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Extract Fan Cleaning in Lower Caversham
Extract fan cleaning for Lower Caversham, with a survey first and a report with pictures at the end. Ask us for a fixed quote.
- Grease around the motor and its mounts
- A fan left out of previous cleans
- An extract fan that vibrates or rattles
How we handle extract fan cleaning in Lower Caversham
Any fan serving a kitchen in Lower Caversham is cleaned the same careful way as anywhere else: isolated first, then opened, scraped and degreased. Your report shows the impeller as we found it and as we left it. If you are dealing with hot, greasy smells near the fan and grease around the motor and its mounts, we can help, from centrifugal fans, discharge points and fan housings onwards.
Around a smaller place like Lower Caversham, kitchen extracts tend to belong to pubs, cafés, takeaways and school or care home kitchens. Quieter kitchens still collect grease in the duct, just more slowly, so the interval is set by hours of use and grease readings.
The report is your system’s health record: a dated account with pictures of everything we did. For TR19® Grease cleans, the certificate comes through the BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite portal and sits alongside the report.
- Where
- Lower Caversham (RG4, RG1)
- Wider area
- Reading
- Paperwork
- TR19® certificate and photo report
- Quotes
- A fixed price before we start
- Hours
- After hours by arrangement; emergencies any time
- Call
- 0345 646 2711
- Page updated
- 30 October 2026
How it works
The visit has three parts: getting the area ready, doing the work and signing it off. Set-up means sheeting and making equipment safe, while signing off means the written report and photos. The middle part takes longest, and that takes a few hours where there are several fans or heavy deposits. Because the survey comes first, a visit to Lower Caversham can normally be finished without a second trip.
- First we locate the fan and agree how it’s safely isolated.
- The fan is isolated so it can’t start while we work.
- The impeller and the housing around it are scraped clean.
- Blades, housing and the area around the motor are degreased with care.
- It’s closed up, run and checked, and pictures go into your report.
How to prepare
- Tell us about site rules, permits or sign-in
- Name a contact who can let us in at the agreed time
- Make sure equipment near the work can be switched off and left to cool
Get a fixed quote
Getting a quote does not take long. Send a few details and photos, and we normally reply with a fixed quote within one working day. Where a survey is needed, we arrange a time that suits the site.
Advice
How we price extract fan cleaning
A fixed price needs a few facts first. We check:
- Any permits to work or inductions
- Where the site is and how we reach it
- One-off work versus a regular cycle
- Working hours and out-of-hours timing
What you pay reflects the actual work. That is why every job is surveyed first, and why the quote is fixed before any work starts.
Helping us quote
We can often survey from pictures. The most useful are:
- A few general shots of the system
- Any symptoms, from odd noises to smells or leaks
- Any access panels or hatches you can see
- The paperwork from the last visit, if you have it
Every quote begins with a look at the system, either from photos and details you send or from a site visit. Then we send a fixed price, before work begins.
Common questions in Lower Caversham
Who enforces fire safety at workplaces in Lower Caversham?
Lower Caversham is in the area of Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service. It’s worth keeping your fire risk assessment, TR19® certificates and photo reports together, ready to show.
Who carries out food hygiene inspections in Lower Caversham?
Food hygiene inspections in Lower Caversham are carried out by Reading council. Have your latest TR19® certificate and photo report to hand, as an officer may ask how the extract is maintained.
Why is my extract fan noisy?
Build-up on the impeller is a frequent reason, because it unbalances the fan. It can also be wear in the bearings or motor, which our report will flag.
What do you do with what you remove?
Waste is contained during the work and removed when we leave, from grease and debris to used cleaning water. We do not leave it behind.
Do you have insurance?
Yes, fully. CHAS and SafeContractor accreditation sit alongside it, for sites that check contractor safety.
Can you look after several sites?
Yes. You deal with one contact for every site in our area, with visits on a regular schedule.
Who has the legal duty for fire safety?
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.
What accreditations do you have?
CHAS, SafeContractor, ISO 9001 and BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite membership, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease. We are fully insured and have been trading since 2009.
