Hampshire · Extract fan cleaning
Criddlestyle extract fan cleaning
Specialist extract fan cleaning for Criddlestyle: a survey, a fixed price, careful work and proper paperwork. Call for a fixed quote.
- A fan that no longer moves enough air
- Thick grease on the impeller and casing
- A fan shaking on its mounts
About our extract fan cleaning in Criddlestyle
Think of the fan as the system’s heart and the grease as a clot. A greasy fan works harder and moves less air. We clean it, run it and note anything that needs a closer look, before signing it off. We are often asked to deal with a fan that hums, whines or rumbles and a fan coated in grease inside its housing, on centrifugal fans, in-line fans and fan housings.
Rural kitchens often have long, low duct runs through a roof space or along an outside wall, where grease settles in the flat sections. Access, parking and timings are agreed before the day.
Duct Doctor has been trading since 2009, as a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease. CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001 are in place too, and we’re fully insured.
- Place
- Criddlestyle (SP6)
- Region
- Hampshire
- Records
- Certificate plus before-and-after pictures
- Quotes
- A fixed price before any work starts
- Working hours
- Nights, weekends or holidays to suit you
- Call
- 0345 646 2711
- Page updated
- 30 October 2026
Leave it or put it right?
Vibration from an unbalanced impeller doesn’t stay small. It wears bearings and mounts and can lead to a breakdown, which may leave the kitchen without extraction. Cleaning it early is far less disruptive. Equipment tucked in a roof space or outbuilding near Criddlestyle rarely gets looked at unless someone books it.
A single site or a whole portfolio, we price it on the same basis: the work involved, the access and the timing. You’ll have a fixed price before any work starts.
What you get with us
- Every job surveyed first
- Fixed quotes from a survey or photos
- Trading since 2009
- A BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease
Take a look at what affects the cost and how to check a contractor.
Criddlestyle: your questions answered
Which fire service covers Criddlestyle?
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service is the fire and rescue service for Criddlestyle. It’s worth keeping your fire risk assessment, TR19® certificates and photo reports together, ready to show.
Is Criddlestyle within the area you cover?
Yes, we work in villages as well as towns, and Criddlestyle is covered. A survey first, from pictures or a visit, means we arrive with the right kit.
Can we book visits on a schedule?
Yes. We run scheduled maintenance contracts, set at the interval the system needs. Each report recommends when the next visit should be.
Can you fix a fan that is worn out?
We also repair and replace extract fans. If we find wear or damage, we will explain it and give you a fixed quote.
Does a TR19 kitchen extract clean cover the fan?
Yes, the fan is cleaned as part of TR19. If a fan can’t be reached, the report says so, so you always know what was cleaned.
How do you 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.
Which kinds of sites do you work on?
Any commercial site with kitchens or ventilation, from a small pub to a hospital. Hotels, schools, care homes, offices, shops and leisure sites are all part of our work.
Is TR19 a legal requirement?
No. The law sets the duty, and TR19® is the recognised benchmark for meeting it. Under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, the responsible person has to manage fire risk, and many insurers can refuse or reduce a claim without proof of cleaning.
Different parts, different methods
Impellers and blades
The impeller is the spinning part that moves the air, and grease builds up on them unevenly. That’s what unbalances the fan, so it’s cleaned carefully blade by blade.
Fan housings and motors
Inside the casing, grease is thrown onto the walls. We clean it along with the blades.
Looking after it afterwards
How long the results last depends on use and care. Here’s what we suggest:
- Check the report shows the fan was cleaned
- Watch for grease marks around the outlet
- Note any drop in extraction at the canopy
- Never cook with a filter missing
The photo report shows the fan before and after cleaning. It lists what was cleaned and anything we couldn’t reach, along with the recommended next clean date.
Stick to the interval for the full extract. A fan cleaned with the rest of the system on time rarely gets badly coated, in line with BESA guidance.
