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Extract fan cleaning in Stroude, Surrey
Extract fan cleaning for businesses, landlords and public buildings in Stroude. BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease.
- A heavily greased fan housing
- Grease around the motor and its mounts
- A smell of hot grease from the extract
How we handle extract fan cleaning in Stroude
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, before signing it off. The work covers roof-mounted fans, discharge points and fan housings, and people most often call us about a fan left out of previous cleans and a noisy fan that has got louder over time.
Rural kitchens often have long, low duct runs through a roof space or along an outside wall, where grease settles in the flat sections. We agree access and timings in advance.
Insurers, fire officers and environmental health officers all look at records. That is why every job is written up in a report with photos, and grease extract cleans come with a TR19® certificate issued through the BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite portal.
- Location
- Stroude (GU25, TW20)
- Region
- Surrey
- Paperwork
- Certificate and photo report
- Quotes
- Fixed quote, typically within a working day
- Working hours
- Overnight and weekend work, 24/7 emergency callout
- Telephone
- 0345 646 2711
- Updated
- 30 October 2026
Why deal with it now?
Vibration from an unbalanced impeller doesn’t stay small. It wears bearings and mounts and can lead to a breakdown and a kitchen cannot cook safely without extraction. Cleaning it early is far less disruptive. Planning a trip to Stroude ahead is easier for everyone than a rushed one.
The price reflects the work, not guesswork. That’s why we survey first, from pictures or on site, and why the quote is fixed before we start.
Why us?
- A single point of contact for sites across the South East and London
- Evenings, overnight and weekends, plus 24/7 emergency callout
- Full insurance on every job
- In business since 2009
What staff can safely do
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’ll take a look and send you a fixed quote.
A few tasks are always specialist work: opening up ductwork, cleaning fans, drop testing fire dampers and measuring grease need training, the right equipment and safe access. Leave those to us.
FAQs for Stroude
Who would carry out a food hygiene inspection at a kitchen in Stroude?
Kitchens in Stroude are inspected by Runnymede council’s environmental health officers. Ratings are published by the Food Standards Agency, so a clean extract and good records are worth keeping up.
Which fire and rescue service is responsible for Stroude?
It’s Surrey Fire and Rescue Service, which covers Stroude. If a fire safety officer visits a commercial kitchen, they may ask about the fire risk assessment and how the extract is kept clean.
Are you insured?
Yes, fully. We also hold CHAS and SafeContractor, for sites that check contractor safety.
Which sectors do you work in?
We work for restaurants, pubs, hotels, schools, colleges, hospitals, care homes, offices and shops, as well as food production and leisure sites.
Do you work in Stroude?
Yes. Our technicians work in Stroude, within the South East and London area we cover.
Can you work evenings and weekends?
Yes. Evenings, nights and weekends are normal working hours for us, so you don’t have to close during trading.
Can you come out in an emergency?
Yes, 24/7. Our office is open from 8am to 6pm on weekdays, and the emergency line covers the rest.
Can you look after several sites?
Yes. One number covers all your sites in our area, and visits can be set on a regular cycle.
What extract fan cleaning looks like in Stroude
The FSA’s food hygiene register shows about 49 restaurants, cafés and works canteens and about 7 takeaways within about 1.5 miles of central Stroude. The fan at the end of each of those extracts collects grease that slows it and wears the motor. Kitchens in Stroude get their food hygiene inspections from Runnymede council. The cleanliness of the kitchen and its equipment, extraction included, is part of what they check. Before-and-after photos from each clean are a simple way to show the extract is in hand. Stroude is covered by Surrey Fire and Rescue Service. 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 catering at a healthcare site, such as a hospital like St. Peter's Hospital about 2.7 miles south-east, the extract may need cleaning more often than a part-time kitchen. For kitchens close to Virginia Water station, where the day often starts early and ends late, the extract can be cleaned overnight.
Stroude is about 1 mile south of Egham, in Surrey. Whether your site is in the middle of Stroude or further out, extract fan cleaning is available to all kinds of commercial premises, from small sites to large estates. Stroude is one of 395 places in Surrey where we work for extract fan cleaning. We also work in Guildford, about 11 miles from Stroude.
Postcode districts we cover here for extract fan cleaning: GU25 and TW20. If you need extract fan cleaning at premises on Edgell Close, Stroude Road and Whitehall Farm Lane or anywhere close by, we can help. Other places close to Stroude include Virginia Water (1 mile south-west), Thorpe Green (1 mile south-east), Thorpe (1 mile east), Egham (1 mile north) and Englefield Green (1 mile north-west). We also work in nearby towns such as Guildford (11 miles south), Woking (7 miles south), Camberley (9 miles south-west), Epsom (13 miles south-east), Ewell (14 miles east) and Walton-on-Thames (7 miles east).
Landmarks near Stroude
In Stroude, that means kitchens and buildings near The Magna Carta School, The American School In England and Riverside Walk and the streets around them. The nearest railway station is Virginia Water station, about 0.7 miles south. Well-known places in the area include St. Peter's Hospital (2.7 miles south-east) and Spelthorne Museum (2.4 miles north-east). For a walk, there’s St Ann's Lake and St Ann's Hill.
What the work involves, part by part
Kitchens with long cooking hours
When a busy kitchen’s fan fails, cooking stops. Keeping the fan clean is part of avoiding that, and our 24/7 emergency callout is there if it happens anyway.
Inline duct fans
Space around an inline fan can be tight, so the method is planned in advance. Anything out of reach is recorded.
Keeping the system healthy
So the system stays in good health:
- Check the report shows the fan was cleaned
- Run the extract throughout cooking
- Report grease escaping from the fan
- Tell us if the extract feels weaker
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. Regular full cleans keep the fan from building up heavy deposits, in line with BESA guidance.
How the visit works
Before we leave, we walk the area with whoever is on site. Anything we couldn’t reach or that needs attention is pointed out there and then, and the same goes into the written report. The visit takes an hour or two for most single fans. In a small place like Stroude, the journey is planned ahead and the visit arranged around the site’s hours.
- 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.
- It’s closed up, run, checked and photographed for the report.
Before we arrive
- Allow time for equipment near the work to be turned off and cool down
- Name a contact who can let us in at the agreed time
- Let us know when the site is closed or quiet
Getting a quote
Quoting starts with a diagnosis, either from pictures and details you send or from a site visit. Then we send a fixed price, before any work starts.
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Managing agents and facilities teams in Stroude
Records are where multi-site compliance often slips. Each visit produces a dated report with pictures, so you can show an insurer or inspector what was done at each site.
When the building owner and the occupier are different, it’s worth checking the lease for who maintains the systems. We can quote either party, and the report can go to both.
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Signs you need extract fan cleaning in Stroude
Grease condenses as the air cools, and a fan out on a roof or wall often sits where the air is coolest. So grease often settles heavily there.
Clients usually contact us when they notice something like this:
- A motor area thick with grease
- An extract fan with no cleaning record
- Thick grease on the impeller and casing
- A smell of hot grease from the extract
Bursars and site managers at schools such as St Ann's Heath Junior School tend to book extract cleaning for when the kitchen is empty.
Before booking anyone
- Whether VAT is included
- What paperwork you get at the end
- If they look at the system before pricing
- How areas they can’t reach will be recorded