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Grease filter exchange in Hickmans Green, Kent
Grease filter exchange for Hickmans Green, from a team that has been trading since 2009. Out-of-hours visits and 24/7 emergency callout.
- Missing filters in the filter bank
- Filter washing that keeps being missed
- Poor airflow through the filters
Grease filter exchange in Hickmans Green, done properly
Filter exchange sits between full TR19® cleans. Clean filters reduce the grease reaching the ducts though vapour still carries some grease past them. That is why the whole system still needs cleaning to TR19 at the right interval. The work covers mesh filters, island canopies and restaurants and pubs, and common reasons people get in touch are a canopy that drips grease and filters left unwashed on busy weeks.
Work in a small place like Hickmans Green starts with a call to agree access and timings, and the clean covers the whole system, as it would anywhere: canopy, filters, duct, fan and discharge, with a certificate and photo report at the end.
The report is your 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.
- Location
- Hickmans Green (ME13)
- Region
- Kent
- Paperwork
- Report and pictures after the visit
- Price
- Fixed quote, usually within a working day
- When we work
- After hours by arrangement; emergencies any time
- Telephone
- 0345 646 2711
- Updated
- 30 October 2026
Part by part
Busy restaurant and pub kitchens
In a busy kitchen, filter washing is easy to skip. A regular exchange means nobody has to remember.
Canopy filter housings
Grease collects in the channels and drip trays below the filters. If it needs attention, we’ll tell you.
In-house cleaning or a specialist?
For ventilation and air handling systems, in-house care is mostly about checks: keeping grilles clear, noting unusual noise or smells and logging filter changes. The inside of ducts and units needs a specialist.
Keep a record of what your team does. A dated log of in-house cleaning and checks shows an inspector that the system is looked after between visits, next to our reports.
Honest limits
It’s worth knowing the limits before booking:
- A canopy too small for the cooking beneath it
- A noisy or failed extract fan
- A heavily greased plenum or canopy, which needs cleaning to TR19
If you are not sure, just call us on 0345 646 2711, or email photos and we will give you a straight answer before you book.
What we work on in Hickmans Green
- Restaurants and pubs
- Island canopies
- School and hospital kitchens
- Wall canopies
- Mesh filters
- Baffle filters
Hickmans Green questions
Do you cover smaller places like Hickmans Green?
Yes. Villages and rural sites across the South East are part of our work, Hickmans Green included. Photos of the system and directions to the site help us plan the visit.
Who would carry out a food hygiene inspection at a kitchen in Hickmans Green?
That’s Swale council, whose environmental health officers carry out food hygiene inspections in Hickmans Green. How often a business is inspected depends on the risk rating the council gives it, so it’s worth staying ready all year.
What should go in our maintenance log?
Visit reports, certificates and your in-house cleaning logs. They’re what an insurer, fire officer or EHO may ask for, so keep them together and easy to find.
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. Work is timed around how each site runs.
Will we have to stop cooking for a filter change?
A filter change is quick and can be timed around service. Cooking shouldn’t happen with the filters out so the swap is done promptly.
Do you have a 24/7 line?
Yes. There’s a 24/7 emergency line, for problems that cannot wait. Ring any time and tell us what’s happened.
Can damaged filters stay in the canopy?
A bent filter leaves a gap for grease. We point them out on the visit and explain what’s needed.
How often should grease filters be changed?
There’s no single answer. We look at your cooking and set an interval to match and can change if your kitchen gets busier.
Grease filter exchange in Hickmans Green: the local picture
Look up Hickmans Green on the FSA’s food hygiene register and you will find about 5 restaurants, cafés and works canteens within 1.5 miles or so of the middle of Hickmans Green. Swapping filters on a schedule keeps kitchens like these drawing air properly. Hickmans Green 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. Kitchens in Hickmans Green get their food hygiene inspections from Swale council. 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.
Where a hall near St Barnabas, or anywhere in Hickmans Green, hosts lunch clubs or events, its extract gathers grease just as a café’s does. Term dates shape school work: for a school like Boughton-under-Blean and Dunkirk Primary School, an extract clean fits neatly into a half-term or summer break. Kitchens that cook twelve hours or more a day, as some healthcare kitchens do, fall into BESA’s three-monthly minimum; Eastbridge Hospital of St Thomas the Martyr is the nearest hospital to Hickmans Green, about 5.4 miles east.
