Hampshire · Extract fan repair and replacement
Extract fan repair and replacement in Highwood, Hampshire
Repair and replacement of kitchen extract fans, fan motors and worn fan parts for businesses, landlords and public buildings in Highwood. CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, and fully insured.
- Poor airflow at the canopy
- An extract that vibrates through the ductwork
- A worn or slipping fan belt
Extract fan repair in Highwood, done properly
The extract fan is what pulls smoke, heat and steam out of the kitchen. Once it turns noisy, sluggish or stops altogether, the cooking area soon fills with heat and fumes. We find out why and put it right with a repair or a replacement. We are often asked to deal with a fan shaking on its mountings and a worn or slipping fan belt, on kitchen extract fans, bearings and fan motors.
Rural kitchens often have fans mounted on outside walls or roofs, exposed to the weather. That, with the grease, is hard on motors and bearings.
The report is your system’s health record: dated, with photos, and showing what was done. For TR19® Grease cleans, the certificate comes through the BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite portal and sits alongside the report.
- Place
- Highwood (BH24)
- Region
- Hampshire
- Paperwork
- Photo report after every visit
- Price
- A fixed price before any work starts
- Hours
- After hours by arrangement; emergencies any time
- Telephone
- 0345 646 2711
- Checked
- 30 October 2026
FAQs for Highwood
Who inspects food businesses in Highwood?
The local authority for Highwood is New Forest council, and its environmental health team does the inspecting. An officer may ask how the kitchen is ventilated, so keep repair records with your maintenance file.
Can you come to Highwood after we close?
Yes, we can come after you close and finish before you open. Your customers, staff or residents in Highwood needn’t be disturbed. Just phone us on 0345 646 2711, or email photos with your opening times and we’ll plan around them.
Does the law say we must follow TR19?
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 law behind it is the Fire Safety Order 2005 in England and Wales.
Should the fan be cleaned as well as repaired?
Repairing the fan does not clean the canopy or ducts. Grease on the fan usually means grease in the ducts, and we can arrange both.
What paperwork should we keep on file?
Every certificate and report from each visit, kept together in your maintenance log with your in-house cleaning records. BESA advises that certificates record the date, location and technician.
Which kinds of sites do you work on?
Commercial premises of every kind: from restaurants, pubs and hotels to schools, hospitals, care homes, offices, shops and food production sites. We fit the work around how the site operates.
Do you have a 24/7 line?
Yes. Our emergency line runs 24/7 for anything that can’t wait until a planned visit. Call us any time and explain what’s happened.
Is there a survey before the work?
Yes. We always survey first, either from photos and details you send or on a site visit. A fixed quote follows.
Why it’s worth doing now in Highwood
In Highwood, as elsewhere, an extract fan may well sit outside on a wall or roof, so its noise does not stay in the kitchen. Dealing with the fault brings the noise back down before it becomes a nuisance. In a place like Highwood, ductwork and fans are easy to forget until something goes wrong.
We do not list prices on the website, because each job is priced on what it involves. For a fixed quote, ring 0345 646 2711 or send us an email, and we will explain what it covers.
Why choose Duct Doctor in Highwood
- One number for every site across the South East and London
- Trading since 2009
- Full insurance on every job
- Out-of-hours work and a 24/7 emergency line
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Fixed quotes for extract fan repair in Highwood
There’s no set price list, because no two systems are the same. What we look at:
- Travel, parking and unloading
- A single visit or a regular plan
- What state the system is in
- Working hours and out-of-hours timing
Working hours, access and the scale of the site all affect the cost. We take each of them into account, and the price is fixed before any work starts.
What we need to know
What to send for a quote:
- Your last certificate, test record or report
- The times we could work without disrupting the site
- Wide pictures of the system and the area around it
- The site address and the type of premises
Some systems can be priced from pictures; others need a survey. Big or complicated sites, and systems that are hard to see in pictures, get a survey first. Either way, the quote is fixed before any work is booked.
