West Berkshire · Grease filter exchange
Grease filter exchange in Burnt Hill, West Berkshire
Grease filter exchange across Burnt Hill and nearby, timed so the site keeps working and finished with a written report and pictures.
- A greasy plenum behind the filters
- Filters that come out of the sink still dirty
- Grease dripping from the canopy
Burnt Hill questions
Which fire and rescue service is responsible for Burnt Hill?
Fire safety enforcement in Burnt Hill is handled by Royal Berkshire 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.
Can you get to a site in Burnt Hill?
Yes, smaller places are covered as well as towns. The journey is planned ahead, so a few details about the route help.
Can we book visits on a schedule?
Yes. We run scheduled maintenance contracts, set at the interval the system needs. The report from each visit recommends the next date.
Are you insured?
Yes. Full insurance covers our work and have been trading since 2009.
What’s TR19?
BESA’s ventilation hygiene specification in two main parts: TR19® Grease for kitchen extracts and TR19® Air for supply and extract systems. It is not law, but it’s the benchmark.
What paperwork should we keep on file?
The reports and certificates from each visit, plus your own logs. Insurers, fire officers and EHOs may all ask to see them, so keep them where they can be found quickly.
How do you keep the site clean during the work?
By covering it before any work starts. The work is kept contained and leave the area clean.
Can one contract cover all our sites?
Yes. Our area covers London and the South East, so we can schedule a run of sites on one programme. Every site has its own report.
About our grease filter exchange in Burnt Hill
Washing filters in the kitchen sink is messy and easily missed on a busy week. An exchange service means clean filters arrive and greasy ones leave, so the canopy is never left without filters. If you have drips falling from the filters onto equipment and filters left unwashed on busy weeks, we can help, from mesh filters, wall canopies and island canopies onwards.
In a village or hamlet like Burnt Hill, the kitchens that need extract cleaning are typically a pub, a school, a care home or a hall kitchen, wherever there is one. Each still has a canopy and duct that collect grease.
Think of the report as the system’s health record: dated, with photos, and showing what was done. Grease extract cleans are also certificated to TR19® Grease through the BESCA VHE portal, ready for your insurer.
- Location
- Burnt Hill (RG18)
- Region
- West Berkshire
- Paperwork
- Written report with photos
- Price
- A fixed quote up front
- When we work
- After hours by arrangement; emergencies any time
- Phone
- 0345 646 2711
- Updated
- 30 October 2026
In-house cleaning or a specialist?
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. That part needs specialist access and equipment.
Staff cleaning doesn’t replace a specialist visit; it supports it. Regular in-house cleaning slows the build-up, but hidden parts of the system still need specialist attention.
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How the visit works
Every visit runs to the same pattern: protect the area, isolate whatever needs isolating, do the work, tidy up and leave you the report. The visit itself takes a few minutes per canopy, longer for a large kitchen with several canopies. Photos of the system and how to reach it help us plan a visit to Burnt Hill.
- We record the number, size and type of your filters.
- We set the interval with you.
- On each visit, we remove the greasy filters.
- Clean filters go in and we check they sit snugly.
- We take the greasy set away and confirm the next date.
Getting ready for the visit
- Make sure someone can let us in and lock up afterwards
- Dig out any earlier paperwork for the system
- Let us know about parking and loading
Get a fixed quote
If you need grease filter exchange in Burnt Hill, give us a ring on 0345 646 2711, or email photos. Tell us what kind of premises it is and when it’s open, plus pictures or the previous report if they’re to hand. We normally send a fixed quote within one working day.
Related advice
When to call us in Burnt Hill
However long the kitchen cooks each day, the filters see every minute of it. A kitchen that cooks all day loads its filters quickly, so it needs more frequent changes.
The symptoms we are asked about most are:
- Damaged filters letting grease past
- Grease building up behind the canopy filters
- Grease filters clogged with grease
- Filters that come out of the sink still dirty
Volunteers running a hall kitchen near Church of St Peter and St Paul, or anywhere in Burnt Hill, may not know when the extract was last cleaned, and a grease test settles it.
Before booking anyone
- How they set the interval to the next visit
- Whether the whole system is included, or only the parts that are easy to reach
- What hours they’ll be on site
- Whether they’re fully insured
What grease filter exchange can’t fix
A few issues sit outside what this work can do:
- Smell complaints that need odour control equipment
- Grease behind the filters that a swap cannot remove
- A fan that’s failing or too weak for the system
If you are not sure, just call 0345 646 2711 or email us and we’ll give you a straight answer.
What we work on in Burnt Hill
- Wall canopies
- School and hospital kitchens
- Baffle filters
- Island canopies
- Restaurants and pubs
- Mesh filters
Part by part
Busy restaurant and pub kitchens
When service is non-stop, filters get forgotten. A regular exchange means nobody has to remember.
Baffle filters
Baffle filters are a common choice for commercial canopies. They don’t clean themselves as the collected grease builds up between the blades.
For landlords and multi-site operators
Facilities teams in offices, schools and healthcare sites book us too in Burnt Hill and across West Berkshire. Larger estates can be phased building by building around the people who use them.
Whether it’s one building or many, you get the same standard: a survey first, a fixed quote, the work timed around the site and a report with photos.
Grease filter exchange around Burnt Hill
Look up Burnt Hill on the FSA’s food hygiene register and you’ll find about 3 cafés, restaurants and staff canteens within 1.5 miles or so of the middle of Burnt Hill. Any of those kitchens with a canopy relies on its filters to catch grease before it reaches the duct. Burnt Hill sits within the area of Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service. Fire and rescue authorities enforce the Fire Safety Order in most non-domestic premises, and in a kitchen that fire risk includes the grease in the extract. It’s West Berkshire council that sends environmental health officers to food businesses in Burnt Hill. 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.
Older buildings often hide long, awkward duct runs, and if you run a kitchen at a historic venue in the area (Basildon Park is about 3.5 miles north-east), access may need planning. For schools such as Yattendon C.E. Primary School, kitchen extract cleaning is usually booked for the holidays, when the canteen is closed.
Burnt Hill is about 5 miles north-east of Thatcham, in West Berkshire. Burnt Hill gets the same approach as every site we work on: a survey first, a fixed quote, work timed around your hours and a report with pictures. Our area takes in 155 places across West Berkshire, large and small. Reading is in our area too, about 9 miles from Burnt Hill.
Our technicians cover all of the RG18 postcode area for grease filter exchange and the roads nearby. Neighbouring places we cover for grease filter exchange include Stubbles (1 mile north), Stanford Dingley (2 miles south), Ashampstead (2 miles north), Ashampstead Green (2 miles north) and Upper Basildon (2 miles north-east). Within a short drive, we also cover Newbury (8 miles south-west), Thatcham (5 miles south-west), Burghfield Common (7 miles south-east), Speenhamland (7 miles south-west), Hungerford (15 miles west) and Spencers Wood (10 miles south-east).
What’s near Burnt Hill
Burnt Hill’s nearest station is Pangbourne station, roughly 4.2 miles east. Well-known places in the area include Yattendon Castle (1.1 miles west). Open spaces near Burnt Hill include Hartslock.
Looking after it afterwards
Simple habits between visits make a real difference. Our advice:
- Tell us if the menu or opening hours change
- Make sure we can reach the canopy on exchange day
- Report a dripping canopy early
- Keep every filter in place during service
The next exchange is already in the diary. If the kitchen gets busier, the interval can be shortened to keep up.
Filters that are left too long stop protecting the system. Getting onto a regular exchange now keeps grease out of the plenum and ductwork between full cleans.