Kent · Extract fan cleaning
Extract fan cleaning in Lower Hartlip, Kent
Our technicians work in Lower Hartlip on extract fan cleaning. Fixed quotes, work around your opening hours and photo reports on every job.
- A fan shaking on its mounts
- A fan motor running hot under a coat of grease
- A smell of hot grease from the extract
Questions from Lower Hartlip
Can school kitchens in Lower Hartlip be cleaned in the holidays?
Yes. Half-terms and the summer break are the natural time for school work. Food Standards Agency records list about 2 schools, colleges and universities with registered kitchens within about a mile and a half of Lower Hartlip. Tell us your holiday dates and we’ll book the visit for when the site is empty.
Who would carry out a food hygiene inspection at a kitchen in Lower Hartlip?
The local authority for Lower Hartlip is Swale council, and its environmental health team does the inspecting. How often a business is inspected depends on the risk rating the council gives it, so it’s worth staying ready all year.
Is Lower Hartlip in your area?
Yes. We work across Greater London, Surrey, Kent, Sussex, Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Hertfordshire and Essex, and that includes Lower Hartlip.
What’s TR19?
BESA’s ventilation hygiene specification in two main parts: TR19® Grease for kitchen extract systems and TR19® Air for general ventilation. It isn’t law, but it’s the benchmark.
How much does extract fan cleaning cost?
Every site is different, so each gets its own fixed quote. For a quote, phone us on 0345 646 2711 or use the quote form and tell us about the site and its opening hours.
Do you work out of hours?
Yes. Evenings, nights and weekends are normal working hours for us, so the site doesn’t lose a service.
Where does the waste go?
We take it away when we go. During the work, it’s contained so the area stays clean.
Do you look at the system first?
Yes. For many sites, pictures and a few details are enough, and larger or hidden systems get a visit.
Extract fan cleaning for kitchens and businesses in Lower Hartlip
Grease on a fan is not spread evenly. Heavier deposits on some blades throw the impeller off balance, leading to vibration, noise and strain on the motor and bearings. A thorough clean removes the cause. Typical jobs include a fan coated in grease inside its housing and grease escaping from the fan outlet, on roof-mounted fans, axial fans and fan housings.
For a kitchen in or near Lower Hartlip, 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.
The sign-off is always in writing: a written report, dated and illustrated with pictures, plus a certificate through the BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite portal when the work is a TR19® Grease clean. Any parts we couldn’t reach are recorded on it too.
- Place
- Lower Hartlip (ME9)
- Wider area
- Kent
- Records
- Certificate plus before-and-after pictures
- Quote
- Fixed quote, normally within a working day
- When we work
- Out of hours as standard, 24/7 emergency line
- Call
- 0345 646 2711
- Updated
- 30 October 2026
Landlords, agents and facilities managers
Whether it’s one building or many, you get the same standard: a survey first, a fixed quote, the work timed around the site and a report with pictures.
Landlords, managing agents and facilities managers book us, not only the businesses that use the systems. Where a system serves more than one tenant, such as a shared riser, it helps to agree who arranges the work, and we’re happy to quote for all of it.
Common problems we fix in Lower Hartlip
Grease condenses as the air cools, and a fan out on a roof or wall often sits where the air is coolest. So grease often settles heavily there.
Clients usually contact us when they notice something like this:
- Hot, greasy smells near the fan
- A fan that has never been cleaned
- Rough running from the extract fan
- Less air being pulled from the kitchen
If you run a church or community hall kitchen, near Church of St Michael or elsewhere in Lower Hartlip, its extract still collects grease from every lunch and event.
What your quote should include
- Whether they’re fully insured
- What hours they’ll be on site
- How VAT is shown on the quote
- Their accreditations, such as BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite, CHAS or SafeContractor
How the visit works
Night work is normal for us. 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 an hour or two for most single fans. We agree a date with you, plan the drive to Lower Hartlip and turn up when the site is quiet.
- The fan is found and its type, access and isolation checked.
- We isolate the power before opening the housing.
- Grease is scraped off the impeller blades and casing.
- Blades, housing and surrounds are degreased with care around the electrics.
- It’s closed up, run, checked and photographed for the report.
Getting ready for the visit
- Mention any locked doors, roof access or ceiling voids
- Tell us the best time to work, such as after service or at a weekend
- Let us know about parking and loading
Get a fixed quote
The quickest way to a quote is to send pictures: the system from a couple of angles, plus any access panels or hatches. Tell us what kind of site it is and when it’s open, and we can price many jobs without a visit.
