Oxfordshire · Grease filter exchange
North Oxford grease filter exchange
Grease filter exchange for businesses, landlords and public buildings in North Oxford. BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease.
- Filters that leave gaps in the canopy
- Blocked baffle filters
- Drips falling from the filters onto equipment
About our grease filter exchange in North Oxford
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 and the canopy is refilled straight away. If you have grease dripping from the canopy and poor airflow through the filters, we can help, from school and hospital kitchens, island canopies and wall canopies onwards.
Around a smaller place like North Oxford, kitchen extracts tend to belong to pubs, cafés, takeaways and school or care home kitchens. A kitchen that cooks fewer hours still builds up grease, so cleaning is planned around how much it cooks and what the readings show.
The paperwork matters as much as the work. You get a written report with photos after each visit, listing what was done, anything we couldn’t reach and when the next visit is due. File it in your maintenance log so it’s ready for an insurer, fire officer or EHO.
- Location
- North Oxford (OX2)
- Wider area
- Oxfordshire
- Records
- Written report with pictures
- Quote
- A fixed quote up front
- Hours
- Nights, weekends or holidays to suit you
- Telephone
- 0345 646 2711
- Checked
- 30 October 2026
How the visit works
Your trading hours come first. We book the visit for a time the area is closed, whether that’s an evening, overnight or a weekend. Once we’re in, the area is sheeted and anything that has to be off is turned off and cooled, and the work takes a few minutes per canopy, longer for a large kitchen with several canopies. For a site near North Oxford, the work is booked around your opening hours, evenings and weekends included.
- First, we record the size, type and number of filters in each canopy.
- Together we set how often the filters should be changed.
- On each visit, the dirty filters come out of the canopy.
- Clean, dry filters are fitted in their place, with no gaps left between them.
- We flag any damaged filters or anything wrong with the canopy.
Before we arrive
- Clear the space around the work
- Agree a time when the area can be out of use
- Let us know about permits to work or site inductions
Get a fixed quote
We do not publish a price list, because no two systems are the same. Instead, we look at your site first, from photos or a survey, and then send you a fixed quote. To get going, give us a ring on 0345 646 2711 or drop us a line.
Related advice
What happens if it’s left?
Filters full of grease are fuel sitting right above the cooking. A flare-up on the range can reach them, and from there into the duct. Clean filters mean less fuel in the canopy. A planned visit to North Oxford fits your hours; an emergency does not.
Working hours, access and the scale of the site all affect the cost. Each of those is built into the quote and give you a fixed price before any work starts.
Why book with us
- Fixed quotes from a survey or photos
- Survey first, then a fixed quote
- In business since 2009
- We are fully insured
Read what affects the cost and our accreditations and certificates.
North Oxford questions
Will you come out to North Oxford?
Yes, North Oxford is part of our area, however small the site. A survey first, from photos or a visit, means we arrive with the right kit.
Which council inspects kitchens in North Oxford?
Food hygiene inspections in North Oxford are carried out by Oxford City council. It helps to keep the extract cleaning records with your food safety paperwork, so they’re ready if asked for.
Can you give a price for filter changes?
We price it on the number of filters and the visit frequency. Send us details or photos and we’ll quote, typically within one working day.
Can you come out in an emergency?
Yes, day and night, every day of the year. Office hours are Monday to Friday, 8am to 6pm, with the emergency line covering every other hour.
Do you survey before quoting?
Yes. We always survey first, either from pictures and details you send or on a site visit. A fixed quote follows.
Do we need to close the kitchen while filters are changed?
Visits are short, and we can come before or after service. The clean set goes in as soon as the dirty one comes out.
Are you accredited?
We hold CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, alongside BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite membership, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease. Vent Hygiene Elite is run by BESCA and independently audited.
What does TR19 mean?
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.
What your team can do, and what needs us
Some jobs should never be done in-house: opening up ductwork, cleaning fans, drop testing fire dampers and measuring grease need training, the right equipment and safe access. That’s our job.
