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Grease Filter Exchange in Sompting
Grease filter exchange across Sompting and nearby, timed so the site keeps working and finished with a written report and pictures.
- Filters that come out of the sink still dirty
- Filters that leave gaps in the canopy
- Poor airflow through the filters
What affects the cost of grease filter exchange
We quote each job individually. This is what makes a difference:
- The size of the system
- The times the site is available
- How many systems or sites are involved
- One-off work versus a regular cycle
What you pay reflects the actual work. That’s why every job is surveyed first, and why the quote is fixed before we start.
What we need to know
You don’t need the technical terms. Just send:
- The roof, plant room or outside wall the system runs to
- Photos showing the whole system and its surroundings
- The postcode and the type of business
- Close-ups of filters, grilles, hatches or access panels
Quoting starts with a diagnosis, either from photos and details you send or from a site visit. Then we send a fixed price so you know the cost before any work starts.
Grease filter exchange in Sompting, done properly
Across Sompting, our filter exchange suits restaurants, pubs, cafés, schools, care homes and other kitchens, whether there’s one canopy or many. Visits can be timed around your service so nobody has to stop cooking. If you have filters so greasy the air can barely pass and staff short of time to wash filters, we can put it right.
In a smaller place like Sompting, many kitchens sit in older buildings or later extensions, with the duct running through a roof space or up an outside wall. Flat runs collect grease and need proper access to clean.
It’s worth checking any contractor’s accreditations. Ours are BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite membership, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease, plus CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, and we are fully insured.
- Where
- Sompting (BN15)
- Region
- West Sussex
- Paperwork
- Photo report after every visit
- Price
- Fixed quote, usually within a working day
- Working hours
- Nights, weekends or holidays to suit you
- Telephone
- 0345 646 2711
- Page updated
- 30 October 2026
The process
A visit follows the same order every time: sheeting and protection first, make the system safe, do the work, tidy up and hand over the paperwork. On site, the work takes anything from a few minutes to an hour or so, depending on the number of filters. Tell us when your site near Sompting is quiet and the visit will be booked for then.
- We look at the canopies and the condition of the filters.
- Any damaged or missing filters are noted.
- 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.
Preparing for the visit
- Plan for cooking equipment or plant to be off before we arrive
- Let us know about permits to work or site inductions
- Tell us where we can park and unload
How to get a quote
We don’t 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 give you a fixed quote. To start, give us a ring on 0345 646 2711 or drop us a line.
Advice
In-house cleaning or a specialist?
Away from the kitchen, the in-house job is mainly checking: keeping grilles clear, noting unusual noise or smells and logging filter changes. Cleaning inside ducts and units is specialist work.
Your own staff can handle the daily basics: wiping canopies, washing grease filters and recording it in a log. Inside the ducts, risers and fan is specialist work, which is where we come in.
What happens if it’s left?
Grease dripping from the canopy is a sign the filters cannot hold any more. Left, it ends up on equipment, food areas and staff, which an EHO may well notice. Around Sompting, a kitchen or building out of action is missed right away.
What you pay depends on the size of the system, what state it’s in and how easy it is to reach. We give you a fixed price before work begins, so there are no surprises.
Why Sompting businesses choose us
- CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001
- A single point of contact for sites across the South East and London
- Fully insured
- Trading since 2009
Read our cost guide and how to check a contractor.
Landlords, agents and facilities managers
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 can quote for the whole system.
Whether it’s one building or many, the standard is the same: the system surveyed, the price fixed, the visit fitted around trading and everything written up afterwards.
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Looking after it afterwards
To keep the system working properly between visits:
- Always run the extract while cooking
- Do not refit a filter that’s bent
- Make sure no filter is left out
- Mention it if the kitchen gets busier
Once the clean filters are in, the kitchen can cook right away. We take the greasy filters with us to be cleaned.
If cooking has stepped up, the filter schedule should too. Changing the interval early stops grease building up unseen behind the canopy.
