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Extract Fan Cleaning in New Eltham
Need extract fan cleaning in New Eltham? We survey first, send you a fixed quote and work around your opening hours, then sign off with a report and photos.
- A fan that hums, whines or rumbles
- Thick grease on the impeller and casing
- Fat spreading onto the roof or wall by the fan
New Eltham kitchens: local notes
Food Standards Agency records list about 121 restaurants, cafés and canteens and about 44 takeaways in New Eltham and the streets around it, up to about 1.5 miles out. The fan at the end of each of those extracts collects grease that slows it and wears the motor. New Eltham sits within the area of London Fire Brigade. 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. Environmental health officers from Greenwich council inspect food businesses in New Eltham. An officer looking round a kitchen will see the canopy, and grease there is hard to miss. Before-and-after pictures from each clean are a simple way to show the extract is in hand.
If you run a café or takeaway near New Eltham station, early starts and late finishes leave little time to clean, so overnight extract cleaning suits. Kitchens that cook twelve hours or more a day, as some healthcare kitchens do, fall into BESA’s three-monthly minimum; Eltham Community Hospital is the nearest hospital to New Eltham, about 1.1 miles north-west.
New Eltham is about 1 mile south-east of Eltham, in Greater London. Whatever kind of site you run in New Eltham, we can take on extract fan cleaning. Visits can be booked for evenings, overnight or weekends so trading is not interrupted. Our Greater London coverage runs to 764 places, New Eltham among them. Our London page covers sites nearby (8 miles or so).
Postcode districts we cover here for extract fan cleaning: SE9, DA15 and BR7. That includes premises on Green Lane, Gerda Road and Novar Road and the roads around them. Nearby, we also carry out extract fan cleaning in Eltham (1 mile north-west), Longlands (1 mile south-east), Coldharbour (1 mile south-west), Avery Hill (1 mile north) and Blackfen (1 mile north-east). Larger places within reach include London (8 miles north-west), City of Westminster (11 miles north-west), Marylebone (11 miles north-west), Kensington (13 miles west), St Pancras (10 miles north-west) and Shoreditch (9 miles north-west).
What’s near New Eltham
We work in commercial kitchens and buildings around Elmstead Wood and St Thomas More Catholic Comprehensive School, among other places. There’s a railway station in New Eltham itself: New Eltham station. Nearby you will also find Metropolitan Police Museum (1.4 miles east) and Eltham Community Hospital (1.1 miles north-west). Green spaces nearby include Summer Hill and The Tarn.
Extract fan cleaning in New Eltham, done properly
Duct Doctor has been cleaning kitchen extract fans since 2009. We’re a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease, with CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001 and full insurance. The work covers discharge points, centrifugal fans and fan housings, and common reasons people get in touch are a noisy fan that has got louder over time and a fan motor running hot under a coat of grease.
In a London area like New Eltham, a kitchen extract often passes through shared space on its way out: a riser, a service void, the floors above. A duct fire there can reach parts of the building far from the range, so a regular TR19® clean protects everyone in it.
A written report with pictures follows each visit, so there’s a dated record of the work. Kitchen extract cleaning to TR19® Grease is certificated through the BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite portal.
- Location
- New Eltham (SE9, DA15, BR7)
- Region
- Greater London
- Paperwork
- Certificate plus before-and-after photos
- Price
- A fixed price before any work starts
- Hours
- Nights, weekends or holidays to suit you
- Telephone
- 0345 646 2711
- Reviewed
- 30 October 2026
What we do, step by step
The first job on site is protection: sheeting goes over floors and surfaces close to the work. After that, the system is made safe and the work begins. It takes a few hours where there are several fans or heavy deposits, and we clear up before we go. Security desks and permits-to-work are routine in London, so let us know what your building in New Eltham needs from us.
- First we locate the fan and agree how it’s safely 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.
- It’s closed up, run and checked, and pictures go into your report.
