Hampshire · Grease filter exchange
Grease filter exchange in Bishop's Sutton, Hampshire
Grease filter exchange for Bishop's Sutton, from a team that has been trading since 2009. Evenings, overnight and weekends, plus a 24/7 emergency line.
- Drips falling from the filters onto equipment
- Grease filters clogged with grease
- Filters left unwashed on busy weeks
For landlords and multi-site operators
From a single site to a large estate, you get the same standard: the system surveyed, the price fixed, the visit fitted around trading and everything written up afterwards.
If you look after several sites, we can schedule visits across all of them on one quote. Each site gets its own report and pictures, so records stay tidy.
Grease filter exchange in Bishop's Sutton, done properly
Filter exchange sits between full TR19® cleans. Clean filters reduce the grease reaching the ducts, but some grease still passes through as vapour. That’s why the whole system still needs cleaning to TR19 at the right interval. We are often asked to deal with staff short of time to wash filters and a canopy that drips grease, on restaurants and pubs, baffle filters and school and hospital kitchens.
In a village or hamlet like Bishop's Sutton, the kitchens that need extract cleaning are typically a pub, a school, a care home or a hall kitchen, wherever there is one. Every one of them still needs its extract kept clear of grease.
We’re CHAS and SafeContractor accredited, we hold ISO 9001 and we’re fully insured. We are also a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease, and we’ve been trading since 2009.
- Place
- Bishop's Sutton (SO24)
- Region
- Hampshire
- Records
- Photo report after each visit
- Quotes
- Fixed quote, normally within a working day
- When we work
- When your site is closed, plus a 24/7 line
- Telephone
- 0345 646 2711
- Updated
- 30 October 2026
Common questions in Bishop's Sutton
Will you come out to Bishop's Sutton?
Yes, Bishop's Sutton is part of our area, however small the site. The journey is planned ahead, so a few details about the route help.
Can school kitchens in Bishop's Sutton be cleaned in the holidays?
Yes, and it’s the easiest time to do it. Food Standards Agency records list about 4 schools, colleges and universities with registered kitchens within about a mile and a half of Bishop's Sutton. Tell us your holiday dates and we’ll book the visit for when the site is empty.
What types of filter do you exchange?
Baffle and mesh filters are both covered. We check what’s in your canopies first and set up the service around them.
What happens to the waste?
Anything we remove is contained as we work and taken away with us, including grease, debris and dirty water. None of it is left on site.
What is TR19?
A BESA specification in two main parts: TR19® Grease for kitchen extract systems and TR19® Air for general ventilation. It isn’t law, but it’s the benchmark.
Which records should we keep?
Anything that proves the system is maintained: our reports and pictures, any certificates and your in-house logs. One maintenance log per site keeps it simple.
How often should grease filters be changed?
It varies from kitchen to kitchen. We look at your cooking and set an interval to match, and adjust it if needed.
Is filter exchange enough instead of a full extract clean?
It doesn’t. Some grease passes the filters as vapour and settles in the ducts and the whole system still needs its TR19 clean.
What grease filter exchange can’t fix
Grease filter exchange can’t fix everything, and we will tell you before work begins. It will not put right:
- Extraction problems caused by the fan rather than the filters
- Cooking smells reaching neighbours, which need odour control
- Grease already built up in the ductwork, which needs a full TR19 clean
If in doubt, give us a ring on 0345 646 2711, or send details by email and we will say what we think before booking.
Parts of the system we cover
- Island canopies
- Wall canopies
- Baffle filters
- Restaurants and pubs
- School and hospital kitchens
- Mesh filters
What staff can safely do
A few tasks are always specialist work: entering ducts, working on fans, testing dampers and taking grease readings need training, the right equipment and safe access. That’s our job.
Staff cleaning and specialist work are not the same thing. Wiping filters daily and washing them weekly keeps the visible parts in order, but they do not reach the grease that builds up further in. Reaching it takes a specialist with the right equipment.
How the job changes from site to site
School, care home and staff kitchens
Visits can be planned around holidays and quieter periods so the filters are clean when cooking picks up.
Baffle filters
Baffle filters are robust and widely used in commercial canopies. They don’t clean themselves, because the grease they collect builds up.
