Kent · Extract fan cleaning
Extract Fan Cleaning in Styants Bottom
Extract fan cleaning for businesses, landlords and public buildings in Styants Bottom. CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, and fully insured.
- Grease around the motor and its mounts
- Thick grease on the impeller and casing
- Rough running from the extract fan
Extract fan cleaning for kitchens and businesses in Styants Bottom
A fan never collects grease in a neat, even layer. Uneven build-up unbalances the impeller, leading to vibration, noise and strain on the motor and bearings. A thorough clean removes the cause. The work covers centrifugal fans, fan housings and axial fans, and common reasons people get in touch are a fan coated in grease inside its housing and a fan that hums, whines or rumbles.
Work in a small place like Styants Bottom starts with a call to agree access and timings, and the clean itself is the same full TR19® job as in any town: canopy, filters, duct, fan and discharge, with a certificate and photo report at the end.
We’ve been trading since 2009, and we’re a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease. We also hold CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, and we carry full insurance.
- Location
- Styants Bottom (TN15)
- Wider area
- Kent
- Reporting
- TR19® certificate and photo report
- Quote
- A fixed price before work begins
- When we work
- When your site is closed, plus a 24/7 line
- Phone
- 0345 646 2711
- Updated
- 30 October 2026
Multi-site and managed buildings
Managing agents often deal with us directly. Tell us the site, the work and the access arrangements, and we’ll send a fixed quote.
Multi-site operators often want one contractor and one number. We work across London and the South East, so a run of sites can go into one programme and kept on a regular cycle.
Grease, kitchens and Styants Bottom
Food Standards Agency records list about 3 restaurants, cafés and canteens across Styants Bottom and its immediate surroundings (about a mile and a half). Any of those kitchens with a canopy relies on a fan that gathers grease as it runs. In Styants Bottom, food businesses are inspected by environmental health officers from Sevenoaks council. They look at how clean the premises and equipment are, and the kitchen extract is part of that. Keeping each certificate and photo report on file helps show the extract is looked after. Fire safety in Styants Bottom falls to Kent 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.
Where a hall near St Lawrence, or anywhere in Styants Bottom, hosts lunch clubs or events, its extract gathers grease just as a café’s does. Kitchens that cook twelve hours or more a day, as some healthcare kitchens do, fall into BESA’s three-monthly minimum; Sevenoaks Hospital is the nearest hospital to Styants Bottom, about 2.8 miles west.
Styants Bottom is about 3 miles east of Sevenoaks, in Kent. For extract fan cleaning in and around Styants Bottom, please phone us on 0345 646 2711 or email us for a fixed quote. Our area covers London and the South East, Styants Bottom included. We cover 922 places across Kent, from busy centres to quieter spots. There’s also a page for Maidstone, about 12 miles away.
Every address in TN15 is within our area for extract fan cleaning, from the main roads to the quietest streets. Nearby, we also carry out extract fan cleaning in Oldbury (1 mile east), Ightham (1 mile south-east), Stone Street (1 mile south), Ivy Hatch (1 mile south-east) and Bitchet Green (2 miles south). Larger places within reach include Maidstone (12 miles east), Dartford (11 miles north), Sevenoaks (3 miles west), Royal Tunbridge Wells (10 miles south), Gravesend (11 miles north-east) and Tonbridge (6 miles south).
Around Styants Bottom
Typical jobs here are in premises near Wrotham School, The Harrow Inn and Ivy Hatch Nature Reserve. The nearest railway station is Kemsing station, roughly 1 mile north-west. Nearby you’ll also find Ightham Court (1.3 miles north-east) and Sevenoaks Hospital (2.8 miles west). For a walk, there’s Dryhill Nature Reserve.
What we are called out for in Styants Bottom
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.
If you notice any of these, it’s worth a diagnosis:
- Fat spreading onto the roof or wall by the fan
- A fan coated in grease inside its housing
- A fan that has never been cleaned
- A fan motor running hot under a coat of grease
Term dates shape school work: for a school like Ightham Primary School, an extract clean fits neatly into a half-term or summer break.
