Greater London · Extract fan cleaning
Brentford extract fan cleaning
Extract fan cleaning across Brentford and nearby, booked around your opening hours and signed off in writing with pictures.
- A fan that has never been cleaned
- Grease around the motor and its mounts
- A fan shaking on its mounts
Extract fan cleaning in Brentford
Is the extract fan louder than it used to be, or the airflow weaker? Tell us about it when you phone us on 0345 646 2711 or send us an email, and you’ll get a fixed price, normally within one working day. Common call-outs are for a fan that has never been cleaned and fat spreading onto the roof or wall by the fan, on in-line fans, axial fans and roof-mounted fans.
London kitchens tend to trade late and open early, so extract cleaning in Brentford is typically done overnight, after the last service. Parking, loading and access to the roof are agreed with the building before the night of the clean.
The sign-off is always in writing: a written report, dated and illustrated with pictures, 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
- Brentford (TW8, W3, W4, W5)
- Region
- Greater London
- Records
- TR19® certificate and photo report
- Price
- A fixed price before work begins
- Working hours
- Evenings, overnight and weekends; 24/7 emergencies
- Call
- 0345 646 2711
- Last updated
- 30 October 2026
Why it’s worth doing now in Brentford
An unbalanced fan gets worse, not better. It can wear the bearings and lead to failure and a kitchen can’t cook safely without extraction. Cleaning it early is far less disruptive. For a site in Brentford, fitting the work in overnight now is far easier than closing at short notice later.
Leaving it longer rarely makes the work cheaper. Problems in a system tend to grow, and a neglected system can mean more work. If you’re not sure what’s needed, call us on 0345 646 2711, or email photos for straight advice and a fixed quote.
Why book with us
- One number for every site across the South East and London
- A BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease
- Survey first, then a fixed quote
- Work around your opening hours, with 24/7 emergency cover
Read what affects the cost or our accreditations and certificates.
Aftercare tips
Once we have finished, these simple steps help:
- Keep records of every fan clean
- Book the fan into every full TR19 clean
- Do not store items in front of the fan’s access point
- Don’t turn the fan off mid-service
Where the fan needs repair rather than cleaning, the report says so. We also repair and replace extract fans, so you have one point of contact.
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.
Managing agents and facilities teams in Brentford
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.
From a single site to a large estate, the standard is the same: diagnosis, a fixed price, work booked around your hours and a written report with photos.
FAQs for Brentford
Is parking a problem for work in Brentford?
London parking can be tight, so details of loading bays and permits help. Where restrictions apply in the day, an evening or overnight visit normally gets round them.
Who carries out food hygiene inspections in Brentford?
Kitchens in Brentford are inspected by Hounslow 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 need to turn the fan off to clean it?
We always isolate the fan first, so it cannot start while we work. With the extract off, the kitchen can’t cook, so we work out of hours.
Do you work with multi-site operators?
Yes. One number covers all your sites in our area, with visits on a regular schedule.
What do you do to protect the area?
We start with protection: floor sheeting and covers over nearby surfaces and equipment. The area is left tidy, with our waste taken away.
Are you insured?
Yes, we are fully insured. CHAS and SafeContractor accreditation sit alongside it for clients who vet their contractors.
How often should the extract fan be cleaned?
With the whole system, at intervals set by BESA guidance: every 3, 6 or 12 months. Some fans need attention sooner.
What about areas you can’t get to?
They’re marked on the report. Often the fix is extra access, such as new panels in ductwork, and we can fit those.
Extract fan cleaning around Brentford
Look up Brentford on the FSA’s food hygiene register and you’ll find about 378 restaurants, cafés and canteens and about 76 takeaways and sandwich shops within roughly a mile and a half of the centre of Brentford. Grease builds up on fan blades and housings in kitchens like these, unbalancing the impeller. Environmental health officers from Hounslow council inspect food businesses in Brentford. 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. Overnight is the normal time to clean a London kitchen extract, so trading isn’t affected.
