Surrey · Extract fan cleaning
Pirbright extract fan cleaning
Cleaning of kitchen extract fans, impellers, fan housings and discharge points for businesses, landlords and public buildings in Pirbright. BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease.
- Rough running from the extract fan
- A fan motor running hot under a coat of grease
- Grease escaping from the fan outlet
FAQs for Pirbright
Who would carry out a food hygiene inspection at a kitchen in Pirbright?
Kitchens in Pirbright are inspected by Guildford council’s environmental health officers. An officer may look up into the canopy, so clean filters on the day and a recent certificate on file both help.
Can you get to a site in Pirbright?
Yes, smaller places are covered as well as towns. A survey first, from pictures or a visit, means we arrive with the right kit.
Is TR19 cleaning required by law?
No. TR19® itself isn’t law; it’s a BESA specification. The law is the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, which makes the responsible person assess and reduce fire risk, and cleaning to TR19® is the recognised way to show grease is under control.
Can you clean the fan on its own?
Yes, we do. We record it as a fan-only clean, so your TR19 records stay accurate. The full system still needs its regular TR19 clean.
Are you fully insured?
Yes. We carry full insurance, and we’ve been trading since 2009.
How often does the fan need cleaning?
The fan follows the full system’s interval, from every 3 months for 12 to 16 hours of cooking a day to every 12 months for 2 to 6 hours. Readings may show it needs cleaning more often.
What paperwork do I get after a fan clean?
Before and after pictures go into a report, along with notes on the fan’s condition. For a full TR19 clean, you also get a certificate through the BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite portal.
Can one contract cover all our sites?
Yes. Our area covers London and the South East, so sites at different addresses can be planned together on one programme. Each site gets its own report and pictures.
Extract fan cleaning in Pirbright, done properly
Any fan serving a kitchen in Pirbright is cleaned the same careful way as anywhere else: isolated first, then opened, scraped and degreased. Your report shows the impeller as we found it and as we left it. If you’re dealing with weak extraction at the canopy and a fan shaking on its mounts, we can help, from roof-mounted fans, axial fans and in-line fans onwards.
Work in a small place like Pirbright starts with a call to agree access and timings, and the clean covers the whole system, as it would anywhere: canopy to discharge, then a TR19® certificate and a photo report.
We’re CHAS and SafeContractor accredited, we hold ISO 9001 and we’re fully insured. On top of that, we’re a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease, trading since 2009.
- Where
- Pirbright (GU24)
- Region
- Surrey
- Paperwork
- Certificate plus before-and-after photos
- Price
- A fixed quote up front
- When we work
- Out of hours as standard, 24/7 emergency line
- Call
- 0345 646 2711
- Page updated
- 30 October 2026
Part by part
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.
Roof-mounted fans
A roof fan sits in cooler air, so grease can settle heavily. We scrape and degrease the blades and casing.
Fixed quotes for extract fan cleaning in Pirbright
We quote each job individually. These are the things that affect it:
- The times the site is available
- Access, including roofs, risers and ceiling voids
- Any permits to work or inductions
- How big the system is
Working hours, access and the scale of the site can all change the price. We take each of them into account, and the price is fixed before we start.
Helping us quote
Photos and a few facts are often enough to price the work. Useful things to send:
- Where the site is and what kind of site it is
- Your opening hours and when the area is out of use
- How we’d reach plant on a roof or in a plant room
- The paperwork from the last visit, if you have it
Photos are enough for some jobs, while others need a look on site. Big or complicated sites, and systems that are hard to see in pictures, get a survey first. Either way, the quote is fixed before any work is booked.
Between visits
Simple habits between visits make a real difference. Our advice:
- Check the report shows the fan was cleaned
- Look for grease stains near the discharge
- Check filters are seated before cooking
- Report rattles or humming early
Once it’s clean, the fan is closed up and run to check it’s working smoothly. Anything we notice, like noise, vibration or a worn part, goes on the report, so you can plan any repair.
Make sure the fan is reachable. A fan that can be reached safely is a fan that gets cleaned, whether it’s on a roof, in a ceiling or on a wall.
Landlords, agents and facilities managers
For anyone managing more than one site, we can schedule visits across all of them on one quote. Every building has its own written report, so each one has its own record.
