Essex · Extract fan cleaning
Extract Fan Cleaning in Bobbingworth
Extract fan cleaning across Bobbingworth and nearby, booked around your opening hours and finished with a written report and pictures.
- A fan that no longer moves enough air
- An extract fan that vibrates or rattles
- A motor area thick with grease
Why act early in Bobbingworth
Grease on the fan is grease in the system. TR19® Grease covers the whole extract, fan included, and insurers asking for TR19 cleaning expect the full system. Out of sight is the usual reason a rural system goes too long without attention.
We don’t list prices on the website, because the cost depends on the site in front of us. For a fixed quote, give us a ring on 0345 646 2711 or send us an email, and we will talk you through it.
Why book with us
- Full insurance on every job
- CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001
- Evenings, overnight and weekends, plus 24/7 emergency callout
- One contact for all your sites in London and the South East
Take a look at what affects the cost and our accreditations.
How we handle extract fan cleaning in Bobbingworth
Any fan serving a kitchen in Bobbingworth is cleaned the same careful way as anywhere else: we isolate it, open the housing, scrape the impeller and degrease the lot. The result is photographed for your records. We’re often asked to deal with a motor area thick with grease and a noisy fan that has got louder over time, across in-line fans, centrifugal fans and fan housings.
Rural kitchens often have long, low duct runs through a roof space or along an outside wall, where grease settles in the flat sections. Access, parking and timings are agreed before the day.
A written report with pictures follows every visit, so you have a record of what was done and when. Where the work is a TR19® Grease clean, the certificate is issued through the BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite portal.
- Location
- Bobbingworth (CM5)
- Region
- Essex
- Paperwork
- Certificate plus before-and-after pictures
- Price
- A fixed price before any work starts
- When we work
- Nights, weekends or holidays to suit you
- Telephone
- 0345 646 2711
- Checked
- 30 October 2026
How it works
Every visit runs to the same pattern: protect the area, isolate whatever needs isolating, do the work, tidy up and leave you the report. The visit itself takes a couple of hours per fan, depending on its size and the build-up. Somewhere as small as Bobbingworth, the date and timings are agreed with you well before the day.
- First we locate the fan and agree how it’s safely isolated.
- Power to the fan is isolated before anyone touches it.
- The impeller and the housing around it are scraped clean.
- Blades, housing and the area around the motor are degreased with care.
- The fan is put back into service, checked and photographed.
Before we arrive
- Mention any parking or loading restrictions
- Tell us about access, such as roof hatches, plant rooms, ceilings or locked areas
- Name a contact who can let us in at the agreed time
Get a fixed quote
Here’s what helps us quote: where the site is, what it is and its opening hours, a few photos and the last certificate or report, if there is one. Then give us a ring on 0345 646 2711 or send us an email.
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Questions from Bobbingworth
Who enforces fire safety at workplaces in Bobbingworth?
Essex County Fire and Rescue Service is the fire and rescue service for Bobbingworth. 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.
Do you work overnight in Bobbingworth?
Yes, out-of-hours work is a big part of what we do. The work in Bobbingworth can fit around your hours. Tell us your opening hours when you ask for a quote.
Is there a survey before the work?
Yes, every time. Diagnosis comes before treatment: the survey tells us what the system needs and how to reach it, and the quote is based on that.
Who is responsible for fire safety on the premises?
In the words of the Fire Safety Order 2005, it’s the responsible person. That’s generally the employer or the person in control of the premises, and where several people have control, each can have duties. Your lease and fire risk assessment should make it clear.
What happens to the waste?
It’s contained and taken away. Grease, debris and waste water are collected as the work goes on rather than letting it spread.
Can the fan be cleaned between full cleans?
Yes, we can clean just the fan. It’s useful when a fan is noisy or greasy between full cleans, but it does not replace a full TR19 clean.
Will we have to shut during the visit?
Not typically. The area we’re working in has to be out of use while we are there, so the visit goes in a quiet slot.
How long is a fan clean?
Size, access and build-up all affect it. As a guide, it takes an hour or two for one fan, longer when it’s hard to reach.
Signs you need extract fan cleaning in Bobbingworth
How fast a fan gets greasy in Bobbingworth depends on the cooking: daily hours and the amount of frying and grilling. BESA guidance sets minimum intervals of 3, 6 or 12 months for the whole system by daily use.
