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Grease Filter Exchange in Picket Piece
Looking for grease filter exchange in Picket Piece? We diagnose first, fix the price and book the work around your hours, then sign off with a report and photos.
- Staff short of time to wash filters
- Filters that come out of the sink still dirty
- Smoke and heat lingering under the hood
About our grease filter exchange in Picket Piece
Cleaning filters by hand takes staff time and is easy to put off. With a filter exchange, we bring a clean set and take the dirty one away and the canopy is refilled right away. The work covers restaurants and pubs, school and hospital kitchens and baffle filters, and the jobs we see most are a canopy that drips grease and smoke and heat lingering under the hood.
For a smaller kitchen near Picket Piece, a TR19® clean is the same job as anywhere: canopy, filters, plenum, duct, fan and discharge. We plan the visit around your hours, with the journey sorted in advance.
Duct Doctor has been trading since 2009, as a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease. CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001 are in place too, and we are fully insured.
- Place
- Picket Piece (SP11)
- Region
- Hampshire
- Paperwork
- Written report with photos
- Price
- A fixed price before any work starts
- When we work
- After hours by arrangement; emergencies any time
- Call
- 0345 646 2711
- Updated
- 30 October 2026
Grease filter exchange around Picket Piece
Food Standards Agency records include about 3 pubs and bars within 1.5 miles or so of the middle of Picket Piece. Wherever they cook, the canopy, duct and fan collect grease just as a restaurant’s do. The fire and rescue service for Picket Piece is Hampshire and Isle of Wight 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. It’s Test Valley council that sends environmental health officers to food businesses in Picket Piece. The cleanliness of the kitchen and its equipment, extraction included, is part of what they check. Our report lists what was cleaned and when, which is useful to have ready.
Kitchens that cook twelve hours or more a day, as some healthcare kitchens do, fall into BESA’s three-monthly minimum; Andover War Memorial Hospital is the nearest hospital to Picket Piece, about 2.4 miles west.
Picket Piece is about 2 miles east of Andover, in Hampshire. If you need grease filter exchange in Picket Piece, it’s easy to get a fixed quote: please give us a ring on 0345 646 2711 or email us. We work across South East England and London, including Picket Piece. We cover 683 places across Hampshire, large and small. Our Southampton page covers sites nearby, about 21 miles away.
Work in SP11 is surveyed, quoted and booked the same way as anywhere else. You’ll find streets such as Locksbridge Road, Wyke Court and Galbraith Road, and we cover them all for grease filter exchange. Other places close to Picket Piece include Finkley Down (1 mile west), Andover Down (1 mile south), Finkley (1 mile north-west), Picket Twenty (1 mile south-west) and East Anton (1 mile west). Further out, we also cover Basingstoke (15 miles east), Winchester (12 miles south-east), Hyde (12 miles south-east), Tidworth (10 miles west), Weeke (11 miles south-east) and Kempshott (13 miles east).
Near you in Picket Piece
Typical jobs here are in premises near Winton Community Academy and Winton Community Academy and the streets around them. For rail, the closest station is Andover station, about 2.4 miles west of the centre. Nearby you’ll also find Andover War Memorial Hospital (2.4 miles west) and Finkley Down Farm Museum (0.6 miles west). Green spaces nearby include Anton Lakes and Mill Lake.
Part by part
Baffle filters
Baffle filters are robust and widely used in commercial canopies. They still need regular cleaning, because the grease they collect builds up.
School, care home and staff kitchens
For kitchens closed in the holidays, visits can be timed around term or rota so the filters are clean when cooking picks up.
Signs you need grease filter exchange in Picket Piece
Sometimes a filter is taken out and never put back. A missing filter leaves an open route into the system and on into the ductwork.
What we are most often called out for:
- Grease collecting in the filter channels
- Staff short of time to wash filters
- A canopy that drips grease
- Bent or damaged filters that do not sit properly
School kitchens, at schools like Pilgrims' Cross CofE Aided Primary School for example, are typically cleaned in the holidays so no lunches are lost.
