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Canning Town extract fan cleaning
Extract fan cleaning across Canning Town and nearby, booked around your opening hours and finished with a written report and pictures.
- An extract fan that vibrates or rattles
- Less air being pulled from the kitchen
- A fan that hums, whines or rumbles
What extract fan cleaning looks like in Canning Town
The FSA’s food hygiene register shows about 188 restaurants, cafés and works canteens and about 129 takeaways in Canning Town and the streets around it, up to about 1.5 miles out. Any of those kitchens with a canopy relies on a fan that gathers grease as it runs. Most London extract cleaning happens at night, after the last service. Food hygiene inspections in Canning Town are the job of Newham council’s environmental health team. 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.
Kitchens that cook twelve hours or more a day, as some healthcare kitchens do, fall into BESA’s three-monthly minimum; Albert Dock Seamen's Hospital is the nearest hospital to Canning Town, about 0.5 miles east. If you cook for passing trade around Custom House station, the extract can be cleaned between your last and first customer. Church and community hall kitchens, near St Cedd's Church or anywhere around Canning Town, are easy to forget, but their extracts collect grease like any other.
Canning Town is about 5 miles east of London, in Greater London. From the centre of Canning Town to the outskirts, we cover extract fan cleaning for every kind of premises, from small sites to large estates. Our area takes in 764 places across Greater London, from busy centres to quieter spots.
Every address in E16, E13 and E6 is covered for extract fan cleaning, from the main roads to the quietest streets. Streets in the area include Ivy Road, Star Lane and Bell Lane, all of which we cover for extract fan cleaning. Being close to the A1020, Canning Town is easy for our technicians to reach at any hour. Nearby, we also carry out extract fan cleaning in Custom House (1 mile south), Plaistow (1 mile north), Limmo Peninsula (1 mile west), West Silvertown (1 mile south) and Leamouth (1 mile west). We also work in nearby towns such as London (5 miles west), City of Westminster (8 miles west), Marylebone (7 miles west), Kensington (10 miles west), St Pancras (6 miles west) and Shoreditch (5 miles west).
Around Canning Town
In Canning Town, that means kitchens and buildings near Royal Docks Academy, Keir Hardie Park and The Royal Docks Community School, among other places. There’s a railway station in Canning Town itself: Custom House station. A little further out are Greenwich Castle (2.8 miles south-west) and West Ham United Football Club Museum (1.4 miles north-east). Open spaces near Canning Town include Gilbert's Pit and Hollow Pond.
Extract fan cleaning in Canning Town, done properly
Any fan serving a kitchen in Canning Town is cleaned the same careful way as anywhere else: isolated first, then opened, scraped and degreased. The result is photographed for your records. The work covers roof-mounted fans, centrifugal fans and in-line fans, and the jobs we see most are a fan that hums, whines or rumbles and grease stains around the discharge.
Across London, many commercial kitchens are squeezed into basements and narrow back-of-house spaces, with extract ducts that can climb several floors to discharge at roof level. In Canning Town, as elsewhere in the capital, a long duct run means more access points to open and more grease to remove.
Each visit ends with a written report and pictures, so there’s a dated record of the work. Kitchen extract cleaning to TR19® Grease is certificated through the BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite portal.
- Where
- Canning Town (E16, E13, E6)
- Region
- Greater London
- Records
- Certificate and photo report
- Price
- A fixed quote up front
- Working hours
- Evenings, overnight and weekends; 24/7 emergencies
- Call
- 0345 646 2711
- Page updated
- 30 October 2026
When it’s something else
It’s worth knowing the limits before booking:
- An impeller that’s bent or split
- A fan that is too small for the system (a design question)
- A failed motor or worn bearings (that needs a fan repair or replacement)
If in doubt, give us a ring on 0345 646 2711, or email photos and we will say what we think.
Where we work
- Roof-mounted fans
- Discharge points
- In-line fans
- Fan housings
- Axial fans
- Centrifugal fans
Managing agents and facilities teams in Canning Town
We also work for facilities teams across offices, schools and healthcare across Greater London. Larger estates can be phased building by building to keep disruption down.
Managing agents often deal with us directly. Send the address, what’s needed and how access works, and we’ll send a fixed quote.
What happens if it’s left?
A fan clean in Canning Town doesn’t take long: it takes a few hours where there are several fans or heavy deposits. Leaving it means more wear, more noise and a bigger clean later. Leaving it on a busy London site only adds to the work.
