Kent · Grease filter exchange
Grease Filter Exchange in Kent Street
Grease filter exchange for businesses, landlords and public buildings in Kent Street. BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease.
- Grease left in baffles after washing
- Missing filters in the filter bank
- Drips falling from the filters onto equipment
How the job changes from site to site
The plenum
The plenum is the space behind the filters. It collects whatever grease the filters miss.
School, care home and staff kitchens
Visits can be planned around holidays and quieter periods so the filters are clean when cooking picks up.
About our grease filter exchange in Kent Street
We set up grease filter exchange for kitchens in Kent Street on a schedule that suits their cooking. Busy kitchens need changes more often, lighter ones less. The interval is agreed before the first visit. If you’re dealing with weak extraction at the canopy and grease dripping from the canopy, we can put it right, from school and hospital kitchens, baffle filters and restaurants and pubs onwards.
In a village or hamlet like Kent Street, the kitchens that need extract cleaning are usually 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.
For insurers and inspectors, the record counts. That’s why every job is written up in a report with pictures, and grease extract cleans come with a TR19® certificate issued through the BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite portal.
- Location
- Kent Street (ME18)
- Region
- Kent
- Reporting
- Photo report after every visit
- Price
- A fixed price before any work starts
- Working hours
- After hours by arrangement; emergencies any time
- Phone
- 0345 646 2711
- Reviewed
- 30 October 2026
FAQs for Kent Street
Who would carry out a food hygiene inspection at a kitchen in Kent Street?
Food hygiene inspections in Kent Street are carried out by Tonbridge and Malling council. Ratings are published by the Food Standards Agency, so a clean extract and good records are worth keeping up.
Can a school canteen extract in Kent Street be done out of term time?
Yes, holiday work suits schools best. With about 5 schools and colleges on the FSA’s register within roughly a mile and a half of Kent Street, it pays to plan holiday dates ahead. Send us your term dates when you phone us on 0345 646 2711 or use the quote form, and we’ll fit the work in.
What paperwork should we keep on file?
Every certificate and report from each visit, filed in the maintenance log, along with your own cleaning log. BESA says certificates should show the date, location and technician.
Will I get paperwork for my records?
Yes, on every job. It’s a dated, written report with pictures, and TR19® Grease cleans come with a certificate through the BESCA VHE portal. File it with your fire safety records.
How do you protect the area?
We start with protection: sheeting over floors, worktops and anything close to the work. The area is left tidy, with our waste taken away.
Is Kent Street in your area?
Yes. We work across Greater London, Surrey, Kent, Sussex, Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Hertfordshire and Essex, and that includes Kent Street.
Can you clean our existing filters instead?
Yes, filters can be cleaned on a schedule as well as exchanged. We will talk you through which suits your kitchen when we quote.
Will we have to stop cooking for a filter change?
Visits are short, and can be booked outside service times. There’s no wait between removing and refitting.
For landlords and multi-site operators
For anyone managing more than one site, we can plan visits across the whole estate and price them together. Each site gets its own report and pictures, so records stay tidy.
Landlords, managing agents and facilities managers book us, not only the businesses that use the systems. Where a system serves more than one tenant, such as a shared riser, it helps to agree who arranges the work, and we can quote for the whole system.
The process
Every visit runs to the same pattern: protect the area, make the system safe, do the work, clear away and leave you the report. The visit itself takes less than an hour in most kitchens. For a village or hamlet like Kent Street, tell us about narrow lanes, gates and parking when you book.
- We record the number, size and type of your filters.
- We set the interval with you.
- The dirty set is lifted out.
- A clean set is fitted and checked for gaps.
- We take the greasy set away and confirm the next date.
Preparing for the visit
- Move anything stored near the system
- Mention any sign-in, permit or induction we need
- Let us know about parking and loading
Ask for a quote
If you need grease filter exchange in Kent Street, call 0345 646 2711 or use the quote form. Let us know the site type and the opening hours, and send pictures or your last report if you can. We typically send a fixed quote within one working day.
