote
We can often survey from photos. Try to include:
- Any symptoms, from odd noises to smells or leaks
- The roof, plant room or outside wall the system runs to
- Your last certificate, test record or report
- Detail shots of panels, filters and grilles
The quickest way to a quote is to send photos: wide shots of the system, close-ups of anything that worries you and how we’d get to it. Tell us what kind of site it is and when it’s open, and we can price many jobs without a visit.
Signs you need ductwork cleaning in Baffins
The further the air travels from the cooking, the cooler it gets. Cooling air drops its grease onto the inside of the duct, so duct runs keep collecting grease long after the canopy.
These are the problems we see most often:
- Duct runs that can’t be reached
- A duct clean needed for an insurer
- Stale grease odours from the duct
- Duct runs with no cleaning record
Kitchens that cook twelve hours or more a day, as some healthcare kitchens do, fall into BESA’s three-monthly minimum; St Mary's Hospital is the nearest hospital to Baffins, about 0.6 miles south-west.
What to look for in a quote
- If they look at the system before pricing
- Whether the quote shows VAT
- What’s included in the scope, part by part
- If the quote is a fixed price or an estimate
Staff cleaning versus specialist work
Some jobs should never be done in-house: opening up ductwork, cleaning fans, drop testing fire dampers and measuring grease call for the right kit, training and safe access. That’s our job.
Logging matters as much as cleaning. A simple log of filter washes, wipe-downs and checks helps show that the system is managed between specialist visits, alongside our reports.