Kent · Extract fan cleaning
Extract fan cleaning in Ivychurch, Kent
Cleaning of kitchen extract fans, impellers, fan housings and discharge points for commercial sites in Ivychurch and across Kent. CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, and fully insured.
- A heavily greased fan housing
- Vibration from an unbalanced impeller
- Grease around the motor and its mounts
How we handle extract fan cleaning in Ivychurch
Think of the fan as the system’s heart and the grease as a clot. A greasy fan works harder and moves less air. We clean it, run it and note anything that needs a closer look, before signing it off. The work covers fan housings, in-line fans and roof-mounted fans, and people most often call us about a motor area thick with grease and less air being pulled from the kitchen.
In a small place like Ivychurch, kitchens are often in older or extended buildings, with long single-storey duct runs, where grease settles in the flat sections. Access, parking and timings are agreed before the day.
Duct Doctor has been trading since 2009, as a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease. CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001 are in place too, and we’re fully insured.
- Where
- Ivychurch (TN29)
- Wider area
- Kent
- Paperwork
- Certificate and photo report
- Quotes
- A fixed price before any work starts
- When we work
- After hours by arrangement; emergencies any time
- Phone
- 0345 646 2711
- Page updated
- 30 October 2026
Ivychurch questions
Who is the fire and rescue service for Ivychurch?
Kent Fire and Rescue Service is the fire and rescue service for Ivychurch. A recent cleaning certificate and a note of the next clean date show that grease in the extract is being managed.
Which council inspects kitchens in Ivychurch?
In Ivychurch, it’s Folkestone and Hythe council that carries out food hygiene inspections. Have your latest TR19® certificate and photo report to hand, as an officer may ask how the extract is maintained.
Will we have to shut during the visit?
Normally not. Out-of-hours visits keep the disruption down. Bigger sites can be done in stages so parts stay in use.
Do you repair extract fans as well as clean them?
Fan repair and replacement is part of what we do. If cleaning shows a worn motor, bearings or impeller, we’ll tell you and quote for the repair.
Where does the waste go?
Anything we remove is contained as we work and taken away with us, including grease, debris and dirty water. None of it is left on site.
Do you work in Ivychurch?
Yes. We work across Greater London, Surrey, Kent, Sussex, Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Hertfordshire and Essex, and that includes Ivychurch.
Who is responsible for fire safety on the premises?
Under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, it’s the responsible person: normally the employer or whoever controls the premises. Landlords, facilities managers and managing agents can also hold responsibility.
Can the work be done while we are closed?
Yes. Give us your opening hours with your enquiry and we will book around them.
What else we do in Ivychurch
Staff cleaning versus specialist work
Some jobs should never be done in-house: opening up ductwork, cleaning fans, drop testing fire dampers and measuring grease need training, the right equipment and safe access. That’s our job.
Your own staff can handle the daily basics: wiping canopies, washing grease filters and recording it in a log. Inside the ducts, risers and fan is specialist work, and that is where we come in.
Landlords, agents and facilities managers
Keeping records across a portfolio is half the battle. Each visit produces a dated report with pictures, so you can show an insurer or inspector what was done at each site.
We regularly work with managing agents. Send the address, what’s needed and how access works and we’ll come back with a fixed quote.
Looking after it afterwards
Aftercare is simple, and it helps at the next visit:
- Make sure the fan is included each time
- Flag smoke lingering at the canopy
- Don’t store items in front of the fan’s access point
- Run the extract throughout cooking
File the photo report with your other extract records. It gives a dated record of the fan’s condition, which helps if anything changes later.
Keep the route to the fan clear. Clear access means it’s never left out of a clean, whether it’s on a roof, in a ceiling or on a wall.
How it works
We’re used to working while the site is closed. A lot of visits happen overnight or at weekends, so a kitchen or building can carry on as usual the next day. The visit itself takes a few hours where there are several fans or heavy deposits. If the van will struggle with a lane or gateway near Ivychurch, let us know and we’ll plan around it.
- We start by checking where the fan sits and how to isolate it.