Before you book anyone
- What paperwork you get at the end
- How they set the interval to the next visit
- Proof of accreditation you can verify
- Exactly which parts of the system are covered
The process
We are used to working while the site is closed. A lot of visits happen overnight or at weekends, so the site can open as normal afterwards. On site, the work takes a short visit, depending on how many filters the canopies hold. Tell us when your site near Picket Piece is quiet and the visit will be booked for then.
- First, we check the canopies and the filters in them.
- We note any filters that are bent, damaged or missing.
- We exchange the dirty filters for a clean set.
- We check the filters are seated and the canopy is ready to use.
- We tell you if the plenum or canopy needs a clean.
Before we arrive
- Have your last certificate or report to hand
- Mention any parking or loading restrictions
- Name a contact who can let us in at the agreed time
Ask for a quote
For a fixed quote, call 0345 646 2711 or email us with the site type, your trading hours and a short description of the system. Photos and the last report, if you have one, make the quote quicker. You will normally have a quote within one working day.
Related advice
Common questions in Picket Piece
Can you get to a site in Picket Piece?
Yes, Picket Piece is part of our area, however small the site. Let us know about access, parking and anything unusual about getting there when you book.
Which environmental health team covers Picket Piece?
Food hygiene inspections in Picket Piece are carried out by Test Valley council. Ratings are published by the Food Standards Agency, so a clean extract and good records are worth keeping up.
Do you offer emergency callouts?
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.
How long does the visit take?
The work itself takes well under an hour for most canopies. Larger systems naturally take longer, and we will tell you what to expect.
Do you look at the system first?
Yes. Photos often do the job, while bigger or harder-to-see systems are surveyed on site.
What do you do to protect the area?
With sheeting and covers, before anything else happens. We keep the work contained and leave the area clean.
Are you fully insured?
Yes. We are fully insured, and the details are available on request.
Which kinds of sites do you work on?
We work for restaurants, pubs, hotels, schools, colleges, hospitals, care homes, offices and shops, as well as food production and leisure sites.
Places near Picket Piece
Other services in Picket Piece
Landlords, agents and facilities managers
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.
We work for landlords, managing agents and facilities managers as well as the people running the site. Where a system serves more than one tenant, such as a shared riser, it helps to agree who arranges the work, and we are happy to quote for all of it.
Honest limits
We’d rather tell you now than book work that will not help, so these are the things it won’t cover:
- A canopy that doesn’t capture the vapour properly
- Odours from the discharge that filters will not stop
- Grease behind the filters that a swap cannot remove
Not sure which it is? You can phone us on 0345 646 2711 or email us and we’ll tell you honestly before you book.
What the work covers
- Baffle filters
- Restaurants and pubs
- Wall canopies
- Mesh filters
- School and hospital kitchens
- Island canopies
Leave it or put it right?
Once filters are saturated, more grease gets past them. That makes the next full clean a bigger job and grease readings can rise between cleans. A quieter site near Picket Piece still needs its system looked after.
The cost depends on the size of the system, the condition it’s in and how easy it is to reach. We give you a fixed price before work begins, so you know where you stand.
Why Picket Piece businesses choose us
- One number for every site across the South East and London
- We diagnose before we treat
- Ventilation hygiene specialists since 2009
- We are fully insured
What affects the cost of grease filter exchange
Every site gets its own quote. These are the things that affect it:
- How easy every part is to reach
- Any permits to work or inductions
- The size of the system
- Where the site is and how we reach it
Every site is different, so each one gets its own fixed quote. The size of the job, how we reach it, its condition and the working hours all play a part.
What we need to know
Before you ask for a quote, gather:
- Your last certificate, test record or report
- The site address and the type of premises
- Any symptoms, from odd noises to smells or leaks
- Any access panels or hatches you can see
For grease filter exchange in Picket Piece, ring 0345 646 2711, or email photos. Tell us what kind of premises it is and when it’s open, plus pictures or the previous report if they’re to hand. A fixed quote normally follows within one working day.