Hampshire · Extract fan cleaning
Extract fan cleaning in Butlocks Heath, Hampshire
Extract fan cleaning in Butlocks Heath from ventilation hygiene specialists trading since 2009. Evenings, overnight and weekends, plus a 24/7 emergency line.
- Hot, greasy smells near the fan
- A noisy fan that has got louder over time
- Grease around the motor and its mounts
Butlocks Heath: your questions answered
Who is the fire and rescue service for Butlocks Heath?
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service is the fire and rescue service for Butlocks Heath. If a fire safety officer visits a commercial kitchen, they may ask about the fire risk assessment and how the extract is kept clean.
Which council inspects kitchens in Butlocks Heath?
That is Eastleigh council, whose environmental health officers carry out food hygiene inspections in Butlocks Heath. An officer may look up into the canopy, so clean filters on the day and a recent certificate on file both help.
Can you fix a fan that’s worn out?
A fan that needs repair is noted on the report, with what we found. We offer extract fan repair and replacement, and there’s a 24/7 emergency callout for breakdowns.
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 in shared buildings more than one person can have duties. Your lease and fire risk assessment should make it clear.
What information do you need?
A short description and a few pictures, with the address and opening hours. We’ll ask for anything else we need.
Which kinds of sites do you work on?
All kinds of commercial and public premises: from restaurants, pubs and hotels to schools, hospitals, care homes, offices, shops and food production sites. Work is timed around how each site runs.
Will we have to shut during the visit?
Not usually. Visits are timed for when the area is closed, such as overnight or at a weekend, so the site can carry on as normal.
What’s the cleaning interval for an extract fan?
Daily cooking hours set the minimum in BESA guidance. At the extremes, that is 3-monthly for heavy use and 12-monthly for light use, fan included.
How we handle extract fan cleaning in Butlocks Heath
Duct Doctor has been cleaning kitchen extract fans since 2009. As a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, we clean to BESA TR19® Grease, and we are fully insured, with CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001. If you are dealing with an extract fan with no cleaning record and fat spreading onto the roof or wall by the fan, we can help, from in-line fans, centrifugal fans and roof-mounted fans onwards.
Rural kitchens often have long, low duct runs through a roof space or along an outside wall, and those horizontal sections are where grease settles. Access, parking and timings are agreed before the day.
Accreditations are easy to claim and worth checking. Ours are BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite membership, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease, plus CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, with full insurance on top.
- Location
- Butlocks Heath (SO31)
- Region
- Hampshire
- Records
- TR19® certificate and photo report
- Quote
- A fixed quote up front
- Working hours
- Out of hours as standard, 24/7 emergency line
- Phone
- 0345 646 2711
- Last updated
- 30 October 2026
Common problems we fix in Butlocks Heath
By the time air reaches the fan, it has passed the canopy, filters and duct. The grease that’s left lands on the blades and the casing, and the spinning blades fling it onto the walls of the housing.
Common reasons sites call us are:
- Fat spreading onto the roof or wall by the fan
- Vibration from an unbalanced impeller
- A fan that no longer moves enough air
- Burning smells from the fan area
If you cook for passing trade around Netley station, the extract can be cleaned between your last and first customer.
Questions to ask before you book
- Whether the work can be done while the site is closed
- If the quote is a fixed price or an estimate
- Whether the whole system is included, or only the parts that are easy to reach
- Whether VAT is included
How the job changes from site to site
Wall fans
Grease can mark the outside wall around the fan. The outlet is checked as well as the fan.
Fan housings and motors
Inside the casing, grease is thrown onto the walls. We clean it along with the blades.
What happens if it’s left?
For a kitchen in Butlocks Heath, a noisy, greasy fan is often the first sign the whole system is overdue. If the fan is coated, the duct before it usually is too, so it’s worth checking the whole system. It’s worth booking a check, because nobody sees inside a duct day to day.
We don’t list prices on the website, because each job is priced on what it involves. For a fixed quote, give us a ring on 0345 646 2711 or email us, and we’ll talk you through it.
Why book with us
- Full insurance on every job
- CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001
- Photo reports with every job
- Every job surveyed first
Take a look at how cleaning jobs are priced or our accreditations and certificates.
