Oxfordshire · Extract fan cleaning
Extract Fan Cleaning in Oxford
Extract fan cleaning across Oxford and nearby, booked around your opening hours and signed off in writing with photos.
- A motor area thick with grease
- A heavily greased fan housing
- Fat spreading onto the roof or wall by the fan
Extract fan cleaning in Oxford, done properly
Cleaning removes grease, not wear. If we find worn bearings, a struggling motor or damage to the impeller, we’ll tell you and fan repair or replacement is something we also do. You will know whether the fan just needed cleaning or something more. Typical jobs include grease escaping from the fan outlet and hot, greasy smells near the fan, across discharge points, axial fans and in-line fans.
Town-centre kitchens in a place like Oxford often sit below flats or offices, and the extract can climb several storeys before it discharges. A riser needs proper access to be cleaned top to bottom, and anything we cannot reach goes on the report.
Our accreditations include CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, and we’re fully insured. On top of that, we are a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease, and we’ve been trading since 2009.
- Place
- Oxford (OX4, OX3, OX2, OX1)
- Wider area
- Oxfordshire
- Paperwork
- Certificate and photo report
- Quote
- A fixed quote up front
- Hours
- Evenings, overnight and weekends; 24/7 emergencies
- Telephone
- 0345 646 2711
- Updated
- 30 October 2026
Your questions about extract fan cleaning in Oxford
Who enforces fire safety at workplaces in Oxford?
Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service is the fire and rescue service for Oxford. Records of extract cleaning are a sensible thing to have ready if a fire safety officer carries out an audit.
Do you work at weekends in Oxford?
Yes, we can come after you close and finish before you open. The work in Oxford can fit around your hours. When you phone us on 0345 646 2711 or use the quote form, mention when the site is quiet.
Do you repair extract fans as well as clean them?
Cleaning removes grease, but it cannot fix worn parts. We repair and replace extract fans as well, with a fixed quote first.
Which sectors do you work in?
We work for restaurants, pubs, hotels, schools, colleges, hospitals, care homes, offices and shops, plus food production and leisure sites.
How often does the fan need cleaning?
It’s cleaned with the whole extract, from every 3 months for 12 to 16 hours of cooking a day to every 12 months for 2 to 6 hours. Grease readings and the fan’s condition can show it needs more.
Can you come out in an emergency?
Yes. Our emergency line runs 24/7 for anything that can’t wait until a planned visit. Ring any time and tell us what’s happened.
Are you fully insured?
Yes. Duct Doctor is fully insured, and the details are available on request.
How long will it take to clean the fan?
One easily reached fan is quick, while fans on high roofs or in tight voids take longer. We plan it out of hours.
What we do, step by step
The first job on site is protection: floors, worktops and anything near the work are covered. Then we make the system safe and start. It takes an hour or two for one fan, longer when it’s hard to reach, and the area is cleaned down before we leave. Whoever holds the keys and signs off contractors at your site in Oxford is the person we need to speak to before the day.
- We locate the fan and plan how to reach and isolate it.
- It’s isolated so it can’t run while we work.
- We scrape the heavy grease from the blades and housing.
- The fan is degreased, taking care around the motor.
- It’s closed up, run, checked and photographed for the report.
Getting ready for the visit
- Name a contact who can let us in at the agreed time
- Move anything stored near the system
- Let us know how we reach the system, including roofs, risers and plant rooms
Get a fixed quote
Photos are the quickest way to a quote: wide shots of the system, close-ups of anything that worries you and how we’d get to it. Add the site type and your opening hours, and many jobs can be priced from that alone.
Advice
Common problems we fix in Oxford
A fan collects more grease when the filters let more through. When filters don’t seal, grease goes straight through to the fan, so the fan takes far more than it should.
If you notice any of these, it’s worth a diagnosis:
- A heavily greased fan housing
- Weak extraction at the canopy
- A fan that has never been cleaned
- Fat spreading onto the roof or wall by the fan
If you run a church or community hall kitchen, near St Clement's Church or elsewhere in Oxford, its extract still collects grease from every lunch and event.
What to look for in a quote
- Whether the whole system is included, or only the parts that are easy to reach
- When they can work, and whether that is outside your opening hours
- Their accreditations, such as BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite, CHAS or SafeContractor
- How VAT is shown on the quote
What staff can safely do
For ventilation and air handling systems, in-house care is mostly about checks: clear grilles, a log of filter changes and reporting anything odd. Cleaning inside ducts and units is specialist work.
