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Extract Fan Cleaning in Braintree
Extract fan cleaning for Braintree and the surrounding area: a survey, a fixed price, careful work and proper paperwork. Call for a fixed quote.
- Burning smells from the fan area
- An extract fan with no cleaning record
- Thick grease on the impeller and casing
Between visits
To keep the system working properly between visits:
- Flag smoke lingering at the canopy
- Book the fan into every full TR19 clean
- Report rattles or humming early
- Keep the fan on whenever the range is lit
File the photo report with your other extract records. It shows the fan’s condition at the time of the clean, which helps if anything changes later.
Keep the whole system on its cleaning cycle. A fan cleaned with the rest of the system on time rarely gets badly coated, in line with BESA guidance.
About our extract fan cleaning in Braintree
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. Typical jobs include a fan shaking on its mounts and less air being pulled from the kitchen, across in-line fans, axial fans and centrifugal fans.
In a place the size of Braintree, the kitchens with extract systems range from takeaways and restaurants to hotel, school and workplace kitchens. Each cooks for a different number of hours a day, so each needs cleaning at its own interval.
A written report with pictures follows every visit, so there’s a dated record of the work. Kitchen extract cleaning to TR19® Grease is certificated through the BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite portal.
What happens if it’s left?
Vibration from an unbalanced impeller does not stay small. It wears bearings and mounts and can lead to a breakdown and a kitchen cannot cook safely without extraction. A planned clean beats an emergency. If an insurer or inspector asks when the work was last done, an up-to-date certificate answers the question.
Every site is different, so we price each one individually. The size of the job, how we reach it, its condition and the working hours all make a difference.
Why Braintree businesses choose us
- A BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease
- A single point of contact for sites across the South East and London
- Trading since 2009
- Every visit written up, with photos
See how cleaning jobs are priced and how to check a contractor.
Multi-site and managed buildings
From a single site to a large estate, you get the same standard: a survey first, a fixed quote, the work timed around the site and a report with photos.
For anyone managing more than one site, we can plan visits across the whole estate and price them together. Each site gets its own report and photos, so each one has its own record.
What extract fan cleaning cannot fix
We’d rather tell you now than book work that will not help, so here are the limits:
- A faulty speed controller or isolator
- Damaged fan blades
- A fan that’s too small for the system (a design question)
If in doubt, ring 0345 646 2711, or email photos and we’ll say what we think before booking.
What we work on in Braintree
- Axial fans
- In-line fans
- Fan housings
- Roof-mounted fans
- Centrifugal fans
- Discharge points
How the visit works
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 job takes an hour or two for most single fans. Whoever holds the keys and signs off contractors at your site in Braintree is the person we need to speak to before the day.
- We start by checking where the fan sits and how to isolate it.
- The fan is isolated so it cannot start while we work.
- The impeller and the housing around it are scraped clean.
- The fan and its surrounds are degreased, keeping clear of the motor’s electrics.
- We reassemble, run the fan and photograph the result.
Preparing for the visit
- Clear loose items from the work area
- Let us know how we reach the system, including roofs, risers and plant rooms
- Have your last certificate or report to hand
Getting a quote
The quickest way to a quote is to send pictures: wide shots of the system, close-ups of anything that worries you and how we’d get to it. Tell us what kind of site it is and when it’s open, and we can price many jobs without a visit.
Related advice
Grease, kitchens and Braintree
According to Food Standards Agency records, there are about 23 pubs, bars and clubs and about 3 hotels and B&Bs across Braintree and its immediate surroundings (about a mile and a half). Wherever they cook, the canopy, duct and fan collect grease just as a restaurant’s do. Essex County Fire and Rescue Service covers Braintree. Its fire safety officers can audit commercial kitchens, and grease in the extract is part of a kitchen’s fire risk. Environmental health officers from Braintree council inspect food businesses in Braintree. They look at how clean the premises and equipment are, and the kitchen extract is part of that. A TR19® certificate and photo report after each clean gives you a record to show an inspector.
