Greater London · Extract fan cleaning
Mildmay extract fan cleaning
Cleaning of kitchen extract fans, impellers, fan housings and discharge points for commercial sites in Mildmay and across Greater London. CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, and fully insured.
- Less air being pulled from the kitchen
- A fan shaking on its mounts
- Fat spreading onto the roof or wall by the fan
Your questions about extract fan cleaning in Mildmay
Which fire and rescue service is responsible for Mildmay?
Fire safety enforcement in Mildmay is handled by London Fire Brigade. TR19® is not law, but it’s the benchmark many fire officers and insurers look to when they ask how often the extract is cleaned.
Do you do school kitchen extract cleaning in Mildmay in the summer holidays?
Yes. The holidays are the usual time for school work. There are about 39 schools, colleges and universities on the FSA’s food hygiene register within about 1.5 miles of Mildmay. You can ring 0345 646 2711 or drop us a line with the dates the site is empty.
Do you offer emergency callouts?
Yes. There’s a 24/7 emergency line, for problems that cannot wait. Call us any time and explain what’s happened.
Which sectors do you work in?
We work for restaurants, pubs, hotels, schools, colleges, hospitals, care homes, offices and shops, as well as food production and leisure sites.
Is there a survey before the work?
Yes, always. Diagnosis comes before treatment: the survey shows what needs doing and what access we need and the fixed quote is built on it.
Why has my extract fan got louder?
Grease on the blades and housing is one of the usual causes, since uneven grease makes it run out of balance. It can also be wear in the bearings or motor, which our report will flag.
Do you offer maintenance contracts?
Yes. We run scheduled maintenance contracts, with visits at the interval your system needs. The report from each visit recommends the next date.
What does TR19 mean?
TR19® is the BESA specification for keeping ventilation systems clean. Since 2019, TR19® Grease has been a standalone specification for grease in kitchen extract systems, while TR19® Air covers other supply and extract ductwork.
Extract fan cleaning in Mildmay
Is the extract fan louder than it used to be, or the airflow weaker? A few details or a photo help when you give us a ring on 0345 646 2711, or send details by email, and we’ll send you a fixed quote for extract fan cleaning in Mildmay, typically within one working day. The work covers in-line fans, axial fans and roof-mounted fans, and common reasons people get in touch are vibration from an unbalanced impeller and grease stains around the discharge.
Kitchens in Mildmay, like many across London, can share a building with flats or offices, with the duct running up through shared risers. Grease in a duct like that is a fire risk to the whole building, not just the kitchen, which is why keeping it clean to TR19® matters.
It’s worth checking any contractor’s accreditations. We are a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease, and we hold CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, with full insurance on top.
- Location
- Mildmay (N1, N16, E8)
- Region
- Greater London
- Reporting
- Certificate and photo report
- Price
- Fixed quote, typically within a working day
- When we work
- Evenings, overnight and weekends; 24/7 emergencies
- Phone
- 0345 646 2711
- Last updated
- 30 October 2026
What extract fan cleaning looks like in Mildmay
Food Standards Agency records include about 145 pubs and bars and about 15 hotels, B&Bs and guest houses in and around Mildmay, up to about a mile and a half out. Any of them serving cooked food has an extract to keep clean, from canopy to discharge. Kitchens in Mildmay get their food hygiene inspections from Islington council. A greasy canopy or dripping filters are the sort of thing an inspection can pick up. A TR19® certificate and photo report after each clean gives you a record to show an inspector. The fire and rescue service for Mildmay is London Fire Brigade. Grease in a kitchen extract is a recognised fire risk, and the fire authority enforces the law on managing it in most commercial premises.
If you run a church or community hall kitchen, near Church of St Jude and St Paul or elsewhere in Mildmay, its extract still collects grease from every lunch and event. Term dates shape school work: for a school like Newington Green Primary School, an extract clean fits neatly into a half-term or summer break.
Mildmay is about 1 mile north of Hoxton, in Greater London. Across the N1 area, we can take on extract fan cleaning. Our Greater London coverage runs to 764 places, and Mildmay is one of them.