What extract fan cleaning can’t fix
It’s worth knowing the limits before booking:
- A faulty speed controller or isolator
- Grease in the duct and canopy before the fan (those need a full TR19 clean)
- A cracked or broken impeller (it needs replacing)
If you’re not sure, just give us a ring on 0345 646 2711 or drop us a line and we will give you a straight answer before you book.
What the work covers
- Centrifugal fans
- In-line fans
- Roof-mounted fans
- Discharge points
- Fan housings
- Axial fans
Grease, kitchens and Butlocks Heath
Sea air reaches Butlocks Heath, which sits within about 1 mile of the coast. Near the sea, the fan and discharge at the top of a kitchen extract corrode faster than they would inland. Food Standards Agency data counts about 26 cafés, restaurants and staff canteens and about 21 sandwich bars and takeaways in Butlocks Heath and the streets around it, up to about 1.5 miles out. Where they cook under a canopy, an extract fan is pulling grease-laden air through its blades every service. Kitchens in Butlocks Heath get their food hygiene inspections from Eastleigh council. An officer looking round a kitchen will see the canopy, and grease there is hard to miss. Before-and-after pictures from each clean are a simple way to show the extract is in hand.
School kitchens, at schools like Netley Abbey Infant School for example, are usually cleaned in the holidays so no lunches are lost. Kitchens that cook twelve hours or more a day, as some healthcare kitchens do, fall into BESA’s three-monthly minimum; Coldeast is the nearest hospital to Butlocks Heath, about 2.6 miles east.
Butlocks Heath is about 3 miles north-east of Hythe, in Hampshire. Every kind of commercial site in Butlocks Heath, extract fan cleaning is something we can help with. Visits can be booked for evenings, overnight or weekends so trading isn’t interrupted. We cover 683 places across Hampshire, large and small.
Work in SO31 follows the same survey, fixed quote and written report as everywhere else we cover. We cover sites on Woolston Road, Old School Close and The Grove and the roads around them. Other places close to Butlocks Heath include Netley (1 mile south-west), Hound (1 mile south), Old Netley (1 mile north-east), Lowford (1 mile north-east) and Bursledon (1 mile north-east). Further out, we also cover Winchester (12 miles north), Gosport (10 miles south-east), Havant (15 miles east), Eastleigh (6 miles north), Fareham (6 miles east) and Horndean (14 miles east).
Around Butlocks Heath
Typical jobs here are in premises near The Hamble School, Grove Park Business and Enterprise College and Westwood Woodland Park, among other places. Butlocks Heath has its own railway station: Netley station. Nearby you’ll also find Westquay (3.4 miles north-west) and Bursledon Brickworks Industrial Museum (2.2 miles east). Open spaces near Butlocks Heath include Mercury Marshes.
What else we do in Butlocks Heath
For landlords and multi-site operators
For anyone managing more than one site, we can schedule visits across all of them on one quote. Every building has its own written report, so each one has its own record.
We regularly work with managing agents. Tell us the site, the work and the access arrangements, and we’ll send a fixed quote.
The process
There’s very little for your team to do on the day. Someone lets us in at the agreed time and shows us where everything is, and we take it from there. Before we leave, the area is tidied and the paperwork follows. Somewhere like Butlocks Heath, lanes, gates and parking are worth mentioning in advance.
- We locate the fan and plan how to reach and isolate it.
- We isolate the power before opening the housing.
- We scrape the heavy grease from the blades and housing.
- The fan is degreased, taking care around the motor.
- We reassemble, run and photograph the fan.
Getting ready for the visit
- Let us know about permits to work or site inductions
- Arrange a key holder or contact on site
- Find the previous report, if there is one
Getting a quote
Every quote begins with a look at the system, either from pictures and details you send or from a site visit. After that, you get a fixed price for the work so you know the cost before we start.
Related advice
Looking after it afterwards
After the visit, a few habits help the work last:
- Don’t turn the fan off mid-service
- Make sure the fan is included each time
- File the fan’s report with your other records
- Keep access to the fan clear
We take away the grease and dirty water from the fan clean. On a roof or outside wall, we leave the surrounding area tidy.
Run the fan throughout cooking. Air that keeps moving carries vapour out rather than letting it settle, so keeping it running helps keep it clean.