Windsor and Maidenhead · Extract fan cleaning
Extract fan cleaning in Chavey Down, Windsor and Maidenhead
Extract fan cleaning in Chavey Down from ventilation hygiene specialists trading since 2009. Evenings, overnight and weekends, plus a 24/7 emergency line.
- Grease stains around the discharge
- Grease around the motor and its mounts
- A fan that no longer moves enough air
What we do, step by step
A visit follows the same order every time: sheeting and protection first, isolate whatever needs isolating, carry out the extract fan cleaning, clear away and hand over the paperwork. The visit itself takes a few hours where there are several fans or heavy deposits. We agree a date with you, plan the drive to Chavey Down and turn up when the site is quiet.
- We locate the fan and plan how to reach and isolate it.
- It’s isolated so it can’t run while we work.
- We scrape the heavy grease from the blades and housing.
- Blades, housing and surrounds are degreased with care around the electrics.
- It’s closed up, run, checked and photographed for the report.
How to prepare
- Plan for cooking equipment or plant to be off before we arrive
- Mention any sign-in, permit or induction we need
- Mention any locked doors, roof access or ceiling voids
Get a fixed quote
For a fixed quote, call 0345 646 2711, or send details by email with the site type, your trading hours and a short description of the system. A few pictures and your last certificate or report help a lot. We usually come back within one working day.
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About our extract fan cleaning in Chavey Down
Duct Doctor has been cleaning kitchen extract fans since 2009. As a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, we clean to BESA TR19® Grease, with CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001 and full insurance. The work covers discharge points, axial fans and fan housings, and the jobs we see most are a fan that has never been cleaned and a fan coated in grease inside its housing.
For a kitchen in or near Chavey Down, the visit is planned around opening hours and the journey, and the clean covers the whole system, as it would anywhere: canopy, filters, duct, fan and discharge, with a certificate and photo report at the end.
The report is your system’s health record: dated, with photos, and showing what was done. For TR19® Grease cleans, the certificate comes through the BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite portal, ready for your insurer.
- Where
- Chavey Down (SL5)
- Wider area
- Windsor and Maidenhead
- Reporting
- TR19® certificate and photo report
- Quotes
- A fixed price before we start
- Working hours
- Out of hours as standard, 24/7 emergency line
- Phone
- 0345 646 2711
- Reviewed
- 30 October 2026
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Signs you need extract fan cleaning in Chavey Down
Grease on a fan is a fire risk, in Chavey Down as anywhere. If grease in the duct catches, the fan and its housing can feed the fire, and a hot, struggling motor doesn’t help.
These are the problems we see most often:
- A fan that no longer moves enough air
- A fan that hums, whines or rumbles
- A smell of hot grease from the extract
- Fat spreading onto the roof or wall by the fan
If your kitchen is in a listed or historic building, like the houses around Chavey Down (St Leonard's Hill is about 4.3 miles north-east), fitting access panels needs care.
Before you book anyone
- Whether they recommend a next date
- Their accreditations, such as BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite, CHAS or SafeContractor
- Whether the price is fixed
- What insurance they carry
Why it’s worth doing now in Chavey Down
A fan that sounds rough in Chavey Down is often telling you the extract needs a clean. If the fan is coated, the duct before it usually is too so a full TR19 clean may be due. Systems in rural buildings are often out of sight and out of mind.
The cost depends on how big the system is, the condition it’s in and how easy it is to reach. You get a fixed price before work begins, so you know where you stand.
What you get with us
- One contact for all your sites in London and the South East
- BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease
- A fixed price before any work starts
- Accredited under CHAS and SafeContractor, with ISO 9001
Read how cleaning jobs are priced or how to check a contractor.
Managing agents and facilities teams in Chavey Down
We also work for facilities teams across offices, schools and healthcare across Windsor and Maidenhead. Work can be phased by floor, building or site to keep disruption down.
From a single site to a large estate, you get the same standard: the system surveyed, the price fixed, the visit fitted around trading and everything written up afterwards.
Aftercare tips
After the visit, a few habits help the work last:
- Keep the grease filters clean and in place
- Report grease escaping from the fan
- Don’t store items in front of the fan’s access point
- Listen for new noises or vibration from the fan
A full system clean includes a TR19 certificate from the BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite portal. If only the fan is cleaned, the photo report says so.
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.
