Hampshire · Grease filter exchange
Grease Filter Exchange in Ashlett
Grease filter exchange across Ashlett and nearby, booked around your opening hours and finished with a written report and photos.
- Missing filters in the filter bank
- Grease left in baffles after washing
- Filters so greasy the air can barely pass
About our grease filter exchange in Ashlett
Washing filters in the kitchen sink is messy and easily missed on a busy week. With a filter exchange, we bring a clean set and take the dirty one away and the canopy is refilled right away. The work covers mesh filters, baffle filters and restaurants and pubs, and common reasons people get in touch are grease building up behind the canopy filters and hand-washed filters that still look greasy.
For a kitchen in or near Ashlett, the visit is planned around opening hours and the journey, and the clean itself is the same full TR19® job as in any town: canopy, filters, duct, fan and discharge, with a certificate and photo report at the end.
Accreditations are easy to claim and worth checking. We’re a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease, and we hold CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, with full insurance on top.
- Place
- Ashlett (SO45)
- Wider area
- Hampshire
- Paperwork
- Written report with photos
- Quote
- A fixed price before work begins
- Working hours
- After hours by arrangement; emergencies any time
- Telephone
- 0345 646 2711
- Reviewed
- 30 October 2026
What grease filter exchange can’t fix
Grease filter exchange cannot fix everything, and we’ll tell you before work begins. It won’t put right:
- A heavily greased plenum or canopy, which needs cleaning to TR19
- A canopy that doesn’t capture the vapour properly
- A noisy or failed extract fan
If you’re not sure, just phone us on 0345 646 2711 or send us an email and we will give you a straight answer.
Where we work
- Baffle filters
- Mesh filters
- Wall canopies
- School and hospital kitchens
- Island canopies
- Restaurants and pubs
The process
We work around your opening hours, not the other way round. We book the visit for a time the area is closed, whether that is an evening, overnight or a weekend. Once we are in, the area is sheeted and anything that has to be off is turned off and cooled, and the work takes a short visit, depending on how many filters the canopies hold. Visits to a village like Ashlett are booked in advance, at a time that suits whoever runs the site.
- We look at the canopies and the condition of the filters.
- We note any filters that are bent, damaged or missing.
- We exchange the dirty filters for a clean set.
- The filters are checked for fit before we go.
- Anything that needs attention, such as a greasy plenum, is pointed out.
Preparing for the visit
- Tell us the best time to work, such as after service or at a weekend
- Clear the space around the work
- Make sure someone can let us in and lock up afterwards
Ask for a quote
Quotes are quick. Call or email with a few details and you will normally have a fixed price within one working day. If we need to see the system first, we book a survey around your hours.
Advice
What we’re called out for in Ashlett
Missing filters are more common than you’d think. Every gap in the filter bank lets grease straight into the plenum and on into the ductwork.
Clients usually contact us when they notice something like this:
- Gaps where filters have been removed
- Filters that come out of the sink still dirty
- Filters that leave gaps in the canopy
- Filters left unwashed on busy weeks
A hall kitchen that only cooks for events, whether near Church of All Saints or elsewhere in Ashlett, still needs its extract cleaned, just less often.
What to look for in a quote
- Which accreditations they hold, and whether you can check them
- Whether the quote shows VAT
- Whether the work can be done while the site is closed
- If they look at the system before pricing
Ashlett questions
Who inspects food businesses in Ashlett?
Kitchens in Ashlett are inspected by New Forest council’s environmental health officers. How often a business is inspected depends on the risk rating the council gives it, so it’s worth staying ready all year.
Does the sea air around Ashlett make a difference to grease filter exchange?
Yes, to a degree: at about 1 mile from the coast, Ashlett gets salt-laden air that corrodes metal faster. We look at fans, cowls and fixings for rust as well as grease.
Do you recommend a next date?
Yes. The interval depends on how much the system is used and what we find, and we explain the reasoning on the report.
