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Extract Fan Cleaning in Woolwich
Our technicians work in Woolwich on extract fan cleaning. Fixed quotes, work around your opening hours and photo reports as standard.
- An extract fan with no cleaning record
- Grease stains around the discharge
- Rough running from the extract fan
How we handle extract fan cleaning in Woolwich
A clean fan isn’t a repaired fan. Anything that looks worn or damaged goes on the report and fan repair or replacement is something we also do. You get an honest view of the fan’s condition. If you’re dealing with a fan left out of previous cleans and a heavily greased fan housing, we can put it right.
London kitchens are often tucked into basements or the back of a building, with extract ducts that can climb several floors to discharge at roof level. In Woolwich, as elsewhere in the capital, a long duct run means more access points to open and more grease to remove.
It’s worth checking any contractor’s accreditations. Ours are BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite membership, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease, plus CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, and we are fully insured.
- Place
- Woolwich (SE18, E16, SE7)
- Wider area
- Greater London
- Reporting
- Certificate and photo report
- Quotes
- A fixed quote up front
- Hours
- Evenings, overnight and weekends; 24/7 emergencies
- Phone
- 0345 646 2711
- Checked
- 30 October 2026
Common questions in Woolwich
Is parking a problem for work in Woolwich?
A loading bay, a visitor permit or off-street space near the site in Woolwich makes the visit easier to plan. If the building has a loading slot system, we’ll book into it.
Who enforces fire safety at workplaces in Woolwich?
Woolwich is in the area of London Fire Brigade. Records of extract cleaning are a sensible thing to have ready if a fire safety officer carries out an audit.
What happens if you can’t reach some of it?
We record them on the report, with a note of where it is, and we tell you what would make it reachable, for example new access panels.
Do we need to close while you work?
Not typically. We need the work area to ourselves while we’re on site, so the visit goes in a quiet slot.
Is TR19 cleaning required by law?
No. TR19® itself is not law; it’s a BESA specification. The law is the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, which makes the responsible person assess and reduce fire risk, and TR19® is the benchmark for showing that grease in the extract is under control.
Why has my extract fan got louder?
An unbalanced impeller, usually from uneven grease, is a common cause. We clean the fan and tell you if anything else, like worn bearings, is to blame.
Can one contract cover all our sites?
Yes. Send the list of sites and the work at each and you will get one fixed quote.
Do you offer extract fan cleaning separately?
Yes, if the fan needs it. A coated fan often means the duct before it is coated too, but the choice is yours.
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What affects the cost of extract fan cleaning
You will get a fixed price before any work starts. It takes into account:
- How many systems or sites are involved
- Whether it’s a one-off visit or part of a schedule
- Parking and loading at the site
- The condition we find in the survey
Kitchens, offices, schools and hospitals are all priced the same way: how much there is, how we reach it, what state it’s in and when we can work. Call for a fixed quote and we will go through it with you.
What we need to know
You do not need the technical terms. It helps if you can send:
- Photos showing the whole system and its surroundings
- Where the site is and what kind of site it is
- The paperwork from the last visit, if you have it
- Close-ups of filters, grilles, hatches or access panels
For a fixed quote, call 0345 646 2711 or drop us a line with the site type, your trading hours and a short description of the system. Photos and the last report, if you have one, make the quote quicker. You will usually have a quote within one working day.
Kitchen extracts in Woolwich
The Food Standards Agency lists about 35 bars, pubs and nightclubs and about 3 hotels and guest houses as registered food businesses in Woolwich and the streets around it, up to about 1.5 miles out. Wherever they cook, the canopy, duct and fan collect grease just as a restaurant’s do. The fire and rescue service for Woolwich is London Fire Brigade. Its fire safety officers can audit commercial kitchens, and grease in the extract is part of a kitchen’s fire risk. Night work suits London kitchens, and roads and loading bays tend to be quieter too.
