Oxfordshire · Extract fan cleaning
Bloxham extract fan cleaning
Professional extract fan cleaning in and around Bloxham, timed so the site keeps working and signed off in writing with pictures.
- Weak extraction at the canopy
- Grease around the motor and its mounts
- A fan shaking on its mounts
Extract fan cleaning around Bloxham
The FSA’s food hygiene register shows about 4 restaurants, cafés and canteens in and around Bloxham, up to about a mile and a half out. Grease builds up on fan blades and housings in kitchens like these, unbalancing the impeller. In Bloxham, food businesses are inspected by environmental health officers from Cherwell council. An officer looking round a kitchen will see the canopy, and grease there is hard to miss. A dated certificate in the maintenance file answers the question before it’s asked. Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service covers Bloxham. Its fire safety officers can audit commercial kitchens, and grease in the extract is part of a kitchen’s fire risk.
For schools such as Bloxham Church of England Primary School, kitchen extract cleaning is usually booked for the holidays, when the canteen is closed. Kitchens that cook twelve hours or more a day, as some healthcare kitchens do, fall into BESA’s three-monthly minimum; Horton General Hospital is the nearest hospital to Bloxham, about 2.9 miles north-east.
Bloxham is about 3 miles south of Banbury, in Oxfordshire. Anywhere in OX15, we can take on extract fan cleaning. Across Oxfordshire, we cover 443 places, Bloxham among them. There’s also a page for Oxford, roughly 19 miles from Bloxham.
Here we cover the OX15 postcode area for extract fan cleaning. Extract fan cleaning is available to premises on High Street, Merrivale's Lane and Unicorn Street and the roads around them. We also cover Milton (1 mile east), Broughton (2 miles north), North Newington (3 miles north) and Bodicote (3 miles north-east). Larger places within reach include Banbury (3 miles north), Bicester (12 miles south-east), Kidlington (14 miles south), Bure Park (12 miles south-east), Chipping Norton (9 miles south-west) and Neithrop (3 miles north).
Local landmarks in Bloxham
Locally, jobs take us to businesses close to The Warriner School and Hawk & Partridge pub. The nearest railway station is Banbury station, roughly 3.5 miles north-east of the centre. A little further out are Bloxham Village Museum (under half a mile south-west) and Horton General Hospital (2.9 miles north-east). Open spaces near Bloxham include Crouch Hill and Woodford Bottom and Lamb's Pool.
How we handle extract fan cleaning in Bloxham
Grease on a fan is not spread evenly. Uneven build-up unbalances the impeller, leading to vibration, noise and strain on the motor and bearings. Cleaning the impeller and housing puts that right. The work covers fan housings, centrifugal fans and roof-mounted fans, and people most often call us about a fan shaking on its mounts and less air being pulled from the kitchen.
Kitchens around a place like Bloxham are often in older buildings or single-storey extensions, with the duct running through a roof space or up an outside wall. Long horizontal runs like that hold grease and need access panels to reach.
The sign-off is always in writing: a dated report with pictures of the work, plus a certificate through the BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite portal when the work is a TR19® Grease clean. It shows what was done and what, if anything, couldn’t be reached.
- Location
- Bloxham (OX15)
- Region
- Oxfordshire
- Reporting
- TR19® certificate and photo report
- Quote
- Fixed quote, usually within a working day
- Hours
- After hours by arrangement; emergencies any time
- Phone
- 0345 646 2711
- Reviewed
- 30 October 2026
Questions from Bloxham
Who is the fire and rescue service for Bloxham?
Bloxham is in the area of Oxfordshire 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.
Is Bloxham within the area you cover?
Yes. Bloxham is within the area we cover across London and the South East. Just mention lanes, gates or anything else about the site when you book.
What happens to the waste?
It’s contained and taken away. We collect grease, debris and waste water as we go rather than letting it spread.
Do you repair extract fans as well as clean them?
Anything beyond cleaning is flagged, with what we found. We can repair or replace it, and if it fails outright, our 24/7 emergency line is there.
Is TR19 cleaning required by law?
No. TR19® itself is not law; it’s a BESA specification. The legal duty comes from the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005: the responsible person must assess and reduce fire risk, and cleaning to TR19® is the recognised way to show grease is under control.
What about areas you cannot get to?
The report shows them clearly. In ductwork, new access panels are often the answer, which we can install.
How long will it take to clean the fan?
