Surrey · Grease filter exchange
Old Malden grease filter exchange
Professional grease filter exchange in and around Old Malden, booked around your opening hours and finished with a written report and pictures.
- Filters that leave gaps in the canopy
- Poor airflow through the filters
- Staff short of time to wash filters
How we handle grease filter exchange in Old Malden
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, so the canopy is never left without filters. The work covers restaurants and pubs, school and hospital kitchens and island canopies, and common reasons people get in touch are damaged filters letting grease past and filters left unwashed on busy weeks.
Kitchens around a place like Old Malden are often in older buildings or single-storey extensions, with the duct running through a roof space or up an outside wall. Long horizontal runs like that hold grease and need access panels to reach.
The sign-off is always in writing: a written report, dated and illustrated with pictures, and for TR19® Grease cleans, a certificate issued through the BESCA VHE portal. It shows what was done and what, if anything, couldn’t be reached.
- Place
- Old Malden (KT19, KT4, KT5)
- Wider area
- Surrey
- Reporting
- Written report with pictures
- Quotes
- Fixed quote, typically within a working day
- When we work
- After hours by arrangement; emergencies any time
- Telephone
- 0345 646 2711
- Last updated
- 30 October 2026
Between visits
No system stays clean for ever, but care slows the build-up. A few tips:
- Keep every filter in place during service
- Never cook with the extract switched off
- Do not let the full clean slip because filters are changed
- Wipe the outside of the canopy as part of daily cleaning
Once the clean filters are in, the kitchen can cook right away. The dirty set leaves with us to be cleaned.
Filters that are left too long stop protecting the system. A regular cycle keeps the rest of the system cleaner between full cleans.
Questions from Old Malden
Is Old Malden within the area you cover?
Yes, we work in villages as well as towns, and Old Malden is covered. A survey first, from photos or a visit, means we arrive with the right kit.
Which fire service covers Old Malden?
Fire safety enforcement in Old Malden is handled by Surrey Fire and Rescue Service. Records of extract cleaning are a sensible thing to have ready if a fire safety officer carries out an audit.
What should go in our maintenance log?
Each report and certificate we give you, filed in the maintenance log with your in-house cleaning records. BESA advises that certificates record the date, location and technician.
Do you have a 24/7 line?
Yes, any time. If something urgent happens, like a fan failing or damage after a fire, call our 24/7 line, and we will advise on what to do next.
Will we have to stop cooking for a filter change?
Most changes take a short visit, depending on how many filters the canopies hold, so the impact is small. We plan visits outside your busiest times wherever possible.
Can we skip TR19 cleans if the filters are changed regularly?
It is not. Clean filters help keep grease down, but the ducts and plenum still need cleaning at the right interval.
Do I get a report after the visit?
Yes, always. The report is dated and includes pictures, and TR19® Grease cleans come with a certificate through the BESCA VHE portal. Keep it in your maintenance log.
How do you protect the area?
We start with protection: sheeting over floors, worktops and anything close to the work. We tidy up and take our waste away before we leave.
For landlords and multi-site operators
Keeping records across a portfolio is half the battle. Each visit produces a dated report with pictures, ready to show insurers, fire officers or EHOs.
The Fire Safety Order 2005 puts the duty to manage fire risk on the responsible person, 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.
When something else is needed
In fairness, there are a few things this work will not fix:
- Odours from the discharge that filters won’t stop
- An extract that was undersized from the start
- A noisy or failed extract fan
If you are not sure, just call 0345 646 2711 or send us an email and we’ll give you a straight answer.
What we work on in Old Malden
- School and hospital kitchens
- Island canopies
- Wall canopies
- Restaurants and pubs
- Baffle filters
- Mesh filters
Old Malden kitchens: local notes
Food Standards Agency data counts about 102 restaurants, cafés and canteens and about 61 takeaways and sandwich shops within about 1.5 miles of central Old Malden. Each canopy among them has filters that load with grease and need swapping or cleaning. The fire and rescue service for Old Malden is Surrey Fire and Rescue Service. In most workplaces, including commercial kitchens, it’s the fire and rescue authority that enforces the Fire Safety Order. Environmental health officers from Epsom and Ewell council inspect food businesses in Old Malden. An officer looking round a kitchen will see the canopy, and grease there is hard to miss. A dated certificate in the maintenance file answers the question before it’s asked.
