Essex · Extract fan cleaning
Great Notley extract fan cleaning
Extract fan cleaning for Great Notley, with a survey first and a report with pictures at the end. Call for a fixed quote.
- Vibration from an unbalanced impeller
- A smell of hot grease from the extract
- Less air being pulled from the kitchen
Common questions in Great Notley
Is Great Notley within the area you cover?
Yes, smaller places are covered as well as towns. The journey is planned ahead, so a few details about the route help.
Who would carry out a food hygiene inspection at a kitchen in Great Notley?
Food hygiene inspections in Great Notley are carried out by Braintree council. Ratings are published by the Food Standards Agency, so a clean extract and good records are worth keeping up.
What is TR19?
TR19® is the BESA specification for keeping ventilation systems clean. TR19® Grease, a standalone specification since 2019, covers grease in kitchen extract systems, and TR19® Air covers general supply and extract systems.
How do you protect the area?
We start with protection: sheeting over floors, worktops and anything close to the work. The area is left tidy, with our waste taken away.
What does extract fan cleaning cost?
We do not publish prices, because the cost depends on the job: the size of the system, its condition, access and when we can work. We fix the price before work begins.
Does a TR19 kitchen extract clean cover the fan?
Yes, a full TR19 clean includes the fan. Anything that can’t be reached is recorded, so the record is accurate.
Can you come out in an emergency?
Yes, day and night, every day of the year. Our office is open from 8am to 6pm on weekdays, with the emergency line covering every other hour.
What accreditations do you have?
BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite membership, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease, plus CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001. We have been trading since 2009 and we are fully insured.
Extract fan cleaning in Great Notley, done properly
The fan is cleaned as part of every full TR19® Grease clean, but a fan can also need attention on its own, especially when it has started to vibrate or sound rough. A fan-only clean is recorded as exactly that. If you have a fan that hums, whines or rumbles and grease escaping from the fan outlet, we can put it right.
For a smaller kitchen near Great Notley, a TR19® clean is the same job as anywhere: canopy, filters, plenum, duct, fan and discharge. We plan the visit around your hours, with the journey sorted in advance.
Our accreditations include CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, and we are fully insured. On top of that, we are a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease, trading since 2009.
- Place
- Great Notley (CM77)
- Wider area
- Essex
- Records
- Certificate plus before-and-after photos
- Quote
- A fixed price before work begins
- Working hours
- Nights, weekends or holidays to suit you
- Phone
- 0345 646 2711
- Page updated
- 30 October 2026
How the visit works
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, which takes a couple of hours per fan, depending on its size and the build-up. Visits to a place like Great Notley are planned ahead, so we arrive with what the survey says the job needs.
- 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.
- Housing, outlet and the area around the motor are cleaned.
- We run the fan and note its condition in the photo report.
Preparing for the visit
- Tell us where we can park and unload
- Move anything stored near the system
- Tell us about access, such as roof hatches, plant rooms, ceilings or locked areas
How to get a quote
Here’s what helps us quote: where the site is, what it is and its opening hours, a few photos and the last certificate or report, if there is one. Once you have those, call us on 0345 646 2711 or drop us a line.
Related advice
Grease, kitchens and Great Notley
Food Standards Agency records list about 13 cafés, restaurants and staff canteens and about 6 takeaways and sandwich shops across Great Notley and its immediate surroundings (about a mile and a half). Any of those kitchens with a canopy relies on a fan that gathers grease as it runs. It’s Braintree council that sends environmental health officers to food businesses in Great Notley. A greasy canopy or dripping filters are the sort of thing an inspection can pick up. A TR19® certificate and photo report after each clean gives you a record to show an inspector. Essex County Fire and Rescue Service covers Great Notley. In most workplaces, including commercial kitchens, it’s the fire and rescue authority that enforces the Fire Safety Order.
If you run catering at a healthcare site, such as a hospital like William Julien Courtauld Hospital about 1.1 miles north-east, the extract may need cleaning more often than a part-time kitchen. Bursars and site managers at schools such as White Court School tend to book extract cleaning for when the kitchen is empty.
Great Notley is about 2 miles south-west of Braintree, in Essex. We carry out extract fan cleaning for businesses, landlords and public buildings in Great Notley and the rest of Essex. Great Notley is one of 644 places in Essex where we work for extract fan cleaning. You can also see our page for Chelmsford, about 9 miles away.
