Kent · Grease filter exchange
Grease filter exchange in Finglesham, Kent
Professional grease filter exchange in and around Finglesham, booked around your opening hours and signed off in writing with photos.
- Grease dripping from the canopy
- Filters left unwashed on busy weeks
- Grease building up behind the canopy filters
Honest limits
It’s worth knowing the limits before booking:
- An extract that was undersized from the start
- Grease behind the filters that a swap can’t remove
- Cooking smells reaching neighbours, which need odour control
If you’re not sure, just give us a ring on 0345 646 2711 or email us and we’ll give you a straight answer.
Where we work
- Mesh filters
- Restaurants and pubs
- School and hospital kitchens
- Baffle filters
- Island canopies
- Wall canopies
How we handle grease filter exchange in Finglesham
We set up grease filter exchange for kitchens in Finglesham on a schedule that suits their cooking. The heavier the cooking, the more often filters need changing, lighter ones less. The interval is agreed before the first visit. If you have damaged filters letting grease past and filters so greasy the air can barely pass, we can put it right, from baffle filters, restaurants and pubs and school and hospital kitchens onwards.
Work in a small place like Finglesham starts with a call to agree access and timings, and the clean covers the whole system, as it would anywhere: canopy to discharge, then a TR19® certificate and a photo report.
It’s worth checking any contractor’s accreditations. 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.
- Location
- Finglesham (CT14)
- Region
- Kent
- Reporting
- Photo report after every visit
- Price
- Fixed quote, normally within a working day
- Working hours
- When your site is closed, plus a 24/7 line
- Telephone
- 0345 646 2711
- Last updated
- 30 October 2026
What affects the cost of grease filter exchange
The price is fixed before any work begins. It’s based on:
- Access, including roofs, risers and ceiling voids
- The number of sites or systems
- The condition of the system
- Working hours and out-of-hours timing
What you pay depends on the size of the system, what state it’s in and how easy it is to reach. We give you a fixed price before work begins, so there are no surprises.
What we need to know
You do not need the technical terms. It helps if you can send:
- The postcode and the type of business
- The roof, plant room or outside wall the system runs to
- Problems your staff have spotted
- Any previous report or certificate
Some systems can be priced from photos; others need a survey. Larger sites, and anything hidden behind walls, ceilings or floors, are normally surveyed first. Either way, the quote is fixed before any work is booked.
Finglesham: your questions answered
Which council inspects kitchens in Finglesham?
Food hygiene inspections in Finglesham are carried out by Dover council. How often a business is inspected depends on the risk rating the council gives it, so it’s worth staying ready all year.
Can you come to Finglesham after we close?
Yes. We work evenings, overnight and at weekends. The site is handed back ready to open. When you call 0345 646 2711 or send us an email, mention when the site is quiet.
Which kinds of sites do you work on?
All kinds of commercial and public premises: from restaurants, pubs and hotels to schools, hospitals, care homes, offices, shops and food production sites. We fit the work around how the site operates.
Does the law say we must follow TR19?
No. The law sets the duty, and TR19® is the recognised benchmark for meeting it. Under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, the responsible person has to manage fire risk, and many insurers can refuse or reduce a claim without proof of cleaning.
Is filter exchange enough instead of a full extract clean?
It is not. The rest of the system still collects grease at the right interval.
What’s TR19?
TR19® is BESA’s specification for ventilation hygiene. TR19® Grease, a standalone specification since 2019, covers grease in kitchen extract systems, and TR19® Air covers general supply and extract systems.
Do you look at the system first?
Yes. We always survey first, from your photos and details, or with a visit where needed. Then you get a fixed quote.
Will you tell us when the next visit is due?
Yes. The report recommends when the next visit should be, based on what we found and how the system is used.
Landlords, agents and facilities managers
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.
From a single site to a large estate, the standard is the same: diagnosis, a fixed price, work booked around your hours and a written report with pictures.