Hickmans Green is about 3 miles south-east of Faversham, in Kent. For grease filter exchange in and around Hickmans Green, please phone us on 0345 646 2711, or send details by email for a fixed quote. Our area covers London and the South East, including Hickmans Green. Across Kent, we cover 922 places, Hickmans Green among them. We also work in Maidstone, about 19 miles from Hickmans Green.
We work across ME13 for grease filter exchange and the streets around it. We also cover Winterbourne (1 mile south-east), Boughton under Blean (1 mile north-east), Oversland (1 mile south), South Street (1 mile south-west) and Crouch (1 mile west). We also work in nearby towns such as Ashford (11 miles south), Canterbury (5 miles east), Sittingbourne (10 miles west), Whitstable (6 miles north-east), Faversham (3 miles north-west) and Herne Bay (9 miles north-east).
What’s near Hickmans Green
We work in commercial kitchens and buildings around Mount Ephraim Gardens and The Queens Head pub, among other places. For rail, the closest station is Selling station, about 1 mile south-west. Nearby you will also find Tower keep castle at Chilham (3.1 miles south) and Eastbridge Hospital of St Thomas the Martyr (5.4 miles east). The countryside around Hickmans Green includes Blean Woods RSPB Reserve.
Looking after it afterwards
Think of this as the after-treatment advice, in brief:
- Keep the extract on whenever the range is in use
- Report a dripping canopy early
- Keep the canopy clear for exchange visits
- Don’t refit a filter that is bent
We tell you if we spot anything in the canopy that needs attention. That might mean bringing a TR19® clean forward, and we can arrange it.
Dripping filters are a clear sign they’re full. Changing them now reduces the fuel above the cooking and the plenum may need a clean as well.
What affects the cost of grease filter exchange
Sites vary more than people expect. What affects the quote:
- The number of sites or systems
- How big the system is
- Access, including roofs, risers and ceiling voids
- The condition of the system
The price reflects the work, not guesswork. That’s why every job is surveyed first, and the price is agreed before any work starts.
Helping us quote
Photos and a few facts are often enough to price the work. Send what you can of the following:
- Problems your staff have spotted
- Where the site is and what kind of site it is
- How we’d reach plant on a roof or in a plant room
- Your opening hours and when the area is out of use
Here’s what helps us quote: where the site is, what it is and its opening hours, photos of the system and any previous report or certificate. Once you have those, ring 0345 646 2711 or drop us a line.
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How the visit works
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 the same goes into the written report. The visit takes anything from a few minutes to an hour or so, depending on the number of filters. For a village or hamlet like Hickmans Green, tell us about narrow lanes, gates and parking when you book.
- We record the number, size and type of your filters.
- An exchange schedule is agreed to suit your cooking.
- The dirty set is lifted out.
- Clean filters go in and we check they sit snugly.
- The dirty filters leave with us and the next visit is booked.
Getting ready for the visit
- Allow time for equipment near the work to be turned off and cool down
- Let us know about permits to work or site inductions
- Tell us the best time to work, such as after service or at a weekend
How to get a quote
For grease filter exchange in Hickmans Green, call us on 0345 646 2711 or send us an email. Tell us what kind of premises it is and when it’s open, and send photos or your last report if you can. We typically send a fixed quote within one working day.
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Why deal with it now?
In Hickmans Green, as everywhere, a filter service isn’t a substitute for TR19 cleaning. But clean filters do help the system between cleans and the canopy and plenum stay cleaner. A planned visit to Hickmans Green is easier to arrange than an emergency callout.
What you pay depends on the size of the system, what state it’s in and how easy it is to reach. You get a fixed price before work begins, so you know where you stand.
What you get with us
- Every visit written up, with photos
- A fixed price before any work starts
- Work around your opening hours, with 24/7 emergency cover
- CHAS and SafeContractor accredited, with ISO 9001
Take a look at our cost guide and our accreditations.