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Extract fan cleaning in Great Milton, Oxfordshire
Need extract fan cleaning in Great Milton? We diagnose first, fix the price and book the work around your hours, finishing with a written report and pictures.
- Grease stains around the discharge
- Grease around the motor and its mounts
- A fan that no longer moves enough air
Do you need extract fan cleaning in Great Milton?
A fan collects more grease when the filters let more through. When filters don’t seal, grease goes straight through to the fan, so the fan takes far more than it should.
It’s time to book a visit if you see:
- A fan that no longer moves enough air
- A motor area thick with grease
- A fan that hums, whines or rumbles
- An extract fan with no cleaning record
Term dates shape school work: for a school like Great Milton Church of England Primary School, an extract clean fits neatly into a half-term or summer break.
Comparing quotes
- If they look at the system before pricing
- How VAT is shown on the quote
- If the quote is a fixed price or an estimate
- How areas they cannot reach will be recorded
Extract fan cleaning in Great Milton
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’re fully insured, with CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001. We are often asked to deal with burning smells from the fan area and a fan that no longer moves enough air, on axial fans, centrifugal fans and roof-mounted fans.
For a kitchen in or near Great Milton, the visit is planned around opening hours and the journey, and the clean covers the whole system, as it would anywhere: canopy to discharge, then a TR19® certificate and a photo report.
Duct Doctor has been trading since 2009, and we’re 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.
- Where
- Great Milton (OX44)
- Region
- Oxfordshire
- Records
- TR19® certificate and photo report
- Quote
- A fixed quote up front
- When we work
- When your site is closed, plus a 24/7 line
- Call
- 0345 646 2711
- Reviewed
- 30 October 2026
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How the visit works
The visit has three parts: set-up, the treatment itself and the sign-off. Getting ready means protecting surfaces and switching off what needs to be off, while signing off means the written report and photos. Most of the time goes on the work itself, which takes an hour or two for most single fans. Somewhere as small as Great Milton, the date and timings are agreed with you well before the day.
- We locate the fan and plan how to reach and isolate it.
- It’s isolated so it can’t run while we work.
- Grease is scraped off the impeller blades and casing.
- Blades, housing and surrounds are degreased with care around the electrics.
- It’s closed up, run, checked and photographed for the report.
Preparing for the visit
- Mention any locked doors, roof access or ceiling voids
- Make sure someone can let us in and lock up afterwards
- Find the previous report, if there is one
How to get a quote
For extract fan cleaning in Great Milton, phone us on 0345 646 2711, or email photos. Let us know the site type and the opening hours, and send photos or your last report if you can. We usually send a fixed quote within one working day.
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What happens if it’s left?
A fan that fails mid-service can stop a kitchen cooking. Many fan problems start with grease, so cleaning the fan helps keep it working. We also offer a 24/7 emergency callout if the worst happens. With notice, the visit to Great Milton can be fitted around your bookings and events.
Combining work into one visit or one programme can make for a more efficient booking. Mention every system or site you need covered, and you’ll get one fixed quote.
Why choose Duct Doctor in Great Milton
- Each visit written up, with photos
- One number for every site across the South East and London
- We diagnose before we treat
- Ventilation hygiene specialists since 2009
Common questions in Great Milton
Do you clean school canteen extracts around Great Milton out of term?
Yes, holiday work suits schools best. With about 4 schools and colleges on the FSA’s register within roughly a mile and a half of Great Milton, it pays to plan holiday dates ahead. Send us your term dates when you give us a ring on 0345 646 2711, or email photos, and we will fit the work in.
Can you come to Great Milton after we close?
Yes, out-of-hours work is a big part of what we do. It means the site in Great Milton keeps running as normal. Let us know the hours you’re closed and we’ll book within them.
Which accreditations do you hold?
We are a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease. We also hold CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, and we carry full insurance.
Do you look at the system first?
Yes, every time. Diagnosis comes before treatment: the survey tells us what the system needs and how to reach it, and the quote is based on that.
