Essex · Extract fan cleaning
Extract Fan Cleaning in Wimbish
Professional extract fan cleaning in and around Wimbish, booked around your opening hours and signed off in writing with photos.
- A heavily greased fan housing
- An extract fan that vibrates or rattles
- Hot, greasy smells near the fan
Why it’s worth doing now in Wimbish
An unbalanced fan gets worse, not better. It can wear the bearings and lead to failure, which may leave the kitchen without extraction. A planned clean beats an emergency. Planning a trip to Wimbish ahead is easier for everyone than a rushed one.
What you pay depends on the size of the system, what state it’s in and access to every part of it. We give you a fixed price before we start, so you know where you stand.
What you get with us
- Out-of-hours work and a 24/7 emergency line
- Accredited under CHAS and SafeContractor, with ISO 9001
- Member of BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease
- Full insurance on every job
Take a look at our cost guide or how to check a contractor.
How we handle extract fan cleaning in Wimbish
In Wimbish, as everywhere we work, the fan follows a set routine: we isolate it, open the housing, scrape the impeller and degrease the lot. The result is photographed for your records. If you have a fan that hums, whines or rumbles and a heavily greased fan housing, we can put it right, from fan housings, axial fans and roof-mounted fans onwards.
For a kitchen in or near Wimbish, the visit is planned around opening hours and the journey, 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.
Duct Doctor has been trading since 2009, and we are 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.
- Where
- Wimbish (CB10)
- Region
- Essex
- Paperwork
- TR19® certificate and photo report
- Quotes
- A fixed quote up front
- Working hours
- Evenings, overnight and weekends; 24/7 emergencies
- Phone
- 0345 646 2711
- Reviewed
- 30 October 2026
What your team can do, and what needs us
Day-to-day cleaning is something your team can do: wiping down canopy surfaces, cleaning filters and keeping a simple log. Inside the ducts, risers and fan is specialist work, which is where we come in.
For ventilation and air handling systems, in-house care is mostly about checks: keeping grilles clear, noting unusual noise or smells and logging filter changes. The inside of ducts and units needs a specialist.
For landlords and multi-site operators
Managing agents often deal with us directly. Tell us the site, the work and the access arrangements, and we will send a fixed quote.
Under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, the responsible person must assess and reduce fire risk, which may be the employer, owner, landlord, FM or managing agent. With shared responsibility, good records help everyone.
How we price extract fan cleaning
The price is fixed before any work begins. It takes into account:
- Whether several sites go on one quote
- The size of the system
- Any permits to work or inductions
- The times the site is available
We don’t list prices on the website, because the cost depends on the site in front of us. For a fixed quote, give us a ring on 0345 646 2711 or email us, and we will talk you through it.
What to send for a quote
To speed up the quote, send us:
- The roof, plant room or outside wall the system runs to
- Close-ups of filters, grilles, hatches or access panels
- Your opening hours and when the area is out of use
- Photos showing the whole system and its surroundings
For extract fan cleaning in Wimbish, ring 0345 646 2711 or send us an email. Let us know the site type and the opening hours, and send photos or your last report if you can. A fixed quote normally follows within one working day.
Grease, kitchens and Wimbish
Food Standards Agency data counts about 3 cafés, restaurants and staff canteens across Wimbish and its immediate surroundings (about a mile and a half). The fan at the end of each of those extracts collects grease that slows it and wears the motor. The fire and rescue service for Wimbish is Essex County 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. Food hygiene inspections in Wimbish are the job of Uttlesford council’s environmental health team. Extraction counts as kitchen equipment, so its condition can come up on the day. Keeping each certificate and photo report on file helps show the extract is looked after.
If you look after a school kitchen, at a school such as Wimbish Primary School or anywhere near Wimbish, the holidays are the usual time for a TR19® clean. Kitchens that cook twelve hours or more a day, as some healthcare kitchens do, fall into BESA’s three-monthly minimum; Saffron Walden Community Hospital is the nearest hospital to Wimbish, about 3 miles north-west. Volunteers running a hall kitchen near St Paul's Mission Room, or anywhere in Wimbish, may not know when the extract was last cleaned, and a grease test settles it.
