West Sussex · Extract fan cleaning
Extract Fan Cleaning in Marehill
Specialist extract fan cleaning for Marehill: diagnosis first, then a fixed quote, the work and a report with pictures. Call for a fixed quote.
- Fat spreading onto the roof or wall by the fan
- Hot, greasy smells near the fan
- A fan that has never been cleaned
Common questions in Marehill
Which fire and rescue service is responsible for Marehill?
It’s West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service, which covers Marehill. A recent cleaning certificate and a note of the next clean date show that grease in the extract is being managed.
Who would carry out a food hygiene inspection at a kitchen in Marehill?
The local authority for Marehill is Horsham council, and its environmental health team does the inspecting. It helps to keep the extract cleaning records with your food safety paperwork, so they’re ready if asked for.
Do you offer emergency callouts?
Yes, any time. For anything urgent, such as a fan failure or damage after a fire, ring the 24/7 line and we will talk you through the next steps.
What’s the cleaning interval for an extract fan?
It’s cleaned with the whole extract at BESA’s minimum intervals for your cooking hours. Readings may show it needs cleaning more often.
Is there a survey before the work?
Yes. We always survey first, either from photos and details you send or on a site visit. A fixed quote follows.
How do you keep the site clean during the work?
Protection goes down first: floor sheeting and covers over nearby surfaces and equipment. The area is left tidy, with our waste taken away.
Is it safe to clean the fan while the kitchen is open?
The fan is isolated before we open it, so it cannot run during the clean. That means the extract is off, so we clean while the kitchen is closed.
What happens to the waste?
We take it away at the end of the visit. While we work, it’s kept contained to keep the area clean.
Extract fan cleaning for kitchens and businesses in Marehill
Think of the fan as the system’s heart and the grease as a clot. A greasy fan works harder and moves less air. Our job is to clear it, check it runs smoothly and record what we found, before signing it off. If you’re dealing with hot, greasy smells near the fan and a fan shaking on its mounts, we can put it right.
Work in a small place like Marehill starts with a call to agree access and timings, and the clean covers the whole system, as it would anywhere: canopy, filters, duct, fan and discharge, with a certificate and photo report at the end.
The report is your system’s health record: dated, with pictures, and showing what was done. Grease extract cleans are also certificated to TR19® Grease through the BESCA VHE portal, ready for your insurer.
- Location
- Marehill (RH20)
- Region
- West Sussex
- Records
- TR19® certificate and photo report
- Price
- Fixed quote, typically within a working day
- Hours
- Evenings, overnight and weekends; 24/7 emergencies
- Phone
- 0345 646 2711
- Page updated
- 30 October 2026
What extract fan cleaning looks like in Marehill
According to Food Standards Agency records, there are about 3 pubs and bars in Marehill and the streets around it, up to about 1.5 miles out. Any of them serving cooked food has an extract to keep clean, from canopy to discharge. Fire safety in Marehill falls to West Sussex 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. Environmental health officers from Horsham council inspect food businesses in Marehill. A greasy canopy or dripping filters are the sort of thing an inspection can pick up. Our report lists what was cleaned and when, which is useful to have ready.
School kitchens, at schools like St Mary's Church of England Primary School for example, are normally cleaned in the holidays so no lunches are lost. Church and community hall kitchens, near Wiggonholt Church or anywhere around Marehill, are easy to forget, but their extracts collect grease like any other.
Marehill is about 10 miles north of Worthing, in West Sussex. From the centre of Marehill to the outskirts, extract fan cleaning is available to all kinds of commercial premises, from small sites to large estates. Our West Sussex coverage runs to 371 places, Marehill among them. There’s also a page for Brighton, about 17 miles away.
