Southwood ductwork cleaning

Kitchen extracts in Southwood

Look up Southwood on the FSA’s food hygiene register and you will find about 31 restaurants, cafés and canteens and about 16 takeaways in Southwood and the streets around it, up to about 1.5 miles out. Where they cook under a canopy, grease does not stop at the filters: it settles along the duct and up the riser. Food hygiene inspections in Southwood are the job of Rushmoor council’s environmental health team. The cleanliness of the kitchen and its equipment, extraction included, is part of what they check. Keeping each certificate and photo report on file helps show the extract is looked after. Southwood is covered by Hampshire and Isle of Wight 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.

Church and community hall kitchens, near St John the Baptist or anywhere around Southwood, are easy to forget, but their extracts collect grease like any other. If you look after a school kitchen, at a school such as Southwood Infant School or anywhere near Southwood, the holidays are the usual time for a TR19® clean. Healthcare kitchens can’t easily close, so their extracts are cleaned overnight or between meal services; the nearest hospital to Southwood is Fleet Community Hospital, about 2.2 miles west.

Southwood is about 1 mile west of Farnborough, in Hampshire. From the centre of Southwood to the outskirts, ductwork cleaning is available to all kinds of commercial premises, from small sites to large estates. Southwood is one of 683 places in Hampshire we cover for ductwork cleaning. For sites nearby, see our Guildford page, about 10 miles away.

Here we cover the GU14 and GU51 postcode area for ductwork cleaning. That includes premises on Fleet Road, Kennels Lane and Summit Avenue and the roads around them. Close by, we work in Cove (1 mile north), Farnborough (1 mile east), North Camp (2 miles east), Mytchett (3 miles east) and Aldershot (3 miles south-east). We also work in nearby towns such as Basingstoke (13 miles west), Alton (12 miles south-west), Yateley (4 miles north-west), Bordon (13 miles south), Hook (7 miles west) and Popley (12 miles west).

Local landmarks in Southwood

We work in commercial kitchens and buildings around National Aerospace Library, Ancells Farm Park and Cove School and the streets around them. The nearest railway station is Fleet station, roughly 1.5 miles west. Nearby you’ll also find Hart Shopping Centre (2.1 miles west) and Royal Army Dental Corps Historical Museum (2.6 miles south-east). For a walk, there’s Aunt's Pool and Ball Hill.

Staff cleaning versus specialist work

Day-to-day cleaning is something your team can do: wiping down canopy surfaces, cleaning filters and keeping a simple log. Inside the ducts, risers and fan is specialist work, which is where we come in.

Logging matters as much as cleaning. A simple log of filter washes, wipe-downs and checks shows an inspector that the system is looked after between visits, alongside our reports.

Managing agents and facilities teams in Southwood

The Fire Safety Order 2005 puts the duty to manage fire risk on the responsible person, and that can be the employer, the owner, a landlord, a facilities manager or a managing agent. With shared responsibility, good records help everyone.

When the building owner and the occupier are different, the lease normally sets out who maintains what. We’re happy to deal with either side and send the paperwork to whoever needs it.