Duct cleaning in Harbledown

Ductwork cleaning around Harbledown

Food Standards Agency records include about 54 bars, pubs and nightclubs and about 14 hotels and guest houses within roughly a mile and a half of the centre of Harbledown. Where they serve hot food, their kitchen extracts need cleaning to TR19® like any restaurant’s. Harbledown is covered by Kent Fire and Rescue Service. In most workplaces, including commercial kitchens, it’s the fire and rescue authority that enforces the Fire Safety Order. In Harbledown, food businesses are inspected by environmental health officers from Canterbury City council. They look at how clean the premises and equipment are, and the kitchen extract is part of that. A TR19® certificate and photo report after each clean gives you a record to show an inspector.

Healthcare kitchens, like those at hospitals such as Eastbridge Hospital of St Thomas the Martyr (about 0.9 miles east), often cook for long hours, which puts them in BESA’s heavier-use bands. A kitchen near Canterbury West station that serves breakfast and dinner can run its extract twelve hours or more, which shortens the cleaning interval. For schools such as The Canterbury Primary School, kitchen extract cleaning is typically booked for the holidays, when the canteen is closed.

Harbledown is about 1 mile west of Canterbury, in Kent. Every kind of commercial site in Harbledown, we can take on ductwork cleaning. We can work out of hours so trading isn’t interrupted. 922 places in Kent are on our list, large and small. You can also see our page for Maidstone, about 23 miles away.

Every address in CT2 is within our area for ductwork cleaning, from busy streets to back roads. Local streets include Lanfranc Gardens, Mill Lane and Church Hill, all of which we cover for ductwork cleaning. We also cover Rough Common (1 mile north-west), Wincheap (1 mile south-east), Thanington (1 mile south), Upper Harbledown (1 mile west) and Canterbury (1 mile east). We also work in nearby towns such as Ashford (13 miles south-west), Dover (14 miles south-east), Sittingbourne (15 miles west), Folkestone (14 miles south), Whitstable (5 miles north) and Deal (15 miles east).

Landmarks near Harbledown

Locally, jobs take us to businesses close to Whitehall Meadows, St Edmund's School and The Monument Inn and the streets around them. Also close by are St Thomas of Canterbury Church (1.2 miles east) and The Canterbury Academy (within half a mile south-east). For rail, the closest station is Canterbury West station, roughly 0.8 miles east of the centre. Other landmarks nearby include Eastbridge Hospital of St Thomas the Martyr (0.9 miles east) and Sidney Cooper Museum (0.9 miles east). Open spaces near Harbledown include Blean Woods RSPB Reserve.

What the work involves, part by part

Vertical risers

A riser takes the duct up through one or more floors. Grease collects on the walls and at the foot of the riser, which is one of the points we test.

Horizontal duct runs

Flat runs of duct link the canopy to the riser or the outside wall. Grease drops out of the slowing air along them, and we clean them section by section through access panels.

Multi-site and managed buildings

Managing agents often deal with us directly. Tell us the site, the work and the access arrangements, and we’ll send a fixed quote.

Landlords, managing agents and facilities managers book us, not only the businesses that use the systems. Shared systems, like a riser serving several units, need a clear agreement on who books the work, and we can quote for the whole system.

What staff can safely do

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.

Day-to-day cleaning is something your team can do: wiping down canopy surfaces, cleaning filters and keeping a simple log. What they cannot safely do is clean inside the ductwork, the fan or the risers, which is where we come in.