Kent · Grease filter exchange
Grease filter exchange in Addington, Kent
Grease filter exchange in Addington, surveyed first and signed off with a written report and pictures. Ask us for a fixed quote.
- Filters left unwashed on busy weeks
- Missing filters in the filter bank
- Grease left in baffles after washing
What we are called out for in Addington
Kitchens in Addington, as everywhere, find filter washing slips down the list on busy weeks. A missed wash or two is all it takes for filters to fill with grease.
Common reasons sites call us include:
- Filter washing that keeps being missed
- Filters that leave gaps in the canopy
- Poor airflow through the filters
- Gaps where filters have been removed
If you look after a school kitchen, at a school such as Offham Primary School or anywhere near Addington, the holidays are the usual time for a TR19® clean.
Before you book anyone
- When the next visit should be, and why
- Whether the quote is based on a survey or photos
- How VAT is shown on the quote
- What hours they’ll be on site
Grease filter exchange for kitchens and businesses in Addington
In Addington, our filter exchange runs on a schedule set by how much the kitchen cooks. Busy kitchens need changes more often, lighter ones less. The interval is agreed before the first visit. If you’re dealing with smoke and heat lingering under the hood and hand-washed filters that still look greasy, we can put it right.
In a small place like Addington, kitchens are often in older or extended buildings, with long single-storey duct runs, and those horizontal sections are where grease settles. Access, parking and timings are agreed before the day.
Duct Doctor has been trading since 2009, as a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease. CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001 are in place too, and we are fully insured.
- Location
- Addington (ME19)
- Region
- Kent
- Records
- Photo report after every visit
- Price
- A fixed price before work begins
- Hours
- When your site is closed, plus a 24/7 line
- Phone
- 0345 646 2711
- Checked
- 30 October 2026
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When it’s something else
An honest diagnosis matters more to us than a booking, so here’s what grease filter exchange will not do:
- Grease behind the filters that a swap can’t remove
- Odours from the discharge that filters will not stop
- A noisy or failed extract fan
If you are not sure, just phone us on 0345 646 2711, or send details by email and we will give you a straight answer before booking.
Where we work
- Wall canopies
- Restaurants and pubs
- Baffle filters
- Mesh filters
- Island canopies
- School and hospital kitchens
Landlords, agents and facilities managers
If you look after several sites, we can schedule visits across all of them on one quote. Every building has its own written report, so each one has its own record.
Keeping records across a portfolio is half the battle. Each visit produces a dated report with pictures, ready to show insurers, fire officers or EHOs.
What affects the cost of grease filter exchange
Some jobs are bigger than they look, and some smaller. The main factors:
- Access, including roofs, risers and ceiling voids
- Travel, parking and unloading
- The scale of the work
- Any permits to work or inductions
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’ll go through it with you.
What we need to know
There’s no need for technical detail. It helps if you can send:
- Close-ups of filters, grilles, hatches or access panels
- The times we could work without disrupting the site
- Your last certificate, test record or report
- Wide photos of the system and the area around it
Here’s what helps us quote: where the site is, what it is and its opening hours, a few pictures and the last certificate or report, if there is one. Then call us on 0345 646 2711 or drop us a line.
Common questions in Addington
Can you work in Addington outside opening hours?
Yes, we can come after you close and finish before you open. That way a site in Addington doesn’t have to lose a day’s trading. Tell us your opening hours when you ask for a quote.
Which fire authority looks after Addington?
That’s Kent Fire and Rescue Service. TR19® is not law, but it’s the benchmark many fire officers and insurers look to when they ask how often the extract is cleaned.
Who is responsible for fire safety on the premises?
That depends on who controls the premises. Under the Fire Safety Order 2005, it’s the responsible person, which may be the employer, owner, landlord, facilities manager or managing agent.
What types of premises do you cover?
We work for restaurants, pubs, hotels, schools, colleges, hospitals, care homes, offices and shops, as well as food production and leisure sites.
Can you give a price for filter changes?
The cost depends on your filters and the schedule. We’ll give you a fixed quote once we know your canopies.
Do you offer maintenance contracts?
Yes. Plans on a 3, 6 or 12-monthly cycle are available, depending on what the system needs.
Can damaged filters stay in the canopy?