Grease filter exchange around Sompting
Sompting is within about 2 miles of the coast. Salt air speeds up corrosion of roof-level fans, discharge cowls and their fixings. The FSA’s food hygiene register shows about 31 restaurants, cafés and canteens and about 34 takeaways and sandwich shops across Sompting and its immediate surroundings (about a mile and a half). Clogged filters slow the airflow, and busy kitchens like these clog them fast. In Sompting, food businesses are inspected by environmental health officers from Adur council. A greasy canopy or dripping filters are the sort of thing an inspection can pick up. Before-and-after pictures from each clean are a simple way to show the extract is in hand.
Commuter trade near Lancing station can mean long cooking hours, and long hours put a kitchen into BESA’s more frequent cleaning bands. Healthcare kitchens cannot easily close, so their extracts are cleaned overnight or between meal services; the nearest hospital to Sompting is Worthing Hospital, about 1.6 miles south-west. If you look after a school kitchen, at a school such as Sompting Village Primary School or anywhere near Sompting, the holidays are the usual time for a TR19® clean.
Sompting is about 3 miles east of Worthing, in West Sussex. Every kind of commercial site in Sompting, grease filter exchange is something we can help with. Visits can be booked for evenings, overnight or weekends so the site keeps running. Across West Sussex, we cover 371 places, and Sompting is one of them. You can also see our page for Brighton, roughly 9 miles from Sompting.
We cover every part of the BN15 postcode area for grease filter exchange and the roads nearby. We cover sites on Osborne Drive, Western Road North and Osborne Close and nearby roads. If your site is just outside Sompting, we cover Lancing (1 mile east), East Worthing (1 mile south), Broadwater (2 miles west), Offington (2 miles west) and Salvington (3 miles west). We also work in nearby towns such as Bognor Regis (15 miles west), Burgess Hill (13 miles north-east), Littlehampton (9 miles west), Shoreham-by-Sea (3 miles east), Rustington (8 miles west) and Storrington (8 miles north-west).
Local landmarks in Sompting
Around Sompting, our work takes us to kitchens and buildings near Sompting Abbotts Preparatory School, Brooklands Park and The Sir Robert Woodard Academy. The closest station to Sompting is Lancing station, roughly 0.8 miles south-east. Nearby you will also find Old Castle (2.4 miles west) and Museum of Sussex Folklore (2.5 miles west). The countryside around Sompting includes Lancing Ring and Widewater Lagoon.
Common questions in Sompting
Which fire authority looks after Sompting?
That’s West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service. Records of extract cleaning are a sensible thing to have ready if a fire safety officer carries out an audit.
Can you clean school kitchen extracts in Sompting during the holidays?
Yes, and it’s the easiest time to do it. There are about 7 schools, colleges and universities on the FSA’s food hygiene register within about 1.5 miles of Sompting. Booking early in the term gives the best choice of holiday dates.
Is there a cleaning option for the filters we have?
Yes, filter cleaning is available. We’ll check your filters first, as damaged ones may be better replaced.
Which grease filters does the service cover?
The common types of grease filter: baffle and mesh. Tell us what you have when you call us on 0345 646 2711, or email photos and we’ll confirm it on site.
Do you have insurance?
Yes. Duct Doctor is fully insured, and the details are available on request.
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.
Can we skip TR19 cleans if the filters are changed regularly?
It isn’t. The rest of the system still collects grease at the right interval.
Can we book visits on a schedule?
Yes. Scheduled maintenance plans are part of what we do, with visits at the interval your system needs. Each report recommends when the next visit should be.
What grease filter exchange cannot fix
Not every problem is solved by grease filter exchange, and we’d rather say so up front. It doesn’t solve:
- Odours from the discharge that filters will not stop
- Grease already built up in the ductwork, which needs a full TR19 clean
- A heavily greased plenum or canopy, which needs cleaning to TR19
Not sure which it is? You can call 0345 646 2711 or use the quote form and we will tell you honestly before booking.
What we work on in Sompting
- Mesh filters
- Restaurants and pubs
- Island canopies
- Wall canopies
- Baffle filters
- School and hospital kitchens