Kitchens that cook twelve hours or more a day, as some healthcare kitchens do, fall into BESA’s three-monthly minimum; St Michael's Hospital is the nearest hospital to Braintree, about 0.9 miles west. For schools such as Great Bradfords Infant and Nursery School, kitchen extract cleaning is normally booked for the holidays, when the canteen is closed. A kitchen near Braintree station that serves breakfast and dinner can run its extract twelve hours or more, which shortens the cleaning interval.
Braintree is about 39 miles north-east of London, in Essex. Whatever kind of site you run in Braintree, extract fan cleaning is something we can help with. Visits can be booked for evenings, overnight or weekends so the site keeps running. Across Essex, we cover 644 places, and Braintree is one of them. Chelmsford is in our area too, about 11 miles from Braintree.
Extract fan cleaning in CM7, CO9, CM77 and CO6 follows the same survey, fixed quote and written report as everywhere else we cover. Whether your site is on Market Street, Little Square and Great Square or a nearby road, we can help. Braintree sits on or near the A12 and A120, so getting to you is simple for evening and night visits. Close by, we work in Bocking (1 mile west), Long Green (2 miles south-east), Great Notley (2 miles south-west), Black Notley (2 miles south) and Row Green (2 miles south-west). Within a short drive, we also cover Colchester (14 miles east), Chelmsford (11 miles south), Maldon (12 miles south-east), Witham (6 miles south-east), Camulodunum (13 miles east) and Halstead (5 miles north-east). Braintree is one of the larger places we cover in Essex for extract fan cleaning.
Around Braintree
In Braintree, that means kitchens and buildings near Edith Borthwick School, Bocking Blackwater and Angel Inn, among other places. The closest station to Braintree is Braintree station, roughly 0.5 miles south-west. Nearby you’ll also find Tudor House Museum (Braintree) (under half a mile north-west) and St Michael's Hospital (0.9 miles west). The countryside around Braintree includes Belcher's and Broadfield Woods.
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Braintree questions
Which council inspects kitchens in Braintree?
The local authority for Braintree is Braintree council, and its environmental health team does the inspecting. Ratings are published by the Food Standards Agency, so a clean extract and good records are worth keeping up.
Who is the fire and rescue service for Braintree?
Braintree is in the area of Essex County Fire and Rescue Service. A recent cleaning certificate and a note of the next clean date show that grease in the extract is being managed.
Do you provide a report after cleaning the fan?
Every clean has a photo report, with anything we noticed. A full clean adds a TR19 certificate from the BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite portal.
Can the work be done while we’re closed?
Yes. Evenings, nights and weekends are normal working hours for us, so the site does not lose a service.
Does the law say we must follow TR19?
No. TR19® is BESA’s specification, not legislation. The law is the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, which makes the responsible person assess and reduce fire risk, and TR19® is the benchmark for showing that grease in the extract is under control.
Does a TR19 kitchen extract clean cover the fan?
Yes. The whole system is cleaned, from the canopy to the discharge, and the fan is a key part of it, so it’s cleaned too.
Is Braintree in your area?
Yes. We work in Braintree and across Essex, within our South East and London area. To book, phone us on 0345 646 2711 or drop us a line.
Do we need to close while you work?
Not usually. We work when the area is out of use, such as evenings, overnight, early mornings or weekends, so you keep your normal hours.
What your team can do, and what needs us
Staff cleaning doesn’t replace a specialist visit; it supports it. Clean filters and tidy surfaces slow the build-up, but the parts you cannot see still need a specialist at the right interval.
Away from the kitchen, the in-house job is mainly checking: keeping grilles clear, noting unusual noise or smells and logging filter changes. Cleaning inside ducts and units is specialist work.
What affects the cost of extract fan cleaning
The survey tells us what the work involves. We look at:
- One-off work versus a regular cycle
- How easy every part is to reach
- Working hours and out-of-hours timing
- The condition we find in the survey
You will not find a price list here, because the cost depends on the site in front of us. For a fixed quote, call us on 0345 646 2711 or send us an email, and we’ll talk you through it.
Asking for a quote
To help us quote quickly, send us:
- Your last certificate, test record or report
- Where the plant sits or the system leaves the building, such as a roof or outside wall
- Wide photos of the system and the area around it
- Your opening hours and when the area is out of use
Getting a quote doesn’t take long. 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.