Honest limits
We will always give you a straight diagnosis, so here’s what extract fan cleaning will not do:
- A fan that will not start
- A fan that is too small for the system (a design question)
- A cracked or broken impeller (it needs replacing)
If you are not sure, just give us a ring on 0345 646 2711 or use the quote form and we will give you a straight answer before booking.
What we work on in Chavey Down
- Discharge points
- Fan housings
- Centrifugal fans
- In-line fans
- Axial fans
- Roof-mounted fans
Chavey Down questions
Will you come out to Chavey Down?
Yes, Chavey Down is part of our area, however small the site. The journey is planned ahead, so a few details about the route help.
Who enforces fire safety at workplaces in Chavey Down?
It’s Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service, which covers Chavey Down. Records of extract cleaning are a sensible thing to have ready if a fire safety officer carries out an audit.
Do you look at the system first?
Yes. For many sites, pictures and a few details are enough, and larger or hidden systems get a visit.
What should I send you?
Just the basics: where it is, what kind of site, when it’s open and the access. Photos and the last report help too. Then give us a ring on 0345 646 2711 or send us an email.
Can the work be done while we are closed?
Yes, and it’s often the best time. The visit is timed for when the area isn’t in use, whether that is late evening, overnight or a weekend.
Who is responsible for fire safety on the premises?
In the words of the Fire Safety Order 2005, it’s the responsible person. That is generally the employer or the person in control of the premises, and where several people have control, each can have duties. If you’re not sure, check your lease and fire risk assessment.
Are you fully insured?
Yes, we are fully insured. We also hold CHAS and SafeContractor for clients who vet their contractors.
What accreditations do you have?
CHAS, SafeContractor, ISO 9001 and BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite membership, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease. We are fully insured and have been trading since 2009.
Extract fan cleaning around Chavey Down
There are about 10 restaurants, cafés and works canteens and about 5 takeaways and sandwich shops within about 1.5 miles of central Chavey Down, according to the Food Standards Agency’s register. Any of those kitchens with a canopy relies on a fan that gathers grease as it runs. Environmental health officers from Bracknell Forest council inspect food businesses in Chavey Down. The cleanliness of the kitchen and its equipment, extraction included, is part of what they check. A TR19® certificate and photo report after each clean gives you a record to show an inspector. Fire safety in Chavey Down falls to Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service. The Fire Safety Order puts the duty on whoever runs a kitchen to control its fire risk, and a greasy duct is fuel.
Church and community hall kitchens, near St Martin's Church or anywhere around Chavey Down, are easy to forget, but their extracts collect grease like any other. If you run catering at a healthcare site, such as a hospital like Heatherwood Hospital about 1.1 miles south-east, the extract may need cleaning more often than a part-time kitchen.
Chavey Down is about 2 miles east of Bracknell, in Windsor and Maidenhead. We provide extract fan cleaning for commercial premises of every kind in Chavey Down and the rest of Windsor and Maidenhead. Across Windsor and Maidenhead, we cover 57 places, and Chavey Down is one of them. Our Reading page covers sites nearby (12 miles or so).
We work across SL5 for extract fan cleaning and the roads nearby. That includes premises on Church Road, North Road and Long Hill Road and the roads around them. Neighbouring places we cover for extract fan cleaning include Warfield Park (1 mile north-west), Winkfield Row (1 mile north), Martins Heron (1 mile south-west), Bullbrook (1 mile west) and Whitegrove (1 mile north-west). Larger places within reach include Maidenhead (7 miles north), Windsor (5 miles north-east), Boyn Hill (6 miles north), Cookham (10 miles north), Furze Platt (8 miles north) and Dedworth (5 miles north-east).
What’s near Chavey Down
Locally, jobs take us to businesses close to Garth Hill College and Whitegrove Primary School, among other places. The closest station to Chavey Down is Martins Heron station, roughly 1 mile south-west. Other landmarks nearby include The Lexicon (1.7 miles west) and Heatherwood Hospital (1.1 miles south-east). The countryside around Chavey Down includes Virginia Water Lake.
In-house cleaning or a specialist?
Staff cleaning and specialist work aren’t the same thing. Wiping filters daily and washing them weekly keeps the visible parts in order, but they do not reach the grease that builds up further in. Reaching it takes a specialist with the right equipment.
A few tasks are always specialist work: entering ducts, working on fans, testing dampers and taking grease readings call for the right kit, training and safe access. That’s our job.