Extract Fan Cleaning in The Sands

What the work involves, part by part

Fan housings and motors

The housing around the impeller catches grease flung off the blades. We clean it along with the blades.

Roof-mounted fans

Roof fans sit at the top of the riser. They’re cleaned where safe access allows, with any limits noted.

Staff cleaning versus specialist work

Day-to-day cleaning is something your team can do: wiping canopies, washing grease filters and recording it in a log. Inside the ducts, risers and fan is specialist work, which is where we come in.

Staff cleaning and specialist work are not the same thing. A daily filter wipe and a weekly filter wash keep grease down at the front of the system, but they don’t reach the grease that builds up further in. Reaching it takes a specialist with the right equipment.

For landlords and multi-site operators

When the building owner and the occupier are different, the lease normally sets out who maintains what. We can quote either party and send the paperwork to whoever needs it.

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.

Grease, kitchens and The Sands

The FSA’s food hygiene register includes about 5 bars, pubs and nightclubs across The Sands and its immediate surroundings (about a mile and a half). Where they serve hot food, their kitchen extracts need cleaning to TR19® like any restaurant’s. Fire safety in The Sands falls to Surrey Fire and Rescue Service. Fire and rescue authorities enforce the Fire Safety Order in most non-domestic premises, and in a kitchen that fire risk includes the grease in the extract. It’s Guildford council that sends environmental health officers to food businesses in The Sands. Extraction counts as kitchen equipment, so its condition can come up on the day. A dated certificate in the maintenance file answers the question before it’s asked.

Healthcare kitchens cannot easily close, so their extracts are cleaned overnight or between meal services; the nearest hospital to The Sands is Milford Hospital, about 5.7 miles south-east. Volunteers running a hall kitchen near The Church of the Good Shepherd, or anywhere in The Sands, may not know when the extract was last cleaned, and a grease test settles it.

The Sands is about 2 miles east of Farnham, in Surrey. We carry out extract fan cleaning for commercial premises of every kind in The Sands and the rest of Surrey. The Sands is one of 395 places in Surrey where we work for commercial clients. There’s also a page for Guildford, roughly 8 miles from The Sands.

Work in GU10 is surveyed, quoted and booked the same way as anywhere else. You will find streets such as The Green, Binton Lane and Botany Hill, and we cover them all for extract fan cleaning. We also cover the places around The Sands: Runfold (1 mile west), Sandy Cross (1 mile north), Compton (1 mile west), Seale (1 mile north-east) and Tongham (2 miles north). Within a short drive, we also cover Guildford (8 miles east), Woking (10 miles north-east), Camberley (9 miles north), Frimley (7 miles north), Haslemere (9 miles south) and Cranleigh (12 miles south-east).

Landmarks near The Sands

We work in commercial kitchens and buildings around Crooksbury Hill and the streets around them. The nearest railway station is Farnham station, roughly 2.3 miles west. Nearby you will also find Milford Hospital (5.7 miles south-east) and Farnham Castle (2.8 miles west). The countryside around The Sands includes Culverswell Hill and Runfold Wood.