Wimbish is about 3 miles south-east of Saffron Walden, in Essex. Whether your site is in the middle of Wimbish or further out, extract fan cleaning is available to all kinds of commercial premises, from small sites to large estates. Wimbish is one of 644 places in Essex where we work for extract fan cleaning. We also work in Chelmsford, about 20 miles from Wimbish.
Work in CB10 follows the same survey, fixed quote and written report as everywhere else we cover. You’ll find streets such as Mill Road and Maple Lane, and we cover them all for extract fan cleaning. If your site is just outside Wimbish, we cover Maple End (1 mile north-east), Radwinter (1 mile north-east), The Common (2 miles north-east), Hempstead (3 miles north-east) and Church End (3 miles north). Further out, we also cover Braintree (13 miles south-east), Saffron Walden (3 miles north-west), Halstead (14 miles east), Great Dunmow (9 miles south), Stansted Mountfitchet (8 miles south-west) and Great Notley (13 miles south-east).
Local landmarks in Wimbish
Locally, jobs take us to businesses close to White Hart Inn and the streets around them. For rail, the closest station is Newport (Essex) station, about 4.5 miles west of the centre. Nearby you’ll also find Saffron Walden Museum (3.6 miles north-west) and Castle Camps (4.5 miles north-east). For a walk, there’s West Wood.
Questions from Wimbish
Is Wimbish within the area you cover?
Yes, smaller places are covered as well as towns. A survey first, from pictures or a visit, means we arrive with the right kit.
Do you work at weekends in Wimbish?
Yes, nights and weekends are routine for us. That way a site in Wimbish does not have to lose a day’s trading. Your opening times are the first thing we ask for.
Does the law say we must follow TR19?
No. TR19® is BESA’s specification, not legislation. The legal duty comes from the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005: the responsible person must assess and reduce fire risk, and TR19® is the benchmark for showing that grease in the extract is under control.
What do you need from me for a quote?
A short description and a few photos, with the address and opening hours. If we need more, we will ask.
Is it safe to clean the fan while the kitchen is open?
With the fan isolated, the extract is not running. We work evenings, overnight or weekends, and the kitchen is ready when we leave.
Will we have to shut during the visit?
Not typically. We work when the area is out of use, such as evenings, overnight, early mornings or weekends, so you keep your normal hours.
Which kinds of sites do you work on?
We work for restaurants, pubs, hotels, schools, colleges, hospitals, care homes, offices and shops, plus food production and leisure sites.
Do you have a 24/7 line?
Yes, day and night, every day of the year. Our office is open from 8am to 6pm on weekdays, with the emergency line covering every other hour.
What happens on the day
Everything the job needs comes with us, including protection sheets, the right tools and access kit. You only need to give us clear access and switch off what needs to be off. The visit takes a couple of hours per fan, depending on its size and the build-up. Photos of the system and how to reach it help us plan a visit to Wimbish.
- First we check the fan’s condition and how it sounds.
- Once isolated, we open the fan up.
- Each blade is cleaned so the impeller runs evenly.
- We clean the casing, the outlet and around the motor.
- We run the fan and note its condition in the photo report.
Before we arrive
- Agree a time when the area can be out of use
- Tell us about access, such as roof hatches, plant rooms, ceilings or locked areas
- Clear loose items from the work area
How to get a quote
Want a quote for extract fan cleaning? Please give us a ring on 0345 646 2711, or email photos and tell us about the site. We’ll talk you through the work and give you a fixed quote before anything is booked.
Related advice
Between visits
A little care between visits keeps the system in better shape. Our advice:
- Watch for grease marks around the outlet
- Leave a clear route to the fan
- Keep the grease filters clean and in place
- Run the extract throughout cooking
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 whole system on its cleaning cycle. Regular full cleans keep the fan from building up heavy deposits, in line with BESA guidance.
Nearby places to Wimbish
Other services in Wimbish
Part by part
Fan housings and motors
Inside the casing, grease is thrown onto the walls. We clean it along with the blades.
Kitchens with long cooking hours
Kitchens that cook 12 to 16 hours a day put the most grease through their fans. BESA guidance sets at least 3-monthly cleaning for that level of use, fan included.