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Staff cleaning versus specialist work
When your team notices a problem between visits, like drips, unusual noise, smells or damaged filters, they should report it rather than try to fix it. We’ll take a look and send you a fixed quote.
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 deal with it now?
A greasy fan has to work harder to move the same air. Less air is pulled from the kitchen, so heat and smoke linger and the motor works harder. Rural sites can’t always move to another kitchen or room when something fails.
Whatever the type of site, the quote works the same way: the size of the job, access, condition and working hours. Call for a fixed quote and we will explain each part.
What you get with us
- A written report with photos after each visit
- Out-of-hours work and a 24/7 emergency line
- Fixed quotes from a survey or pictures
- CHAS and SafeContractor accredited, with ISO 9001
See what affects the cost and our accreditations.
How we price extract fan cleaning
You’ll get a fixed price before we start. It takes into account:
- The size of the system
- When the work can happen, such as evenings, overnight or weekends
- Site requirements such as sign-in and permits
- Parking and loading at the site
A single site or a whole portfolio, we price it on the same basis: what needs doing, how we get to it and when. The price is fixed before any work starts.
Asking for a quote
The more you tell us, the more accurate the quote. With your enquiry, please include:
- The times we could work without disrupting the site
- Photos showing the whole system and its surroundings
- The postcode and the type of business
- Anything you’ve noticed, such as smells, noise, drips or poor airflow
Here’s what helps us quote: the address, the type of site and when it’s open, pictures of the system and the last certificate or report, if there is one. Then phone us on 0345 646 2711 or send us an email.
Extract fan cleaning around Lower Hartlip
At about 3 miles from the coast, Lower Hartlip is close enough for sea air to matter. Salt air speeds up corrosion of roof-level fans, discharge cowls and their fixings. The FSA’s food hygiene register shows about 9 cafés, restaurants and staff canteens and about 3 takeaways and sandwich shops in and around Lower Hartlip, up to about a mile and a half out. Any of those kitchens with a canopy relies on a fan that gathers grease as it runs. Lower Hartlip sits within the area of Kent Fire and Rescue Service. In most workplaces, including commercial kitchens, it’s the fire and rescue authority that enforces the Fire Safety Order.
Healthcare kitchens cannot easily close, so their extracts are cleaned overnight or between meal services; the nearest hospital to Lower Hartlip is Medway Maritime Hospital, about 5 miles north-west. School kitchens, at schools like Hartlip Endowed Church of England Primary School for example, are usually cleaned in the holidays so no lunches are lost.
Lower Hartlip is about 3 miles south-east of Gillingham, in Kent. Every kind of commercial site in Lower Hartlip, extract fan cleaning is something we can help with. Visits can be booked for evenings, overnight or weekends so the site keeps running. Lower Hartlip is one of 922 places in Kent we cover for extract fan cleaning. There’s also a page for Maidstone, about 8 miles away.
Extract fan cleaning in ME9 follows the same survey, fixed quote and written report as everywhere else we cover. Extract fan cleaning is available to premises on Lower Hartlip Road, Grainey Field and Old House Lane and the roads around them. We also cover Hartlip (1 mile west), Breach (1 mile north-east), Newington (1 mile east), Moor Street (1 mile north-west) and Meresborough (1 mile west). We also work in nearby towns such as Maidstone (8 miles south-west), Sittingbourne (4 miles east), Gravesend (13 miles north-west), Faversham (11 miles east), Northfleet (14 miles north-west) and Minster (8 miles north-east).
Landmarks near Lower Hartlip
Around Lower Hartlip, our work takes us to kitchens and buildings near Foxburrow Wood and Leigh Academy Rainham. For rail, the closest station is Newington station, about 1.1 miles north-east. Well-known places in the area include Court Hall Museum (3.8 miles east) and Bayford Court (4.3 miles east). For a walk, there’s Detling Hill and Bishop Saltings.
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What extract fan cleaning can’t fix
Not every problem is solved by extract fan cleaning, and we’ll tell you before work begins. It will not put right:
- A fan that will not start
- An impeller that is bent or split
- A dirty duct upstream of the fan
Not sure which it is? You can give us a ring on 0345 646 2711 or drop us a line and we’ll tell you honestly.
What the work covers
- In-line fans
- Fan housings
- Centrifugal fans
- Roof-mounted fans
- Axial fans
- Discharge points