Kent · Extract fan cleaning
Woodnesborough extract fan cleaning
Extract fan cleaning across Woodnesborough and nearby, booked around your opening hours and finished with a written report and photos.
- An extract fan with no cleaning record
- A fan motor running hot under a coat of grease
- Thick grease on the impeller and casing
Extract fan cleaning in Woodnesborough
Duct Doctor has been cleaning kitchen extract fans since 2009. We are a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease, with CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001 and full insurance. The work covers discharge points, centrifugal fans and axial fans, and the jobs we see most are a fan left out of previous cleans and hot, greasy smells near the fan.
Rural kitchens often have long, low duct runs through a roof space or along an outside wall, where grease settles in the flat sections. Access, parking and timings are agreed before the day.
Our accreditations include CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, and we’re fully insured. We’re also a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease, trading since 2009.
- Location
- Woodnesborough (CT13)
- Region
- Kent
- Paperwork
- Certificate and photo report
- Quote
- A fixed quote up front
- Working hours
- Out of hours as standard, 24/7 emergency line
- Telephone
- 0345 646 2711
- Checked
- 30 October 2026
Your questions about extract fan cleaning in Woodnesborough
Can you come to Woodnesborough after we close?
Yes, evening, overnight and weekend work is normal for us. It means the site in Woodnesborough keeps running as normal. Just ring 0345 646 2711 or drop us a line with your opening times and we will plan around them.
Who would carry out a food hygiene inspection at a kitchen in Woodnesborough?
That’s Dover council, whose environmental health officers carry out food hygiene inspections in Woodnesborough. How often a business is inspected depends on the risk rating the council gives it, so it’s worth staying ready all year.
How much does extract fan cleaning cost?
There’s no set price, as it depends on the job: how big it is, what state it’s in, how we reach it and the working hours. You get a fixed price before work begins.
What is TR19?
It’s BESA’s specification and the benchmark insurers, fire officers and EHOs look to. It sets out inspection, cleaning and record keeping and expects a risk-based approach.
Who has the legal duty for fire safety?
Under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, it’s the responsible person: often the employer, owner or occupier. In shared or managed buildings, a landlord, facilities manager or managing agent can share the duty.
What about areas you cannot get to?
We never leave them off the paperwork. You’ll know exactly which parts weren’t reached and why, and we can quote to improve the access.
Which sectors do you work in?
Commercial premises of every kind: from restaurants, pubs and hotels to schools, hospitals, care homes, offices, shops and food production sites. Work is timed around how each site runs.
Do you offer maintenance contracts?
Yes, of course. Send details of the systems and how they’re used and we will propose a schedule with a fixed quote.
What your team can do, and what needs us
Keep a record of what your team does. A dated log of in-house cleaning and checks shows an inspector that the system is looked after between visits, alongside our reports.
Away from the kitchen, the in-house job is mainly checking: keeping grilles clear, noting unusual noise or smells and logging filter changes. Cleaning inside ducts and units is specialist work.
Landlords, agents and facilities managers
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 are happy to quote for all of it.
Whether it’s one building or many, you get the same standard: the system surveyed, the price fixed, the visit fitted around trading and everything written up afterwards.
What extract fan cleaning can’t fix
It’s worth knowing the limits before booking:
- A cracked or broken impeller (it needs replacing)
- Wiring faults to the fan
- An undersized fan that cannot cope
Not sure which it is? You can phone us on 0345 646 2711 or send us an email and we will tell you honestly.
Where we work
- Discharge points
- Axial fans
- In-line fans
- Fan housings
- Centrifugal fans
- Roof-mounted fans
What we’re called out for in Woodnesborough
A fan on a roof or hidden in a ceiling void is easy to forget. If it wasn’t included in past cleans, it may hold years of grease, and the report will show it.
The symptoms we are asked about most are:
- Rough running from the extract fan
- A heavily greased fan housing
- An extract fan with no cleaning record
- A fan that no longer moves enough air
If you look after a school kitchen, at a school such as Sandwich Technology School or anywhere near Woodnesborough, the holidays are the usual time for a TR19® clean.
