Kent · Extract fan cleaning
Extract fan cleaning in Henley Street, Kent
Extract fan cleaning for commercial sites in Henley Street and across Kent. CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, and fully insured.
- A motor area thick with grease
- Less air being pulled from the kitchen
- An extract fan that vibrates or rattles
The process
Protection comes first: sheeting goes over floors and surfaces close to the work. After that, the system is made safe and the work begins. The work on site takes an hour or two for most single fans, and we clear up before we go. Rural roads and tight entrances are worth telling us about before a visit to Henley Street.
- We locate the fan and plan how to reach and isolate it.
- 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.
Getting ready for the visit
- Tell us about site rules, permits or sign-in
- Clear loose items from the work area
- Find the previous report, if there is one
Getting a quote
Need a price for extract fan cleaning? Please phone us on 0345 646 2711, or send details by email and tell us about the site. We will talk you through the work and give you a fixed quote before anything is booked.
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Extract fan cleaning in Henley Street
The extract fan is the heart of the system: it pulls air from the canopy, through the duct and out of the building. Grease that gets past everything else ends up on its blades and housing and we clean it off. Typical jobs include an extract fan with no cleaning record and less air being pulled from the kitchen, on in-line fans, discharge points and roof-mounted fans.
For a kitchen in or near Henley Street, the visit is planned around opening hours and the journey, and the clean covers the whole system, as it would anywhere: canopy, filters, duct, fan and discharge, with a certificate and photo report at the end.
It’s worth checking any contractor’s accreditations. Ours are BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite membership, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease, plus CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, and we are fully insured.
- Location
- Henley Street (DA13)
- Wider area
- Kent
- Paperwork
- Certificate and photo report
- Quote
- A fixed price before work begins
- Working hours
- Evenings, overnight and weekends; 24/7 emergencies
- Call
- 0345 646 2711
- Last updated
- 30 October 2026
Henley Street kitchens: local notes
The Food Standards Agency lists about 8 pubs and bars as registered food businesses within about 1.5 miles of central Henley Street. Wherever they cook, the canopy, duct and fan collect grease just as a restaurant’s do. Kitchens in Henley Street get their food hygiene inspections from Gravesham council. 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. Henley Street sits within the area of Kent Fire and Rescue Service. Its fire safety officers can audit commercial kitchens, and grease in the extract is part of a kitchen’s fire risk.
Healthcare kitchens, like those at hospitals such as Gravesham Community Hospital (about 4.7 miles north), often cook for long hours, which puts them in BESA’s heavier-use bands. Commuter trade near Sole Street station can mean long cooking hours, and long hours put a kitchen into BESA’s more frequent cleaning bands.
Henley Street is about 4 miles south of Gravesend, in Kent. From the centre of Henley Street to the outskirts, we cover extract fan cleaning for every kind of premises, from a single unit to a large public building. Our area takes in 922 places across Kent, large and small. Maidstone is in our area too, about 10 miles from Henley Street.
We cover every part of the DA13 postcode area for extract fan cleaning and the roads nearby. Neighbouring places we cover for extract fan cleaning include Luddesdown (1 mile south), Gold Street (1 mile north-west), Sole Street (1 mile north-west), Round Street (1 mile north-west) and Foxendown (1 mile south-west). Further out, we also cover Maidstone (10 miles south-east), Sittingbourne (15 miles east), Dartford (9 miles north-west), Sevenoaks (11 miles south-west), Gravesend (4 miles north) and Tonbridge (13 miles south).
Local landmarks in Henley Street
Locally, jobs take us to businesses close to Camer Park Country Park, Meopham School and The Cock pub. For rail, the closest station is Sole Street station, about 0.8 miles north-west of the centre. A little further out are Gravesham Community Hospital (4.7 miles north) and Rochester Castle (4.6 miles east). Open spaces near Henley Street include Ranscombe Farm and Gad's Hill.
