Oxfordshire · Ductwork cleaning
Ductwork cleaning in Crawley, Oxfordshire
Need ductwork cleaning in Crawley? We diagnose first, fix the price and book the work around your hours, then sign off with a report and pictures.
- Fat dripping from the ductwork
- Hardened, baked-on grease in long horizontal runs
- Heavy grease at the base of a riser
Why act early in Crawley
Dealing with the ductwork in Crawley now beats dealing with it after a problem. The work takes anything from a few hours to several visits, depending on the length of duct, and we work evenings, overnight and weekends. A fault that closes a site in a village like Crawley affects everyone who depends on it.
You will not find a price list here, because the cost depends on the site in front of us. For a fixed quote, call 0345 646 2711 or send us an email, and we will talk you through it.
Why book with us
- In business since 2009
- Photo reports with every job
- Fixed quotes from a survey or pictures
- One number for every site across the South East and London
Ductwork cleaning in Crawley, done properly
Every duct has its own route. Some run a short distance to an outside wall, others climb several floors to the roof. We map the route during the survey, so we know where to get in and how long it will take. If you’re dealing with fat dripping from the ductwork and a duct nobody has opened in years, we can put it right, from access panels, vertical risers and multi-storey ducts onwards.
Work in a small place like Crawley starts with a call to agree access and timings, and the clean itself is the same full TR19® job as in any town: canopy, filters, duct, fan and discharge, with a certificate and photo report at the end.
Duct Doctor has been trading since 2009, and we are a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease. CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001 are in place too, and we are fully insured.
- Location
- Crawley (OX29)
- Region
- Oxfordshire
- Paperwork
- Certificate plus before-and-after pictures
- Quote
- A fixed quote up front
- When we work
- When your site is closed, plus a 24/7 line
- Phone
- 0345 646 2711
- Updated
- 30 October 2026
Honest limits
Ductwork cleaning cannot fix everything, and we will tell you before we start. It does not solve:
- Parts of the duct with no way in
- Undersized or badly laid-out ducts
- A damper stuck open in the duct
Not sure which it is? You can phone us on 0345 646 2711, or email photos and we will tell you honestly.
What the work covers
- Attenuators
- Vertical risers
- Access panels
- Bends and junctions
- Horizontal duct runs
- Multi-storey ducts
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Part by part
Horizontal duct runs
Long horizontal runs need access panels at regular intervals. Any stretch out of reach is noted and can fit extra panels.
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.
Your questions about ductwork cleaning in Crawley
Who enforces fire safety at workplaces in Crawley?
Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service is the fire and rescue service for Crawley. A recent cleaning certificate and a note of the next clean date show that grease in the extract is being managed.
Can you clean school kitchen extracts in Crawley during the holidays?
Yes, holiday work suits schools best. There are about 6 schools, colleges and universities on the FSA’s food hygiene register within about 1.5 miles of Crawley. Booking early in the term gives the best choice of holiday dates.
Do you offer emergency callouts?
Yes. Our emergency line runs 24/7, for problems that cannot wait. Call us any time and explain what’s happened.
Where does the waste go?
It leaves the site with us when we go. While we work, it’s kept contained to keep the area clean.
How do you clean inside the ductwork?
We survey the route, test the grease, then open the access panels. We clean the runs and risers section by section, and test again when we are done.
What should I send you?
The site address, the type of premises and your opening hours, plus photos of the system and your last certificate or report if you have one.
How often should kitchen ducts be cleaned?
It follows the same interval as the whole extract, from every 3 months for heavy use to every 12 months for light use. Grease thickness testing shows whether that’s often enough.
How do you know if the ductwork needs cleaning?
Start with the date of the last clean. If it’s overdue, or there is not one, a clean is due, and grease readings will confirm how urgent it is.
