Hampshire · Grease filter exchange
Grease filter exchange in Ashley, Hampshire
Grease filter exchange across Ashley and nearby, booked around your opening hours and signed off in writing with photos.
- Grease dripping from the canopy
- Grease collecting in the filter channels
- Gaps where filters have been removed
Between visits
How long the results last depends on use and care. Here’s what we suggest:
- Keep canopy surfaces wiped down
- Mention it if the kitchen gets busier
- Do not refit a filter that’s bent
- Never leave gaps in the filter bank
Nothing changes for your staff, except one less greasy job. Just keep the canopy clear for the next visit and tell us if service times change.
Bent or missing filters let grease straight past. Sorting them now keeps grease where it can be caught.
Grease filter exchange in Ashley, done properly
A filter service works alongside TR19® cleaning, not instead of it. Clean filters reduce the grease reaching the ducts, but some grease still passes through as vapour. So the canopy, plenum and ducts still need their full TR19 clean. The work covers baffle filters, wall canopies and school and hospital kitchens, and people most often call us about drips falling from the filters onto equipment and filters so greasy the air can barely pass.
For a kitchen in or near Ashley, the visit is planned around opening hours and the journey, and the clean covers the whole system, as it would anywhere: canopy to discharge, then a TR19® certificate and a photo report.
Think of the report as the system’s health record: a dated account with pictures of everything we did. Grease extract cleans are also certificated to TR19® Grease through the BESCA VHE portal, ready for your insurer.
- Where
- Ashley (SO20)
- Region
- Hampshire
- Records
- Photo report after each visit
- Quote
- Fixed quote, typically within a working day
- Hours
- Overnight and weekend work, 24/7 emergency callout
- Call
- 0345 646 2711
- Last updated
- 30 October 2026
Grease filter exchange around Ashley
It’s Test Valley council that sends environmental health officers to food businesses in Ashley. A greasy canopy or dripping filters are the sort of thing an inspection can pick up. Before-and-after photos from each clean are a simple way to show the extract is in hand. Ashley sits within the area of 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.
If you run catering at a healthcare site, such as a hospital like Royal Hampshire County Hospital about 5.4 miles east, the extract may need cleaning more often than a part-time kitchen. Church and community hall kitchens, near St Mary's Church or anywhere around Ashley, are easy to forget, but their extracts collect grease like any other.
Ashley is about 6 miles north of Romsey, in Hampshire. Ashley gets the same approach as every site we work on: diagnosis first, a fixed price, out-of-hours working where needed and a written report with photos. Across Hampshire, we cover 683 places, and Ashley is one of them. For sites nearby, see our Southampton page (11 miles or so).
Work in SO20 is surveyed, quoted and booked the same way as anywhere else. Close by, we work in Little Somborne (1 mile north), Up Somborne (1 mile north-east), King's Somborne (1 mile west), Lower Slackstead (3 miles south) and Braishfield (4 miles south). Larger places within reach include Winchester (6 miles east), Eastleigh (9 miles south-east), Andover (9 miles north), Totton (11 miles south), Chandler's Ford (7 miles south-east) and Hedge End (13 miles south-east).
Landmarks near Ashley
The closest station to Ashley is Mottisfont & Dunbridge station, about 5 miles south-west. A little further out are Royal Hampshire County Hospital (5.4 miles east).
What your team can do, and what needs us
Staff cleaning doesn’t replace a specialist visit; it supports it. Regular in-house cleaning slows the build-up, but the parts you cannot see still need a specialist at the right interval.
Staff cleaning and specialist work aren’t the same thing. A daily filter wipe and a weekly filter wash keep grease down at the front of the system, but they don’t reach the grease that builds up further in. Reaching it takes a specialist with the right equipment.
Nearby places to Ashley
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Ashley questions
Do you work in villages like Ashley?
Yes, smaller places are covered as well as towns. Photos of the system and directions to the site help us plan the visit.
Who inspects food businesses in Ashley?
Food hygiene inspections in Ashley are carried out by Test Valley council. It helps to keep the extract cleaning records with your food safety paperwork, so they’re ready if asked for.
Do you provide a certificate or report?
Yes. Each visit ends with a written report and photos, covering the work, any areas we couldn’t access and the recommended next date. Where the work is a TR19® Grease clean, there’s also a certificate issued through the BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite portal.
Do you look at the system first?
Yes. Every job is surveyed first, either from pictures and details you send or on a site visit. A fixed quote follows.
Can you give a price for filter changes?
It depends on the number and type of filters and how often they’re changed. We will send you a fixed quote, typically within one working day.
Can we book visits on a schedule?
Yes. Plans on a 3, 6 or 12-monthly cycle are available, depending on what the system needs.
Where does the waste go?
We contain it and take it with us. We collect grease, debris and waste water as we go rather than letting it spread.
Does a filter exchange disrupt service?
A filter change is quick and can be timed around service. The canopy shouldn’t be used without filters, so we swap them in one go.
How the visit works
Before we leave, we walk the area with whoever is on site. We point out anything that couldn’t be reached or needs a follow-up, and it goes on the report too. The visit takes a short visit, depending on how many filters the canopies hold. In a small place like Ashley, the journey is planned ahead and the visit arranged around the site’s hours.
- We record the number, size and type of your filters.
- We set the interval with you.
- On each visit, we remove the greasy filters.
- A clean set is fitted and checked for gaps.
- The dirty filters leave with us and the next visit is booked.
Before we arrive
- Make sure equipment near the work can be switched off and left to cool
- Dig out any earlier paperwork for the system
- Arrange a key holder or contact on site
Get a fixed quote
To help 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 give us a ring on 0345 646 2711, or email photos.
Advice
Leave it or put it right?
Washing filters in-house is an option for kitchens in Ashley, and it works when it’s done well and never skipped. Where it slips, an exchange service takes the job off staff. Out of sight is the usual reason a rural system goes too long without attention.
A single site or a whole portfolio, the quote is built the same way: the work involved, the access and the timing. The price is fixed before we start.
Why us?
- Trading since 2009
- Fixed quotes, normally within one working day
- BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease
- Every job surveyed first
Read our cost guide or our accreditations.
Honest limits
An honest diagnosis matters more to us than a booking, so here’s what grease filter exchange won’t do:
- Odours from the discharge that filters will not stop
- A heavily greased plenum or canopy, which needs cleaning to TR19
- A canopy too small for the cooking beneath it
If you’re not sure, just phone us on 0345 646 2711, or email photos and we will give you a straight answer.
What we work on in Ashley
- Island canopies
- Mesh filters
- Baffle filters
- School and hospital kitchens
- Restaurants and pubs
- Wall canopies
What we’re called out for in Ashley
The type of cooking matters. Frying, grilling and chargrilling produce far more grease than steaming or baking so no single schedule suits every kitchen.
If you notice any of these, it’s worth a diagnosis:
- Bent or damaged filters that do not sit properly
- Filters that come out of the sink still dirty
- Grease collecting in the filter channels
- Missing filters in the filter bank
Older buildings often hide long, awkward duct runs, and if you run a kitchen at a historic venue in the area (Mottisfont Abbey is about 4.3 miles south-west), access may need planning.
Questions to ask before booking
- When the next visit should be, and why
- Whether they’re fully insured
- Whether the whole system is included, or only the parts that are easy to reach
- What happens if part of the system cannot be accessed
How the job changes from site to site
Mesh filters
Mesh filters use layers of metal mesh to trap grease. In a busy kitchen, mesh soon blocks, so they need changing often.
School, care home and staff kitchens
A longer exchange interval may suit lighter cooking. We agree the schedule to match.