Medway · Extract fan cleaning
Extract fan cleaning in Lordswood, Medway
Looking for extract fan cleaning in Lordswood? We survey first, give you a fixed quote and work around your opening hours, finishing with a written report and pictures.
- Grease around the motor and its mounts
- An extract fan with no cleaning record
- Weak extraction at the canopy
About our extract fan cleaning in Lordswood
A clean fan is not a repaired fan. Anything that looks worn or damaged goes on the report, and we also repair and replace extract fans. You will know whether the fan just needed cleaning or something more. We’re often asked to deal with a smell of hot grease from the extract and a fan shaking on its mounts, on fan housings, centrifugal fans and discharge points.
Kitchens around a place like Lordswood are often in older buildings or single-storey extensions, with the duct running through a roof space or up an outside wall. Flat runs collect grease and need proper access to clean.
Accreditations are easy to claim and worth checking. Ours are BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite membership, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease, plus CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, with full insurance on top.
- Location
- Lordswood (ME5, ME7)
- Wider area
- Medway
- Records
- Certificate plus before-and-after pictures
- Quotes
- A fixed quote up front
- Working hours
- Out of hours as standard, 24/7 emergency line
- Telephone
- 0345 646 2711
- Reviewed
- 30 October 2026
What happens on the day
We turn up at the time agreed with you, which is often after service, overnight or at a weekend. Equipment that has to be off is switched off and allowed to cool before we start, and floors and nearby surfaces are sheeted. The work itself takes an hour or two for most single fans. A site near Lordswood typically has room to park, so the questions are about access to the system and your hours.
- We start by checking where the fan sits and how to isolate it.
- The fan is isolated so it cannot start while we work.
- Grease is scraped from the impeller blades and the inside of the housing.
- The fan and its surrounds are degreased, keeping clear of the motor’s electrics.
- The fan is put back into service, checked and photographed.
Preparing for the visit
- Tell us about access, such as roof hatches, plant rooms, ceilings or locked areas
- Allow time for equipment near the work to be turned off and cool down
- Dig out any earlier paperwork for the system
How to get a quote
We do not publish a price list, because no two systems are the same. Instead, we look at your site first, from photos or a survey, then send a fixed quote. To start, ring 0345 646 2711, or email photos.
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Do you need extract fan cleaning in Lordswood?
Fans that are hard to reach are often the ones that get missed. If it wasn’t included in past cleans, it may hold years of grease, and the report will show it.
What we are most often called out for:
- An extract fan with no cleaning record
- Rough running from the extract fan
- Less air being pulled from the kitchen
- Vibration from an unbalanced impeller
Term dates shape school work: for a school like St Benedict's Catholic Primary School, an extract clean fits neatly into a half-term or summer break.
Before you book anyone
- Which accreditations they hold, and whether you can check them
- Whether the price is fixed
- What records you’ll receive afterwards
- Whether VAT is included
Nearby places to Lordswood
Other services in Lordswood
What the work involves, part by part
Inline duct fans
An inline fan can be easy to forget because it’s out of sight. We find it during the survey and include it in the clean.
Kitchens with long cooking hours
When a busy kitchen’s fan fails, cooking stops. Keeping the fan clean is part of avoiding that, and our 24/7 emergency callout is there if it happens anyway.
Extract fan cleaning in Lordswood: the local picture
Look up Lordswood on the FSA’s food hygiene register and you will find about 12 restaurants, cafés and canteens and about 15 takeaways and sandwich shops in and around Lordswood, up to about a mile and a half out. Each kitchen extract among them ends at a fan, and grease on the impeller strains the motor. Environmental health officers from Medway council inspect food businesses in Lordswood. Extraction counts as kitchen equipment, so its condition can come up on the day. Our report lists what was cleaned and when, which is useful to have ready. The fire and rescue service for Lordswood is Kent 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.
Healthcare kitchens can’t easily close, so their extracts are cleaned overnight or between meal services; the nearest hospital to Lordswood is Medway Maritime Hospital, about 3 miles north. Church and community hall kitchens, near St David's Church or anywhere around Lordswood, are easy to forget, but their extracts collect grease like any other.
