Kent · Extract fan cleaning
Extract fan cleaning in Murston, Kent
Extract fan cleaning for Murston, from a team that has been trading since 2009. Evenings, overnight and weekends, plus a 24/7 emergency line.
- Grease around the motor and its mounts
- Less air being pulled from the kitchen
- An extract fan with no cleaning record
About our extract fan cleaning in Murston
Any fan serving a kitchen in Murston is cleaned the same careful way as anywhere else: we isolate it, open the housing, scrape the impeller and degrease the lot. The result is photographed for your records. Common call-outs are for a fan coated in grease inside its housing and rough running from the extract fan, across axial fans, fan housings and centrifugal fans.
In a smaller place like Murston, the kitchens with extract systems are more likely to be a pub, a café, a takeaway or a school or care home kitchen than a big restaurant. A kitchen that cooks fewer hours still builds up grease, so cleaning is planned around how much it cooks and what the readings show.
It’s worth checking any contractor’s accreditations. Ours are BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite membership, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease, plus CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, with full insurance on top.
- Where
- Murston (ME10, ME9)
- Region
- Kent
- Paperwork
- Certificate plus before-and-after photos
- Quotes
- A fixed price before any work starts
- Hours
- Nights, weekends or holidays to suit you
- Telephone
- 0345 646 2711
- Checked
- 30 October 2026
Multi-site and managed buildings
Keeping records across a portfolio is half the battle. Each visit ends with a dated report and pictures, ready to show insurers, fire officers or EHOs.
When the building owner and the occupier are different, it’s worth checking the lease for who maintains the systems. We’re happy to deal with either side, and the report can go to both.
What your team can do, and what needs us
When your team notices a problem between visits, such as dripping grease, a noisy fan, a smell or a filter that will not come clean, it’s best reported rather than tackled in-house. We will take a look and give you a fixed quote.
Away from the kitchen, the in-house job is mainly checking: keeping grilles clear, noting unusual noise or smells and logging filter changes. The inside of ducts and units needs a specialist.
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Looking after it afterwards
Aftercare is simple, and it helps at the next visit:
- Look for grease stains near the discharge
- Book the fan into every full TR19 clean
- Keep access to the fan clear
- Keep the grease filters clean and in place
When the fan is cleaned as part of a full TR19® Grease clean, a TR19 certificate is issued through the BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite portal. A fan-only clean is recorded in the photo report.
Run the fan throughout cooking. Grease settles faster when the air stops moving, so keeping it running helps keep it clean.
What happens on the day
Protection comes first: floors, worktops and anything near the work are covered. Then we make the system safe and start. The work on site takes an hour or two for one fan, longer when it’s hard to reach, and the area is cleaned down before we leave. Visits to a place like Murston are planned ahead, so we arrive with what the survey says the job needs.
- We find the fan and check how it’s reached and how it’s isolated.
- The fan is isolated so it can’t start while we work.
- We remove the grease from the blades, impeller and casing.
- We degrease the fan and housing, taking care around the motor.
- We reassemble, run the fan and photograph the result.
Getting ready for the visit
- Tell us where we can park and unload
- Allow time for equipment near the work to be turned off and cool down
- Clear loose items from the work area
How to get a quote
Photos are enough for some jobs, while others need a look on site. Larger sites, and anything hidden behind walls, ceilings or floors, are normally surveyed first. Either way, the quote is fixed before any work is booked.
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What we are called out for in Murston
The fan sits at the end of the grease’s journey. The grease that is left lands on the blades and the casing where the spinning blades spread it around.
Any of these means the system needs a check-up:
- A motor area thick with grease
- Grease escaping from the fan outlet
- Weak extraction at the canopy
- An extract fan that vibrates or rattles
For kitchens close to Sittingbourne station, where the day often starts early and ends late, the extract can be cleaned overnight.