Honest limits
Extract fan cleaning cannot fix everything, and we’ll tell you before we start. It doesn’t solve:
- Grease in the duct and canopy before the fan (those need a full TR19 clean)
- An impeller that is bent or split
- Wiring faults to the fan
If you’re not sure, just give us a ring on 0345 646 2711 or drop us a line and we’ll give you a straight answer before booking.
Where we work
- Discharge points
- In-line fans
- Fan housings
- Roof-mounted fans
- Centrifugal fans
- Axial fans
Staff cleaning versus specialist work
For ventilation and air handling systems, in-house care is mostly about checks: keeping grilles clear, noting unusual noise or smells and logging filter changes. The inside of ducts and units needs a specialist.
When your team notices a problem between visits, such as dripping grease, a noisy fan, a smell or a filter that won’t come clean, it’s best reported rather than tackled in-house. We will take a look and send you a fixed quote.
Keeping the system healthy
No system stays clean for ever, but care slows the build-up. A few tips:
- Listen for new noises or vibration from the fan
- Tell us if the extract feels weaker
- Keep access to the fan clear
- Make sure the fan is included each time
If the fan needs more than a clean, we’ll say so plainly. We also repair and replace extract fans, so you have one point of contact.
Run the fan throughout cooking. Grease settles faster when the air stops moving, so keeping it running helps keep it clean.
Managing agents and facilities teams in Henley Street
Whether it’s one building or many, you get the same standard: the system surveyed, the price fixed, the visit fitted around trading and everything written up afterwards.
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.
Henley Street questions
Do you do school kitchen extract cleaning in Henley Street in the summer holidays?
Yes, out-of-term visits are normal for schools. With about 3 schools and colleges on the FSA’s register within roughly a mile and a half of Henley Street, it pays to plan holiday dates ahead. Tell us your holiday dates and we’ll book the visit for when the site is empty.
Do you work overnight in Henley Street?
Yes. We work evenings, overnight and at weekends. The site is handed back ready to open. Tell us your opening hours when you ask for a quote.
How long will it take to clean the fan?
Allow a couple of hours per fan, depending on its size and the build-up. We’ll confirm the time when we quote.
What if parts of the system can’t be reached?
Anything we cannot reach goes on the report, with pictures where possible, and we tell you what would make it reachable, such as extra access panels in ductwork.
Can you clean the fan on its own?
Yes, if the fan needs it. We’ll often suggest checking the duct too, as a greasy fan typically means a greasy duct, but the choice is yours.
Do we need to close while you work?
Not usually. We need the work area to ourselves while we’re on site, so we book a time when it would be closed anyway.
How do you keep the site clean during the work?
Floors and surfaces near the work are sheeted before work begins, and anything we remove is contained. Before we leave, we tidy up and clean down.
What does TR19 mean?
A BESA specification in two main parts: TR19® Grease for kitchen extract systems and TR19® Air for general ventilation. It is not legislation, but it’s the standard people check against.
Towns and villages near Henley Street
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Part by part
Fan housings and motors
Belt-driven fans have a drive belt and pulleys that can collect grease. We clean around them and note any wear for your records.
Kitchens with long cooking hours
A long-hours kitchen can’t afford a fan failure. A clean fan is less likely to strain, and our 24/7 emergency callout is there if it happens anyway.
What we’re called out for in Henley Street
A greasy fan in Henley Street is fuel at the end of the duct. If grease in the duct catches, the fan and its housing can feed the fire, and a hot, struggling motor doesn’t help.
Most sites get in touch after spotting something like this:
- Fat spreading onto the roof or wall by the fan
- Thick grease on the impeller and casing
- A fan that no longer moves enough air
- A smell of hot grease from the extract
Volunteers running a hall kitchen near Parish Church of St Peter and St Paul, or anywhere in Henley Street, may not know when the extract was last cleaned, and a grease test settles it.
Questions to ask before booking
- Whether the quote shows VAT
- What hours they’ll be on site
- Proof of insurance
- If the quote is a fixed price or an estimate