What happens on the day
At the end of the visit, someone from your team can look over the work with us. Anything we couldn’t reach or that needs attention is pointed out there and then, and it goes on the report too. The visit takes well under an hour for most canopies. If you can send photos, we can arrive in Finglesham knowing what to expect.
- We record the number, size and type of your filters.
- An exchange schedule is agreed to suit your cooking.
- On each visit, we remove the greasy filters.
- Clean filters go in and we check they sit snugly.
- The dirty filters leave with us and the next visit is booked.
Before we arrive
- Find the previous report, if there is one
- Arrange a key holder or contact on site
- Tell us the best time to work, such as after service or at a weekend
How to get a quote
We do not publish a price list, because every site is different. We look at your system first, from photos or on a visit, then send a fixed quote. To get going, call us on 0345 646 2711 or drop us a line.
Advice
Between visits
Here’s the after-treatment advice, in brief:
- Keep the extract on whenever the range is in use
- Do not refit a filter that’s bent
- Book full TR19 cleans alongside filter changes
- Make sure we can reach the canopy on exchange day
Your team carries on as normal, without the filter washing. Make sure we can reach the canopy on exchange day and let us know of any changes to opening hours.
If cooking has stepped up, the filter schedule should too. Changing the interval early stops grease building up unseen in the ducts.
Staff cleaning versus specialist work
Staff cleaning does not replace a specialist visit; it supports it. Regular in-house cleaning slows the build-up, but the parts you can’t see still need a specialist at the right interval.
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. Leave those to us.
How the job changes from site to site
The plenum
A greasy plenum is a sign filters have been left too long or that the next TR19 clean is due.
Busy restaurant and pub kitchens
Kitchens that fry and grill all day load their filters fast. Their exchange schedule is normally the tightest.
Grease, kitchens and Finglesham
Finglesham is within about 3 miles of the coast. Corrosion on the fan housing and cowl is worth a look at every clean, alongside the grease. It’s Dover council that sends environmental health officers to food businesses in Finglesham. The cleanliness of the kitchen and its equipment, extraction included, is part of what they check. Keeping each certificate and photo report on file helps show the extract is looked after. Finglesham sits within the area of Kent Fire and Rescue Service. Grease in a kitchen extract is a recognised fire risk, and the fire authority enforces the law on managing it in most commercial premises.
Term dates shape school work: for a school like Northbourne Church of England Primary School, an extract clean fits neatly into a half-term or summer break. If your kitchen is in a listed or historic building, like the houses around Finglesham (Walmer Castle is about 3.4 miles south-east), fitting access panels needs care. If you run a church or community hall kitchen, near Church of St George or elsewhere in Finglesham, its extract still collects grease from every lunch and event.
Finglesham is about 2 miles north-west of Deal, in Kent. Sites in Finglesham get the same service as everywhere we cover: a survey first, a fixed quote, work timed around your hours and a report with photos. Our area takes in 922 places across Kent, from busy centres to quieter spots. Maidstone is in our area too, around 36 miles away.
Every address in CT14 is covered for grease filter exchange, from busy streets to back roads. Neighbouring places we cover for grease filter exchange include Marley (1 mile south-west), Hacklinge (1 mile north-east), Ham (1 mile north-west), Northbourne (1 mile south) and Sholden Meadows (1 mile south-east). We also work in nearby towns such as Canterbury (12 miles west), Margate (10 miles north), Dover (7 miles south), Folkestone (13 miles south-west), Ramsgate (8 miles north) and Broadstairs (9 miles north).
Landmarks near Finglesham
We work in commercial kitchens and buildings around Sandwich Technology School, Betteshanger Park and The Crown Inn and the streets around them. The nearest railway station is Sandwich station, roughly 2.4 miles north. A little further out are Deal Museum (2.5 miles east) and Sandown Castle (2.4 miles east). Not far away are Monk's Wall nature reserve.