Extract Fan Cleaning in Markyate

Extract fan cleaning around Markyate

Look up Markyate on the FSA’s food hygiene register and you will find about 3 restaurants, cafés and canteens and about 3 takeaways and sandwich shops within 1.5 miles or so of the middle of Markyate. Any of those kitchens with a canopy relies on a fan that gathers grease as it runs. Fire safety in Markyate falls to Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue Service. In most workplaces, including commercial kitchens, it’s the fire and rescue authority that enforces the Fire Safety Order. In Markyate, food businesses are inspected by environmental health officers from Dacorum council. They look at how clean the premises and equipment are, and the kitchen extract is part of that. Keeping each certificate and photo report on file helps show the extract is looked after.

A hall kitchen that only cooks for events, whether near Markyate Methodist Church or elsewhere in Markyate, still needs its extract cleaned, just less often. School kitchens, at schools like Markyate Village School and Nursery for example, are typically cleaned in the holidays so no lunches are lost. A hospital like Luton and Dunstable Hospital, about 4.1 miles north, is the kind of site where a kitchen may cook for patients, staff and visitors all day.

Markyate is in Hertfordshire. Markyate gets the same approach as every site we work on: a survey first, a fixed quote, work timed around your hours and a report with photos. Markyate is one of 381 places in Hertfordshire we cover for commercial clients. You can also see our page for Milton Keynes, about 19 miles away.

All of AL3 is within our area for extract fan cleaning, from busy streets to back roads. Extract fan cleaning is available to premises on High Street, London Road and Sebright Road and the roads around them. Other places close to Markyate include Roe End (1 mile south-west), Flamstead (2 miles south-east), Friar's Wash (2 miles south-east) and Trowley Bottom (2 miles south-east). We also work in nearby towns such as Watford (12 miles south), Hemel Hempstead (6 miles south), Stevenage (13 miles north-east), St Albans (8 miles south-east), Welwyn Garden City (12 miles east) and Harpenden (5 miles east).

Landmarks near Markyate

Typical jobs here are in premises near The Local pub. Markyate’s nearest station is Luton Airport Parkway station, roughly 3.8 miles north-east. Other landmarks nearby include Mossman Collection (2.6 miles north-east) and Luton Castle (3.3 miles north-east). For a walk, there’s Landpark Wood.

Landlords, agents and facilities managers

The Fire Safety Order 2005 puts the duty to manage fire risk on the responsible person, and that can be the employer, the owner, a landlord, a facilities manager or a managing agent. Where responsibility is shared, records matter even more.

Where a tenant occupies the premises but the landlord owns the building, it’s worth checking the lease for who maintains the systems. We can quote either party, and the report can go to both.

What your team can do, and what needs us

A few tasks are always specialist work: opening up ductwork, cleaning fans, drop testing fire dampers and measuring grease need training, the right equipment and safe access. Leave those to us.

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, and that is where we come in.