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Extract Fan Cleaning in Great Bentley
Professional extract fan cleaning in and around Great Bentley, booked around your opening hours and signed off in writing with photos.
- A fan left out of previous cleans
- A motor area thick with grease
- Thick grease on the impeller and casing
Your questions about extract fan cleaning in Great Bentley
Which fire and rescue service is responsible for Great Bentley?
Essex County Fire and Rescue Service is the fire and rescue service for Great Bentley. TR19® isn’t law, but it’s the benchmark many fire officers and insurers look to when they ask how often the extract is cleaned.
Which council inspects kitchens in Great Bentley?
Food hygiene inspections in Great Bentley are carried out by Tendring council. An officer may look up into the canopy, so clean filters on the day and a recent certificate on file both help.
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.
What does extract fan cleaning cost?
There’s no set price, as it depends on the job: the size of the system, its condition, access and when we can work. We fix the price before work begins.
Do you have insurance?
Yes, fully. CHAS and SafeContractor accreditation sit alongside it for clients who vet their contractors.
Is there a survey before the work?
Yes, every time. We diagnose before we treat: the survey shows what needs doing and what access we need and the fixed quote is built on it.
How long will it take to clean the fan?
It takes an hour or two for one fan, longer when it’s hard to reach. We’ll confirm the time when we quote.
Can you work evenings and weekends?
Yes. Evenings, nights and weekends are normal working hours for us, so the site doesn’t lose a service.
Extract fan cleaning for kitchens and businesses in Great Bentley
The extract fan is the heart of the system: it draws the air through the canopy and ductwork and pushes it outside. Grease that gets past everything else ends up on its blades and housing, and that’s what we clean. Typical jobs include less air being pulled from the kitchen and rough running from the extract fan, across axial fans, discharge points and centrifugal fans.
Around a smaller place like Great Bentley, kitchen extracts tend to belong to pubs, cafés, takeaways and school or care home kitchens. A kitchen that cooks fewer hours still builds up grease, so cleaning is planned around how much it cooks and what the readings show.
Every visit ends with a written report and photos, so you have a record of what was done and when. Where the work is a TR19® Grease clean, the certificate is issued through the BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite portal.
- Location
- Great Bentley (CO7)
- Region
- Essex
- Paperwork
- Certificate plus before-and-after pictures
- Quotes
- Fixed quote, normally within a working day
- When we work
- Evenings, overnight and weekends; 24/7 emergencies
- Telephone
- 0345 646 2711
- Last updated
- 30 October 2026
Landlords, agents and facilities managers
Records are where multi-site compliance often slips. Each visit produces a dated report with pictures, so you can show an insurer or inspector what was done at each site.
Landlords, managing agents and facilities managers book us, not only the businesses that use the systems. Where a system serves more than one tenant, such as a shared riser, it helps to agree who arranges the work, and we are happy to quote for all of it.
What your team can do, and what needs us
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.
In-house cleaning and specialist cleaning do different jobs. Wiping filters daily and washing them weekly keeps the visible parts in order, but they don’t reach the grease that builds up further in. Reaching it takes a specialist with the right equipment.
What the work involves, part by part
Kitchens with long cooking hours
Kitchens that cook 12 to 16 hours a day put the most grease through their fans. BESA guidance sets at least 3-monthly cleaning for that level of use, fan included.
Fan housings and motors
The housing around the impeller catches grease flung off the blades. It’s scraped and degreased with the impeller.
How it works
The first job on site is protection: sheeting goes over floors and surfaces close to the work. Then we make the system safe and start. The work on site takes a few hours where there are several fans or heavy deposits, and the area is cleaned down before we leave. For a site near Great Bentley, the work is booked around your opening hours, evenings and weekends included.
- The fan is found and its type, access and isolation checked.
- It’s isolated so it cannot run while we work.
- We scrape the heavy grease from the blades and housing.
- The fan is degreased, taking care around the motor.
- It’s closed up, run, checked and photographed for the report.
