Grease filter exchange in Higham, Medway

Staff cleaning versus specialist work

For ventilation and air handling systems, in-house care is mostly about checks: clear grilles, a log of filter changes and reporting anything odd. Cleaning inside ducts and units is specialist work.

Day-to-day cleaning is something your team can do: wiping down canopy surfaces, cleaning filters and keeping a simple log. What they can’t safely do is clean inside the ductwork, the fan or the risers, and that is where we come in.

Grease, kitchens and Higham

Look up Higham on the FSA’s food hygiene register and you will find about 8 restaurants, cafés and canteens and about 4 takeaways and sandwich shops in Higham and the streets around it, up to about 1.5 miles out. Where they cook under a canopy, the grease filters are the first line of defence and clog quickly. Food hygiene inspections in Higham are the job of Gravesham council’s environmental health team. They look at how clean the premises and equipment are, and the kitchen extract is part of that. A dated certificate in the maintenance file answers the question before it’s asked. Higham sits within the area of Kent 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.

For kitchens close to Higham station, where the day often starts early and ends late, the extract can be cleaned overnight. A hall kitchen that only cooks for events, whether near Church of St John or elsewhere in Higham, still needs its extract cleaned, just less often.

Higham is about 2 miles north-west of Rochester, in Medway. Sites in Higham get the same service as everywhere we cover: diagnosis first, a fixed price, out-of-hours working where needed and a written report with photos. Our area takes in 68 places across Medway, large and small. For sites nearby, see our Maidstone page, about 11 miles away.

Work in ME3 and DA12 is surveyed, quoted and booked the same way as anywhere else. Grease filter exchange is available to premises on Villa Road, Darby Gardens and Ash Crescent and nearby roads. We also cover the places around Higham: Gadshill (1 mile south), Lower Higham (1 mile north), Shorne (1 mile west), Shorne Ridgeway (1 mile south-west) and Mockbeggar (2 miles east). Larger places within reach include Gillingham (6 miles south-east), Chatham (5 miles south-east), Rainham (8 miles south-east), Luton (5 miles south-east), Park Wood (8 miles south-east) and Lordswood (7 miles south-east).

Near you in Higham

Locally, jobs take us to businesses close to Rede Common, Sir John Falstaff Public House and Strood Academy, among other places. Higham’s nearest station is Higham station, about 0.9 miles north-east. Nearby you’ll also find Rochester Castle (2.6 miles south-east) and French Hospital (2.8 miles south-east). Not far away are Gad's Hill and Rede Common.