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Extract Fan Cleaning in Anerley
Extract fan cleaning for businesses, landlords and public buildings in Anerley. BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease.
- Burning smells from the fan area
- Weak extraction at the canopy
- A motor area thick with grease
What we’re called out for in Anerley
Grease on a fan is a fire risk, in Anerley as anywhere. A fire in the duct can reach the fan and the grease around it and an overworked motor runs hotter.
Any of these means the system needs a check-up:
- A smell of hot grease from the extract
- Rough running from the extract fan
- A fan motor running hot under a coat of grease
- Thick grease on the impeller and casing
A kitchen near Anerley station that serves breakfast and dinner can run its extract twelve hours or more, which shortens the cleaning interval.
Before you book anyone
- Whether they’re fully insured
- How areas they can’t reach will be recorded
- Whether a written report and pictures are included
- Whether the quote is based on a survey or pictures
Extract fan cleaning in Anerley, done properly
The fan is cleaned as part of every full TR19® Grease clean, but some fans need cleaning between full cleans, for example when it’s noisy or vibrating. Where only the fan is cleaned, the report says so. If you have grease around the motor and its mounts and thick grease on the impeller and casing, we can put it right.
London kitchens tend to trade late and open early, so work in Anerley is normally booked for the night or the early hours. Before the clean, we agree loading, parking and roof access with whoever manages the building.
The report is your system’s health record: dated, with photos, and showing what was done. Grease extract cleans are also certificated to TR19® Grease through the BESCA VHE portal, ready for your insurer.
- Where
- Anerley (SE20, SE19, SE26)
- Region
- Greater London
- Reporting
- Certificate plus before-and-after photos
- Price
- Fixed quote, typically within a working day
- Hours
- After hours by arrangement; emergencies any time
- Call
- 0345 646 2711
- Checked
- 30 October 2026
What affects the quote in Anerley
Sites vary more than people expect. What affects the quote:
- Working hours and out-of-hours timing
- Travel, parking and unloading
- Whether it’s a one-off visit or part of a schedule
- How big the system is
Whatever the type of site, the quote works the same way: the size of the job, access, condition and working hours. Call for a fixed quote and we will go through it with you.
What to send for a quote
What to send for a quote:
- Wide photos of the system and the area around it
- Your last certificate, test record or report
- The postcode and the type of business
- Your opening hours and when the area is out of use
Need a price for extract fan cleaning? Please call 0345 646 2711, or email photos and tell us about the site. We’ll explain what we’d do and send a fixed quote before anything is booked.
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, next to our reports.
When your team notices a problem 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.
Extract fan cleaning in Anerley: the local picture
There are about 229 restaurants, cafés and works canteens and about 138 sandwich bars and takeaways in Anerley and the streets around it, up to about 1.5 miles out, according to the Food Standards Agency’s register. Each kitchen extract among them ends at a fan, and grease on the impeller strains the motor. Overnight is the normal time to clean a London kitchen extract, so trading is not affected. Environmental health officers from Bromley council inspect food businesses in Anerley. Extraction counts as kitchen equipment, so its condition can come up on the day. A TR19® certificate and photo report after each clean gives you a record to show an inspector.
A hall kitchen that only cooks for events, whether near St Paul's or elsewhere in Anerley, still needs its extract cleaned, just less often. Healthcare kitchens can’t easily close, so their extracts are cleaned overnight or between meal services; the nearest hospital to Anerley is St Christopher's Hospice, about 0.7 miles north-east.
Anerley is about 2 miles north-east of Thornton Heath, in Greater London. For extract fan cleaning in and around Anerley, please give us a ring on 0345 646 2711 or drop us a line for a fixed quote. Our area covers London and the South East, including Anerley. We cover 764 places across Greater London, large and small. You can also see our page for London, about 6 miles away.