What affects the quote in Bishop's Sutton
Some jobs are bigger than they look, and some smaller. The main factors:
- Where the site is and how we reach it
- Site rules, permits and inductions
- How easy every part is to reach
- When the work can happen, such as evenings, overnight or weekends
We do not list prices on the website, because each job is priced on what it involves. Call for a fixed quote, and we will talk you through it.
Helping us quote
Photos let us diagnose from a distance. Try to include:
- The roof, plant room or outside wall the system runs to
- Detail shots of panels, filters and grilles
- Anything you’ve noticed, such as smells, noise, drips or poor airflow
- Photos showing the whole system and its surroundings
The quickest way to a quote is to send photos: the system from a couple of angles, plus any access panels or hatches. Add the site type and your opening hours, and we can price many jobs without a visit.
How it works
Your staff don’t need to do much on the day. A contact on site lets us in at the agreed time and points us to the system, and the rest is down to us. Afterwards, the area is left tidy and the written report follows. Photos of the system and how to reach it help us plan a visit to Bishop's Sutton.
- We count and measure the filters in every canopy.
- A change schedule is agreed to match the kitchen’s cooking hours.
- On each visit, the dirty filters come out of the canopy.
- We fit clean filters and check they sit snugly in the housing.
- If a filter is damaged or the plenum needs attention, we tell you.
Getting ready for the visit
- Agree a time when the area can be out of use
- Allow time for equipment near the work to be turned off and cool down
- Let us know about parking and loading
How to get a quote
Photos are enough for some jobs, while others need a look on site. 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.
Related advice
Keeping the system healthy
After the visit, a few habits help the work last:
- Tell us if a filter is bent or damaged
- Mention it if the kitchen gets busier
- Make sure we can reach the canopy on exchange day
- Never cook with the extract switched off
If the plenum behind the filters looks greasy, we say so. That might mean bringing a TR19® clean forward, and we can arrange it.
A kitchen that’s getting busier needs its filters changed more often. Adjusting the schedule now prevents a build-up behind the canopy.
Nearby places to Bishop's Sutton
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Grease filter exchange around Bishop's Sutton
Look up Bishop's Sutton on the FSA’s food hygiene register and you’ll find about 9 restaurants, cafés and works canteens within about 1.5 miles of central Bishop's Sutton. Swapping filters on a schedule keeps kitchens like these drawing air properly. Environmental health officers from Winchester City council inspect food businesses in Bishop's Sutton. They look at how clean the premises and equipment are, and the kitchen extract is part of that. A TR19® certificate and photo report after each clean gives you a record to show an inspector. Bishop's Sutton sits within the area of Hampshire and Isle of Wight 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.
Historic houses near Bishop's Sutton, such as Hinton Ampner House about 2.9 miles south, are a reminder that older buildings with event kitchens can have long, awkward duct routes. For schools such as Perins School, kitchen extract cleaning is normally booked for the holidays, when the canteen is closed. If you run a church or community hall kitchen, near Church of St Nicholas or elsewhere in Bishop's Sutton, its extract still collects grease from every lunch and event.
Bishop's Sutton is about 8 miles south-west of Alton, in Hampshire. Sites in Bishop's Sutton 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 area takes in 683 places across Hampshire, large and small. You can also see our page for Southampton, roughly 16 miles from Bishop's Sutton.
Postcode districts we cover here for grease filter exchange: SO24. If you need grease filter exchange at premises on North Street, Home Close and Water Lane or anywhere close by, our technicians can take on the work. We also cover the places around Bishop's Sutton: Gundleton (1 mile north-east), New Alresford (2 miles west), Bramdean (2 miles south), Hinton Ampner (3 miles south) and Cheriton (3 miles south-west). Within a short drive, we also cover Basingstoke (13 miles north), Winchester (8 miles west), Eastleigh (12 miles south-west), Horndean (13 miles south-east), Chandler's Ford (13 miles south-west) and Alton (8 miles north-east).
Near you in Bishop's Sutton
Typical jobs here are in premises near Ship Inn, among other places. Well-known places in the area include Barton Castle (3.8 miles north). The countryside around Bishop's Sutton includes Shutts Copse and Red Hill.