A hall kitchen that only cooks for events, whether near Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin or elsewhere in Old Malden, still needs its extract cleaned, just less often. If you look after a school kitchen, at a school such as Knollmead Primary School or anywhere near Old Malden, the holidays are the usual time for a TR19® clean.
Old Malden is about 2 miles north-west of Ewell, in Surrey. We carry out grease filter exchange for commercial premises of every kind in Old Malden and the rest of Surrey. Our area takes in 395 places across Surrey, large and small. Our London page covers sites nearby (11 miles or so).
Our technicians cover all of KT19, KT4 and KT5 for grease filter exchange and the streets around it. If you need grease filter exchange at premises on Curtis Road, Rowden Road and Grafton Road or anywhere close by, our technicians can take on the work. We also cover Worcester Park (1 mile east), Tolworth (1 mile north-west), Stoneleigh (1 mile south-east), Berrylands (1 mile north-west) and Chessington (2 miles south-west). Further out, we also cover Woking (14 miles west), Epsom (3 miles south), Horley (14 miles south), Redhill (10 miles south-east), Egham (13 miles west) and Reigate (10 miles south).
What’s near Old Malden
Typical jobs here are in premises near Richard Challoner School, The Plough Inn Public House and Hogsmill LNR, among other places. Old Malden’s nearest station is Tolworth station, about 0.5 miles west. Other landmarks nearby include Bentall Centre (3 miles north-west) and Tolworth Hospital (0.9 miles west). The countryside around Old Malden includes The Lake and Kingston Hill Road area.
What affects the quote in Old Malden
There’s no set price list, because sites vary so much. The quote depends on:
- How easy every part is to reach
- How big the system is
- The times the site is available
- Parking and loading at the site
One small site or a whole estate, the quote is built the same way: the work involved, the access and the timing. The price is fixed before we start.
What to send for a quote
Before you ask for a quote, gather:
- Any access panels or hatches you can see
- The postcode and the type of business
- Any previous report or certificate
- Where the plant sits or the system leaves the building, such as a roof or outside wall
Quoting starts with a diagnosis, from your pictures and details or, where that isn’t enough, a survey on site. After that, you get a fixed price for the work, before any work starts.
How the visit works
Your trading hours come first. Most visits are booked for when the area is out of use, such as evenings, overnight, early mornings or weekends. Once we are in, the area is sheeted and anything that has to be off is turned off and cooled, and the job takes less than an hour in most kitchens. Around Old Malden, access is typically simpler than in a town centre, though gates and roof access are worth mentioning.
- First, we record the size, type and number of filters in each canopy.
- Together we set how often the filters should be changed.
- At each visit, the greasy filters are lifted out.
- We fit clean filters and check they sit snugly in the housing.
- If a filter is damaged or the plenum needs attention, we tell you.
How to prepare
- Let us know when the site is closed or quiet
- Name a contact who can let us in at the agreed time
- Move anything stored near the system
Ask for a quote
Getting a quote doesn’t take long. Send a few details and photos, and we normally reply with a fixed quote within one working day. Where a survey is needed, we arrange a time that suits the site.
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How the job changes from site to site
Canopy filter housings
Filters sit in a housing or channel in the canopy. If it’s bent or greasy, filters will not seat properly.
Baffle filters
Baffle filters use overlapping metal blades that force the air to change direction. Grease drops out as it does.
Do you need grease filter exchange in Old Malden?
Long cooking hours in Old Malden or anywhere else mean more grease on the filters. Heavy daily use means fast build-up, so it needs more frequent changes.
Signs it’s time to call us include:
- Filters so greasy the air can barely pass
- Damaged filters letting grease past
- A canopy that drips grease
- Grease left in baffles after washing
If you run catering at a healthcare site, such as a hospital like Tolworth Hospital about 0.9 miles west, the extract may need cleaning more often than a part-time kitchen.
Questions to ask before you book
- If they look at the system before pricing
- When they can work, and whether that is outside your opening hours
- Whether they recommend a next date
- Which accreditations they hold, and whether you can check them