Crawley kitchens: local notes
Food Standards Agency data counts about 35 restaurants, cafés and canteens and about 4 takeaways and sandwich shops within about 1.5 miles of central Crawley. Wherever those kitchens cook under a canopy, the horizontal runs and risers need cleaning as well as the hood. It’s West Oxfordshire council that sends environmental health officers to food businesses in Crawley. A greasy canopy or dripping filters are the sort of thing an inspection can pick up. Before-and-after pictures from each clean are a simple way to show the extract is in hand. The fire and rescue service for Crawley is Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service. Fire and rescue authorities enforce the Fire Safety Order in most non-domestic premises, and in a kitchen that fire risk includes the grease in the extract.
Where a hall near Church of St John the Evangelist, or anywhere in Crawley, hosts lunch clubs or events, its extract gathers grease just as a café’s does. Term dates shape school work: for a school like Hailey Church of England Primary School, an extract clean fits neatly into a half-term or summer break. Older buildings often hide long, awkward duct runs, and if you run a kitchen at a historic venue in the area (Minster Lovell Hall is about 1.1 miles west), access may need planning.
Crawley is about 1 mile north-west of Witney, in Oxfordshire. Sites in Crawley get the same service as everywhere we cover: diagnosis first, a fixed price, out-of-hours working where needed and a written report with pictures. Our Oxfordshire coverage runs to 443 places, Crawley among them. We also work in Oxford, about 12 miles from Crawley.
Postcode districts we cover here for ductwork cleaning: OX29. You will find streets such as Witney Hill, Farm Lane and Foxburrow Lane, and we cover them all for ductwork cleaning. Neighbouring places we cover for ductwork cleaning include Leafield (2 miles north-west), Swinbrook (4 miles west), Ascott d'Oyley (4 miles north-west), Ascott-under-Wychwood (5 miles north-west) and Ascott Earl (5 miles north-west). Further out, we also cover Oxford (12 miles east), Abingdon-on-Thames (13 miles south-east), Carterton (5 miles south-west), Wantage (15 miles south), Grove (14 miles south) and Faringdon (11 miles south).
Around Crawley
We work in commercial kitchens and buildings around Wood Green School and The Lamb Inn, among other places. The nearest railway station is Finstock station, roughly 3.6 miles north-east of the centre. Well-known places in the area include Cogges Manor Farm Museum (1.9 miles south-east). Not far away are Blenheim Farm.
Multi-site and managed buildings
When the building owner and the occupier are different, the lease normally sets out who maintains what. We can quote either party and send the paperwork to whoever needs it.
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.
How the visit works
We start by comparing what we find with the survey or your pictures. Anything unexpected is raised with you before we go further. After that, the work takes anything from a few hours to several visits, depending on the length of duct. If you can send pictures, we can arrive in Crawley knowing what to expect.
- First the duct route is traced and every access point noted.
- We measure grease thickness at set points before cleaning.
- Through the access panels, thick grease is removed by hand first.
- Next the ducts and risers are degreased, using whatever suits the deposit.
- Readings and pictures are repeated and any section we couldn’t reach is recorded.
Before we arrive
- Let us know about permits to work or site inductions
- Tell us about access, such as roof hatches, plant rooms, ceilings or locked areas
- Move anything stored near the system
How to get a quote
Quotes are quick. Send a few details and photos, and we usually reply with a fixed quote within one working day. Where a survey is needed, we arrange a time that suits the site.
Related advice
What staff can safely do
Keep a record of what your team does. A simple log of filter washes, wipe-downs and checks helps show that the system is managed between specialist visits, next to our reports.
If your staff spot something between visits, such as dripping grease, a noisy fan, a smell or a filter that won’t come clean, it’s best reported rather than tackled in-house. We can diagnose it and quote.
How we price ductwork cleaning
Some jobs are bigger than they look, and some smaller. The main factors:
- The times the site is available
- How big the system is
- One-off work versus a regular cycle
- The condition of the system
What you pay depends on the size of the system, what state it’s in and access to every part of it. We give you a fixed price before we start, so there are no surprises.
What we need to know
We can often survey from photos. The most useful are:
- Any symptoms, from odd noises to smells or leaks
- A few general shots of the system
- Any access panels or hatches you can see
- Any previous report or certificate
Need a price for ductwork cleaning? Please ring 0345 646 2711, or send details by email and tell us about the site. We will talk you through the work and send you a fixed quote before you commit to anything.