Kent · Extract fan cleaning
Keycol extract fan cleaning
Professional extract fan cleaning in and around Keycol, timed so the site keeps working and signed off in writing with photos.
- A fan shaking on its mounts
- A smell of hot grease from the extract
- A heavily greased fan housing
Your questions about extract fan cleaning in Keycol
Do you do school kitchen extract cleaning in Keycol in the summer holidays?
Yes. The holidays are the usual time for school work. There are about 9 schools, colleges and universities on the FSA’s food hygiene register within about 1.5 miles of Keycol. Send us your term dates when you ring 0345 646 2711 or drop us a line, and we will fit the work in.
Who carries out food hygiene inspections in Keycol?
Food hygiene inspections in Keycol are carried out by Swale council. How often a business is inspected depends on the risk rating the council gives it, so it’s worth staying ready all year.
Are you fully insured?
Yes, we’re fully insured. We also hold CHAS and SafeContractor for clients who vet their contractors.
How much does extract fan cleaning cost?
It depends on the site, so we quote each one individually. To get one, call us on 0345 646 2711, or send details by email with the site type, opening hours and a few pictures.
What happens to the waste?
We contain it and take it with us. Grease, debris and waste water are collected as the work goes on rather than letting it spread.
Does the law say we must follow TR19?
No. The law sets the duty, and TR19® is the recognised benchmark for meeting it. Under the Fire Safety Order 2005, the responsible person must reduce fire risk, and many insurers can refuse or reduce a claim without proof of cleaning.
How much notice do you need?
For planned work, earlier is better, particularly if your next visit is nearly due. For emergencies, we take calls 24/7.
Do you provide a report after cleaning the fan?
Photos, notes on condition and a recommended next date. File it with your other extract records.
About our extract fan cleaning in Keycol
If the extract fan in Keycol has become noisy, weak or greasy? A few details or a photo help when you phone us on 0345 646 2711, or send details by email, and we’ll send you a fixed quote for extract fan cleaning in Keycol, normally within one working day. Common call-outs are for an extract fan that vibrates or rattles and a fan coated in grease inside its housing, on axial fans, centrifugal fans and fan housings.
For a kitchen in or near Keycol, the visit is planned around opening hours and the journey, and the clean covers the whole system, as it would anywhere: canopy to discharge, then a TR19® certificate and a photo report.
Insurers, fire officers and environmental health officers all look at records. So every job comes with a written report and pictures, plus a TR19® certificate through the BESCA VHE portal where the work is a TR19® Grease clean.
- Location
- Keycol (ME9)
- Wider area
- Kent
- Paperwork
- Certificate and photo report
- Price
- Fixed quote, normally within a working day
- Working hours
- Out of hours as standard, 24/7 emergency line
- Telephone
- 0345 646 2711
- Checked
- 30 October 2026
Why it’s worth doing now in Keycol
An unbalanced fan gets worse, not better. It wears bearings and mounts and can lead to a breakdown, which may leave the kitchen without extraction. Cleaning it early is far less disruptive. A planned visit to Keycol is easier to arrange than an emergency callout.
What you pay reflects the actual work. That is why every job is surveyed first, and why the quote is fixed before work begins.
Why book with us
- Out-of-hours work and a 24/7 emergency line
- Photo reports with every job
- CHAS and SafeContractor accredited, with ISO 9001
- Fixed quotes from a survey or pictures
Read what affects the cost or our accreditations.
Nearby places to Keycol
Other services in Keycol
In-house cleaning or a specialist?
Good housekeeping makes our visits easier, not unnecessary. Regular in-house cleaning slows the build-up, but hidden parts of the system still need specialist attention.
Some jobs should never be done in-house: opening up ductwork, cleaning fans, drop testing fire dampers and measuring grease call for the right kit, training and safe access. Leave those to us.
Landlords, agents and facilities managers
If you look after several sites, we can schedule visits across all of them on one quote. Each site gets its own report and photos, so records stay tidy.
Under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, the responsible person must assess and reduce fire risk, and that can be the employer, the owner, a landlord, a facilities manager or a managing agent. With shared responsibility, good records help everyone.
What affects the cost of extract fan cleaning
We quote each job individually. This is what makes a difference:
- The condition we find in the survey
- Travel, parking and unloading
- Whether it’s a one-off visit or part of a schedule
- Site requirements such as sign-in and permits
Kitchens, offices, schools and hospitals are all priced the same way: how much there is, how we reach it, what state it’s in and when we can work. Ask for a fixed quote and we will go through it with you.
