East Sussex · Extract fan repair and replacement
Extract Fan Repair in Telham
Professional extract fan repair in and around Telham, booked around your opening hours and signed off in writing with photos.
- An extract that vibrates through the ductwork
- A humming noise from the fan motor
- A fan running too slowly to clear the kitchen
Different parts, different methods
Fan controls
We check the controls as part of every diagnosis since the motor is not always to blame.
Impellers and housings
Grease settles inside the fan housing as well as on the blades. Both are inspected, and cleaning can form part of the repair.
Extract fan repair in Telham, done properly
If an extract fan in Telham is struggling or has stopped, we find the cause and quote a fixed price to repair or replace it. For a fan that fails during service, there’s a 24/7 emergency callout. Typical jobs include a humming noise from the fan motor and poor airflow at the canopy, on fan motors, kitchen extract fans and belts and pulleys.
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.
Insurers, fire officers and environmental health officers all look at records. That is why every job is written up in a report with pictures, and grease extract cleans come with a TR19® certificate issued through the BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite portal.
- Location
- Telham (TN33)
- Wider area
- East Sussex
- Paperwork
- Written report with pictures
- Price
- Fixed quote, normally within a working day
- When we work
- Nights, weekends or holidays to suit you
- Telephone
- 0345 646 2711
- Checked
- 30 October 2026
The process
We’re 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. The visit itself takes part of a day for most faults, with a return visit if parts have to be ordered. If the van will struggle with a lane or gateway near Telham, let us know and we will plan around it.
- We take details of the symptoms and book a time that suits the kitchen.
- We isolate the fan before touching it.
- We diagnose the fault, checking the controls as well as the fan.
- A fixed quote for the repair or replacement follows.
- We fix the fault and run the fan to check it.
How to prepare
- Tell us about site rules, permits or sign-in
- Clear the space around the work
- Let us know about parking and loading
Ask for a quote
Here’s what helps us quote: where the site is, what it is and its opening hours, a few pictures and any previous report or certificate. Then call 0345 646 2711 or send us an email.
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Telham: your questions answered
Can you work in Telham outside opening hours?
Yes, out-of-hours work is a big part of what we do. Your customers, staff or residents in Telham needn’t be disturbed. Just call us on 0345 646 2711 or email us with your opening times and we will plan around them.
Do you cover Telham for emergency fan repairs?
Day or night, a failed fan in Telham can be reported on our emergency line. Phone 0345 646 2711 and we’ll talk through the fault and access. Tell us where the fan is and how to reach it.
Do you provide a certificate or report?
Yes. Every visit ends with a written report and pictures, showing what was done, anything we couldn’t reach and when the next visit is due. Where the work is a TR19® Grease clean, there’s also a certificate issued through the BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite portal.
Should the fan be cleaned as well as repaired?
Often it makes sense to do both. A TR19 clean covers the canopy, plenum, ductwork and fan and comes with a TR19 certificate and photo report.
Who is responsible for fire safety on the premises?
It depends on the building. Under the Fire Safety Order 2005, it’s the responsible person, which may be the employer, owner, landlord, facilities manager or managing agent.
How long does an extract fan repair take?
That depends on what’s wrong, but most jobs take a few hours on site, depending on the fault and the access to the fan. We will give you a better idea once we’ve diagnosed it.
What accreditations do you have?
Our accreditations are CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, alongside BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite membership, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease. The Vent Hygiene Elite scheme is run by BESCA and audited independently.
Can you look after several sites?
Yes. Our area covers London and the South East, so sites at different addresses can be planned together on one programme. Every site has its own report.
Why it’s worth doing now in Telham
A fan that’s running slowly isn’t clearing the kitchen properly. The kitchen becomes an uncomfortable place to work and grease has more chance to settle on surfaces and in the duct. If the system at a site near Telham fails, there may be nowhere nearby to move to.
When the work has to happen, how we reach it and how big the site is can all change the price. Each of those is built into the quote, and the price is fixed before work begins.
Why us?
- A BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease
- Trading since 2009
- Fixed quotes from a survey or pictures
- CHAS and SafeContractor accredited, with ISO 9001
Take a look at what affects the cost or our accreditations.