Questions to ask before you book
- When they can work, and whether that’s outside your opening hours
- How they set the interval to the next visit
- Whether VAT is included
- Whether a survey comes first
Aftercare tips
Here’s the after-treatment advice, short and simple:
- Look for grease stains near the discharge
- Check the report shows the fan was cleaned
- Keep the grease filters clean and in place
- Keep records of every fan clean
When the fan is cleaned as part of a full TR19® Grease clean, a TR19 certificate is issued through the BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite portal. A fan-only clean is recorded in the photo report.
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 quote in Woodnesborough
The price is fixed before any work begins. It’s based on:
- The times the site is available
- Whether we need access equipment or extra panels
- How many systems or sites are involved
- Any permits to work or inductions
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 drop us a line, and we will talk you through it.
What we need to know
You do not need the technical terms. Just send:
- When the site is open and when it’s quiet
- Where the plant sits or the system leaves the building, such as a roof or outside wall
- Wide photos of the system and the area around it
- Any access panels or hatches you can see
To help us quote: the address, the type of site and when it’s open, pictures of the system and the last certificate or report, if there is one. Then ring 0345 646 2711 or drop us a line.
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What we do, step by step
Everything the job needs comes with us, from protective sheeting to tools and access equipment. You only need to give us clear access and switch off what needs to be off. The visit takes an hour or two for one fan, longer when it’s hard to reach. Photos of the system and how to reach it help us plan a visit to Woodnesborough.
- We find the fan and check how it’s reached and how it’s isolated.
- Power to the fan is isolated before anyone touches it.
- The impeller and the housing around it are scraped clean.
- We degrease the fan and housing, taking care around the motor.
- It’s closed up, run and checked, and pictures go into your report.
Getting ready for the visit
- Allow time for equipment near the work to be turned off and cool down
- Mention any parking or loading restrictions
- Have your last certificate or report to hand
How to get a quote
Photos are enough for some jobs, while others need a look on site. Larger sites, and anything hidden behind walls, ceilings or floors, are normally surveyed first. Either way, you get a fixed price before we start.
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Kitchen extracts in Woodnesborough
Food Standards Agency records include about 4 pubs and bars within about 1.5 miles of central Woodnesborough. Breakfasts, bar meals and functions all put grease into the extract wherever they’re cooked. It’s Dover council that sends environmental health officers to food businesses in Woodnesborough. A greasy canopy or dripping filters are the sort of thing an inspection can pick up. A dated certificate in the maintenance file answers the question before it’s asked. Woodnesborough is covered by Kent Fire and Rescue Service. In most workplaces, including commercial kitchens, it’s the fire and rescue authority that enforces the Fire Safety Order.
Historic houses near Woodnesborough, such as Goodnestone Park about 3.8 miles west, are a reminder that older buildings with event kitchens can have long, awkward duct routes. A hall kitchen that only cooks for events, whether near Church of St Mary the Virgin or elsewhere in Woodnesborough, still needs its extract cleaned, just less often.
Woodnesborough is about 5 miles north-west of Deal, in Kent. We provide extract fan cleaning for businesses, landlords and public buildings in Woodnesborough and the rest of Kent. 922 places in Kent are on our list, large and small. Our Maidstone page covers sites nearby, about 34 miles away.
Postcode districts we cover here for extract fan cleaning: CT13. Local streets include The Street, Elmwood Park and Fir Tree Hill, all of which we cover for extract fan cleaning. Nearby, we also carry out extract fan cleaning in Marshborough (1 mile north-west), Statenborough (1 mile south-east), Felderland (1 mile south-east), East Street (1 mile north) and Eastry (1 mile south). We also work in nearby towns such as Canterbury (10 miles west), Margate (9 miles north), Dover (9 miles south), Folkestone (14 miles south-west), Ramsgate (7 miles north-east) and Broadstairs (9 miles north-east).
Local landmarks in Woodnesborough
In Woodnesborough, that means kitchens and buildings near Ham Fen. For rail, the closest station is Sandwich station, roughly 1.5 miles east. Nearby you will also find Sandown Castle (4.4 miles south-east) and White Mill (1.3 miles north-east). For a walk, there’s Monk's Wall nature reserve.