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Grease filter exchange in Old Woking, Surrey
Grease filter exchange in Old Woking from ventilation hygiene specialists trading since 2009. Evenings, overnight and weekends, plus a 24/7 emergency line.
- Gaps where filters have been removed
- Damaged filters letting grease past
- Grease building up behind the canopy filters
Your questions about grease filter exchange in Old Woking
Who is the fire and rescue service for Old Woking?
Surrey Fire and Rescue Service is the fire and rescue service for Old Woking. It’s worth keeping your fire risk assessment, TR19® certificates and photo reports together, ready to show.
Can you come to Old Woking after we close?
Yes, out-of-hours work is a big part of what we do. The site is handed back ready to open. When you call us on 0345 646 2711 or email us, mention when the site is quiet.
What do you do to protect the area?
We cover floors and nearby surfaces with sheeting before any work starts, and waste is contained as we go. At the end, the area is cleaned down.
How much notice should we give?
That depends on the slot you want and the size of the job. Mention your preferred dates with your enquiry, and for anything urgent, ring our 24/7 emergency line.
Do you offer emergency callouts?
Yes. There’s a 24/7 emergency line, for problems that cannot wait. Ring any time and tell us what’s happened.
What accreditations do you have?
We hold CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, and we are a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease. Vent Hygiene Elite is run by BESCA and independently audited.
Who is the responsible person?
In the words of the Fire Safety Order 2005, it’s the responsible person. It’s normally the employer, or whoever controls the building, and in shared buildings more than one person can have duties. If you’re not sure, check your lease and fire risk assessment.
Do you handle baffle and mesh filters?
Baffle and mesh filters are both covered. The first step is recording what you have and set up the service around them.
About our grease filter exchange in Old Woking
An exchange visit in Old Woking doesn’t take long. The greasy filters come out, clean ones go in, and we check they’re seated with no gaps. If something looks wrong, we tell you. If you’re dealing with filters left unwashed on busy weeks and poor airflow through the filters, we can help.
In a small place like Old Woking, kitchens are often in older or extended buildings, with long single-storey duct runs, where grease settles in the flat sections. Access, parking and timings are agreed before the day.
Our accreditations include CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, and we’re fully insured. We’re also a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease, and we’ve been trading since 2009.
- Location
- Old Woking (GU22, GU23)
- Region
- Surrey
- Reporting
- Report and pictures after the visit
- Quotes
- A fixed quote up front
- Working hours
- Overnight and weekend work, 24/7 emergency callout
- Call
- 0345 646 2711
- Updated
- 30 October 2026
Nearby places to Old Woking
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Common problems we fix in Old Woking
Filters get bent and damaged with handling. Damaged filters don’t sit flush and grease passes round them.
Look out for any of the following:
- Grease left in baffles after washing
- Filter washing that keeps being missed
- A greasy plenum behind the filters
- A canopy running with filters missing
Byfleet Manor, about 3.8 miles north-east, is one of the historic houses near Old Woking; if you run event catering at a venue like that, cleans can be booked between functions.
Comparing quotes
- How areas they can’t reach will be recorded
- Whether the quote is based on a survey or pictures
- How VAT is shown on the quote
- When they can work, and whether that’s outside your opening hours
What the work involves, part by part
Mesh filters
Mesh traps grease between its layers, which makes hand-washing hard work.
Busy restaurant and pub kitchens
Heavy cooking means more grease reaching every part of the system. Regular changes help protect the ductwork.
Between visits
No system stays clean for ever, but care slows the build-up. A few tips:
- Always run the extract while cooking
- Look out for drips from the canopy
- Let us know if your cooking hours increase
- Tell us if a filter is bent or damaged
The canopy looks cleaner and the air moves better from the moment they’re fitted. Always run the extract during cooking so they catch grease as intended.
A kitchen that’s getting busier needs its filters changed more often. Changing the interval early stops grease building up unseen in the ducts.
