Kent · Grease filter exchange
Grease filter exchange in Petham, Kent
Grease filter exchange across Petham and nearby, booked around your opening hours and signed off in writing with photos.
- Blocked baffle filters
- A canopy that drips grease
- Poor airflow through the filters
Grease filter exchange in Petham
Each visit is quick and tidy. We lift out the dirty filters and fit a clean set and make sure there are no gaps between them. Anything that needs attention is pointed out. The work covers school and hospital kitchens, island canopies and mesh filters, and common reasons people get in touch are a greasy plenum behind the filters and grease left in baffles after washing.
Work in a small place like Petham starts with a call to agree access and timings, and the clean covers the whole system, as it would anywhere: canopy, filters, duct, fan and discharge, with a certificate and photo report at the end.
The report is your system’s health record: a dated account with photos of everything we did. For TR19® Grease cleans, the certificate comes through the BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite portal, ready for your insurer.
- Place
- Petham (CT4)
- Region
- Kent
- Reporting
- Written report with pictures
- Quotes
- Fixed quote, usually within a working day
- Working hours
- Evenings, overnight and weekends; 24/7 emergencies
- Call
- 0345 646 2711
- Reviewed
- 30 October 2026
Petham questions
Do you clean school canteen extracts around Petham out of term?
Yes, out-of-term visits are normal for schools. There are about 2 schools, colleges and universities on the FSA’s food hygiene register within about 1.5 miles of Petham. Booking early in the term gives the best choice of holiday dates.
Which council inspects kitchens in Petham?
In Petham, it’s Canterbury City council that carries out food hygiene inspections. Ratings are published by the Food Standards Agency, so a clean extract and good records are worth keeping up.
How do you keep the site clean during the work?
By covering it before any work starts. The work is kept contained and leave the area clean.
Do you recommend a next date?
Yes. The report recommends when the next visit should be, based on use and what we found.
How long does the visit take?
The work itself takes less than an hour in most kitchens. Larger systems naturally take longer, and we will tell you what to expect.
Do you have insurance?
Yes. We are fully insured, and we can share the details when you need them.
What should go in our maintenance log?
Everything that shows the system is looked after: reports, certificates, pictures and your own cleaning or check logs. One maintenance log per site keeps it simple.
Do you work with multi-site operators?
Yes. We work across South East England and London, so sites at different addresses can be planned together as one programme. Every site has its own report.
Landlords, agents and facilities managers
We regularly work with managing agents. Send the address, what’s needed and how access works, and we will send a fixed quote.
If you look after several sites, we can schedule visits across all of them on one quote. Each site gets its own report and pictures, so records stay tidy.
What the work involves, part by part
Canopy filter housings
Grease collects in the channels and drip trays below the filters. If it needs attention, we’ll tell you.
School, care home and staff kitchens
Even kitchens with fixed meal times build up grease, though often more slowly.
What we do, step by step
The first job on site is protection: floors, worktops and anything near the work are covered. After that, the system is made safe and the work begins. The work on site takes less than an hour in most kitchens, and the area is cleaned down before we leave. If the van will struggle with a lane or gateway near Petham, let us know and we’ll plan around it.
- The filters in each canopy are measured and counted.
- An exchange schedule is agreed to suit your cooking.
- On each visit, we remove the greasy filters.
- Clean filters go in and we check they sit snugly.
- The dirty filters leave with us and the next visit is booked.
Getting ready for the visit
- Plan for cooking equipment or plant to be off before we arrive
- Arrange a key holder or contact on site
- Clear the space around the work
Get a fixed quote
Some systems can be priced from pictures; others need a survey. Larger sites, and anything hidden behind walls, ceilings or floors, are normally surveyed first. Either way, you get a fixed price before we start.
Advice
In-house cleaning or a specialist?
Away from the kitchen, the in-house job is mainly checking: clear grilles, a log of filter changes and reporting anything odd. Cleaning inside ducts and units is specialist work.
Some jobs should never be done in-house: entering ducts, working on fans, testing dampers and taking grease readings call for the right kit, training and safe access. That is our job.
Grease filter exchange around Petham
We cover Petham, about 53 miles from central London, as part of our work across London and the South East. We work evenings, overnight and at weekends, so the visit fits around the site. Petham is covered by 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.
Volunteers running a hall kitchen near Church of All Saints, or anywhere in Petham, may not know when the extract was last cleaned, and a grease test settles it. Bursars and site managers at schools such as Petham Primary School tend to book extract cleaning for when the kitchen is empty.
Petham is about 4 miles south of Canterbury, in Kent. From the centre of Petham to the outskirts, we cover grease filter exchange for every kind of premises, from a single unit to a large public building. Petham is one of 922 towns, villages and districts in Kent where we work for grease filter exchange. Maidstone is in our area too, about 23 miles from Petham.
Our technicians cover all of CT4 for grease filter exchange and the streets around it. Local streets include The Street, Vicarage Hill and Town Road, and we cover them all for grease filter exchange. Other places close to Petham include Garlinge Green (1 mile north-west), Lower Hardres (2 miles north-east), Upper Hardres (2 miles east), Anvil Green (2 miles south-west) and Pett Bottom (2 miles east). Further out, we also cover Ashford (10 miles south-west), Canterbury (4 miles north), Dover (12 miles south-east), Folkestone (11 miles south-east), Whitstable (9 miles north) and Deal (15 miles east).
Landmarks near Petham
Petham’s nearest station is Chartham station, about 2.6 miles north-west. Other landmarks nearby include Canterbury Castle (3.8 miles north) and Kent and Canterbury Hospital (3.4 miles north-east). For a walk, there’s Blean Woods RSPB Reserve.
Leave it or put it right?
For any kitchen in Petham, filters cannot stand in for a full TR19 clean. But clean filters do help the system between cleans, and that shows when the next clean comes round. In a small place like Petham, a system that fails can take a site out of use.
Whatever the type of site, the quote works the same way: the size of the job, access, condition and working hours. Call for a fixed quote and we’ll explain each part.
Why Petham businesses choose us
- We diagnose before we treat
- Ventilation hygiene specialists since 2009
- Fixed quotes, usually within one working day
- One number for every site across the South East and London
Take a look at how cleaning jobs are priced or our accreditations and certificates.
How we price grease filter exchange
The survey tells us what the work involves. The main factors are:
- Site requirements such as sign-in and permits
- The condition of the system
- How big the system is
- Working hours and out-of-hours timing
When the work has to happen, how we reach it and how big the site is all affect the cost. Each of those is built into the quote, and the price is fixed before we start.
Helping us quote
Photos let us diagnose from a distance. The most useful are:
- When the site is open and when it’s quiet
- Where the site is and what kind of site it is
- Any access panels or hatches you can see
- The paperwork from the last visit, if you have it
For a fixed quote, give us a ring on 0345 646 2711 or drop us a line and tell us the type of site, your opening hours and roughly what the system looks like. A few pictures and your last certificate or report help a lot. We usually come back within one working day.
Common problems we fix in Petham
Cooking vapour carries grease into the canopy. The filters catch much of it, and day by day they load up until the air can barely get through.
Clients normally contact us when they notice one of these:
- Poor airflow through the filters
- Filter washing that keeps being missed
- Grease dripping from the canopy
- Grease left in baffles after washing
Healthcare kitchens cannot easily close, so their extracts are cleaned overnight or between meal services; the nearest hospital to Petham is Kent and Canterbury Hospital, about 3.4 miles north-east.
What your quote should include
- When the next visit should be, and why
- Their accreditations, such as BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite, CHAS or SafeContractor
- Exactly which parts of the system are covered
- Whether the work can be done while the site is closed