Essex · Ductwork cleaning
Duct cleaning in Stanway
Cleaning of kitchen extract ductwork, horizontal runs and vertical risers through access panels for businesses, landlords and public buildings in Stanway. CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, and fully insured.
- Hardened, baked-on grease in long horizontal runs
- Sections of duct with no access panels
- A grease test showing the duct is overdue
Your questions about ductwork cleaning in Stanway
Which environmental health team covers Stanway?
Food hygiene inspections in Stanway are carried out by Colchester council. It helps to keep the extract cleaning records with your food safety paperwork, so they’re ready if asked for.
Do you clean school canteen extracts around Stanway out of term?
Yes. The holidays are the usual time for school work. With about 7 schools and colleges on the FSA’s register within roughly a mile and a half of Stanway, it pays to plan holiday dates ahead. Just ring 0345 646 2711, or email photos with your term dates and we’ll plan around them.
Will I get a report after the ducts are cleaned?
Readings, photos and, for a full clean, a TR19 certificate. It also gives a recommended next clean date.
What if part of the duct cannot be reached?
Sections out of reach are written down on the report, in line with TR19. New panels can be fitted to reach them in future.
What if parts of the system can’t be reached?
We record them on the report, with a note of where it is, and we explain what access is needed, such as extra access panels in ductwork.
What is TR19?
It’s BESA’s specification and the benchmark insurers, fire officers and EHOs look to. It covers how systems are inspected, cleaned and checked and expects a risk-based approach.
What accreditations do you have?
We hold CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, and we are a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease. The Vent Hygiene Elite scheme is run by BESCA and audited independently.
How do you keep the site clean during the work?
By covering it before any work starts. We keep the work contained and leave the area clean.
Ductwork cleaning in Stanway
The ductwork is where an extract clean is won or lost. Without enough access panels, long stretches can go years without being touched. We open up every reachable section and record any we can’t reach, so you know exactly where you stand. The work covers vertical risers, bends and junctions and multi-storey ducts, and common reasons people get in touch are grease seeping out of the duct seams and duct runs that can’t be reached.
For a kitchen in or near Stanway, the visit is planned around opening hours and the journey, and the clean covers the whole system, as it would anywhere: canopy, filters, duct, fan and discharge, with a certificate and photo report at the end.
The sign-off is always in writing: a dated report with pictures of the work, and for TR19® Grease cleans, a certificate issued through the BESCA VHE portal. It shows what was done and what, if anything, couldn’t be reached.
- Location
- Stanway (CO3, CO6)
- Wider area
- Essex
- Records
- Certificate and photo report
- Quotes
- A fixed price before we start
- When we work
- After hours by arrangement; emergencies any time
- Phone
- 0345 646 2711
- Updated
- 30 October 2026
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When something else is needed
In fairness, there are a few things this work will not fix:
- Faulty fire dampers
- Sections that can’t be reached safely without new access (those are recorded, and panels can be fitted)
- A worn-out fan that needs replacing
If you are not sure, just call 0345 646 2711, or send details by email and we’ll give you a straight answer.
What we work on in Stanway
- Multi-storey ducts
- Attenuators
- Bends and junctions
- Horizontal duct runs
- Access panels
- Vertical risers
What affects the quote in Stanway
Every site gets its own quote. This is what makes a difference:
- Any permits to work or inductions
- One-off work versus a regular cycle
- Whether we need access equipment or extra panels
- The size of the system
No two sites are the same, so we price each one individually. Size, access, the condition of the system and when we can work all make a difference.
What we need to know
You do not need the technical terms. Just send:
- The paperwork from the last visit, if you have it
- A few general shots of the system
- The postcode and the type of business
- Where the plant sits or the system leaves the building, such as a roof or outside wall
Here’s what helps us quote: where the site is, what it is and its opening hours, pictures of the system and any previous report or certificate. Once you have those, call us on 0345 646 2711 or drop us a line.
In-house cleaning or a specialist?
A few tasks are always specialist work: opening up ductwork, cleaning fans, drop testing fire dampers and measuring grease need training, the right equipment and safe access. Leave those to us.
If your staff spot something between visits, like drips, unusual noise, smells or damaged filters, they should report it rather than try to fix it. We can diagnose it and quote.
