Greater London · Extract fan cleaning
Greengate extract fan cleaning
We cover Greengate for cleaning of kitchen extract fans, impellers, fan housings and discharge points. Fixed quotes, work around your opening hours and photo reports on every job.
- A motor area thick with grease
- A fan shaking on its mounts
- Fat spreading onto the roof or wall by the fan
Extract fan cleaning in Greengate
In Greengate, as everywhere we work, the fan follows a set routine: we isolate it, open the housing, scrape the impeller and degrease the lot. Your report shows the impeller as we found it and as we left it. The work covers centrifugal fans, in-line fans and axial fans, and people most often call us about a fan that hums, whines or rumbles and grease around the motor and its mounts.
London kitchens tend to trade late and open early, so extract cleaning in Greengate is typically done overnight, after the last service. Parking, loading and access to the roof are agreed with the building before the night of the clean.
For insurers and inspectors, the record counts. That’s why every job is written up in a report with pictures, plus a TR19® certificate through the BESCA VHE portal where the work is a TR19® Grease clean.
- Location
- Greengate (E13, E6, E16)
- Region
- Greater London
- Reporting
- Certificate plus before-and-after photos
- Quotes
- A fixed price before work begins
- Working hours
- Overnight and weekend work, 24/7 emergency callout
- Phone
- 0345 646 2711
- Last updated
- 30 October 2026
When to call us in Greengate
Grease condenses as the air cools, and a fan out on a roof or wall often sits where the air is coolest. So grease often settles heavily there.
Signs it’s time to call us include:
- Burning smells from the fan area
- A heavily greased fan housing
- Fat spreading onto the roof or wall by the fan
- A fan that hums, whines or rumbles
Healthcare kitchens can’t easily close, so their extracts are cleaned overnight or between meal services; the nearest hospital to Greengate is Newham University Hospital, about 0.5 miles south-east.
Questions to ask before you book
- Whether the quote shows VAT
- What insurance they carry
- Whether the price is fixed
- Whether a survey comes first
Staff cleaning versus specialist work
Logging matters as much as cleaning. A simple log of filter washes, wipe-downs and checks helps show that the system is managed between specialist visits, next to our reports.
If your staff spot something between visits, such as dripping grease, a noisy fan, a smell or a filter that will not come clean, they should report it rather than try to fix it. We will take a look and give you a fixed quote.
Greengate: your questions answered
Who would carry out a food hygiene inspection at a kitchen in Greengate?
The local authority for Greengate is Newham council, and its environmental health team does the inspecting. Have your latest TR19® certificate and photo report to hand, as an officer may ask how the extract is maintained.
Can you clean school kitchen extracts in Greengate during the holidays?
Yes. The holidays are the usual time for school work. The FSA’s register shows about 65 schools and colleges with food registrations within roughly a mile and a half of Greengate. Send us your term dates when you call 0345 646 2711 or use the quote form, and we’ll fit the work in.
Do we need to close while you work?
Not normally. Out-of-hours visits keep the disruption down. Bigger sites can be done in stages so parts stay in use.
Do you have a 24/7 line?
Yes, 24/7. Office hours are Monday to Friday, 8am to 6pm, and the emergency line covers the rest.
Which accreditations do you hold?
Our accreditations are CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, and we are a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease. The Vent Hygiene Elite scheme is run by BESCA and audited independently.
Do you need to turn the fan off to clean it?
The fan is isolated before we open it, so it can’t start while we work. With the extract off, the kitchen cannot cook, so we work out of hours.
Can you look after several sites?
Yes. You deal with one contact for every site in our area, and visits can be set on a regular cycle.
Can you work evenings and weekends?
Yes, and that is how we prefer to work. The visit is timed for when the area is not in use, such as late evening, overnight or a weekend.
Aftercare tips
Simple habits between visits make a real difference. Our advice:
- Report grease escaping from the fan
- Flag smoke lingering at the canopy
- Keep the grease filters clean and in place
- Don’t store items in front of the fan’s access point
A full system clean includes a TR19 certificate from the BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite portal. A fan-only clean is recorded in the photo report.