Extract fan cleaning in RH20 follows the same survey, fixed quote and written report as everywhere else we cover. That includes premises on West Chiltington Road, Tudor Close and Kings Lane and nearby roads. Nearby, we also carry out extract fan cleaning in Nutbourne (1 mile north-east), Broomershill (1 mile north-west), Wiggonholt (1 mile south), West Chiltington Common (1 mile south-east) and West Chiltington (1 mile east). We also work in nearby towns such as Horsham (10 miles north-east), Worthing (10 miles south), Bognor Regis (14 miles south-west), Chichester (15 miles south-west), Burgess Hill (15 miles east) and Littlehampton (10 miles south).
Around Marehill
We work in commercial kitchens and buildings around The Rising Sun Inn, among other places. The nearest railway station is Pulborough station, roughly 1.6 miles west. Other landmarks nearby include Amberley Castle (4 miles south-west) and The Storrington And District Museum (2.9 miles south-east). Green spaces nearby include Amberley Wildbrooks RSPB Reserve.
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What staff can safely do
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. That’s our job.
Keep a record of what your team does. A dated log of in-house cleaning and checks helps show that the system is managed between specialist visits, next to our reports.
What we do, step by step
The first job on site is protection: floors, worktops and anything near the work are covered. After that, the system is made safe and the work begins. The work on site takes a couple of hours per fan, depending on its size and the build-up, and we clear up before we go. The timing of a visit to Marehill is set by you, and the travel is our side of the planning.
- Diagnosis first: we look for grease, noise and vibration.
- Once isolated, we open the fan up.
- The impeller is cleaned blade by blade so it runs balanced.
- Housing, outlet and the area around the motor are cleaned.
- We run the fan and note its condition in the photo report.
Preparing for the visit
- Arrange a key holder or contact on site
- Make sure equipment near the work can be switched off and left to cool
- Tell us where we can park and unload
Get a fixed quote
Every quote begins with a look at the system, from your photos and details or, where that isn’t enough, a survey on site. Then we send a fixed price, before any work starts.
Advice
Leave it or put it right?
An unbalanced fan gets worse, not better. It can wear the bearings and lead to failure and a kitchen can’t cook safely without extraction. A planned clean beats an emergency. Rural sites can’t always move to another kitchen or room when something fails.
Working hours, access and the scale of the site can all change the price. We take each of them into account and give you a fixed price before work begins.
Why us?
- We diagnose before we treat
- BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease
- Out-of-hours work and a 24/7 emergency line
- CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001
Take a look at our cost guide and our accreditations.
Common problems we fix in Marehill
Grease on a fan is a fire risk, in Marehill as anywhere. If grease in the duct catches, the fan and its housing can feed the fire, and a hot, struggling motor doesn’t help.
These are the problems we see most often:
- An extract fan that vibrates or rattles
- A fan that no longer moves enough air
- Rough running from the extract fan
- A motor area thick with grease
If your kitchen is in a listed or historic building, like the houses around Marehill (Old Place Manor is about 1.4 miles west), fitting access panels needs care.
What your quote should include
- Whether they recommend a next date
- Whether they’re fully insured
- What hours they’ll be on site
- What records you’ll receive afterwards
Aftercare tips
Looking after the system between visits is straightforward, and it helps at the next visit:
- Keep each photo report with the maintenance log
- Make sure the fan is included each time
- Look for grease stains near the discharge
- Do not turn the fan off mid-service
Keep the report with the maintenance log and fire risk assessment. It gives a dated record of the fan’s condition, which helps if anything changes later.
Run the fan throughout cooking. Grease settles faster when the air stops moving, so keeping it running helps keep it clean.
Managing agents and facilities teams in Marehill
We regularly work with managing agents. Send the address, what’s needed and how access works and we will come back with a fixed quote.
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. With shared responsibility, good records help everyone.
Part by part
Wall fans
Smaller kitchens may extract through a fan on an outside wall. We isolate it, then clean the blades and housing.
Fan housings and motors
Belt-driven fans have a drive belt and pulleys that can collect grease. Belts and pulleys are checked and cleaned where safe for your records.