Lordswood is about 2 miles south of Chatham, in Medway. We provide extract fan cleaning for commercial premises of every kind in Lordswood and the rest of Medway. Lordswood is one of 68 places in Medway we cover for commercial clients.
Extract fan cleaning in ME5 and ME7 is surveyed, quoted and booked the same way as anywhere else. Extract fan cleaning is available to premises on Hall Road, Rover Road and Gould Road and the roads around them. Other places close to Lordswood include Lidsing (1 mile south-east), Walderslade (1 mile west), Dunn Street (1 mile south-east), Bredhurst (1 mile east) and Hempstead (2 miles north-east). Larger places within reach include Gillingham (3 miles north-east), Rochester (4 miles north-west), Rainham (3 miles north-east), Strood (5 miles north-west), Twydall (3 miles north-east) and Hoo St Werburgh (6 miles north). Lordswood is one of the larger places we cover in Medway for extract fan cleaning.
What’s near Lordswood
We work in commercial kitchens and buildings around Greenacre Academy, South Wood and The Harrow pub and the streets around them. The closest station to Lordswood is Chatham station, roughly 3.2 miles north of the centre. Well-known places in the area include Pentagon Shopping Centre (3.4 miles north) and Medway Maritime Hospital (3 miles north). Green spaces nearby include Burham Down and Boxley Hills.
Managing agents and facilities teams in Lordswood
Under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, the responsible person must assess and reduce fire risk, which may be the employer, owner, landlord, FM or managing agent. Where responsibility is shared, records matter even more.
Multi-site operators often want one contractor and one number. We cover South East England and London, so a run of sites can go into one programme and kept on a regular cycle.
Questions from Lordswood
Which fire and rescue service is responsible for Lordswood?
It’s Kent Fire and Rescue Service, which covers Lordswood. Records of extract cleaning are a sensible thing to have ready if a fire safety officer carries out an audit.
Do you work in villages like Lordswood?
Yes. Lordswood is within the area we cover across London and the South East. Let us know about access, parking and anything unusual about getting there when you book.
Who has the legal duty for fire safety?
It depends on the building. Under the Fire Safety Order 2005, it’s the responsible person, which can be the employer, the owner, a landlord, an FM or a managing agent.
What do you need from me for a quote?
The site address, the type of premises and your opening hours, plus photos of the system and your last certificate or report if you have one.
What does TR19 mean?
TR19® is BESA’s specification for ventilation hygiene. TR19® Grease, a standalone specification since 2019, covers grease in kitchen extract systems, and TR19® Air covers general supply and extract systems.
Do you have insurance?
Yes. Full insurance covers our work, and we have been trading since 2009.
Do you need to turn the fan off to clean it?
We always isolate the fan first, so it cannot run during the clean. That means the extract is off, so we clean while the kitchen is closed.
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.
What your team can do, and what needs us
Staff cleaning does not replace a specialist visit; it supports it. Clean filters and tidy surfaces slow the build-up, but the parts you cannot see still need a specialist at the right interval.
Away from the kitchen, the in-house job is mainly checking: keeping grilles clear, noting unusual noise or smells and logging filter changes. Cleaning inside ducts and units is specialist work.
Between visits
Once we have finished, these simple steps help:
- Keep records of every fan clean
- Make sure the fan is included each time
- Flag smoke lingering at the canopy
- Keep the grease filters clean and in place
File the photo report with your other extract records. It shows the fan’s condition at the time of the clean, which helps if anything changes later.
Stick to the interval for the full extract. Regular full cleans keep the fan from building up heavy deposits, in line with BESA guidance.
When it’s something else
We’d rather tell you now than book work that won’t help, so here are the limits:
- A fan that was never right for the kitchen
- Electrical faults in the fan’s supply or controls (an electrician’s job)
- A dirty duct upstream of the fan
If in doubt, give us a ring on 0345 646 2711, or send details by email and we’ll say what we think before you book.
What we work on in Lordswood
- Discharge points
- In-line fans
- Centrifugal fans
- Roof-mounted fans
- Axial fans
- Fan housings