A badly damaged filter should be replaced. We’ll tell you which ones and why on the visit.
Does a filter exchange replace TR19 cleaning?
It does not. Some grease passes the filters as vapour and settles in the ducts, so the full system still needs cleaning to TR19.
Why deal with it now?
Washing filters in-house is an option for kitchens in Addington, and it works when it’s done well and never skipped. When it doesn’t happen reliably, an exchange makes it automatic. Systems in rural buildings are often out of sight and out of mind.
A single site or a whole portfolio, we price it on the same basis: what needs doing, how we get to it and when. You’ll have a fixed price before we start.
Why book with us
- Work around your opening hours, with 24/7 emergency cover
- A written report with photos after each visit
- One number for every site across the South East and London
- A BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease
See how cleaning jobs are priced or our accreditations and certificates.
Grease, kitchens and Addington
Look up Addington on the FSA’s food hygiene register and you’ll find about 19 restaurants, cafés and works canteens and about 3 sandwich bars and takeaways in and around Addington, up to about a mile and a half out. Swapping filters on a schedule keeps kitchens like these drawing air properly. Environmental health officers from Tonbridge and Malling council inspect food businesses in Addington. An officer looking round a kitchen will see the canopy, and grease there is hard to miss. Before-and-after photos from each clean are a simple way to show the extract is in hand. The fire and rescue service for Addington is Kent Fire and Rescue Service. Its fire safety officers can audit commercial kitchens, and grease in the extract is part of a kitchen’s fire risk.
If your kitchen is in a listed or historic building, like the houses around Addington (Old Soar Manor is about 3.9 miles south-west), fitting access panels needs care. If you run catering at a healthcare site, such as a hospital like Maidstone Hospital about 4.9 miles south-east, the extract may need cleaning more often than a part-time kitchen.
Addington is about 7 miles north-west of Maidstone, in Kent. Sites in Addington get the same service as everywhere we cover: diagnosis first, a fixed price, out-of-hours working where needed and a written report with pictures. Our Kent coverage runs to 922 places, Addington among them. Maidstone is in our area too, about 7 miles from Addington.
Here we cover the ME19 postcode area for grease filter exchange. Whether your site is on London Road, The Links and Trottiscliffe Road or anywhere close by, we can help. Other places close to Addington include Ryarsh (1 mile north-east), Trottiscliffe (1 mile north-west), Vigo Village (2 miles north-west), Culverstone Green (3 miles north-west) and Harvel (3 miles north). Within a short drive, we also cover Maidstone (7 miles south-east), Sittingbourne (15 miles east), Dartford (12 miles north-west), Sevenoaks (9 miles west), Royal Tunbridge Wells (13 miles south-west) and Gravesend (9 miles north).
Landmarks near Addington
Around Addington, our work takes us to kitchens and buildings near The Angel Inn, The Malling School and Manor Park Country Park and the streets around them. The closest station to Addington is West Malling station, roughly 1.8 miles south-east of the centre. Nearby you will also find Coldrum Long Barrow (1.2 miles north) and Leybourne Castle (1.7 miles east).
How it works
We start by comparing what we find with the survey or your photos. Anything unexpected is raised with you before we go further. From there, it takes less than an hour in most kitchens. The timing of a visit to Addington is set by you, and the travel is our side of the planning.
- We start by noting how many filters you have and what type they are.
- We agree a schedule that suits how much the kitchen cooks.
- On each visit, the dirty filters come out of the canopy.
- We fit clean filters and check they sit snugly in the housing.
- Anything we notice, such as bent filters or a dirty plenum, is pointed out.
Getting ready for the visit
- Make sure equipment near the work can be switched off and left to cool
- Dig out any earlier paperwork for the system
- Tell us about site rules, permits or sign-in
Get a fixed quote
The quickest way to a quote is to send photos: wide shots of the system, close-ups of anything that worries you and how we’d get to it. Add the site type and your opening hours, and many jobs can be priced from that alone.
Advice
Part by part
Busy restaurant and pub kitchens
In a busy kitchen, filter washing is easy to skip. A regular exchange means nobody has to remember.
Canopy filter housings
We check that filters sit snugly in the housing at each visit since a gap is a route for grease.