What we need to know
To speed up the quote, send us:
- Anything you’ve noticed, such as smells, noise, drips or poor airflow
- Where the site is and what kind of site it is
- Your opening hours and when the area is out of use
- Where the plant sits or the system leaves the building, such as a roof or outside wall
Some systems can be priced from photos; others need a survey. Larger sites, and anything hidden behind walls, ceilings or floors, are normally surveyed first. Either way, the quote is fixed before any work is booked.
Grease, kitchens and Keycol
Keycol lies within about 3 miles of the sea. Near the sea, the fan and discharge at the top of a kitchen extract corrode faster than they would inland. The FSA’s food hygiene register shows about 10 cafés, restaurants and staff canteens and about 12 takeaways and sandwich shops within 1.5 miles or so of the middle of Keycol. Grease builds up on fan blades and housings in kitchens like these, unbalancing the impeller. It’s Swale council that sends environmental health officers to food businesses in Keycol. 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.
If you look after a school kitchen, at a school such as Borden Church of England Primary School or anywhere near Keycol, the holidays are the usual time for a TR19® clean.
Keycol is about 2 miles west of Sittingbourne, in Kent. For extract fan cleaning in and around Keycol, it’s easy to get a fixed quote: please ring 0345 646 2711, or send details by email. Our area covers London and the South East, including Keycol. We cover 922 places across Kent, large and small. Our Maidstone page covers sites nearby, about 9 miles away.
All of ME9 is covered for extract fan cleaning, from busy streets to back roads. Streets in the area include Rooks View, Hill Farm View and Rook Lane, and we cover them all for extract fan cleaning. Neighbouring places we cover for extract fan cleaning include Bobbing (1 mile east), Chestnut Street (1 mile south), Newington (1 mile west), Danaway (1 mile south-west) and Oad Street (2 miles south). Larger places within reach include Maidstone (9 miles south-west), Gravesend (15 miles north-west), Whitstable (15 miles east), Faversham (9 miles east), Minster (7 miles north-east) and Kings Hill (13 miles south-west).
Near you in Keycol
In Keycol, that means kitchens and buildings near Westlands School and George Inn. Keycol’s nearest station is Newington station, roughly 1.1 miles west. Well-known places in the area include Court Hall Museum (1.8 miles east) and Bayford Court (2.3 miles east).
What happens on the day
We work around your opening hours, not the other way round. Most visits are booked for when the area is out of use, such as evenings, overnight, early mornings or weekends. 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. Somewhere as small as Keycol, the date and timings are agreed with you well before the day.
- We start by checking where the fan sits and how to isolate it.
- With the fan isolated, the housing is opened.
- The impeller and the housing around it are scraped clean.
- We degrease the fan and housing, taking care around the motor.
- We reassemble, run the fan and photograph the result.
Preparing for the visit
- Agree a time when the area can be out of use
- Plan for cooking equipment or plant to be off before we arrive
- Tell us about access, such as roof hatches, plant rooms, ceilings or locked areas
Getting a quote
To get a fixed quote, give us a ring on 0345 646 2711 or email us with the site type, your trading hours and a short description of the system. Photos and the last report, if you have one, make the quote quicker. We usually come back within one working day.
Related advice
Do you need extract fan cleaning in Keycol?
A fan collects more grease when the filters let more through. When filters do not seal, grease goes straight through to the fan, so the fan takes far more than it should.
It’s time to book a visit if you see:
- Burning smells from the fan area
- Fat spreading onto the roof or wall by the fan
- An extract fan that vibrates or rattles
- A fan left out of previous cleans
If you run a church or community hall kitchen, near Church of St Bartholomew or elsewhere in Keycol, its extract still collects grease from every lunch and event.
Comparing quotes
- If they look at the system before pricing
- How areas they cannot reach will be recorded
- Whether a written report and pictures are included
- Whether the price is fixed
Looking after it afterwards
A little care between visits keeps the system in better shape. Our advice:
- Check filters are seated before cooking
- Report grease escaping from the fan
- Leave a clear route to the fan
- Keep the fan on whenever the range is lit
We take away the grease and dirty water from the fan clean. On a roof or outside wall, we leave the surrounding area tidy.
The fan stays cleaner when less grease gets past the canopy. Clean, well-seated filters are the fan’s first protection, and replace any that are damaged.