Brighton and Hove · Extract fan cleaning
Hanover extract fan cleaning
Professional extract fan cleaning in and around Hanover, booked around your opening hours and signed off in writing with photos.
- Weak extraction at the canopy
- An extract fan with no cleaning record
- A heavily greased fan housing
About our extract fan cleaning in Hanover
A fan never collects grease in a neat, even layer. Heavier deposits on some blades throw the impeller off balance, which brings vibration, noise and extra wear on the bearings and motor. Cleaning the impeller and housing puts that right. If you have a fan left out of previous cleans and weak extraction at the canopy, we can help, from fan housings, discharge points and in-line fans onwards.
In a smaller place like Hanover, the kitchens with extract systems are more likely to be a pub, a café, a takeaway or a school or care home kitchen than a big restaurant. A kitchen that cooks fewer hours still builds up grease, so cleaning is planned around how much it cooks and what the readings show.
Duct Doctor has been trading since 2009, and we’re a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease. We also hold CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, and we’re fully insured.
- Place
- Hanover (BN2, BN1, BN50)
- Wider area
- Brighton and Hove
- Records
- Certificate plus before-and-after photos
- Quotes
- A fixed price before any work starts
- Working hours
- Overnight and weekend work, 24/7 emergency callout
- Telephone
- 0345 646 2711
- Checked
- 30 October 2026
What we do, step by step
Your staff don’t need to do much on the day. Someone lets us in at the agreed time and shows us where everything is, and the rest is down to us. Before we leave, the area is tidied and the paperwork follows. For a site near Hanover, the work is booked around your opening hours, evenings and weekends included.
- The fan is found and its type, access and isolation checked.
- We isolate the power before opening the housing.
- We scrape the heavy grease from the blades and housing.
- Blades, housing and surrounds are degreased with care around the electrics.
- We reassemble, run and photograph the fan.
Before we arrive
- Dig out any earlier paperwork for the system
- Name a contact who can let us in at the agreed time
- Clear the space around the work
Get a fixed quote
To help us quote: the address, the type of site and when it’s open, photos of the system and the last certificate or report, if there is one. Once you have those, phone us on 0345 646 2711 or email us.
Advice
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In-house cleaning or a specialist?
In-house cleaning and specialist cleaning do different jobs. A daily filter wipe and a weekly filter wash keep grease down at the front of the system, but they don’t reach the grease that builds up further in. Reaching it takes a specialist with the right equipment.
Staff cleaning does not replace a specialist visit; it supports it. Regular in-house cleaning slows the build-up, but the parts you can’t see still need a specialist at the right interval.
Hanover questions
Who carries out food hygiene inspections in Hanover?
That’s Brighton and Hove council, whose environmental health officers carry out food hygiene inspections in Hanover. Ratings are published by the Food Standards Agency, so a clean extract and good records are worth keeping up.
Will you come out to Hanover?
Yes, Hanover is part of our area, however small the site. Photos of the system and directions to the site help us plan the visit.
Are you insured?
Yes. Full insurance covers our work, and we’ve been trading since 2009.
What do you do with what you remove?
Waste is contained during the work and removed when we leave, from grease and debris to used cleaning water. We don’t leave it behind.
Is the fan isolated during cleaning?
It has to be off and isolated, for safety. We clean out of hours, in the evening, overnight or at weekends, so cooking is not affected.
Which accreditations do you hold?
We hold CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, and we’re a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease. The Vent Hygiene Elite scheme is run by BESCA and audited independently.
Can you clean the fan on its own?
Yes, we do. We record it as a fan-only clean, so your TR19 records stay accurate. The whole system still needs cleaning at the intervals in BESA guidance.
Will I get pictures of the cleaned fan?
Every clean has a photo report, along with notes on the fan’s condition. For a full TR19 clean, you also get a certificate through the BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite portal.
Kitchen extracts in Hanover
Sea air reaches Hanover, which sits within about 1 mile of the coast. Near the sea, the fan and discharge at the top of a kitchen extract corrode faster than they would inland. According to Food Standards Agency records, there are about 243 bars, pubs and nightclubs and about 42 hotels and B&Bs across Hanover and its immediate surroundings (about a mile and a half). Where they serve hot food, their kitchen extracts need cleaning to TR19® like any restaurant’s. Environmental health officers from Brighton and Hove council inspect food businesses in Hanover. An officer looking round a kitchen will see the canopy, and grease there is hard to miss. A TR19® certificate and photo report after each clean gives you a record to show an inspector.