We also work for facilities teams across offices, schools and healthcare across Surrey. Larger estates can be phased building by building around the people who use them.
Places near Pirbright
What else we do in Pirbright
When to call us in Pirbright
How fast a fan gets greasy in Pirbright depends on the cooking: daily hours and the amount of frying and grilling. Under BESA guidance, the whole system, fan included, needs cleaning at least every 3, 6 or 12 months depending on daily hours.
These are the problems we see most often:
- Grease around the motor and its mounts
- Rough running from the extract fan
- Fat spreading onto the roof or wall by the fan
- A fan that no longer moves enough air
For kitchens close to Brookwood station, where the day often starts early and ends late, the extract can be cleaned overnight.
What your quote should include
- Whether the quote shows VAT
- Whether the figure could change on the day
- When the next visit should be, and why
- When they can work, and whether that’s outside your opening hours
What your team can do, and what needs us
A few tasks are always specialist work: entering ducts, working on fans, testing dampers and taking grease readings need training, the right equipment and safe access. Leave those to us.
Good housekeeping makes our visits easier, not unnecessary. Regular in-house cleaning slows the build-up, but hidden parts of the system still need specialist attention.
How the visit works
A visit follows the same order every time: protect the area, make the system safe, carry out the extract fan cleaning, clear away and hand over the paperwork. The visit itself takes an hour or two for one fan, longer when it’s hard to reach. Somewhere as small as Pirbright, the date and timings are agreed with you well before the day.
- We locate the fan and plan how to reach and isolate it.
- It’s isolated so it cannot run while we work.
- We scrape the heavy grease from the blades and housing.
- Blades, housing and surrounds are degreased with care around the electrics.
- We reassemble, run and photograph the fan.
Preparing for the visit
- Make sure someone can let us in and lock up afterwards
- Make sure equipment near the work can be switched off and left to cool
- Tell us about site rules, permits or sign-in
Ask for a quote
For a fixed quote, call 0345 646 2711 or email us and tell us the type of site, your opening hours and roughly what the system looks like. Photos and the last report, if you have one, make the quote quicker. We usually come back within one working day.
Related advice
Grease, kitchens and Pirbright
The Food Standards Agency lists about 14 bars, pubs and nightclubs as registered food businesses within 1.5 miles or so of the middle of Pirbright. A pub or hotel kitchen that cooks every day builds up grease in its extract like any other. Pirbright is covered by Surrey 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. Environmental health officers from Guildford council inspect food businesses in Pirbright. Extraction counts as kitchen equipment, so its condition can come up on the day. Before-and-after pictures from each clean are a simple way to show the extract is in hand.
Church and community hall kitchens, near Church of St Michael and All Angels or anywhere around Pirbright, are easy to forget, but their extracts collect grease like any other. Term dates shape school work: for a school like Knowl Hill School, an extract clean fits neatly into a half-term or summer break.
Pirbright is about 3 miles south-west of Woking, in Surrey. Every kind of commercial site in Pirbright, we can take on extract fan cleaning. We can work out of hours so trading is not interrupted. Pirbright is one of 395 towns, villages and districts in Surrey where we work for extract fan cleaning.
We work across GU24 for extract fan cleaning and the streets around it. You will find streets such as Cowbridge Meadow, Gibb's Acre and Church Lane, all of which we cover for extract fan cleaning. Main roads around Pirbright include the A324, which makes travel easy for evening and night visits. If your site is just outside Pirbright, we cover Stanford Common (1 mile south), Worplesdon (2 miles south-east), Willey Green (3 miles south), Fairlands (3 miles south-east) and Normandy (3 miles south). We also work in nearby towns such as Guildford (5 miles south-east), Woking (3 miles north-east), Camberley (5 miles north-west), Farnham (9 miles south-west), Egham (10 miles north-east) and Walton-on-Thames (12 miles north-east).
Local landmarks in Pirbright
Locally, jobs take us to businesses close to White Hart pub, Pirbright Village Primary School and The Winston Churchill School A Specialist Sports College, among other places. The nearest railway station is Brookwood station, roughly 0.8 miles north-east. Nearby you’ll also find The Museum of The National Rifle Association (1.3 miles north) and Brookwood Hospital (1.9 miles north-east). Not far away are Brookwood Lye.