Our technicians cover all of the CM77 postcode area for extract fan cleaning and the streets around it. Extract fan cleaning is available to premises on London Road, Harnham Drive and Colville Close and the roads around them. Nearby, we also carry out extract fan cleaning in Row Green (1 mile south-east), Young's End (1 mile south), Little Common (1 mile north-west), Rayne (1 mile north-west) and Black Notley (2 miles east). Larger places within reach include Chelmsford (9 miles south), Maldon (11 miles south-east), Witham (6 miles south-east), Camulodunum (15 miles east), Halstead (7 miles north-east) and Great Dunmow (7 miles west).
Landmarks near Great Notley
Locally, jobs take us to businesses close to Notley High School and Braintree Sixth Form, The Essex Cricketers pub and Cuckoo Wood. For rail, the closest station is Braintree station, roughly 1.6 miles north-east. Nearby you will also find Tudor House Museum (Braintree) (2.2 miles north-east) and William Julien Courtauld Hospital (1.1 miles north-east). Open spaces near Great Notley include Phyllis Currie Nature Reserve.
Different parts, different methods
Roof-mounted fans
Roof fans sit at the top of the riser. They’re cleaned where safe access allows, with any limits noted.
Kitchens with long cooking hours
When a busy kitchen’s fan fails, cooking stops. Keeping the fan clean is part of avoiding that, and our 24/7 emergency callout is there if it happens anyway.
Also near Great Notley
Also in Great Notley
Fixed quotes for extract fan cleaning in Great Notley
Before we fix a price, we need to know a few things. We look at:
- Whether it’s a one-off visit or part of a schedule
- Where the site is and how we reach it
- The condition we find in the survey
- Access, including roofs, risers and ceiling voids
Several systems or sites on one quote often makes better use of the time. Tell us about everything you’d like looked at, and you will get one fixed quote.
Asking for a quote
Photos let us diagnose from a distance. Try to include:
- How we’d reach plant on a roof or in a plant room
- The postcode and the type of business
- The times we could work without disrupting the site
- Anything you’ve noticed, such as smells, noise, drips or poor airflow
There’s no standard price list, because every site is different. We look at your system first, from pictures or on a visit, and then give you a fixed quote. To start, phone us on 0345 646 2711 or use the quote form.
Why it’s worth doing now in Great Notley
Cleaning the fan in Great Notley now is a short job: the work takes a few hours where there are several fans or heavy deposits. Leaving it means more wear, more noise and a bigger clean later. A quieter site near Great Notley still needs its system looked after.
Every site is different, so each one gets its own fixed quote. The size of the job, how we reach it, its condition and the working hours all make a difference.
What you get with us
- CHAS and SafeContractor accredited, with ISO 9001
- A BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease
- A single point of contact for sites across the South East and London
- Work around your opening hours, with 24/7 emergency cover
Read our cost guide and our accreditations.
In-house cleaning or a specialist?
When your team notices a problem between visits, like drips, unusual noise, smells or damaged filters, it’s best reported rather than tackled in-house. We can diagnose it and quote.
Your own staff can handle the daily basics: wiping canopies, washing grease filters and recording it in a log. What they can’t safely do is clean inside the ductwork, the fan or the risers, which is where we come in.
Keeping the system healthy
A little care between visits keeps the system in better shape. Our advice:
- Make sure the fan is included each time
- Keep the grease filters clean and in place
- Keep access to the fan clear
- File the fan’s report with your other records
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.
The fan stays cleaner when less grease gets past the canopy. Clean, well-seated filters are the fan’s first protection, and replace any that are damaged.
Do you need extract fan cleaning in Great Notley?
Grease builds up unevenly on the blades. Over time, that imbalance shakes the fan, wearing bearings and mounts. What starts as a grease problem can become a mechanical one.
Common reasons sites call us are:
- A fan left out of previous cleans
- Thick grease on the impeller and casing
- Grease around the motor and its mounts
- Weak extraction at the canopy
If you run a church or community hall kitchen, near The Church in Great Notley or elsewhere in Great Notley, its extract still collects grease from every lunch and event.
What to look for in a quote
- Proof of accreditation you can verify
- Whether the figure could change on the day
- Whether they’re fully insured
- Whether a written report and photos are included