Commuter trade near Woolwich Dockyard station can mean long cooking hours, and long hours put a kitchen into BESA’s more frequent cleaning bands. Term dates shape school work: for a school like Mulgrave Primary School, an extract clean fits neatly into a half-term or summer break. Healthcare kitchens cannot easily close, so their extracts are cleaned overnight or between meal services; the nearest hospital to Woolwich is British Hospital for Mothers and Babies, about 0.5 miles west.
Woolwich is about 6 miles south-east of Leyton, in Greater London. Whether your site is in the middle of Woolwich or further out, we cover extract fan cleaning for every kind of premises, from small sites to large estates. Across Greater London, we cover 764 places, and Woolwich is one of them. London is in our area too, about 7 miles from Woolwich.
Postcode districts we cover here for extract fan cleaning: SE18, E16 and SE7. Whether your site is on Market Street, Woolwich High Street and Beresford Square Market Place or anywhere close by, our technicians can take on the work. If your site is just outside Woolwich, we cover Plumstead (1 mile east), Charlton (1 mile west), New Charlton (1 mile west), Shooter's Hill (1 mile south) and Kidbrooke (2 miles south-west). Further out, we also cover London (7 miles west), City of Westminster (9 miles west), Marylebone (9 miles west), Kensington (11 miles west), St Pancras (8 miles west) and Shoreditch (7 miles north-west).
What’s near Woolwich
We work in commercial kitchens and buildings around Woolwich Common, Oasis Academy Silvertown and Oasis Academy Silvertown. There’s a railway station in Woolwich itself: Woolwich Dockyard station. Other landmarks nearby include Royal Artillery Museum (0.5 miles north-east) and British Hospital for Mothers and Babies (0.5 miles west). Open spaces near Woolwich include Gilbert's Pit.
In-house cleaning or a specialist?
Logging matters as much as cleaning. A dated log of in-house cleaning and checks shows an inspector that the system is looked after between visits, next to our reports.
Staff cleaning and specialist work aren’t the same thing. Wiping filters daily and washing them weekly keeps the visible parts in order, but grease that has passed the filters is out of reach. Reaching it takes a specialist with the right equipment.
Aftercare tips
How long the results last depends on use and care. We suggest:
- Notice when the fan starts to sound different
- Make sure the fan is included each time
- Run the extract throughout cooking
- File the fan’s report with your other records
When we’ve finished, the fan is reassembled and run. If anything seems wrong, from vibration to wear, we note it, so you can plan any repair.
Listen to the fan. New noise or vibration often means grease is building on the impeller, and catching it early keeps it a cleaning job.
What a clean won’t put right
In fairness, some problems need a different fix:
- Wiring faults to the fan
- An undersized fan that cannot cope
- An impeller that’s bent or split
If you are not sure, just call us on 0345 646 2711 or email us and we will give you a straight answer.
Where we work
- Centrifugal fans
- Fan housings
- Discharge points
- In-line fans
- Roof-mounted fans
- Axial fans
What the work involves, part by part
Impellers and blades
The blades of the impeller do the work, and grease builds up on them unevenly. That’s what unbalances the fan, so it’s cleaned carefully blade by blade.
Fan housings and motors
Belt-driven fans have a drive belt and pulleys that can collect grease. We clean around them and note any wear for your records.
For landlords and multi-site operators
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 can quote for the whole system.
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.
What happens on the day
We are used to working while the site is closed. Evenings, nights and weekends are when much of our work happens, so the site can open as normal afterwards. On site, the work takes a couple of hours per fan, depending on its size and the build-up. Most London sites can’t stop for the day, so work in Woolwich is usually done overnight, early in the morning or at weekends.
- Diagnosis first: we look for grease, noise and vibration.
- With the fan isolated, the housing is opened.
- Each blade is cleaned so the impeller runs evenly.
- Housing, outlet and the area around the motor are cleaned.
- We run the fan and note its condition in the photo report.
How to prepare
- Dig out any earlier paperwork for the system
- Let us know when the site is closed or quiet
- Let us know about permits to work or site inductions
How to get a quote
If you need extract fan cleaning in Woolwich, give us a ring on 0345 646 2711 or use the quote form. Let us know the site type and the opening hours, plus pictures or the previous report if they’re to hand. We typically send a fixed quote within one working day.