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Extract Fan Cleaning in Shortlands
Professional extract fan cleaning in and around Shortlands, booked around your opening hours and finished with a written report and photos.
- A fan that no longer moves enough air
- A heavily greased fan housing
- A fan motor running hot under a coat of grease
Your questions about extract fan cleaning in Shortlands
Do you work at weekends in Shortlands?
Yes. We work evenings, overnight and at weekends. That way a site in Shortlands doesn’t have to lose a day’s trading. Let us know the hours you are closed and we’ll book within them.
Who enforces fire safety at workplaces in Shortlands?
That is London Fire Brigade. A recent cleaning certificate and a note of the next clean date show that grease in the extract is being managed.
Do we need to close while you work?
Not normally. We work when the area is out of use, such as evenings, overnight, early mornings or weekends, so you keep your normal hours.
What do you do with what you remove?
We take it away when we go. During the work, it’s contained to keep the area clean.
Who is responsible for fire safety on the premises?
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.
Are you insured?
Yes, we are fully insured. CHAS and SafeContractor accreditation sit alongside it for clients who vet their contractors.
What’s the cleaning interval for an extract fan?
The fan follows the full system’s interval at BESA’s minimum intervals for your cooking hours. Readings may show it needs cleaning more often.
What accreditations do you have?
We’re a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease. CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001 are in place too, and we carry full insurance.
Extract fan cleaning in Shortlands
Think of the fan as the system’s heart and the grease as a clot. A heart under strain works harder for less. Our job is to clear it, check it runs smoothly and record what we found so you get a clean bill of health. Typical jobs include a fan that has never been cleaned and weak extraction at the canopy, across roof-mounted fans, axial fans and discharge points.
In London, few kitchens can spare a day to close, so extract cleaning in Shortlands is normally done overnight, after the last service. Parking, loading and access to the roof are agreed with the building before the night of the clean.
The report is your system’s health record: a dated account with photos of everything we did. Grease extract cleans are also certificated to TR19® Grease through the BESCA VHE portal and sits alongside the report.
- Location
- Shortlands (BR2, BR1, BR3)
- Wider area
- Greater London
- Paperwork
- Certificate and photo report
- Price
- Fixed quote, usually within a working day
- Hours
- Nights, weekends or holidays to suit you
- Telephone
- 0345 646 2711
- Updated
- 30 October 2026
Managing agents and facilities teams in Shortlands
Landlords, managing agents and facilities managers book us, not only the businesses that use the systems. Where a system serves more than one tenant, such as a shared riser, it helps to agree who arranges the work, and we’re happy to quote for all of it.
From a single site to a large estate, you get the same standard: diagnosis, a fixed price, work booked around your hours and a written report with pictures.
Do you need extract fan cleaning in Shortlands?
Grease condenses as the air cools, and on a roof or outside wall the fan can be in some of the coolest air in the system. So grease often settles heavily there.
Most sites get in touch after spotting one of these:
- A fan coated in grease inside its housing
- A noisy fan that has got louder over time
- A fan shaking on its mounts
- Fat spreading onto the roof or wall by the fan
A hospital like Bromley Hospital, about 0.7 miles east, is the kind of site where a kitchen may cook for patients, staff and visitors all day.
Comparing quotes
- Whether a written report and photos are included
- What’s included in the scope, part by part
- If the quote is a fixed price or an estimate
- How areas they cannot reach will be recorded
Part by part
Impellers and blades
The impeller is the spinning part that moves the air, and grease builds up on them unevenly. That is what unbalances the fan, so it’s cleaned carefully blade by blade.
Roof-mounted fans
Roof fans also discharge grease onto the roof around them, so the outlet area is checked too. Heavy staining is noted on the report.
Aftercare tips
After the visit, a few habits help the work last:
- Report grease escaping from the fan
- Make sure the fan is included each time
- Check filters are seated before cooking
- Keep access to the fan clear
We take away the grease and dirty water from the fan clean. On a roof or outside wall, we leave the surrounding area tidy.