How to prepare
- Dig out any earlier paperwork for the system
- Mention any parking or loading restrictions
- Plan for cooking equipment or plant to be off before we arrive
Ask for a quote
For extract fan cleaning in New Eltham, call us on 0345 646 2711 or use the quote form. Let us know the site type and the opening hours, and send pictures or your last report if you can. A fixed quote usually follows within one working day.
Advice
What we are called out for in New Eltham
By the time air reaches the fan, it has passed the canopy, filters and duct. Whatever grease is still in it settles on the impeller and inside the housing where the spinning blades spread it around.
Most sites get in touch after spotting one of these:
- Thick grease on the impeller and casing
- A fan that no longer moves enough air
- A fan motor running hot under a coat of grease
- Fat spreading onto the roof or wall by the fan
Bursars and site managers at schools such as Wyborne Primary School tend to book extract cleaning for when the kitchen is empty.
Comparing quotes
- What hours they’ll be on site
- If they look at the system before pricing
- Which accreditations they hold, and whether you can check them
- Whether they’re fully insured
New Eltham questions
Is parking a problem for work in New Eltham?
We plan it in advance, so let us know about loading bays, permits and access rules at the building. Night visits tend to make loading easier on London streets.
Who inspects food businesses in New Eltham?
In New Eltham, it’s Greenwich council that carries out food hygiene inspections. An officer may look up into the canopy, so clean filters on the day and a recent certificate on file both help.
Are you insured?
Yes, fully. CHAS and SafeContractor accreditation sit alongside it for clients who vet their contractors.
Can you work evenings and weekends?
Yes. Tell us your opening hours when you ask for a quote and we’ll plan the visit around them.
Does a TR19 kitchen extract clean cover the fan?
Yes, it should be. The whole system is cleaned, from the canopy to the discharge, and the fan is a key part of it, so it’s cleaned too.
Does the law say we must follow TR19?
No. The law sets the duty, and TR19® is the recognised benchmark for meeting it. Under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, the responsible person has to manage fire risk, and many insurers can refuse or reduce a claim without proof of cleaning.
How do you protect the area?
We cover floors and nearby surfaces with sheeting before we start, and waste is contained as we go. At the end, the area is cleaned down.
Do we need to close while you work?
Not usually. Visits are timed for when the area is closed, such as overnight or at a weekend, so the site can carry on as normal.
What a clean will not put right
A few issues sit outside what this work can do:
- A dirty duct upstream of the fan
- Wiring faults to the fan
- A failed motor or worn bearings (that needs a fan repair or replacement)
If in doubt, give us a ring on 0345 646 2711, or send details by email and we’ll say what we think.
Parts of the system we cover
- In-line fans
- Axial fans
- Roof-mounted fans
- Centrifugal fans
- Discharge points
- Fan housings
In-house cleaning or a specialist?
If your staff spot something between visits, like drips, unusual noise, smells or damaged filters, they should report it rather than try to fix it. We’ll take a look and give you a fixed quote.
A few tasks are always specialist work: entering ducts, working on fans, testing dampers and taking grease readings call for the right kit, training and safe access. Leave those to us.
What the work involves, part by part
Fan housings and motors
Inside the casing, grease is thrown onto the walls. It’s scraped and degreased with the impeller.
Kitchens with long cooking hours
A fan in a long-hours kitchen runs for most of the day, which means grease and wear add up quickly. Cleaning on time helps keep it running.
Towns and villages near New Eltham
What else we do in New Eltham
Why deal with it now?
Grease on a roof fan can also escape outside. That stains surfaces and can add to the fire risk outside the building, which is one more reason to keep it clean. A booked night’s work in New Eltham costs you no trading time; an unplanned closure does.
Every site is different, so each one gets its own fixed quote. Size, access, the condition of the system and when we can work all play a part.
Why us?
- Each visit written up, with photos
- We are fully insured
- We diagnose before we treat
- Fixed quotes, normally within one working day
Landlords, agents and facilities managers
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.
Facilities teams in offices, schools and healthcare sites book us too in New Eltham and across Greater London. Larger estates can be phased building by building to keep disruption down.