When a fan fails in Telham
Look up Telham on the FSA’s food hygiene register and you will find about 4 restaurants, cafés and works canteens across Telham and its immediate surroundings (about a mile and a half). For any of them with a canopy, the extract fan is what keeps the kitchen usable. At about 49 miles from central London, Telham sits well inside the area we cover. The visit is fixed around your opening hours, not ours. It’s Rother council that sends environmental health officers to food businesses in Telham. A kitchen with no working extract can fall short of the suitable and sufficient ventilation food hygiene rules expect. That makes a fan repair urgent rather than something to put off.
If you run a school kitchen, at a school such as Claverham Community College or nearby, a fan that is getting noisy is best repaired in the holidays before it fails in term. Hall kitchens near Chapel of the Ascension, or anywhere around Telham, often use their fans only now and then, and an idle fan can stick. If you cook near Battle station, long trading hours wear fan belts and bearings, so noise and vibration are worth reporting early.
Telham is about 4 miles north-west of Hastings, in East Sussex. Whatever kind of site you run in Telham, extract fan repair is something we can help with. Visits can be booked for evenings, overnight or weekends so trading is not interrupted. Our East Sussex coverage runs to 289 places, Telham among them. For sites nearby, see our Maidstone page, about 25 miles away.
Extract fan repair in TN33 follows the same survey, fixed quote and written report as everywhere else we cover. Streets in the area include Hastings Road, Starr's Green Lane and Starrs Mead, and we cover them all for extract fan repair. Being close to the A2100, Telham is easy for our technicians to reach at any hour. Other places close to Telham include Kent Street (2 miles east), Sedlescombe (2 miles north-east), Whatlington (2 miles north), Westfield (3 miles east) and Swaile's Green (4 miles north). We also work in nearby towns such as Eastbourne (13 miles south-west), Hastings (4 miles south-east), Bexhill-on-Sea (5 miles south-west), Hailsham (12 miles west), St Leonards (4 miles south-east) and Polegate (13 miles south-west).
Local landmarks in Telham
Typical jobs here are in premises near The Black Horse Public House and the streets around them. The nearest railway station is Battle station, about 0.8 miles north-west of the centre. Well-known places in the area include Hastings Castle (4.8 miles south-east) and Nortons Farm Museum (1.3 miles north-east). The countryside around Telham includes Senlac Hill and Church Wood and Robsack Wood.
Keeping the system healthy
To keep the system working properly between visits:
- Make sure the fan is cleaned with the rest of the system
- Keep the grease filters clean and fitted
- Make sure the isolator and controls are easy to reach
- Don’t cook with gaps in the filter bank
Once the fan is running smoothly, keep the filters clean. The less grease that reaches the fan, the longer its parts last and the quieter it runs.
The fan is part of every full TR19 clean. A clean impeller stays in balance and that means less wear.
In-house cleaning or a specialist?
Some jobs should never be done in-house: entering ducts, working on fans, testing dampers and taking grease readings call for the right kit, training and safe access. Leave those to us.
Staff cleaning doesn’t replace a specialist visit; it supports it. Clean filters and tidy surfaces slow the build-up, but the parts you can’t see still need a specialist at the right interval.
What a clean won’t put right
Some problems need a different service or another trade:
- Problems with the gas supply or its interlock valve
- Ductwork designed too small for the kitchen’s cooking
- Smells from the discharge that need odour control equipment
If you are not sure, just phone us on 0345 646 2711 or drop us a line and we’ll give you a straight answer.
Where we work
- Bearings
- Fan housings
- Belts and pulleys
- Kitchen extract fans
- Fan motors
- Roof and wall fans
Landlords, agents and facilities managers
The Fire Safety Order 2005 puts the duty to manage fire risk on the responsible person, which may be the employer, owner, landlord, FM or managing agent. With shared responsibility, good records help everyone.
We work for landlords, managing agents and facilities managers as well as the people running the site. Shared systems, like a riser serving several units, need a clear agreement on who books the work, and we can quote for the whole system.