Work in SE20, SE19 and SE26 follows the same survey, fixed quote and written report as everywhere else we cover. If you need extract fan cleaning at premises on Maple Road, Padua Road and Genoa Road or anywhere close by, our technicians can take on the work. Neighbouring places we cover for extract fan cleaning include Penge (1 mile east), Crystal Palace (1 mile north), Sydenham (1 mile north-east), Gipsy Hill (1 mile north-west) and Upper Norwood (1 mile west). Larger places within reach include London (6 miles north), City of Westminster (8 miles north-west), Marylebone (8 miles north-west), Kensington (8 miles north-west), St Pancras (8 miles north) and Shoreditch (8 miles north).
Around Anerley
Typical jobs here are in premises near Crystal Palace School, Crystal Palace Dinosaurs and Harris City Academy Crystal Palace. Anerley has its own railway station: Anerley station. Other landmarks nearby include Crystal Palace Museum (0.5 miles north-west) and Whitgift Centre (3.1 miles south-west). For a walk, there’s Dulwich Upper Wood and Knight's Hill.
Managing agents and facilities teams in Anerley
Where a tenant occupies the premises but the landlord owns the building, the lease normally sets out who maintains what. We are happy to deal with either side and send the paperwork to whoever needs it.
Managing agents often deal with us directly. Send the address, what’s needed and how access works and we will come back with a fixed quote.
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Anerley questions
Which environmental health team covers Anerley?
Kitchens in Anerley are inspected by Bromley council’s environmental health officers. Have your latest TR19® certificate and photo report to hand, as an officer may ask how the extract is maintained.
Do you clean school canteen extracts around Anerley out of term?
Yes, and it’s the easiest time to do it. With about 31 schools and colleges on the FSA’s register within roughly a mile and a half of Anerley, it pays to plan holiday dates ahead. Send us your term dates when you give us a ring on 0345 646 2711 or drop us a line, and we’ll fit the work in.
Where does the waste go?
Waste is contained during the work and removed when we leave, from grease and debris to used cleaning water. We do not leave it behind.
Is the fan included in a TR19 clean?
Yes, the fan is cleaned as part of TR19. If a fan can’t be reached, the report says so, so you always know what was cleaned.
Do we lose a day’s trading?
Not typically. Booking the work out of hours means the site can carry on as normal. Bigger sites can be done in stages so parts stay in use.
Can you look after several sites?
Yes. One number covers all your sites across London and the South East, with visits on a regular schedule.
Which kinds of sites do you work on?
All kinds of commercial and public premises: kitchens, offices, schools, healthcare, retail, leisure and food production. Work is timed around how each site runs.
Do you offer maintenance contracts?
Yes. Regular plans can run on 3, 6 or 12-monthly cycles, to suit the system and how it’s used.
Looking after it afterwards
Aftercare is simple, and it helps at the next visit:
- Check filters are seated before cooking
- Don’t turn the fan off mid-service
- Book the fan into every full TR19 clean
- Keep each photo report with the maintenance log
File the photo report with your other extract records. It gives a dated record of the fan’s condition, which helps if anything changes later.
The fan stays cleaner when less grease gets past the canopy. Clean, well-seated filters are the fan’s first protection, and replace any that are damaged.
How it works
Your trading hours come first. Most visits are booked for when the area is out of use, such as evenings, overnight, early mornings or weekends. Once we’re in, the area is sheeted and anything that has to be off is turned off and cooled, and the job takes an hour or two for one fan, longer when it’s hard to reach. If your building in Anerley has sign-in rules, permits or key holders, mention them when you book.
- Diagnosis first: we look for grease, noise and vibration.
- Once isolated, we open the fan up.
- Each blade is cleaned so the impeller runs evenly.
- We clean the casing, the outlet and around the motor.
- The fan goes back into service with a report on its condition.
Getting ready for the visit
- Find the previous report, if there is one
- Arrange a key holder or contact on site
- Let us know about parking and loading
Getting a quote
Quoting starts with a diagnosis, from your pictures and details or, where that is not enough, a survey on site. After that, you get a fixed price for the work, before work begins.
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What the work involves, part by part
Impellers and blades
While the impeller is clean, we can see its condition: chips, distortion or wear. Anything we see goes on the report.
Kitchens with long cooking hours
A long-hours kitchen cannot afford a fan failure. Keeping the fan clean is part of avoiding that, and our 24/7 emergency callout is there if it happens anyway.