Staff cleaning and specialist work aren’t the same thing. Wiping filters daily and washing them weekly keeps the visible parts in order, but grease that has passed the filters is out of reach. That part needs specialist access and equipment.
Landlords, agents and facilities managers
We work for landlords, managing agents and facilities managers as well as the people running the site. Where a system serves more than one tenant, such as a shared riser, it helps to agree who arranges the work, and we are happy to quote for all of it.
Whether it’s one building or many, the standard is the same: diagnosis, a fixed price, work booked around your hours and a written report with photos.
How the job changes from site to site
Fan housings and motors
Some fans use a belt drive. We clean around them and note any wear for your records.
Inline duct fans
Inline fans can be in tight spaces, so the method is planned in advance. Anything out of reach is recorded.
What a clean won’t put right
Extract fan cleaning can’t fix everything, and we’d rather say so up front. It doesn’t solve:
- An undersized fan that cannot cope
- Damaged fan blades
- Electrical faults in the fan’s supply or controls (an electrician’s job)
Not sure which it is? You can give us a ring on 0345 646 2711, or send details by email and we will tell you honestly.
What we work on in Oxford
- In-line fans
- Centrifugal fans
- Fan housings
- Discharge points
- Roof-mounted fans
- Axial fans
Nearby places to Oxford
Other services in Oxford
Grease, kitchens and Oxford
There are about 366 restaurants, cafés and canteens and about 47 takeaways within about 1.5 miles of central Oxford, according to the Food Standards Agency’s register. Each kitchen extract among them ends at a fan, and grease on the impeller strains the motor. In Oxford, food businesses are inspected by environmental health officers from Oxford City 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. Oxford is covered by Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service. The Fire Safety Order puts the duty on whoever runs a kitchen to control its fire risk, and a greasy duct is fuel.
Older buildings often hide long, awkward duct runs, and if you run a kitchen at a historic venue in the area (Holywell Manor is about 0.8 miles north-west), access may need planning. Healthcare kitchens cannot easily close, so their extracts are cleaned overnight or between meal services; the nearest hospital to Oxford is Warneford Hospital, about within half a mile east.
Oxford is in Oxfordshire. Across the OX4 area, we cover extract fan cleaning for commercial sites. Oxford is one of 443 towns, villages and districts in Oxfordshire we cover for commercial clients.
Here we cover the OX4, OX3, OX2 and OX1 postcode area for extract fan cleaning. You’ll find streets such as High Street, New High Street and Radcliffe Square, and we cover them all for extract fan cleaning. Main roads around Oxford include the A34 and A40, so getting to you is simple for extract fan cleaning. If your site is just outside Oxford, we cover St Clement's (1 mile west), Headington Hill (1 mile north-east), New Marston (1 mile north), Donnington (1 mile south) and St. Ebbes (1 mile west). We also work in nearby towns such as Didcot (10 miles south), Bicester (11 miles north), Abingdon-on-Thames (6 miles south-west), Witney (11 miles west), Thame (11 miles east) and Wantage (14 miles south-west). As one of the bigger places in Oxfordshire, Oxford has a wide mix of commercial premises, all within our area for extract fan cleaning.
Near you in Oxford
In Oxford, that means kitchens and buildings near The Star pub, Alexander Library of Ornithology and Headington Rye Oxford, among other places. Also close by are Cheney School (under half a mile east) and South Park (within half a mile north-east). For rail, the closest station is Oxford station, roughly 1.6 miles west. Nearby you’ll also find Warneford Hospital (within half a mile east) and Rumble Museum (within half a mile east). For a walk, there’s CS Lewis Nature Reserve and Headington Hill.
Why act early in Oxford
A greasy fan has to work harder to move the same air. Airflow at the canopy drops and the kitchen gets hotter and smokier and the motor works harder. If an insurer or inspector asks when the work was last done, an up-to-date certificate answers the question.
What you pay reflects the actual work. That’s why every job is surveyed first, and the price is agreed before work begins.
Why choose Duct Doctor in Oxford
- Survey first, then a fixed quote
- Photo reports with every job
- CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001
- One number for every site across the South East and London
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