Essex · Extract fan cleaning
Extract fan cleaning in Mill Green, Essex
Extract fan cleaning for Mill Green, from a team that has been trading since 2009. Out-of-hours visits and 24/7 emergency callout.
- Burning smells from the fan area
- Fat spreading onto the roof or wall by the fan
- A fan that hums, whines or rumbles
Mill Green: your questions answered
Can you get to a site in Mill Green?
Yes, Mill Green is part of our area, however small the site. Just mention lanes, gates or anything else about the site when you book.
Which environmental health team covers Mill Green?
In Mill Green, it’s Brentwood council that carries out food hygiene inspections. Have your latest TR19® certificate and photo report to hand, as an officer may ask how the extract is maintained.
Who is the responsible person?
It depends on the building. Under the Fire Safety Order 2005, it’s the responsible person, which may be the employer, owner, landlord, facilities manager or managing agent.
What makes a kitchen extract fan vibrate?
Uneven grease on the impeller often causes it. We clean the fan and tell you if anything else, like worn bearings, is to blame.
What do you do with what you remove?
We contain it and take it with us. Grease, debris and waste water are collected as the work goes on rather than letting it spread.
What does TR19 mean?
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.
Is the fan included in a TR19 clean?
Yes, the fan is part of a full TR19® Grease clean. We clean it alongside the canopy, ductwork and discharge.
Can you look after several sites?
Yes. One number covers all your sites in our area, with visits on a regular schedule.
Extract fan cleaning for kitchens and businesses in Mill Green
Every TR19® Grease clean includes the extract fan, but some fans need cleaning between full cleans, for example when it’s noisy or vibrating. A fan-only clean is recorded as exactly that. Typical jobs include grease around the motor and its mounts and a noisy fan that has got louder over time, on discharge points, fan housings and in-line fans.
Work in a small place like Mill Green 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.
Accreditations are easy to claim and worth checking. We are a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease, and we hold CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, and we’re fully insured.
- Place
- Mill Green (CM4)
- Wider area
- Essex
- Records
- Certificate and photo report
- Quote
- Fixed quote, normally within a working day
- Hours
- Nights, weekends or holidays to suit you
- Telephone
- 0345 646 2711
- Last updated
- 30 October 2026
What the work involves, part by part
Impellers and blades
A clean impeller shows any damage: chips, distortion or wear. We note any concerns.
Inline duct fans
Hidden in a ceiling void, an inline fan is easily missed. The survey makes sure it’s part of the clean.
Between visits
So the system stays in good health:
- Check the report shows the fan was cleaned
- Report rattles or humming early
- Report grease escaping from the fan
- Keep records of every fan clean
File the photo report with your other extract records. It shows the fan’s condition at the time of the clean, which helps if anything changes later.
Listen to the fan. Rattles, hums or shaking can be early signs of build-up or wear, and catching it early keeps it a cleaning job.
Honest limits
Extract fan cleaning can’t fix everything, and we’ll tell you before we start. It will not put right:
- A failed motor or worn bearings (that needs a fan repair or replacement)
- Grease in the canopy and ductwork
- A cracked or broken impeller (it needs replacing)
If in doubt, give us a ring on 0345 646 2711 or use the quote form and we will say what we think.
Where we work
- Fan housings
- In-line fans
- Axial fans
- Roof-mounted fans
- Centrifugal fans
- Discharge points
Extract fan cleaning around Mill Green
Food Standards Agency records include about 6 bars, pubs and nightclubs in Mill Green 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. Food hygiene inspections in Mill Green are the job of Brentwood council’s environmental health team. Extraction counts as kitchen equipment, so its condition can come up on the day. A dated certificate in the maintenance file answers the question before it’s asked. Essex County Fire and Rescue Service covers Mill Green. Grease in a kitchen extract is a recognised fire risk, and the fire authority enforces the law on managing it in most commercial premises.
A hall kitchen that only cooks for events, whether near Church of St Mary the Virgin or elsewhere in Mill Green, still needs its extract cleaned, just less often. If you run catering at a historic house or estate in the area (Ingatestone Hall is about 1.9 miles south-east), event kitchens in older buildings often have awkward duct runs that need planning.
Mill Green is about 5 miles north-west of Billericay, in Essex. Whatever kind of site you run in Mill Green, we can take on extract fan cleaning. We can work out of hours so the site keeps running. Our Essex coverage runs to 644 places, Mill Green among them. Chelmsford is in our area too, around 6 miles away.
We cover every part of the CM4 postcode area for extract fan cleaning and the roads nearby. Streets in the area include Mill Green Road, Harding's Lane and Mapletree Lane, and we cover them all for extract fan cleaning. Neighbouring places we cover for extract fan cleaning include Fryerning (1 mile south), Beggar Hill (1 mile west), Green Street (1 mile south-west), Ingatestone (1 mile south) and Swallows Cross (2 miles south-west). Within a short drive, we also cover Chelmsford (6 miles north-east), Basildon (9 miles south-east), Harlow (12 miles north-west), Brentwood (5 miles south-west), Maldon (14 miles east) and Canvey Island (15 miles south-east).
Local landmarks in Mill Green
In Mill Green, that means kitchens and buildings near Anglo European School and The Cricketers pub and the streets around them. The nearest railway station is Ingatestone station, roughly 1.4 miles south-east. Other landmarks nearby include Willingale Doe (4.9 miles north-west) and Chelmsford and Essex Hospital (4.4 miles north-east). Not far away are Norsey Wood.
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Common problems we fix in Mill Green
A fan on a roof or hidden in a ceiling void is easy to forget. If it wasn’t included in past cleans, it may hold years of grease, and the report will show it.
Common reasons sites call us include:
- A fan left out of previous cleans
- Grease stains around the discharge
- A noisy fan that has got louder over time
- A fan shaking on its mounts
School kitchens, at schools like Ingatestone Infant School for example, are usually cleaned in the holidays so no lunches are lost.
What your quote should include
- Whether the figure could change on the day
- Proof of insurance
- When they can work, and whether that is outside your opening hours
- Whether they recommend a next date
What happens if it’s left?
Grease on the fan is grease in the system. TR19® Grease covers the whole extract, fan included, and insurers asking for TR19 cleaning expect the full system. Out of sight is the usual reason a rural system goes too long without attention.
One small site or a whole estate, we price it on the same basis: the work involved, the access and the timing. You’ll have a fixed price before work begins.
Why us?
- Accredited under CHAS and SafeContractor, with ISO 9001
- A BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease
- A single point of contact for sites across the South East and London
- Survey first, then a fixed quote
How it works
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 the same goes into the written report. The visit takes a couple of hours per fan, depending on its size and the build-up. Seeing the system in photos first means the trip to Mill Green can be planned properly.
- We find the fan and check how it’s reached and how it’s isolated.
- With the fan isolated, the housing is opened.
- The impeller and the housing around it are scraped clean.
- We degrease the fan and housing, taking care around the motor.
- The fan is put back into service, checked and photographed.
How to prepare
- Tell us where we can park and unload
- Let us know how we reach the system, including roofs, risers and plant rooms
- Tell us about site rules, permits or sign-in
Get a fixed quote
Quoting starts with a diagnosis, from your pictures and details or, where that is not enough, a survey on site. After that, you get a fixed price for the work so you know the cost before any work starts.
Related advice
In-house cleaning or a specialist?
Your own staff can handle the daily basics: 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.
Staff cleaning doesn’t replace a specialist visit; it supports it. Clean filters and tidy surfaces slow the build-up, but hidden parts of the system still need specialist attention.