If you notice any of these, it’s worth a diagnosis:
- A fan that has never been cleaned
- A fan motor running hot under a coat of grease
- Fat spreading onto the roof or wall by the fan
- A smell of hot grease from the extract
Older buildings often hide long, awkward duct runs, and if you run a kitchen at a historic venue in the area (Hill Hall is about 4.9 miles south-west), access may need planning.
Comparing quotes
- Which accreditations they hold, and whether you can check them
- Whether inaccessible sections are listed on the report
- Proof of insurance
- Whether they recommend a next date
Also near Bobbingworth
What else we do in Bobbingworth
Grease, kitchens and Bobbingworth
Look up Bobbingworth on the FSA’s food hygiene register and you will find about 4 cafés, restaurants and staff canteens within about 1.5 miles of central Bobbingworth. Any of those kitchens with a canopy relies on a fan that gathers grease as it runs. Food hygiene inspections in Bobbingworth are the job of Epping Forest council’s environmental health team. They look at how clean the premises and equipment are, and the kitchen extract is part of that. Before-and-after photos from each clean are a simple way to show the extract is in hand. Fire safety in Bobbingworth falls to Essex County Fire and Rescue Service. Its fire safety officers can audit commercial kitchens, and grease in the extract is part of a kitchen’s fire risk.
Volunteers running a hall kitchen near Church of St Germain, or anywhere in Bobbingworth, may not know when the extract was last cleaned, and a grease test settles it. School kitchens, at schools like Moreton Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School for example, are typically cleaned in the holidays so no lunches are lost.
Bobbingworth is about 5 miles south-east of Harlow, in Essex. From the centre of Bobbingworth to the outskirts, extract fan cleaning is available to all kinds of commercial premises, from small sites to large estates. Our Essex coverage runs to 644 places, and Bobbingworth is one of them. Our Chelmsford page covers sites nearby, about 11 miles away.
Here we cover the CM5 postcode area for extract fan cleaning. Local streets include Gainsthorpe Road, Newhouse Lane and Stony Lane, and we cover them all for extract fan cleaning. We also cover Pedlars End (1 mile north-west), Moreton (1 mile north), Bovinger (1 mile west), Shelley (1 mile south-east) and Greensted Green (2 miles south). Larger places within reach include Chelmsford (11 miles east), Basildon (15 miles south-east), Harlow (5 miles north-west), Brentwood (8 miles south-east), Billericay (11 miles south-east) and Loughton (9 miles south-west).
Around Bobbingworth
We work in commercial kitchens and buildings around White Hart Public House and The Ongar Academy. A little further out are Willingale Doe (4.3 miles east) and St. Margaret's Hospital (4.5 miles south-west). Green spaces nearby include Gernon Bushes.
When something else is needed
Before you book, it helps to know what’s not included:
- A dirty duct upstream of the fan
- A fan that’s too small for the system (a design question)
- A cracked or broken impeller (it needs replacing)
If you are not sure, just call 0345 646 2711 or drop us a line and we’ll give you a straight answer before booking.
Where we work
- In-line fans
- Axial fans
- Centrifugal fans
- Roof-mounted fans
- Discharge points
- Fan housings
Landlords, agents and facilities managers
Keeping records across a portfolio is half the battle. Each visit ends with a dated report and photos, so you can show an insurer or inspector what was done at each site.
From a single site to a large estate, the standard is the same: the system surveyed, the price fixed, the visit fitted around trading and everything written up afterwards.
What the work involves, part by part
Inline duct fans
Hidden in a ceiling void, an inline fan is easily missed. We find it during the survey and include it in the clean.
Wall fans
A wall fan pushes the air straight outside. We isolate it, then clean the blades and housing.
What your team can do, and what needs us
Staff cleaning and specialist work aren’t the same thing. A daily filter wipe and a weekly filter wash keep grease down at the front of the system, but they don’t reach the grease that builds up further in. That part needs specialist access and equipment.
Staff cleaning doesn’t replace a specialist visit; it supports it. Clean filters and tidy surfaces slow the build-up, but the parts you can’t see still need a specialist at the right interval.