Staff cleaning versus specialist work
If your staff spot something between visits, like drips, unusual noise, smells or damaged filters, it’s best reported rather than tackled in-house. We can diagnose it and quote.
Logging matters as much as cleaning. A simple log of filter washes, wipe-downs and checks shows an inspector that the system is looked after between visits, alongside our reports.
What grease filter exchange looks like in Old Woking
Food Standards Agency records include about 15 bars, pubs and nightclubs and about 3 hotels and B&Bs within about 1.5 miles of central Old Woking. Where they serve hot food, their kitchen extracts need cleaning to TR19® like any restaurant’s. Old Woking is covered by Surrey 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. Environmental health officers from Woking council inspect food businesses in Old Woking. An officer looking round a kitchen will see the canopy, and grease there is hard to miss. Our report lists what was cleaned and when, which is useful to have ready.
Volunteers running a hall kitchen near St Peter's Church, or anywhere in Old Woking, may not know when the extract was last cleaned, and a grease test settles it. School kitchens, at schools like Kingfield Primary School for example, are typically cleaned in the holidays so no lunches are lost.
Old Woking is about 2 miles south-east of Woking, in Surrey. Old Woking gets the same approach as every site we work on: diagnosis first, a fixed price, out-of-hours working where needed and a written report with photos. Old Woking is one of 395 towns, villages and districts in Surrey where we work for grease filter exchange.
Postcode districts we cover here for grease filter exchange: GU22 and GU23. You’ll find streets such as Ford Road, Farm Road and High Street, all of which we cover for grease filter exchange. We also cover the places around Old Woking: Westfield (1 mile west), Pyrford Village (2 miles north-east), Woking (2 miles north-west), Pyrford (2 miles north-east) and Horsell (2 miles north-west). Within a short drive, we also cover Guildford (4 miles south), Camberley (9 miles west), Epsom (12 miles east), Farnham (13 miles south-west), Ewell (13 miles east) and Egham (9 miles north).
What’s near Old Woking
We work in commercial kitchens and buildings around St John the Baptist School, St John the Baptist Catholic Comprehensive School and The New Inn, among other places. The nearest railway station is Woking station, about 1.4 miles north-west. Other landmarks nearby include The Peacocks (1.5 miles north-west) and Woking Community Hospital (1.2 miles north-west). For a walk, there’s Pewley Hill and Boldermere Lake.
When it’s something else
In fairness, some problems need a different fix:
- Cooking smells reaching neighbours, which need odour control
- A fan that’s failing or too weak for the system
- A canopy that doesn’t capture the vapour properly
Not sure which it is? You can call 0345 646 2711 or email us and we’ll tell you honestly before you book.
What the work covers
- Mesh filters
- Restaurants and pubs
- School and hospital kitchens
- Wall canopies
- Island canopies
- Baffle filters
Landlords, agents and facilities managers
Where a tenant occupies the premises but the landlord owns the building, it’s worth checking the lease for who maintains the systems. We can quote either party and send the paperwork to whoever needs it.
We regularly work with managing agents. Send the address, what’s needed and how access works and we’ll come back with a fixed quote.
How the visit works
Our technicians bring everything the work needs, including protection sheets, the right tools and access kit. All we need from you is clear access and the right equipment switched off. On site, the work takes well under an hour for most canopies. In a small place like Old Woking, the journey is planned ahead and the visit arranged around the site’s hours.
- We record the number, size and type of your filters.
- We set the interval with you.
- The dirty set is lifted out.
- Clean filters go in and we check they sit snugly.
- We take the greasy set away and confirm the next date.
How to prepare
- Let us know about permits to work or site inductions
- Move anything stored near the system
- Plan for cooking equipment or plant to be off before we arrive
Get a fixed quote
The quickest way to a quote is to send photos: wide shots of the system, close-ups of anything that worries you and how we’d get to it. Add the site type and your opening hours, and we can price many jobs without a visit.