Essex · Ductwork cleaning
Housham Tye ductwork cleaning
Specialist ductwork cleaning for Housham Tye: a survey, a fixed price, careful work and proper paperwork. Call for a fixed quote.
- Hardened, baked-on grease in long horizontal runs
- Stale grease odours from the duct
- Grease seeping out of the duct seams
Questions from Housham Tye
Do you cover smaller places like Housham Tye?
Yes. Villages and rural sites across the South East are part of our work, Housham Tye included. Just mention lanes, gates or anything else about the site when you book.
Which fire service covers Housham Tye?
Housham Tye is in the area of Essex County Fire and Rescue Service. TR19® isn’t law, but it’s the benchmark many fire officers and insurers look to when they ask how often the extract is cleaned.
Which kinds of sites do you work on?
Restaurants and pubs, hotels, schools and colleges, hospitals and care homes, offices and retail, as well as food production and leisure sites.
Is a quote from pictures possible?
Yes, for many jobs. Send a few wide pictures plus close-ups of panels, filters or grilles, and we usually come back within one working day. Some sites still need a visit, and we’ll say so.
How long does it take to clean extract ducts?
It depends on the length of the duct, the number of access panels and how much grease there is. As a guide, it takes a shift or more, depending on the length of the runs and the number of access points.
Is there a survey before the work?
Yes. Photos often do the job, and larger or hidden systems get a visit.
What shows that the ducts need a clean?
A grease thickness test gives the answer. Using a Wet Film Thickness Test or Deposit Thickness Test, we check the grease at set points. A mean above 200 microns, or 500 microns at any point, means it’s due.
How do you keep the site clean during the work?
With sheeting and covers, before anything else happens. The work is kept contained and leave the area clean.
Ductwork cleaning in Housham Tye, done properly
Ductwork in Housham Tye is cleaned the same thorough way as everywhere else we work: readings at set points, heavy grease scraped out by hand, then degreasing to suit the deposit. Readings are taken again afterwards and pictures go into your report. We’re often asked to deal with hardened, baked-on grease in long horizontal runs and a duct clean needed for an insurer, on attenuators, vertical risers and multi-storey ducts.
In a small place like Housham Tye, kitchens are often in older or extended buildings, with long single-storey duct runs, and those horizontal sections are where grease settles. Access, parking and timings are agreed before the day.
We have been trading since 2009, as a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease. We also hold CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, and we are fully insured.
- Place
- Housham Tye (CM17)
- Wider area
- Essex
- Records
- TR19® certificate and photo report
- Quote
- A fixed quote up front
- When we work
- Nights, weekends or holidays to suit you
- Telephone
- 0345 646 2711
- Updated
- 30 October 2026
Ductwork cleaning around Housham Tye
According to Food Standards Agency records, there are about 4 pubs and bars in Housham Tye and the streets around it, up to about 1.5 miles out. A pub or hotel kitchen that cooks every day builds up grease in its extract like any other. It’s Epping Forest council that sends environmental health officers to food businesses in Housham Tye. An officer looking round a kitchen will see the canopy, and grease there is hard to miss. Our report lists what was cleaned and when, which is useful to have ready. The fire and rescue service for Housham Tye is Essex County 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.
If you run catering at a historic house or estate in the area (Barrington Hall is about 4.8 miles north-east), event kitchens in older buildings often have awkward duct runs that need planning. Healthcare kitchens can’t easily close, so their extracts are cleaned overnight or between meal services; the nearest hospital to Housham Tye is Princess Alexandra Hospital, about 4.1 miles west.
Housham Tye is about 3 miles east of Harlow, in Essex. Every kind of commercial site in Housham Tye, ductwork cleaning is something we can help with. We can work out of hours so the site keeps running. Across Essex, we cover 644 places, and Housham Tye is one of them. There’s also a page for Chelmsford, roughly 13 miles from Housham Tye.
All of CM17 is within our area for ductwork cleaning, from the main roads to the quietest streets. If your site is just outside Housham Tye, we cover Matching Tye (1 mile east), Matching (1 mile north-east), Loyter's Green (1 mile south-east), Newman's End (1 mile north-east) and Foster Street (2 miles south-west). We also work in nearby towns such as Chelmsford (13 miles east), Harlow (3 miles west), Brentwood (12 miles south-east), Billericay (15 miles south-east), Loughton (10 miles south-west) and Waltham Abbey (10 miles south-west).
Local landmarks in Housham Tye
In Housham Tye, that means kitchens and buildings near Gibberd Garden and the streets around them. For rail, the closest station is Harlow Mill station, roughly 2.2 miles west. Nearby you will also find Harlow Mill (2.4 miles west) and Mark Hall Cycle Museum (2.5 miles west). Open spaces near Housham Tye include Sawbridgeworth Marsh.
For landlords and multi-site operators
We work for landlords, managing agents and facilities managers as well as the people running the site. 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.
Records are where multi-site compliance often slips. Each visit ends with a dated report and pictures, so you can show an insurer or inspector what was done at each site.
What the work involves, part by part
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.
Vertical risers
Risers carry the extract up through the building to the roof. Grease runs down the walls and gathers at the base, which is one of the points we test.
Looking after it afterwards
How long the results last depends on use and care. Here’s what we suggest:
- Consider fitting panels where the report shows gaps
- Keep the fan on while anything is cooking
- Check readings when the menu changes
- Keep to the interval on the report
A full system clean includes a TR19 certificate from the BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite portal. It records the date, the location and the technician.
Extra access panels mean more of the duct gets cleaned each time. It doesn’t stop grease forming, but it stops it building unseen.
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. Leave those to us.
For ventilation and air handling systems, in-house care is mostly about checks: keeping grilles clear, noting unusual noise or smells and logging filter changes. Cleaning inside ducts and units is specialist work.
The process
Your staff don’t need to do much 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. Visits to a village like Housham Tye are booked in advance, at a time that suits whoever runs the site.
- First we diagnose: the route, the access and the grease levels.
- A fixed quote follows, based on what we found.
- Each section is cleaned in turn through its access panel.
- Bends, risers and the base of each riser get extra attention.
- The duct is signed off with readings, photos and a next clean date.
How to prepare
- Dig out any earlier paperwork for the system
- Agree a time when the area can be out of use
- Move anything stored near the system
Get a fixed quote
The quickest way to a quote is to send photos: the system from a couple of angles, plus any access panels or hatches. Tell us what kind of site it is and when it’s open, and many jobs can be priced from that alone.
Related advice
Common problems we fix in Housham Tye
A greasy duct is a fire path, in Housham Tye as anywhere. Burning grease can carry fire through the ductwork to other rooms or floors, which is why the responsible person needs it under control.
If you notice any of these, it’s worth a diagnosis:
- Hardened, baked-on grease in long horizontal runs
- Thick deposits at the bottom of a vertical duct
- A duct clean needed for an insurer
- Ductwork that has never been cleaned
Bursars and site managers at schools such as Mark Hall School tend to book extract cleaning for when the kitchen is empty.
What your quote should include
- Whether a written report and photos are included
- Whether the price is fixed
- Whether the quote is based on a survey or pictures
- How VAT is shown on the quote
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When it’s something else
Some problems need a different service or another trade:
- Fire dampers that don’t close (they need testing and remedials)
- Leaking duct joints that need repair
- Undersized or badly laid-out ducts
If you are not sure, just phone us on 0345 646 2711 or use the quote form and we’ll give you a straight answer.
Where we work
- Bends and junctions
- Vertical risers
- Attenuators
- Access panels
- Multi-storey ducts
- Horizontal duct runs