Stick to the interval for the full extract. A fan cleaned with the rest of the system on time rarely gets badly coated, in line with BESA guidance.
What affects the cost of extract fan cleaning
The price is fixed before any work begins. It takes into account:
- Parking and loading at the site
- Access, including roofs, risers and ceiling voids
- The scale of the work
- What state the system is in
What you pay reflects the actual work. That’s why every job is surveyed first, and the price is agreed before we start.
Asking for a quote
We can often survey from pictures. The most useful are:
- Wide pictures of the system and the area around it
- Any symptoms, from odd noises to smells or leaks
- When the site is open and when it’s quiet
- The postcode and the type of business
Getting a quote does not take long. Send a few details and photos, and we usually reply with a fixed quote within one working day. If we need to see the system first, we book a survey around your hours.
What we do, step by step
We turn up at the time agreed with you, which is often after service, overnight or at a weekend. Anything that needs to be off for the work is switched off and left to cool first, and floors and nearby surfaces are sheeted. On site, it takes a couple of hours per fan, depending on its size and the build-up. Loading bays, visitor permits and roof access are the first things we ask about for a site in Shortlands.
- 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.
- 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
- Let us know how we reach the system, including roofs, risers and plant rooms
- Let us know when the site is closed or quiet
- Have your last certificate or report to hand
Ask for a 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. Tell us what kind of site it is and when it’s open, and we can price many jobs without a visit.
Related advice
In-house cleaning or a specialist?
A few tasks are always specialist work: opening up ductwork, cleaning fans, drop testing fire dampers and measuring grease call for the right kit, training and safe access. Leave those to us.
When your team notices a problem between visits, like drips, unusual noise, smells or damaged filters, they should report it rather than try to fix it. We can diagnose it and quote.
Extract fan cleaning in Shortlands: the local picture
The FSA’s data shows about 38 pubs, bars and clubs and about 4 hotels, B&Bs and guest houses registered within 1.5 miles or so of the middle of Shortlands. Where they serve hot food, their kitchen extracts need cleaning to TR19® like any restaurant’s. Environmental health officers from Bromley council inspect food businesses in Shortlands. A greasy canopy or dripping filters are the sort of thing an inspection can pick up. Before-and-after pictures from each clean are a simple way to show the extract is in hand. Shortlands sits within the area of London Fire Brigade. Grease in a kitchen extract is a recognised fire risk, and the fire authority enforces the law on managing it in most commercial premises.
If you run a church or community hall kitchen, near St Mark's Church or elsewhere in Shortlands, its extract still collects grease from every lunch and event. If you run a café or takeaway near Shortlands station, early starts and late finishes leave little time to clean, so overnight extract cleaning suits.
Shortlands is about 1 mile south-west of Bromley, in Greater London. Sites in Shortlands get the same service as everywhere we cover: diagnosis first, a fixed price, out-of-hours working where necessary and a written report with pictures. Shortlands is one of 764 towns, villages and districts in Greater London where we work for commercial clients. You can also see our page for London, roughly 8 miles from Shortlands.
All of BR2, BR1 and BR3 is covered for extract fan cleaning, from busy streets to back roads. If you need extract fan cleaning at premises on Hayes Lane, Stone Road and Hayes Road or anywhere close by, we can help. Other places close to Shortlands include Eden Park (1 mile south-west), Hayes (2 miles south), Bromley Common (2 miles south-east), West Wickham (2 miles south-west) and Southborough (2 miles east). Larger places within reach include London (8 miles north-west), City of Westminster (10 miles north-west), Marylebone (11 miles north-west), Kensington (11 miles north-west), St Pancras (10 miles north-west) and Shoreditch (10 miles north).
What’s near Shortlands
Around Shortlands, our work takes us to kitchens and buildings near The Richmal Crompton pub, Church House Gardens and Langley Park School for Girls and the streets around them. For rail, the closest station is Shortlands station, about 0.5 miles north of the centre. A little further out are Bromley Hospital (0.7 miles east) and Bethlem Museum of the Mind (1.6 miles south-east). The countryside around Shortlands includes Summer Hill and Downham Woodland Walk.