Landlords, agents and facilities managers
Under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, the responsible person must assess and reduce fire risk, which may be the employer, owner, landlord, FM or managing agent. With shared responsibility, good records help everyone.
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 we are called out for in Stanway
A duct with too few access doors cannot be fully cleaned. Stretches with no way in may never have been touched, and the grease there keeps building out of sight.
These are the problems we see most often:
- Smells of old cooking grease from the ductwork
- Ductwork that has never been cleaned
- Heavy grease at the base of a riser
- Gaps where access panels were never fitted
Church and community hall kitchens, near Parish Church of St Albright or anywhere around Stanway, are easy to forget, but their extracts collect grease like any other.
Questions to ask before you book
- How VAT is shown on the quote
- What records you will receive afterwards
- Whether a survey comes first
- Whether the price is fixed
Between visits
Aftercare is simple, and it makes the next visit easier:
- Keep grease filters clean and fitted whenever you cook
- Tell us if grease leaks from the ductwork
- Ask for a grease thickness test if the kitchen gets busier
- Ask us about extra access panels where sections cannot be reached
A full system clean includes a TR19 certificate from the BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite portal. It records the date, the location and the technician.
Grease that never reaches the duct never needs cleaning out of it. Clean, properly seated filters are the duct’s best protection.
Grease, kitchens and Stanway
Food Standards Agency data counts about 31 restaurants, cafés and canteens and about 5 sandwich bars and takeaways within 1.5 miles or so of the middle of Stanway. Behind every canopy among them is a run of ductwork that collects grease out of sight. Essex County Fire and Rescue Service covers Stanway. In most workplaces, including commercial kitchens, it’s the fire and rescue authority that enforces the Fire Safety Order. It’s Colchester council that sends environmental health officers to food businesses in Stanway. 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.
If your kitchen is in a listed or historic building, like the houses around Stanway (Layer Marney Tower is about 4.2 miles south), fitting access panels needs care. If you run catering at a healthcare site, such as a hospital like Essex County Hospital about 3.1 miles east, the extract may need cleaning more often than a part-time kitchen.
Stanway is about 2 miles west of Camulodunum, in Essex. Whatever kind of site you run in Stanway, we can take on ductwork cleaning. Visits can be booked for evenings, overnight or weekends so the site keeps running. Our Essex coverage runs to 644 places, Stanway among them. Our Chelmsford page covers sites nearby, about 17 miles away.
We cover every part of the CO3 and CO6 postcode area for ductwork cleaning and the roads nearby. Streets in the area include Church Lane, Red Panda Road and Turkey Cock Lane, and we cover them all for ductwork cleaning. Other places close to Stanway include Beacon End (1 mile east), Copford Green (1 mile south-west), Eight Ash Green (1 mile north), Heckfordbridge (2 miles south) and Lexden (2 miles east). Within a short drive, we also cover Colchester (4 miles east), Braintree (11 miles west), Clacton-on-Sea (15 miles east), Maldon (12 miles south-west), Witham (10 miles south-west) and Halstead (9 miles north-west).
Around Stanway
Locally, jobs take us to businesses close to White Hart Toby Carvery pub and The Stanway School, among other places. For rail, the closest station is Marks Tey station, about 1.5 miles west. Nearby you’ll also find Social History Museum (3.5 miles east) and Birch Castle (2.6 miles south). For a walk, there’s Iron Latch.
The process
We work around your opening hours, not the other way round. Most visits are booked for when the area is out of use, such as evenings, overnight, early mornings or weekends. Once we are in, the area is sheeted and anything that has to be off is turned off and cooled, and the work takes anything from a few hours to several visits, depending on the length of duct. Visits to a village like Stanway are booked in advance, at a time that suits whoever runs the site.
- Diagnosis: a survey of the duct’s route, size and access.
- You get a fixed price before work starts.
- We clean section by section, working from panel to panel.
- Bends, risers and the base of each riser get extra attention.
- The duct is signed off with readings, pictures and a next clean date.
Getting ready for the visit
- Find the previous report, if there is one
- Tell us about site rules, permits or sign-in
- Tell us where we can park and unload
How to get a quote
To get a fixed quote, call us on 0345 646 2711, or email photos and tell us the type of site, your opening hours and roughly what the system looks like. Photos and the last report, if you have one, make the quote quicker. We normally come back within one working day.