Volunteers running a hall kitchen near Congregational Church, or anywhere in Brentford, may not know when the extract was last cleaned, and a grease test settles it. Healthcare kitchens cannot easily close, so their extracts are cleaned overnight or between meal services; the nearest hospital to Brentford is West Middlesex University Hospital, about 1.4 miles south-west.
Brentford is about 2 miles south of Ealing, in Greater London. If you need extract fan cleaning in Brentford, please call 0345 646 2711, or send details by email for a fixed quote. We work across South East England and London, including Brentford. Our Greater London coverage runs to 764 places, Brentford among them. Our London page covers sites nearby, about 9 miles away.
Postcode districts we cover here for extract fan cleaning: TW8, W3, W4 and W5. You’ll find streets such as High Street, Market Place and New Road, all of which we cover for extract fan cleaning. Main roads around Brentford include the A4 and A315, so getting to you is simple for evening and night visits. We also cover the places around Brentford: Brentford End (1 mile south-west), Northfields (1 mile north-west), Gillette Corner (1 mile west), Isleworth (2 miles south-west) and Spring Grove (2 miles west). Within a short drive, we also cover London (9 miles east), City of Westminster (7 miles east), Marylebone (7 miles east), Kensington (4 miles east), St Pancras (8 miles east) and Shoreditch (10 miles east).
Landmarks near Brentford
In Brentford, that means kitchens and buildings near Library for Iranian Studies, Brentford School for Girls and Kew College Prep, among other places. You’ll also find The Brook pub (under half a mile south-west) and Kew Green (0.7 miles south-east). Brentford has its own railway station: Brentford station. Nearby you’ll also find Treaty Centre (3 miles south-west) and Musical Museum (0.5 miles east). For a walk, there’s Kew Gardens Lake and Long Wood.
What affects the cost of extract fan cleaning
We do not publish a price list, because no two systems are the same. What we look at:
- One-off work versus a regular cycle
- Where the site is and how we reach it
- Site rules, permits and inductions
- What state the system is in
Combining work into one visit or one programme can make for a more efficient booking. Tell us about everything you’d like looked at and we will price it together.
What to send for a quote
To speed up the quote, please include:
- Wide photos of the system and the area around it
- Any previous report or certificate
- The postcode and the type of business
- When the site is open and when it’s quiet
Quotes are quick. Call or email with a few details and you’ll typically have a fixed price within one working day. Where a survey is needed, we arrange a time that suits the site.
Common problems we fix in Brentford
Grease on a fan is a fire risk, in Brentford as anywhere. A fire in the duct can reach the fan and the grease around it and an overworked motor runs hotter.
What we are most often called out for:
- A fan that hums, whines or rumbles
- Burning smells from the fan area
- A motor area thick with grease
- Less air being pulled from the kitchen
If you run a café or takeaway near Brentford station, early starts and late finishes leave little time to clean, so overnight extract cleaning suits.
What to look for in a quote
- Whether the quote is based on a survey or photos
- Their accreditations, such as BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite, CHAS or SafeContractor
- Whether the quote shows VAT
- How areas they cannot reach will be recorded
What the work involves, part by part
Roof-mounted fans
On a roof, the air is cooler and grease drops out faster. We scrape and degrease the blades and casing.
Kitchens with long cooking hours
A long-hours kitchen can’t 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.
The process
At the end of the visit, someone from your team can look over the work with us. We point out anything that couldn’t be reached or needs a follow-up, and it goes on the report too. The visit takes an hour or two for one fan, longer when it’s hard to reach. In Brentford, as across London, we usually work overnight or at weekends and hand the site back ready to open.
- We start by checking where the fan sits and how to isolate it.
- With the fan isolated, the housing is opened.
- Grease is scraped from the impeller blades and the inside of the housing.
- The fan and its surrounds are degreased, keeping clear of the motor’s electrics.
- It’s closed up, run and checked, and pictures go into your report.
Preparing for the visit
- Clear loose items from the work area
- Make sure equipment near the work can be switched off and left to cool
- Name a contact who can let us in at the agreed time
Getting a quote
Here’s what helps us quote: the address, the type of site and when it’s open, a few pictures and the last certificate or report, if there is one. Then call us on 0345 646 2711 or email us.