What your quote should include
- If the quote is a fixed price or an estimate
- Whether they recommend a next date
- Which accreditations they hold, and whether you can check them
- Whether the quote shows VAT
What happens on the day
We are used to working while the site is closed. A lot of visits happen overnight or at weekends, so a kitchen or building can carry on as usual the next day. On site, the work takes a few hours where there are several fans or heavy deposits. Somewhere as small as Styants Bottom, the date and timings are agreed with you well before the day.
- We start by checking where the fan sits and how to isolate it.
- With the fan isolated, the housing is opened.
- We remove the grease from the blades, impeller and casing.
- We degrease the fan and housing, taking care around the motor.
- The fan is put back into service, checked and photographed.
Getting ready for the visit
- Tell us where we can park and unload
- Tell us about access, such as roof hatches, plant rooms, ceilings or locked areas
- Allow time for equipment near the work to be turned off and cool down
Get a fixed quote
Some systems can be priced from photos; others need a survey. Larger sites, and anything hidden behind walls, ceilings or floors, are normally surveyed first. Either way, you get a fixed price before any work starts.
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What the work involves, part by part
Roof-mounted fans
Grease can escape from a roof fan onto the surrounding surface, so the outlet area is checked too. We note any grease around the fan.
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.
Why act early in Styants Bottom
Grease on a roof fan can also escape outside. It marks the area around the outlet and leaves more fuel outside, which is one more reason to keep it clean. A planned visit to Styants Bottom is easier to arrange than an emergency callout.
We don’t list prices on the website, because each job is priced on what it involves. For a fixed quote, ring 0345 646 2711 or email us, and we will explain what it covers.
Why book with us
- CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001
- Each visit written up, with photos
- Ventilation hygiene specialists since 2009
- One number for every site across the South East and London
Take a look at our cost guide and our accreditations.
FAQs for Styants Bottom
Who enforces fire safety at workplaces in Styants Bottom?
Styants Bottom is in the area of Kent Fire and Rescue Service. TR19® isn’t law, but it’s the benchmark many fire officers and insurers look to when they ask how often the extract is cleaned.
Who inspects food businesses in Styants Bottom?
That’s Sevenoaks council, whose environmental health officers carry out food hygiene inspections in Styants Bottom. An officer may look up into the canopy, so clean filters on the day and a recent certificate on file both help.
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.
Where does the waste go?
Waste is contained during the work and removed when we leave, from grease and debris to used cleaning water. We do not leave it behind.
Is TR19 cleaning required by law?
Not in itself. TR19® is the benchmark insurers, fire officers and EHOs check against, and many insurance policies ask for proof of TR19® cleaning. The legal duty sits in the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, which applies in England and Wales.
What’s the cleaning interval for an extract fan?
It depends on how many hours the kitchen cooks, under BESA guidance. At the extremes, that’s 3-monthly for heavy use and 12-monthly for light use, fan included.
What does TR19 mean?
It’s BESA’s specification and the benchmark insurers, fire officers and EHOs look to. It covers how systems are inspected, cleaned and checked and expects a risk-based approach.
What about areas you can’t get to?
The report shows them clearly. In ductwork, new access panels are often the answer, and we can fit those.
Aftercare tips
After the visit, a few habits help the work last:
- File the fan’s report with your other records
- Look for grease stains near the discharge
- Flag smoke lingering at the canopy
- Notice when the fan starts to sound different
We take away the grease and dirty water from the fan clean. Wherever the fan is, the area around it is cleaned down.
Keep the route to the fan clear. 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.
Nearby places to Styants Bottom
What else we do in Styants Bottom
Fixed quotes for extract fan cleaning in Styants Bottom
The quote reflects the site in front of us. We take into account:
- The size of the system
- The number of sites or systems
- One-off work versus a regular cycle
- Where the site is and how we reach it
One small site or a whole estate, we price it on the same basis: the work involved, the access and the timing. You’ll have a fixed price before we start.
What to send for a quote
Photos let us diagnose from a distance. The most useful are:
- The roof, plant room or outside wall the system runs to
- The site address and the type of premises
- Problems your staff have spotted
- Any previous report or certificate
Every quote begins with a look at the system, either from photos and details you send or from a site visit. Then we send a fixed price, before any work starts.