One easily reached fan is quick, but hard-to-reach fans take more time. We plan it out of hours.
Should the extract fan be cleaned as part of TR19?
Yes, the fan is part of a full TR19® Grease clean. It’s isolated, opened and cleaned along with the canopy, plenum, filters, ducts and discharge.
Fixed quotes for extract fan cleaning in Bloxham
The quote reflects the site in front of us. We take into account:
- Site rules, permits and inductions
- The scale of the work
- Whether it’s a one-off visit or part of a schedule
- The times the site is available
Working hours, access and the scale of the site can all change the price. Each of those is built into the quote and give you a fixed price before work begins.
Helping us quote
Before you ask for a quote, gather:
- Where the plant sits or the system leaves the building, such as a roof or outside wall
- Detail shots of panels, filters and grilles
- Any previous report or certificate
- Photos showing the whole system and its surroundings
Quotes are quick. Send a few details and pictures, and we usually reply with a fixed quote within one working day. Where a survey is needed, we arrange a time that suits the site.
Leave it or put it right?
A greasy fan at the discharge can spread grease onto the roof or wall around it. It marks the area around the outlet and leaves more fuel outside, which is one more reason to keep it clean. It’s easy to lose track of when the work was last done on a quieter site.
What you pay depends on the size of the system, the condition it’s in and access to every part of it. You get a fixed price before any work starts, so there are no surprises.
What you get with us
- We diagnose before we treat
- Fixed quotes from a survey or photos
- CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001
- Photo reports with every job
See how cleaning jobs are priced and our accreditations and certificates.
Looking after it afterwards
Good habits slow the build-up between visits. A few tips:
- Do not store items in front of the fan’s access point
- Book the fan into every full TR19 clean
- Keep records of every fan clean
- Never cook with a filter missing
We take away the grease and dirty water from the fan clean. Wherever the fan is, the area around it is cleaned down.
Stick to the interval for the full extract. Regular full cleans keep the fan from building up heavy deposits, in line with BESA guidance.
When something else is needed
We’ll always give you a straight diagnosis, so here’s what extract fan cleaning won’t do:
- A motor that has burnt out
- Electrical faults in the fan’s supply or controls (an electrician’s job)
- An undersized fan that can’t cope
If you are not sure, just phone us on 0345 646 2711 or email us and we will give you a straight answer.
What the work covers
- In-line fans
- Discharge points
- Fan housings
- Centrifugal fans
- Roof-mounted fans
- Axial fans
Places near Bloxham
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When to call us in Bloxham
Grease condenses as the air cools, and on a roof or outside wall the fan can be in some of the coolest air in the system. So grease often settles heavily there.
These are the problems we see most often:
- Grease stains around the discharge
- Burning smells from the fan area
- Less air being pulled from the kitchen
- A fan that hums, whines or rumbles
Where a hall near Church of St Mary, or anywhere in Bloxham, hosts lunch clubs or events, its extract gathers grease just as a café’s does.
Comparing quotes
- What records you’ll receive afterwards
- When they can work, and whether that’s outside your opening hours
- Exactly which parts of the system are covered
- If they look at the system before pricing
Staff cleaning versus specialist work
For ventilation and air handling systems, in-house care is mostly about checks: clear grilles, a log of filter changes and reporting anything odd. Cleaning inside ducts and units is specialist work.
Keep a record of what your team does. A dated log of in-house cleaning and checks helps show that the system is managed between specialist visits, next to our reports.
How the visit works
At the end of the visit, someone from your team can look over the work with us. Anything we couldn’t reach or that needs attention is pointed out there and then, and it goes on the report too. All told, the work takes a couple of hours per fan, depending on its size and the build-up. Evenings, weekends or a closed day all work for a site in a place like Bloxham.
- The fan is found and its type, access and isolation checked.
- We isolate the power before opening the housing.
- We scrape the heavy grease from the blades and housing.
- Blades, housing and surrounds are degreased with care around the electrics.
- It’s closed up, run, checked and photographed for the report.
Preparing for the visit
- Plan for cooking equipment or plant to be off before we arrive
- Clear the space around the work
- Tell us where we can park and unload
Get a fixed quote
For extract fan cleaning in Bloxham, ring 0345 646 2711, or send details by email. Let us know the site type and the opening hours, plus pictures or the previous report if they’re to hand. We usually send a fixed quote within one working day.