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.
The process
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 work takes an hour or two for one fan, longer when it’s hard to reach. Getting kit into a London building takes planning, so let us know where we can load and park in Greengate.
- 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.
- We degrease the fan and housing, taking care around the motor.
- We reassemble, run the fan and photograph the result.
Getting ready for the visit
- Dig out any earlier paperwork for the system
- Make sure someone can let us in and lock up afterwards
- Allow time for equipment near the work to be turned off and cool down
Getting a quote
If you need extract fan cleaning in Greengate, give us a ring on 0345 646 2711 or send us an email. Tell us what kind of premises it is and when it’s open, and send photos or your last report if you can. A fixed quote usually follows within one working day.
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Grease, kitchens and Greengate
The FSA’s food hygiene register includes about 32 pubs, bars and clubs and about 19 hotels and guest houses within roughly a mile and a half of the centre of Greengate. Where they serve hot food, their kitchen extracts need cleaning to TR19® like any restaurant’s. Environmental health officers from Newham council inspect food businesses in Greengate. They look at how clean the premises and equipment are, and the kitchen extract is part of that. A TR19® certificate and photo report after each clean gives you a record to show an inspector. Overnight is the normal time to clean a London kitchen extract, so trading is not affected.
If your kitchen is in a listed or historic building, like the houses around Greengate (Eastbury Manor House is about 3.1 miles east), fitting access panels needs care. Church and community hall kitchens, near St Andrew's Church or anywhere around Greengate, are easy to forget, but their extracts collect grease like any other.
Greengate is about 4 miles east of Whitechapel, in Greater London. Every kind of commercial site in Greengate, we can take on extract fan cleaning. Visits can be booked for evenings, overnight or weekends so trading is not interrupted. 764 places in Greater London are on our list, large and small. For sites nearby, see our London page (6 miles or so).
All of E13, E6 and E16 is covered for extract fan cleaning, from busy streets to back roads. You’ll find streets such as May Road, Emma Road and Cave Road, and we cover them all for extract fan cleaning. Neighbouring places we cover for extract fan cleaning include Plaistow (1 mile south-west), Upton Park (1 mile north-east), Upton (1 mile north), West Ham (1 mile north-west) and Canning Town (1 mile south). We also work in nearby towns such as London (6 miles west), City of Westminster (8 miles west), Marylebone (8 miles west), Kensington (10 miles west), St Pancras (6 miles west) and Shoreditch (5 miles west).
Near you in Greengate
Around Greengate, our work takes us to kitchens and buildings near Coach And Horses Public House, Lister Community School and West Ham Park. The closest station to Greengate is West Ham station, about 1 mile west of the centre. A little further out are West Ham United Football Club Museum (0.6 miles north-east) and Stratford Centre (1.5 miles north-west). Open spaces near Greengate include Old Ford Island and Tower Hill.
For landlords and multi-site operators
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.
Running several sites is easier with one contractor. We work across London and the South East, so a run of sites can go into one programme and kept to a regular schedule.
When something else is needed
To be straight with you, some problems need a different fix:
- A fan that’s too small for the system (a design question)
- Electrical faults in the fan’s supply or controls (an electrician’s job)
- Grease in the duct and canopy before the fan (those need a full TR19 clean)
If you are not sure, just call 0345 646 2711 or drop us a line and we will give you a straight answer.
Where we work
- Centrifugal fans
- Discharge points
- In-line fans
- Fan housings
- Axial fans
- Roof-mounted fans
What happens if it’s left?
Cleaning the fan in Greengate now is a short job: it takes a couple of hours per fan, depending on its size and the build-up. Leaving it means more wear, more noise and a bigger clean later. It’s better booked as a planned job in Greengate than handled as an emergency.
One small site or a whole estate, we price it on the same basis: what needs doing, how we get to it and when. The price is fixed before any work starts.
Why Greengate businesses choose us
- Fixed quotes from a survey or photos
- Every visit written up, with pictures
- Accredited under CHAS and SafeContractor, with ISO 9001
- A BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease
See our cost guide or our accreditations.