What extract fan repair looks like in Highwood
Food hygiene inspections in Highwood are the job of New Forest council’s environmental health team. Ventilation is part of food hygiene law, which expects it to be suitable and sufficient. That’s one more reason not to keep cooking with a broken fan.
Holidays are the time to replace a tired kitchen fan at schools such as Poulner Infant School, rather than mid-term.
Highwood is about 2 miles north-east of Ringwood, in Hampshire. Sites in Highwood get the same service as everywhere we cover: a survey first, a fixed quote, work timed around your hours and a report with photos. 683 places in Hampshire are on our list, large and small. There’s also a page for Southampton, about 16 miles away.
We cover every part of BH24 for extract fan repair and the roads nearby. If your site is just outside Highwood, we cover Hangersley (1 mile south), Rockford (1 mile north-west), Shobley (1 mile south-east), Forest Corner (1 mile south-east) and Blashford (1 mile west). Larger places within reach include Totton (12 miles east), Lymington (12 miles south-east), Romsey (15 miles north-east), New Milton (9 miles south-east), Barton on Sea (10 miles south-east) and Dibden Purlieu (15 miles east).
Near you in Highwood
Locally, jobs take us to businesses close to Ringwood School Academy and Alice Lisle Inn and the streets around them. A little further out are St Leonard's Hospital (5.5 miles south-west). For a walk, there’s Linbrook Lake and Blashford Lakes.
Looking after it afterwards
Aftercare is simple, and it makes the next visit easier:
- Tell us about a new rattle or whine straight away
- Keep a record of any trips or stoppages
- Get a noisy fan checked rather than slowed down
- Keep access to the fan controls unobstructed
Listen to the fan over the next few weeks. A new noise or vibration is worth reporting early, so it can be looked at before it grows.
A slipping belt or a loose mount is a small job. Ignored, they can lead to bigger failures, so it’s worth acting early.
How the job changes from site to site
Fan controls
Speed controllers and isolators sit between the supply and the fan. When they fail, the fan may not start or may run at the wrong speed.
Roof and wall-mounted fans
Fans are often mounted on roofs or external walls. Access affects how long a repair takes, so we ask about it early.
Signs you need extract fan repair in Highwood
Grease that gets past the filters ends up on the fan. It builds up on the impeller blades unevenly, so the fan runs out of balance and starts to vibrate and rattle.
Signs it’s time to call us include:
- An old fan that needs replacing
- A worn or slipping fan belt
- A whining or grinding extract motor
- A fan that keeps cutting out
Hall kitchens near St John the Baptist, or anywhere around Highwood, often use their fans only now and then, and an idle fan can stick.
Before booking anyone
- When the next visit should be, and why
- How VAT is shown on the quote
- What’s included in the scope, part by part
- How areas they cannot reach will be recorded
The process
Each visit runs to the same pattern: sheeting and protection first, isolate whatever needs isolating, carry out the extract fan repair, tidy up and leave you the report. On site, the work takes a few hours on site, depending on the fault and the access to the fan. We agree a date with you, plan the drive to Highwood and turn up when the site is quiet.
- You describe the fault and we arrange a visit.
- We isolate the fan before touching it.
- We diagnose the fault, checking the controls as well as the fan.
- You get a fixed price for putting it right.
- The work is done and the fan is tested running.
Before we arrive
- Tell us the best time to work, such as after service or at a weekend
- Let us know how we reach the system, including roofs, risers and plant rooms
- Find the previous report, if there is one
Getting a quote
To help us quote: where the site is, what it is and its opening hours, photos of the system and the last certificate or report, if there is one. Once you have those, phone us on 0345 646 2711 or email us.
Advice
Landlords, agents and facilities managers
From a single site to a large estate, the standard is the same: a survey first, a fixed quote, the work timed around the site and a report with pictures.
Records are where multi-site compliance often slips. Each visit ends with a dated report and pictures, so you can show an insurer or inspector what was done at each site.