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Grease filter exchange around Kent Street
The FSA’s food hygiene register shows about 10 cafés, restaurants and staff canteens and about 4 takeaways and sandwich shops across Kent Street and its immediate surroundings (about a mile and a half). Each canopy among them has filters that load with grease and need swapping or cleaning. Kent Street sits within the area of Kent Fire and Rescue Service. The Fire Safety Order puts the duty on whoever runs a kitchen to control its fire risk, and a greasy duct is fuel. Food hygiene inspections in Kent Street are the job of Tonbridge and Malling council’s environmental health team. The cleanliness of the kitchen and its equipment, extraction included, is part of what they check. Before-and-after photos from each clean are a simple way to show the extract is in hand.
Where a hall near St Lawrence's Church, or anywhere in Kent Street, hosts lunch clubs or events, its extract gathers grease just as a café’s does. For schools such as Kings Hill School, kitchen extract cleaning is usually booked for the holidays, when the canteen is closed. Healthcare kitchens can’t easily close, so their extracts are cleaned overnight or between meal services; the nearest hospital to Kent Street is Maidstone Hospital, about 4.3 miles east.
Kent Street is about 6 miles west of Maidstone, in Kent. Anywhere in ME18, we cover grease filter exchange for commercial sites. We cover 922 places across Kent, large and small. We also work in Maidstone, around 6 miles away.
All of ME18 is covered for grease filter exchange, from busy streets to back roads. You’ll find streets such as Kent Street and Malling Road, and we cover them all for grease filter exchange. Neighbouring places we cover for grease filter exchange include Herne Pound (1 mile south-west), Mereworth (1 mile south), New Pound (1 mile west), Pizien Well (1 mile south-east) and Swanton (1 mile south-west). Within a short drive, we also cover Maidstone (6 miles east), Dartford (14 miles north-west), Sevenoaks (9 miles west), Royal Tunbridge Wells (10 miles south-west), Gravesend (11 miles north) and Tonbridge (7 miles south-west).
Local landmarks in Kent Street
Locally, jobs take us to businesses close to The Queens Head Public House and Manor Park Country Park and the streets around them. The nearest railway station is Wateringbury station, about 2.1 miles south-east of the centre. A little further out are Beechin Wood Archery Museum (2.5 miles north-west) and Maidstone Hospital (4.3 miles east).
What grease filter exchange cannot fix
A few issues sit outside what this work can do:
- A canopy that needs a proper clean
- Grease already built up in the ductwork, which needs a full TR19 clean
- Smell complaints that need odour control equipment
Not sure which it is? You can call us on 0345 646 2711 or send us an email and we’ll tell you honestly.
What we work on in Kent Street
- Wall canopies
- Baffle filters
- Mesh filters
- Restaurants and pubs
- Island canopies
- School and hospital kitchens
Leave it or put it right?
Grease dripping from the canopy is a sign the filters can’t hold any more. Left, it ends up on equipment, food areas and staff, which an EHO may well notice. If the system at a site near Kent Street fails, there may be nowhere nearby to move to.
One small site or a whole estate, we price it on the same basis: what needs doing, how we get to it and when. You’ll have a fixed price before work begins.
Why Kent Street businesses choose us
- CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001
- Photo reports with every job
- One contact for all your sites in London and the South East
- Survey first, then a fixed quote
In-house cleaning or a specialist?
In-house cleaning and specialist cleaning do different jobs. Wiping filters daily and washing them weekly keeps the visible parts in order, but grease that has passed the filters is out of reach. That part needs specialist access and equipment.
A few tasks are always specialist work: opening up ductwork, cleaning fans, drop testing fire dampers and measuring grease need training, the right equipment and safe access. Leave those to us.
Keeping the system healthy
Aftercare is simple, and it helps at the next visit:
- Never leave gaps in the filter bank
- Let us know if your cooking hours increase
- Always run the extract while cooking
- Clear anything stored on or near the canopy
Your next visit is scheduled before we leave. If cooking increases, we can change filters more often to match.
Saturated filters let more grease through. A regular cycle keeps the rest of the system cleaner between full cleans.