Keep a record of what your team does. A simple log of filter washes, wipe-downs and checks helps show that the system is managed between specialist visits, alongside our reports.
Multi-site and managed buildings
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.
Running several sites is easier with one contractor. We work across London and the South East, so visits at different addresses can be planned together and kept to a regular schedule.
What grease filter exchange looks like in North Oxford
The FSA’s data shows about 29 pubs, bars and clubs and about 8 hotels and B&Bs registered in North Oxford and the streets around it, up to about 1.5 miles out. Wherever they cook, the canopy, duct and fan collect grease just as a restaurant’s do. Kitchens in North Oxford get their food hygiene inspections from Oxford City council. An officer looking round a kitchen will see the canopy, and grease there is hard to miss. Before-and-after pictures from each clean are a simple way to show the extract is in hand. Fire safety in North Oxford falls to Oxfordshire 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.
Holywell Manor, about 1.5 miles south-east, is one of the historic houses near North Oxford; if you run event catering at a venue like that, cleans can be booked between functions. If you run catering at a healthcare site, such as a hospital like Acland Hospital about 0.9 miles south, the extract may need cleaning more often than a part-time kitchen.
North Oxford is about 2 miles north-west of Oxford, in Oxfordshire. If you need grease filter exchange in North Oxford, please phone us on 0345 646 2711 or use the quote form for a fixed quote. We work across South East England and London, including North Oxford. North Oxford is one of 443 places in Oxfordshire where we work for commercial clients.
We cover every part of OX2 for grease filter exchange and the streets around it. Whether your site is on Hobson Road, Linton Road and Banbury Road or a nearby road, our technicians can take on the work. Being close to the A4165, North Oxford is easy for our technicians to reach for grease filter exchange. We also cover Summertown (1 mile north), Park Town (1 mile south), Walton Manor (1 mile south), Norham Manor (1 mile south-east) and Sunnymead (1 mile north). Within a short drive, we also cover Didcot (11 miles south), Bicester (10 miles north-east), Abingdon-on-Thames (7 miles south), Witney (10 miles west), Carterton (14 miles west) and Thame (13 miles east).
What’s near North Oxford
We work in commercial kitchens and buildings around St Aloysius' Catholic Primary School, Oxford University Parks and St Edward's School. Also close by are St Hugh's College Main Building Including Library (0.5 miles south) and Dew Drop Inn (under half a mile north). North Oxford’s nearest station is Oxford station, about 1.4 miles south. Nearby you’ll also find Oxford University Press Museum (1.1 miles south) and Oxford Castle (1.5 miles south). Open spaces near North Oxford include Hook Meadow and The Trap Grounds and Headington Hill.
How the job changes from site to site
Busy restaurant and pub kitchens
In a busy kitchen, filter washing is easy to skip. An exchange service takes it off the rota.
Baffle filters
In a baffle filter, the air zigzags through metal baffles. Grease drops out as it does.
Nearby places to North Oxford
Other services in North Oxford
What a clean will not put right
Not every problem is solved by grease filter exchange, and we’d rather say so up front. It does not solve:
- A noisy or failed extract fan
- Grease behind the filters that a swap cannot remove
- Smell complaints that need odour control equipment
Not sure which it is? You can call us on 0345 646 2711 or email us and we will tell you honestly before booking.
Parts of the system we cover
- Mesh filters
- Restaurants and pubs
- School and hospital kitchens
- Island canopies
- Baffle filters
- Wall canopies
Do you need grease filter exchange in North Oxford?
Wherever you are, North Oxford included, filter washing is the job that gets skipped when the kitchen is busy. It only takes a couple of missed weeks for filters to fill with grease.
Keep an eye out for any of the following:
- Filters left unwashed on busy weeks
- Grease dripping from the canopy
- A canopy running with filters missing
- Poor airflow through the filters
A hall kitchen that only cooks for events, whether near Church of St Michael and All Angels or elsewhere in North Oxford, still needs its extract cleaned, just less often.
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