Work in N1, N16 and E8 is surveyed, quoted and booked the same way as anywhere else. Whether your site is on Dove Road, Essex Road and Burma Road or a nearby road, our technicians can take on the work. Main roads around Mildmay include the A1199, so getting to you is simple for evening and night visits. Nearby, we also carry out extract fan cleaning in Newington Green (1 mile north), De Beauvoir Town (1 mile south), Canonbury (1 mile south-west), Kingsland (1 mile south-east) and Highbury (1 mile west). Further out, we also cover London (3 miles south), City of Westminster (4 miles south-west), Marylebone (3 miles south-west), Kensington (6 miles south-west), Walthamstow (4 miles north-east) and Hampstead (4 miles west).
Around Mildmay
We work in commercial kitchens and buildings around City of London Academy Highbury Grove, Highbury Fields and Army and Navy pub. Mildmay has its own railway station: Dalston Kingsland station. Nearby you will also find Clowns Gallery-Museum (0.6 miles south-east) and Hackney Walk (1.5 miles east). Not far away are Gillespie Park and Ludgate Hill.
Do you need extract fan cleaning in Mildmay?
Grease builds up unevenly on the blades. Over time, that imbalance shakes the fan, 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 no longer moves enough air
- A noisy fan that has got louder over time
- Grease escaping from the fan outlet
- Grease around the motor and its mounts
For kitchens close to Dalston Kingsland station, where the day often starts early and ends late, the extract can be cleaned overnight.
Questions to ask before booking
- How areas they can’t reach will be recorded
- If they look at the system before pricing
- Whether they recommend a next date
- Proof of insurance
When it’s something else
Not every problem is solved by extract fan cleaning, and we’d rather say so up front. It doesn’t solve:
- An undersized fan that cannot cope
- A dirty duct upstream of the fan
- An impeller that is bent or split
Not sure which it is? You can phone us on 0345 646 2711, or send details by email and we’ll tell you honestly.
What we work on in Mildmay
- In-line fans
- Fan housings
- Roof-mounted fans
- Axial fans
- Discharge points
- Centrifugal fans
Why it’s worth doing now in Mildmay
Without a working extract fan, a kitchen can’t cook safely. Many fan problems start with grease, so cleaning the fan helps keep it working. If it does fail, our 24/7 emergency line is there. It’s better booked as a planned job in Mildmay than handled as an emergency.
The cost depends on how big the system is, what state it’s in and how easy it is to reach. You get a fixed price before any work starts, so you know where you stand.
Why us?
- A single point of contact for sites across the South East and London
- We diagnose before we treat
- Photo reports with every job
- Work around your opening hours, with 24/7 emergency cover
Read how cleaning jobs are priced and our accreditations and certificates.
What staff can safely do
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.
Staff cleaning and specialist work are not the same thing. A daily filter wipe and a weekly filter wash keep grease down at the front of the system, but they don’t reach the grease that builds up further in. Reaching it takes a specialist with the right equipment.
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What we do, step by step
Before we leave, we walk the area with whoever is on site. We point out anything that couldn’t be reached or needs a follow-up, and it goes on the report too. All told, the work takes an hour or two for one fan, longer when it’s hard to reach. Most London sites can’t stop for the day, so work in Mildmay is usually done overnight, early in the morning or at weekends.
- Diagnosis first: we look for grease, noise and vibration.
- With the fan isolated, the housing is opened.
- The impeller is cleaned blade by blade so it runs balanced.
- We clean the casing, the outlet and around the motor.
- We run the fan and note its condition in the photo report.
Before we arrive
- Allow time for equipment near the work to be turned off and cool down
- Mention any parking or loading restrictions
- Agree a time when the area can be out of use
Get a fixed quote
Quotes are quick. Call or email with a few details and you’ll typically have a fixed price within one working day. If we need to see the system first, we book a survey around your hours.
Advice
Managing agents and facilities teams in Mildmay
From a single site to a large estate, the standard is the same: 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 can quote for the whole system.
How we price extract fan cleaning
We quote each job individually. This is what makes a difference:
- The condition we find in the survey
- Parking and loading at the site
- Whether several sites go on one quote
- How easy every part is to reach
Whatever the type of site, the quote works the same way: how much there is, how we reach it, what state it’s in and when we can work. Call for a fixed quote and we’ll explain each part.
Asking for a quote
To help us quote quickly, please include:
- Any symptoms, from odd noises to smells or leaks
- The postcode and the type of business
- How we’d reach plant on a roof or in a plant room
- Your last certificate, test record or report
Here’s what helps us quote: where the site is, what it is and its opening hours, photos of the system and any previous report or certificate. Then call 0345 646 2711, or send details by email.