Landlords, agents and facilities managers
Whether it’s one building or many, the standard is the same: diagnosis, a fixed price, work booked around your hours and a written report with pictures.
For anyone managing more than one site, we can schedule visits across all of them on one quote. Each site gets its own report and photos, so records stay tidy.
How the visit works
We work around your opening hours, not the other way round. We book the visit for a time the area is closed, whether that’s an evening, overnight or a weekend. When the team arrives, the work area is protected and the relevant equipment is switched off to cool, and the job takes an hour or two for one fan, longer when it’s hard to reach. A quick note on how to find the site and where to park makes a visit to Criddlestyle run smoothly.
- 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.
- Blades, housing and the area around the motor are degreased with care.
- It’s closed up, run and checked, and pictures go into your report.
Getting ready for the visit
- Tell us about access, such as roof hatches, plant rooms, ceilings or locked areas
- Make sure someone can let us in and lock up afterwards
- Find the previous report, if there is one
Ask for 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 many jobs can be priced from that alone.
Related advice
Other services in Criddlestyle
Honest limits
In fairness, some problems need a different fix:
- A fan that was never right for the kitchen
- A dirty duct upstream of the fan
- Electrical faults in the fan’s supply or controls (an electrician’s job)
If in doubt, call us on 0345 646 2711, or email photos and we will say what we think.
Parts of the system we cover
- Fan housings
- Centrifugal fans
- Axial fans
- In-line fans
- Discharge points
- Roof-mounted fans
What staff can safely do
Logging matters as much as cleaning. A dated log of in-house cleaning and checks shows an inspector that the system is looked after between visits, alongside our reports.
If your staff spot something between visits, like drips, unusual noise, smells or damaged filters, they should report it rather than try to fix it. We can diagnose it and quote.
Extract fan cleaning in Criddlestyle: the local picture
The FSA’s food hygiene register shows about 13 cafés, restaurants and staff canteens and about 7 takeaways and sandwich shops within about 1.5 miles of central Criddlestyle. The fan at the end of each of those extracts collects grease that slows it and wears the motor. Environmental health officers from New Forest council inspect food businesses in Criddlestyle. They look at how clean the premises and equipment are, and the kitchen extract is part of that. Our report lists what was cleaned and when, which is useful to have ready. Criddlestyle is covered by Hampshire and Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service. Fire and rescue authorities enforce the Fire Safety Order in most non-domestic premises, and in a kitchen that fire risk includes the grease in the extract.
If you run catering at a historic house or estate in the area (Breamore House is about 3 miles north), event kitchens in older buildings often have awkward duct runs that need planning. Term dates shape school work: for a school like The Burgate School and Sixth Form, an extract clean fits neatly into a half-term or summer break. Where a hall near St Giles, or anywhere in Criddlestyle, hosts lunch clubs or events, its extract gathers grease just as a café’s does.
Criddlestyle is in Hampshire. Sites in Criddlestyle get the same service as everywhere we cover: diagnosis first, a fixed price, out-of-hours working where needed and a written report with pictures. Our area takes in 683 places across Hampshire, large and small. There’s also a page for Southampton, roughly 16 miles from Criddlestyle.
Our technicians cover all of SP6 for extract fan cleaning and the roads nearby. Close by, we work in Sandy Balls (1 mile north-east), Stuckton (1 mile south), Horseport (1 mile west), Blissford (1 mile south-east) and Godshill (1 mile north-east). Further out, we also cover Totton (12 miles east), Lymington (15 miles south-east), Romsey (13 miles east), New Milton (13 miles south), Ringwood (6 miles south) and Barton on Sea (14 miles south).
Local landmarks in Criddlestyle
We work in commercial kitchens and buildings around The George Inn and Fordingbridge Infant School, among other places. Nearby you will also find Godshill Castle Hill (1.2 miles north) and Fordingbridge Doll Museum (0.8 miles west). For a walk, there’s Blashford Lakes and Linbrook Lake.