When the work has to happen, how we reach it and how big the site is all affect the cost. Each of those is built into the quote and give you a fixed price before work begins.
Why book with us
- Evenings, overnight and weekends, plus 24/7 emergency callout
- CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001
- A fixed price before any work starts
- Every job surveyed first
Read what affects the cost or our accreditations.
Common questions in Canning Town
Do you clean school canteen extracts around Canning Town out of term?
Yes. The holidays are the usual time for school work. Around Canning Town, the Food Standards Agency lists about 45 schools and colleges with registered kitchens within a mile and a half or so. Booking early in the term gives the best choice of holiday dates.
Do you work overnight in Canning Town?
Yes. We work evenings, overnight and at weekends. That way a site in Canning Town doesn’t have to lose a day’s trading. Let us know the hours you are closed and we’ll book within them.
Are you accredited?
We hold CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, and we are a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease. Vent Hygiene Elite is run by BESCA and independently audited.
Is it safe to clean the fan while the kitchen is open?
We isolate the fan, so the kitchen cannot cook while we work. That is why fan cleans are done out of hours, and the kitchen is ready when we leave.
Which sectors do you work in?
Any site with a kitchen or a ventilation system to look after, from a small pub to a hospital. We work with hotels, schools, care homes, offices, retail and leisure sites.
Who has the legal duty for fire safety?
The law calls them 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. If you’re not sure, check your lease and fire risk assessment.
What’s the cleaning interval for an extract fan?
It’s cleaned with the whole extract, from every 3 months for 12 to 16 hours of cooking a day to every 12 months for 2 to 6 hours. Readings may show it needs cleaning more often.
What do you do with what you remove?
We contain it and take it with us. We collect grease, debris and waste water as we go, so it does not spread.
How we price extract fan cleaning
Some jobs are bigger than they look, and some smaller. What affects the quote:
- How big the system is
- A single visit or a regular plan
- What state the system is in
- Access, including roofs, risers and ceiling voids
Leaving it longer rarely makes the work cheaper. Build-up, wear and faults tend to get worse, not better, and a neglected system can mean more work. If you are unsure, phone us on 0345 646 2711 or email us for straight advice and a fixed quote.
What we need to know
To speed up the quote, please include:
- Anything you’ve noticed, such as smells, noise, drips or poor airflow
- Any access panels or hatches you can see
- The site address and the type of premises
- The roof, plant room or outside wall the system runs to
Getting a quote doesn’t take long. Call or email with a few details and you will normally have a fixed price within one working day. Where a survey is needed, we arrange a time that suits the site.
Looking after it afterwards
Think of this as the after-treatment advice, in brief:
- Look for grease stains near the discharge
- Keep the fan on whenever the range is lit
- Book the fan into every full TR19 clean
- Don’t store items in front of the fan’s access point
Keep the report with the maintenance log and fire risk assessment. It shows the fan’s condition at the time of the clean, which helps if anything changes later.
A change in how the fan sounds is worth noting. Rattles, hums or shaking can be early signs of build-up or wear and early action can save a repair.
What happens on the day
The visit has three parts: getting the area ready, doing the work and signing it off. Set-up means sheeting and making equipment safe, while signing off means the written report and photos. Most of the time goes on the work itself, and that takes a couple of hours per fan, depending on its size and the build-up. Getting kit into a London building takes planning, so let us know where we can load and park in Canning Town.
- Diagnosis first: we look for grease, noise and vibration.
- With the fan isolated, the housing is opened.
- Each blade is cleaned so the impeller runs evenly.
- We clean the casing, the outlet and around the motor.
- We run the fan and note its condition in the photo report.
Before we arrive
- Tell us about access, such as roof hatches, plant rooms, ceilings or locked areas
- Tell us about site rules, permits or sign-in
- Move anything stored near the system
How to get a quote
To get a fixed quote, give us a ring on 0345 646 2711 or drop us a line and tell us the type of site, your opening hours and roughly what the system looks like. A few pictures and your last certificate or report help a lot. You’ll usually have a quote within one working day.
Advice
How the job changes from site to site
Fan housings and motors
The housing around the impeller catches grease flung off the blades. We clean it along with the blades.
Inline duct fans
Inline fans can be in tight spaces, so we plan how to reach and clean them. Anything out of reach is recorded.