Church and community hall kitchens, near Church of the Annunciation or anywhere around Hanover, are easy to forget, but their extracts collect grease like any other. A kitchen near Brighton station that serves breakfast and dinner can run its extract twelve hours or more, which shortens the cleaning interval.
Hanover is about 1 mile south of Brighton, in Brighton and Hove. Hanover gets the same approach as every site we work on: a survey first, a fixed quote, work timed around your hours and a report with photos. 30 places in Brighton and Hove are on our list, large and small.
Postcode districts we cover here for extract fan cleaning: BN2, BN1 and BN50. Local streets include Elmore Road, London Road and Milton Road, all of which we cover for extract fan cleaning. Other places close to Hanover include Brighton (1 mile north), Carlton Hill (1 mile south), West Hill (1 mile west), Seven Dials (1 mile west) and Kemptown (1 mile south-east). Further out, we also cover Brighton and Hove (3 miles west), Aldrington (3 miles west), Hangleton (3 miles north-west), Patcham (3 miles north), Westdene (3 miles north-west) and Saltdean (4 miles south-east). Being one of Brighton and Hove’s larger places, Hanover has a wide mix of commercial premises, and we cover all of them for extract fan cleaning.
Near you in Hanover
Around Hanover, our work takes us to kitchens and buildings near Academy of Creative Training, Brighton Girls and The Dover Castle pub. The nearest railway station is Brighton station, roughly 0.6 miles west. A little further out are Old Police Cells Museum (0.8 miles south-west) and Brighton General Hospital (0.6 miles east). Not far away are Whitehawk Hill and Newmarket Hill.
What we’re called out for in Hanover
The fan sits at the end of the grease’s journey. Whatever grease is still in it settles on the impeller and inside the housing, and the spinning blades fling it onto the walls of the housing.
Common reasons sites call us include:
- A fan shaking on its mounts
- A smell of hot grease from the extract
- A noisy fan that has got louder over time
- Fat spreading onto the roof or wall by the fan
Term dates shape school work: for a school like Elm Grove Primary School, an extract clean fits neatly into a half-term or summer break.
Questions to ask before booking
- Whether a written report and pictures are included
- Whether inaccessible sections are listed on the report
- Whether they’re fully insured
- Whether a survey comes first
Part by part
Wall fans
Grease can mark the outside wall around the fan. The outlet is checked as well as the fan.
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.
What affects the quote in Hanover
A fixed price needs a few facts first. We look at:
- One-off work versus a regular cycle
- Any permits to work or inductions
- The times the site is available
- How many systems or sites are involved
Whatever the type of site, the quote works the same way: how much there is, how we reach it, what state it’s in and when we can work. Call for a fixed quote and we will go through it with you.
Asking for a quote
Photos and a few facts are often enough to price the work. Useful things to send:
- The site address and the type of premises
- When the site is open and when it’s quiet
- Problems your staff have spotted
- How we’d reach plant on a roof or in a plant room
Photos are enough for some jobs, while others need a look on site. Big or complicated sites, and systems that are hard to see in photos, get a survey first. Either way, you get a fixed price before any work starts.
Why act early in Hanover
A fan clean in Hanover doesn’t take long: the work takes an hour or two for most single fans. Waiting adds vibration, wear and a harder clean. When a site near Hanover shuts unexpectedly, the people who rely on it notice at once.
One small site or a whole estate, the quote is built the same way: the work involved, the access and the timing. The price is fixed before any work starts.
Why Hanover businesses choose us
- Evenings, overnight and weekends, plus 24/7 emergency callout
- In business since 2009
- Accredited under CHAS and SafeContractor, with ISO 9001
- One contact for all your sites in London and the South East
Multi-site and managed buildings
The Fire Safety Order 2005 puts the duty to manage fire risk on the responsible person, which may be the employer, owner, landlord, FM or managing agent. With shared responsibility, good records help everyone.
Where a tenant occupies the premises but the landlord owns the building, the lease normally sets out who maintains what. We can quote either party, and the report can go to both.