- Power to the fan is isolated before anyone touches it.
- The impeller and the housing around it are scraped clean.
- Blades, housing and the area around the motor are degreased with care.
- The fan is put back into service, checked and photographed.
How to prepare
- Plan for cooking equipment or plant to be off before we arrive
- Move anything stored near the system
- Tell us about access, such as roof hatches, plant rooms, ceilings or locked areas
Get a fixed quote
To get a fixed quote, give us a ring on 0345 646 2711 or use the quote form and tell us the type of site, your opening hours and roughly what the system looks like. Photos and the last report, if you have one, make the quote quicker. You’ll typically have a quote within one working day.
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What we are called out for in Ivychurch
A greasy fan in Ivychurch is fuel at the end of the duct. A fire in the duct can reach the fan and the grease around it and an overworked motor runs hotter.
Most sites get in touch when they notice something like this:
- Fat spreading onto the roof or wall by the fan
- Burning smells from the fan area
- Less air being pulled from the kitchen
- A fan coated in grease inside its housing
Around Ivychurch, as anywhere, we clean the parts you cannot see as well as the canopy you can.
What to look for in a quote
- Whether they recommend a next date
- If the quote is a fixed price or an estimate
- Whether they’re fully insured
- What paperwork you get at the end
Kitchen extracts in Ivychurch
Kent Fire and Rescue Service covers Ivychurch. Fire and rescue authorities enforce the Fire Safety Order in most non-domestic premises, and in a kitchen that fire risk includes the grease in the extract. It’s Folkestone and Hythe council that sends environmental health officers to food businesses in Ivychurch. 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.
Volunteers running a hall kitchen near Church of St George, or anywhere in Ivychurch, may not know when the extract was last cleaned, and a grease test settles it.
Ivychurch is about 9 miles south of Ashford, in Kent. Whether your site is in the middle of Ivychurch or further out, we cover extract fan cleaning for every kind of premises, from small sites to large estates. We cover 922 places across Kent, large and small. Maidstone is in our area too, around 23 miles away.
Every address in TN29 is within our area for extract fan cleaning, from the main roads to the quietest streets. Other places close to Ivychurch include Brenzett (2 miles west), Snargate (2 miles west), Ruckinge (4 miles north), Hamstreet (4 miles north) and Kenardington (5 miles north-west). Further out, we also cover Ashford (9 miles north), Folkestone (13 miles east), Hythe (9 miles north-east), Hawkinge (14 miles north-east), Tenterden (9 miles north-west) and Cheriton (12 miles north-east).
Local landmarks in Ivychurch
Typical jobs here are in premises near The Bell Inn, among other places. The nearest railway station is Appledore (Kent) station, roughly 3.4 miles north-west of the centre. Other landmarks nearby include Brenzett Aeronautical Museum (1.2 miles west) and Romney 'castle' (1.5 miles south). Green spaces nearby include Burnthouse Pen.
What extract fan cleaning cannot fix
A few issues sit outside what this work can do:
- A motor that has burnt out
- Damaged fan blades
- Electrical faults in the fan’s supply or controls (an electrician’s job)
If in doubt, call us on 0345 646 2711 or send us an email and we will say what we think.
What we work on in Ivychurch
- Fan housings
- Discharge points
- Axial fans
- Roof-mounted fans
- In-line fans
- Centrifugal fans
What affects the quote in Ivychurch
We quote each job individually. This is what makes a difference:
- Whether several sites go on one quote
- The scale of the work
- One-off work versus a regular cycle
- The condition of the system
Working hours, access and the scale of the site all affect the cost. We take each of them into account and give you a fixed price before work begins.
Helping us quote
When you call or email, it’s useful to have:
- When the site is open and when it’s quiet
- The paperwork from the last visit, if you have it
- Wide pictures of the system and the area around it
- Where the site is and what kind of site it is
Some systems can be priced from pictures; others need a survey. Larger sites, and anything hidden behind walls, ceilings or floors, are normally surveyed first. Either way, you get a fixed price before any work starts.