What do you do with what you remove?
Anything we remove is contained as we work and taken away with us, from grease and debris to used cleaning water. We do not leave it behind.
Does the law say we must follow TR19?
No, not in itself. Insurers, fire officers and EHOs look to TR19® as the benchmark, and many insurers ask for proof of cleaning to it. The law behind it is the Fire Safety Order 2005, which applies in England and Wales.
What paperwork do I get after a fan clean?
Photos, notes on condition and a recommended next date. Keep it with your maintenance log.
Do we lose a day’s trading?
Not usually. The area we’re working in has to be out of use while we’re there, so the visit goes in a quiet slot.
Landlords, agents and facilities managers
From a single site to a large estate, the standard is the same: the system surveyed, the price fixed, the visit fitted around trading and everything written up afterwards.
Managing agents often deal with us directly. Send the address, what’s needed and how access works and we’ll come back with a fixed quote.
Different parts, different methods
Roof-mounted fans
Roof fans also discharge grease onto the roof around them and we check the area around the outlet. Heavy staining is noted on the report.
Wall fans
Smaller kitchens may extract through a fan on an outside wall. It’s isolated, opened and cleaned inside and out.
Keeping the system healthy
Simple habits between visits make a real difference. We recommend:
- Check the report shows the fan was cleaned
- Keep records of every fan clean
- Flag smoke lingering at the canopy
- Do not store items in front of the fan’s access point
The area around the fan is left clean, with waste grease removed. Wherever the fan is, the area around it is cleaned down.
Stick to the interval for the full extract. Regular full cleans keep the fan from building up heavy deposits, in line with BESA guidance.
What staff can safely do
Some jobs should never be done in-house: opening up ductwork, cleaning fans, drop testing fire dampers and measuring grease need training, the right equipment and safe access. Leave those to us.
Good housekeeping makes our visits easier, not unnecessary. Clean filters and tidy surfaces slow the build-up, but hidden parts of the system still need specialist attention.
Grease, kitchens and Great Milton
Food Standards Agency records list about 9 cafés, restaurants and staff canteens within 1.5 miles or so of the middle of Great Milton. Where they cook under a canopy, an extract fan is pulling grease-laden air through its blades every service. Great Milton sits within the area of Oxfordshire 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. Food hygiene inspections in Great Milton are the job of South Oxfordshire council’s environmental health team. Extraction counts as kitchen equipment, so its condition can come up on the day. A dated certificate in the maintenance file answers the question before it’s asked.
Kitchens that cook twelve hours or more a day, as some healthcare kitchens do, fall into BESA’s three-monthly minimum; Slade Hospital is the nearest hospital to Great Milton, about 5.1 miles west. A hall kitchen that only cooks for events, whether near Church of St Mary or elsewhere in Great Milton, still needs its extract cleaned, just less often.
Great Milton is about 5 miles west of Thame, in Oxfordshire. For extract fan cleaning in and around Great Milton, please call 0345 646 2711 or email us for a fixed quote. Our area covers London and the South East, including Great Milton. Our area takes in 443 places across Oxfordshire, large and small. Oxford is in our area too, around 7 miles away.
We work across OX44 for extract fan cleaning and the streets around it. We cover sites on Church Road, Fullers Field and Green Hitchings and the roads around them. We also cover Great Haseley (1 mile south-east), Milton Common (1 mile east), Tiddington (2 miles north-east), Albury (2 miles north-east) and Draycott (2 miles north-east). Larger places within reach include Oxford (7 miles west), Didcot (10 miles south-west), Bicester (13 miles north), Abingdon-on-Thames (9 miles west), Thame (5 miles east) and Henley-on-Thames (15 miles south-east).
Near you in Great Milton
We work in commercial kitchens and buildings around The Bell Inn and the streets around them. Other landmarks nearby include Waterperry Gardens Rural Museum (2.1 miles north) and Slade Hospital (5.1 miles west). Open spaces near Great Milton include Shotover and Wells Farm.