Hampshire · Grease filter exchange
Southington grease filter exchange
Professional grease filter exchange in and around Southington, booked around your opening hours and signed off in writing with photos.
- A greasy plenum behind the filters
- Missing filters in the filter bank
- Poor airflow through the filters
Keeping the system healthy
No system stays clean for ever, but care slows the build-up. A few tips:
- Report damaged filters so they can be replaced
- Clean the canopy surfaces regularly
- Tell us if the menu or opening hours change
- Book full TR19 cleans alongside filter changes
Your next visit is scheduled before we leave. If cooking increases, we can change filters more often to match.
Clean filters plus regular full cleans keep the system in good health. A maintenance plan that covers both means neither slips.
Grease filter exchange in Southington
Filter exchange sits between full TR19® cleans. Clean filters reduce the grease reaching the ducts, but some grease still passes through as vapour. So the canopy, plenum and ducts still need their full TR19 clean. The work covers school and hospital kitchens, baffle filters and mesh filters, and people most often call us about weak extraction at the canopy and filters that leave gaps in the canopy.
In a small place like Southington, 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.
Each visit ends with a written report and pictures, so there’s a dated record of the work. Kitchen extract cleaning to TR19® Grease is certificated through the BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite portal.
- Location
- Southington (RG25)
- Region
- Hampshire
- Records
- Report and photos after the visit
- Quotes
- A fixed price before we start
- When we work
- Nights, weekends or holidays to suit you
- Telephone
- 0345 646 2711
- Checked
- 30 October 2026
When to call us in Southington
What a kitchen cooks affects how fast filters clog. Frying, grilling and chargrilling produce far more grease than steaming or baking so no single schedule suits every kitchen.
Most sites get in touch after spotting something like this:
- Damaged filters letting grease past
- Smoke and heat lingering under the hood
- A canopy that drips grease
- Grease collecting in the filter channels
For schools such as Overton Church of England Primary School, kitchen extract cleaning is normally booked for the holidays, when the canteen is closed.
Questions to ask before booking
- Exactly which parts of the system are covered
- Whether a survey comes first
- Whether inaccessible sections are listed on the report
- Proof of insurance
FAQs for Southington
Will you come out to Southington?
Yes. Villages and rural sites across the South East are part of our work, Southington included. Photos of the system and directions to the site help us plan the visit.
Do you work overnight in Southington?
Yes, out-of-hours work is a big part of what we do. The site is handed back ready to open. Your opening times are the first thing we ask for.
Who is the responsible person?
That depends on who controls the premises. Under the Fire Safety Order 2005, it’s the responsible person, which can be the employer, the owner, a landlord, an FM or a managing agent.
What is TR19?
BESA’s ventilation hygiene specification, with two parts that matter most here: TR19® Grease for kitchen extracts and TR19® Air for supply and extract systems. It is not law, but it’s the benchmark.
Do you offer emergency callouts?
Yes. If something urgent happens, like a fan failing or damage after a fire, call our 24/7 line, and we’ll advise on what to do next.
What types of premises do you cover?
All kinds of commercial and public premises: from restaurants, pubs and hotels to schools, hospitals, care homes, offices, shops and food production sites. Work is timed around how each site runs.
Do you handle baffle and mesh filters?
We exchange baffle and mesh filters. At the start, we note what your canopies use so the clean set always fits.
Do you work with multi-site operators?
Yes. One number covers all your sites across London and the South East, and visits can be set on a regular cycle.
How the job changes from site to site
Canopy filter housings
We check that filters sit snugly in the housing at each visit, because gaps let grease through.
Mesh filters
Mesh filters use layers of metal mesh to trap grease. In a busy kitchen, mesh soon blocks, so they need changing often.
Why it’s worth doing now in Southington
Leaving filters too long pushes more grease into the plenum and ducts. The ductwork then loads up faster, and grease may build up faster than the cleaning interval allows. Somewhere as small as Southington, losing a kitchen or building to a fault is felt by everyone who uses it.
We don’t list prices on the website, because the cost depends on the site in front of us. For a fixed quote, phone us on 0345 646 2711 or drop us a line, and we’ll explain what it covers.
Why choose Duct Doctor in Southington
- Member of BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease
- A single point of contact for sites across the South East and London
- Fixed quotes from a survey or pictures
- We are fully insured
What we do, step by step
We turn up at the time agreed with you, which is often after service, overnight or at a weekend. Equipment that has to be off is switched off and allowed to cool first, and the area around the work is covered and protected. The work itself takes less than an hour in most kitchens. If you can send photos, we can arrive in Southington knowing what to expect.
- 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
- Tell us about access, such as roof hatches, plant rooms, ceilings or locked areas
- Arrange a key holder or contact on site
- Let us know about permits to work or site inductions
Ask for a quote
Getting a quote does not take long. Send a few details and photos, and we usually reply with a fixed quote within one working day. If we need to see the system first, we book a survey around your hours.
Advice
Managing agents and facilities teams in Southington
Keeping records across a portfolio is half the battle. Each visit produces a dated report with photos, ready to show insurers, fire officers or EHOs.
Under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, the responsible person must assess and reduce fire risk, and that can be the employer, the owner, a landlord, a facilities manager or a managing agent. With shared responsibility, good records help everyone.
Staff cleaning versus specialist work
For ventilation and air handling systems, in-house care is mostly about checks: keeping grilles clear, noting unusual noise or smells and logging filter changes. The inside of ducts and units needs a specialist.
When your team notices a problem 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.
What grease filter exchange looks like in Southington
Food Standards Agency data counts about 6 restaurants, cafés and canteens and about 3 takeaways and sandwich shops within roughly a mile and a half of the centre of Southington. Swapping filters on a schedule keeps kitchens like these drawing air properly. Hampshire and Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service covers Southington. 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 Basingstoke and Deane council that sends environmental health officers to food businesses in Southington. They look at how clean the premises and equipment are, and the kitchen extract is part of that. Keeping each certificate and photo report on file helps show the extract is looked after.
A hall kitchen that only cooks for events, whether near Church of St Mary or elsewhere in Southington, still needs its extract cleaned, just less often.
Southington is about 8 miles west of Basingstoke, in Hampshire. We carry out grease filter exchange for commercial premises of every kind in Southington and the rest of Hampshire. Across Hampshire, we cover 683 places, Southington among them. We also work in Reading, about 19 miles from Southington.
We work across RG25 for grease filter exchange and the roads nearby. We cover sites on Vinns Lane, London Road and Dellands Lane and the roads around them. If your site is just outside Southington, we cover Overton (1 mile east), Quidhampton (1 mile north-east), Laverstoke (1 mile south-west), Freefolk (1 mile west) and Wells-in-the-Field (2 miles west). Within a short drive, we also cover Basingstoke (8 miles east), Winchester (13 miles south), Andover (9 miles west), Alton (14 miles south-east), Tadley (10 miles north-east) and Hook (14 miles east).
Near you in Southington
Locally, jobs take us to businesses close to The Greyhound pub, among other places. The nearest railway station is Overton station, about 1.1 miles north-east. Open spaces near Southington include Ladle Hill.