Aftercare tips
Once we have finished, these simple steps help:
- Flag smoke lingering at the canopy
- Never cook with a filter missing
- Do not store items in front of the fan’s access point
- Keep each photo report with the maintenance log
The photo report shows the fan before and after cleaning. It lists what was cleaned and anything we couldn’t reach, along with the recommended next clean date.
Run the fan throughout cooking. Grease settles faster when the air stops moving, so keeping it running helps keep it clean.
What we are called out for in Lower Caversham
Grease builds up unevenly on the blades. The difference throws the impeller off balance, wearing bearings and mounts. What starts as a grease problem can become a mechanical one.
Any of these means the system needs a check-up:
- A fan that hums, whines or rumbles
- A smell of hot grease from the extract
- A fan shaking on its mounts
- Fat spreading onto the roof or wall by the fan
If you run catering at a healthcare site, such as a hospital like Royal Berkshire Hospital about 1 mile south, the extract may need cleaning more often than a part-time kitchen.
Questions to ask before booking
- Exactly which parts of the system are covered
- Whether VAT is included
- Whether the price is fixed
- Whether they recommend a next date
What a clean won’t put right
Not every problem is solved by extract fan cleaning, and we’ll tell you before any work starts. It won’t put right:
- A fan that’s too small for the system (a design question)
- A fan that won’t start
- A dirty duct upstream of the fan
Not sure which it is? You can ring 0345 646 2711, or email photos and we will tell you honestly.
Parts of the system we cover
- Fan housings
- Centrifugal fans
- Axial fans
- In-line fans
- Roof-mounted fans
- Discharge points
What staff can safely do
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.
Day-to-day cleaning is something your team can do: wiping down canopy surfaces, cleaning filters and keeping a simple log. Inside the ducts, risers and fan is specialist work, which is where we come in.
Multi-site and managed buildings
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.
Where a tenant occupies the premises but the landlord owns the building, the lease normally sets out who maintains what. We can quote either party, and the report can go to both.
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Kitchen extracts in Lower Caversham
According to Food Standards Agency records, there are about 67 pubs, bars and clubs and about 3 hotels and guest houses within about 1.5 miles of central Lower Caversham. Wherever they cook, the canopy, duct and fan collect grease just as a restaurant’s do. In Lower Caversham, food businesses are inspected by environmental health officers from Reading council. 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. Lower Caversham is covered by Royal Berkshire 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.
For kitchens close to Reading station, where the day often starts early and ends late, the extract can be cleaned overnight. Term dates shape school work: for a school like St Anne's Catholic Primary School, an extract clean fits neatly into a half-term or summer break.
Lower Caversham is about 1 mile south of Caversham, in Reading. Whatever kind of site you run in Lower Caversham, extract fan cleaning is something we can help with. Visits can be booked for evenings, overnight or weekends so trading is not interrupted. Our Reading coverage runs to 34 places, Lower Caversham among them.
Here we cover the RG4 and RG1 postcode area for extract fan cleaning. Local streets include Star Road, Send Road and Mill Road, and we cover them all for extract fan cleaning. Neighbouring places we cover for extract fan cleaning include Newtown (1 mile south-east), Caversham (1 mile north), Emmer Green (1 mile north), Caversham Park Village (1 mile north) and Reading (1 mile south-west). Further out, we also cover Norcot (3 miles west), Tilehurst Within (3 miles west), Shinfield (4 miles south), Arborfield Garrison (6 miles south-east), Horncastle (3 miles south-west) and Whitley Wood (3 miles south).
Local landmarks in Lower Caversham
Locally, jobs take us to businesses close to Kendrick School, The Red Cow Public House and Eldon Square and the streets around them. You will also find Chiltern Nursery Nurse Training School (0.7 miles north-west) and University of Reading library (1.8 miles south). The closest station to Lower Caversham is Reading station, about 0.7 miles south-west. A little further out are Royal Berkshire Hospital (1 mile south) and Berkshire Medical Heritage Centre Museum (0.9 miles south). Open spaces near Lower Caversham include Sonning Hill and South Lake.