How to prepare
- Let us know about permits to work or site inductions
- Tell us where we can park and unload
- Have your last certificate or report to hand
Ask for a quote
If you need extract fan cleaning in Great Bentley, call 0345 646 2711 or drop us a line. Tell us what kind of premises it is and when it’s open, plus photos or the previous report if they’re to hand. A fixed quote typically follows within one working day.
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Between visits
Good habits slow the build-up between visits. Our tips:
- Tell us if the extract feels weaker
- Watch for grease marks around the outlet
- Never cook with a filter missing
- Report rattles or humming early
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.
Fewer grease particles reaching the fan means less build-up. Keep the grease filters clean, fitted and in place, and replace any that are damaged.
Extract fan cleaning in Great Bentley: the local picture
Food Standards Agency records list about 4 cafés, restaurants and staff canteens within roughly a mile and a half of the centre of Great Bentley. Any of those kitchens with a canopy relies on a fan that gathers grease as it runs. Great Bentley sits within the area of Essex County Fire and Rescue Service. Grease in a kitchen extract is a recognised fire risk, and the fire authority enforces the law on managing it in most commercial premises. In Great Bentley, food businesses are inspected by environmental health officers from Tendring council. A greasy canopy or dripping filters are the sort of thing an inspection can pick up. Our report lists what was cleaned and when, which is useful to have ready.
If you look after a school kitchen, at a school such as Great Bentley Primary School or anywhere near Great Bentley, the holidays are the usual time for a TR19® clean. Commuter trade near Great Bentley station can mean long cooking hours, and long hours put a kitchen into BESA’s more frequent cleaning bands. A hall kitchen that only cooks for events, whether near Church of St Mary or elsewhere in Great Bentley, still needs its extract cleaned, just less often.
Great Bentley is about 5 miles north-west of Clacton-on-Sea, in Essex. We carry out extract fan cleaning for commercial premises of every kind in Great Bentley and the rest of Essex. Great Bentley is one of 644 places in Essex we cover for extract fan cleaning. Our Chelmsford page covers sites nearby, about 26 miles away.
We cover every part of CO7 for extract fan cleaning and the streets around it. Streets in the area include Station Road, Forge Lane and Moors Close, and we cover them all for extract fan cleaning. We also cover the places around Great Bentley: Aingers Green (1 mile south), Frating Green (2 miles north-west), South Heath (2 miles south), Thorrington (2 miles south-west) and Frating (2 miles west). Within a short drive, we also cover Colchester (8 miles west), Clacton-on-Sea (5 miles south-east), Harwich (10 miles north-east), Camulodunum (9 miles west), Greenstead (6 miles north-west) and Tiptree (14 miles west).
Around Great Bentley
Typical jobs here are in premises near The Plough Inn. Great Bentley has its own railway station: Great Bentley station. Open spaces near Great Bentley include Weeleyhall Wood.
What happens if it’s left?
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. A planned clean beats an emergency. It’s better to plan the work at a site near Great Bentley than wait for a failure.
The cost depends on the size of the system, the condition it’s in and access to every part of it. We give you a fixed price before work begins, so you know where you stand.
Why choose Duct Doctor in Great Bentley
- In business since 2009
- A written report with pictures after every visit
- Fully insured
- CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001
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What affects the quote in Great Bentley
The diagnosis comes before the price. We look at:
- The condition of the system
- Whether several sites go on one quote
- Where the site is and how we reach it
- Working hours and out-of-hours timing
You won’t find a price list here, because each job is priced on what it involves. For a fixed quote, ring 0345 646 2711 or drop us a line, and we’ll talk you through it.
Asking for a quote
We can often survey from photos. Try to include:
- Where the plant sits or the system leaves the building, such as a roof or outside wall
- Your opening hours and when the area is out of use
- Photos showing the whole system and its surroundings
- The paperwork from the last visit, if you have it
The quickest way to a quote is to send photos: the system from a couple of angles, plus any access panels or hatches. Add the site type and your opening hours, and many jobs can be priced from that alone.