Extract Fan Cleaning in Hounsdown

Part by part

Fan housings and motors

The housing around the impeller catches grease flung off the blades. It’s scraped and degreased with the impeller.

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.

Hounsdown kitchens: local notes

Hounsdown lies within about 2 miles of the sea. Near the sea, the fan and discharge at the top of a kitchen extract corrode faster than they would inland. There are about 21 restaurants, cafés and works canteens and about 19 takeaways and sandwich shops across Hounsdown and its immediate surroundings (about a mile and a half), according to the Food Standards Agency’s register. Where they cook under a canopy, an extract fan is pulling grease-laden air through its blades every service. Fire safety in Hounsdown falls to Hampshire and Isle of Wight 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.

If you run catering at a historic house or estate in the area (Southampton Tudor House and Garden is about 4.1 miles east), event kitchens in older buildings often have awkward duct runs that need planning. School kitchens, at schools like Hounsdown School for example, are normally cleaned in the holidays so no lunches are lost. A hall kitchen that only cooks for events, whether near Colbury Christ Church or elsewhere in Hounsdown, still needs its extract cleaned, just less often.

Hounsdown is about 1 mile south of Totton, in Southampton. We provide extract fan cleaning for commercial premises of every kind in Hounsdown and the rest of Southampton. We cover 40 places across Southampton, large and small.

Every address in SO40 is within our area for extract fan cleaning, from the main roads to the quietest streets. We cover sites on Main Road, Pound Lane and Chapel Lane and the roads around them. We also cover the places around Hounsdown: Ashurst Bridge (1 mile north-west), Totton (1 mile north), Netley Marsh (1 mile north-west), Woodlands (2 miles west) and Winsor (3 miles north-west). Further out, we also cover Southampton (5 miles east), Shirley (3 miles east), Regents Park (3 miles east), Townhill Park (6 miles east), Midanbury (6 miles east) and Thornhill (7 miles east).

What’s near Hounsdown

We work in commercial kitchens and buildings around Foxhills Infant School and The Forest Inn and the streets around them. The closest station to Hounsdown is Totton station, roughly 1.1 miles north-east. A little further out are National Dairy Museum (0.8 miles south) and Ashurst Hospital (1.4 miles south-west). Open spaces near Hounsdown include Testwood Lakes.

In-house cleaning or a specialist?

For ventilation and air handling systems, in-house care is mostly about checks: clear grilles, a log of filter changes and reporting anything odd. The inside of ducts and units needs a specialist.

Logging matters as much as cleaning. A simple log of filter washes, wipe-downs and checks shows an inspector that the system is looked after between visits, alongside our reports.

Why act early in Hounsdown

Vibration from an unbalanced impeller does not stay small. It wears bearings and mounts and can lead to a breakdown and a kitchen cannot cook safely without extraction. Cleaning it early is far less disruptive. When a site near Hounsdown shuts unexpectedly, the people who rely on it notice at once.

We don’t list prices on the website, because the cost depends on the site in front of us. For a fixed quote, give us a ring on 0345 646 2711 or drop us a line, and we’ll explain what it covers.

Why book with us

• Out-of-hours work and a 24/7 emergency line
• A fixed price before any work starts
• Every job surveyed first
• A single point of contact for sites across the South East and London

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