Comparing quotes
- Whether the quote is based on a survey or photos
- Whether the figure could change on the day
- Proof of accreditation you can verify
- Proof of insurance
Murston kitchens: local notes
The coast is only about 2 miles from Murston. Salt in the air is hard on rooftop fans, discharge cowls and fixings, so we check them for corrosion as well as grease. According to Food Standards Agency records, there are about 22 pubs and bars and about 4 hotels and guest houses in Murston and the streets around it, up to about 1.5 miles out. Breakfasts, bar meals and functions all put grease into the extract wherever they’re cooked. Murston is covered by Kent Fire and Rescue Service. Fire and rescue authorities enforce the Fire Safety Order in most non-domestic premises, and in a kitchen that fire risk includes the grease in the extract.
Term dates shape school work: for a school like Sunny Bank Primary School, an extract clean fits neatly into a half-term or summer break. If you run a church or community hall kitchen, near Church of All Saints or elsewhere in Murston, its extract still collects grease from every lunch and event.
Murston is about 1 mile east of Sittingbourne, in Kent. We carry out extract fan cleaning for businesses, landlords and public buildings in Murston and the rest of Kent. Across Kent, we cover 922 places, Murston among them. We also work in Maidstone, about 11 miles from Murston.
Work in ME10 and ME9 follows the same survey, fixed quote and written report as everywhere else we cover. Whether your site is on Oak Road, Glebe Lane and Leigh Road or anywhere close by, we can help. We also cover the places around Murston: Milton Regis (1 mile north), Sittingbourne (1 mile west), Tonge Corner (1 mile east), Rodmersham (1 mile south) and Kemsley (1 mile north). Further out, we also cover Maidstone (11 miles south-west), Ashford (15 miles south), Canterbury (15 miles east), Whitstable (12 miles east), Faversham (6 miles east) and Minster (6 miles north).
Local landmarks in Murston
Locally, jobs take us to businesses close to Sittingbourne Community College, Milton Creek Country Park and The New Inn, among other places. The nearest railway station is Sittingbourne station, roughly 0.7 miles west. Well-known places in the area include Sittingbourne Heritage Museum (less than half a mile west) and Bayford Court (under half a mile west).
What affects the cost of extract fan cleaning
There’s no set price list, because sites vary so much. What we look at:
- Travel, parking and unloading
- The condition we find in the survey
- Working hours and out-of-hours timing
- Whether we need access equipment or extra panels
You will not find a price list here, because the cost depends on the site in front of us. Call for a fixed quote, and we’ll explain what it covers.
Helping us quote
There’s no need for technical detail. It helps if you can send:
- Any access panels or hatches you can see
- How we’d reach plant on a roof or in a plant room
- The site address and the type of premises
- 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, photos of the system and the last certificate or report, if there is one. Once you have those, ring 0345 646 2711 or drop us a line.
Part by part
Impellers and blades
Coated blades move less air. We clean each blade back to its surface, so the fan can run as intended.
Inline duct fans
An inline fan can be easy to forget because it’s out of sight. We find it during the survey and include it in the clean.
Murston: your questions answered
Who enforces fire safety at workplaces in Murston?
That’s Kent Fire and Rescue Service. It’s worth keeping your fire risk assessment, TR19® certificates and photo reports together, ready to show.
Does being near the coast affect extract fan cleaning in Murston?
It can. Murston is within about 2 miles of the coast, and salt air speeds up corrosion. A fan housing that’s rusting near the coast can fail sooner, so it’s worth catching early.
Can you set up regular visits?
Yes. Tell us what you have and how it’s used, and we will suggest a schedule and quote for it.
Do we lose a day’s trading?
Not usually. We need the work area to ourselves while we’re on site, so we book a time when it would be closed anyway.
Do you offer emergency callouts?
Yes. If something urgent happens, like a fan failing or damage after a fire, call our 24/7 line and we will talk you through the next steps.
What happens if you can’t reach some of it?
We record them on the report, with a note of where it is, and we tell you what would make it reachable, such as extra access panels in ductwork.
Can you fix a fan that’s worn out?
A clean won’t mend wear. Where the fan needs repair or replacement, we can do that too, with a fixed quote first.
How long will it take to clean the fan?
That depends on the fan’s size, its position and how much grease there is. Typically it takes a few hours where there are several fans or heavy deposits.