Where does the waste go?
It’s contained and taken away. Grease, debris and waste water are collected as the work goes on, so it does not spread.
How long will you be on site?
Your quote will say how long we expect to be there. For a typical site, it takes anything from a few minutes to an hour or so, depending on the number of filters.
What does grease filter exchange cost?
We price it on the number of filters and the visit frequency. Tell us what you have and we’ll come back with a fixed quote quickly.
Can you look after several sites?
Yes. We work across South East England and London, so sites at different addresses can be planned together as one programme. Each site gets its own report and photos.
Which records should we keep?
Anything that proves the system is maintained: reports, certificates, photos and your own cleaning or check logs. One maintenance log per site keeps it simple.
Staff cleaning versus specialist work
Logging matters as much as cleaning. A dated log of in-house cleaning and checks helps show that the system is managed between specialist visits, alongside 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. That part needs specialist access and equipment.
How the job changes from site to site
Mesh filters
Mesh filters are still found in many canopies. They can be on the same exchange schedule as baffle filters.
The plenum
The plenum is the space behind the filters. Grease that gets past the filters settles there.
Managing agents and facilities teams in Ashlett
We regularly work with managing agents. Send the address, what’s needed and how access works and we will come back with a fixed quote.
Under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, the responsible person must assess and reduce fire risk, and that can be the employer, the owner, a landlord, a facilities manager or a managing agent. Where responsibility is shared, records matter even more.
Grease filter exchange in Ashlett: the local picture
At about 1 mile from the coast, Ashlett is close enough for sea air to matter. Near the sea, the fan and discharge at the top of a kitchen extract corrode faster than they would inland. The fire and rescue service for Ashlett is Hampshire and Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service. The Fire Safety Order puts the duty on whoever runs a kitchen to control its fire risk, and a greasy duct is fuel. Environmental health officers from New Forest council inspect food businesses in Ashlett. The cleanliness of the kitchen and its equipment, extraction included, is part of what they check. A TR19® certificate and photo report after each clean gives you a record to show an inspector.
A hospital like Coldeast, about 4 miles north-east, is the kind of site where a kitchen may cook for patients, staff and visitors all day. School kitchens, at schools like Fawley Infant School for example, are normally cleaned in the holidays so no lunches are lost.
Ashlett is about 4 miles south-east of Hythe, in Hampshire. Whatever kind of site you run in Ashlett, we can take on grease filter exchange. We can work out of hours so the site keeps running. Ashlett is one of 683 places in Hampshire we cover for grease filter exchange. There’s also a page for Southampton, roughly 7 miles from Ashlett.
Grease filter exchange in SO45 follows the same survey, fixed quote and written report as everywhere else we cover. We also cover Stonehills (1 mile south-west), Fawley (1 mile west), Sprat's Down (1 mile south), Calshot (1 mile south-east) and Blackfield (1 mile south-west). Larger places within reach include Gosport (8 miles east), Eastleigh (10 miles north), Fareham (7 miles east), Horndean (15 miles east), Totton (10 miles north-west) and Chandler's Ford (11 miles north).
Landmarks near Ashlett
We work in commercial kitchens and buildings around The New Forest Academy and Falcon Hotel and the streets around them. Ashlett’s nearest station is Hamble station, about 3.1 miles north. Nearby you’ll also find Calshot Castle (1.6 miles east) and Coldeast (4 miles north-east). For a walk, there’s Mercury Marshes.
Looking after it afterwards
How long the results last depends on use and care. Here’s what we suggest:
- Keep the extract on whenever the range is in use
- Look out for drips from the canopy
- Clean the canopy surfaces regularly
- Make sure we can reach the canopy on exchange day
Keep an eye out for filters that have been taken out. Gaps let grease into the plenum, so let us know if one goes missing or gets damaged.
If filters are already dripping, they’re overdue. Changing them now reduces the fuel above the cooking and the plenum may need a clean as well.