Essex · Grease filter exchange
Stanway grease filter exchange
Need grease filter exchange in Stanway? We survey first, send you a fixed quote and work around your opening hours, finishing with a written report and photos.
- Grease left in baffles after washing
- A canopy that drips grease
- Staff short of time to wash filters
When to call us in Stanway
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.
Keep an eye out for any of the following:
- A canopy running with filters missing
- Blocked baffle filters
- Smoke and heat lingering under the hood
- Bent or damaged filters that don’t sit properly
Church and community hall kitchens, near Parish Church of St Albright or anywhere around Stanway, are easy to forget, but their extracts collect grease like any other.
Before booking anyone
- When the next visit should be, and why
- What insurance they carry
- When they can work, and whether that is outside your opening hours
- Whether a survey comes first
How we handle grease filter exchange in Stanway
Washing filters in the kitchen sink is messy and easily missed on a busy week. An exchange service means clean filters arrive and greasy ones leave and the canopy is refilled right away. Common call-outs are for filters so greasy the air can barely pass and bent or damaged filters that don’t sit properly, across school and hospital kitchens, restaurants and pubs and island canopies.
Somewhere as small as Stanway, commercial kitchens are few: perhaps a pub, a school or care home kitchen, or a hall used for events. Every one of them still needs its extract kept clear of grease, whatever the size of the place.
For insurers and inspectors, the record counts. So every job comes with a written report and photos, and grease extract cleans come with a TR19® certificate issued through the BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite portal.
- Location
- Stanway (CO3, CO6)
- Region
- Essex
- Reporting
- Photo report after every visit
- Quotes
- A fixed quote up front
- Working hours
- Overnight and weekend work, 24/7 emergency callout
- Call
- 0345 646 2711
- Checked
- 30 October 2026
Grease, kitchens and Stanway
There are about 31 restaurants, cafés and works canteens and about 5 takeaways across Stanway and its immediate surroundings (about a mile and a half), according to the Food Standards Agency’s register. Swapping filters on a schedule keeps kitchens like these drawing air properly. Environmental health officers from Colchester council inspect food businesses in Stanway. A greasy canopy or dripping filters are the sort of thing an inspection can pick up. Keeping each certificate and photo report on file helps show the extract is looked after. Stanway sits within the area of Essex County Fire and Rescue Service. Its fire safety officers can audit commercial kitchens, and grease in the extract is part of a kitchen’s fire risk.
If you look after a school kitchen, at a school such as Stanway Primary School or anywhere near Stanway, the holidays are the usual time for a TR19® clean. If you run catering at a historic house or estate in the area (Layer Marney Tower is about 4.2 miles south), event kitchens in older buildings often have awkward duct runs that need planning.
Stanway is about 2 miles west of Camulodunum, in Essex. Stanway gets the same approach as every site we work on: a survey first, a fixed quote, work timed around your hours and a report with photos. Across Essex, we cover 644 places, and Stanway is one of them. Chelmsford is in our area too, about 17 miles from Stanway.
We work across the CO3 and CO6 postcode area for grease filter exchange and the roads nearby. We cover sites on Church Lane, Red Panda Road and Turkey Cock Lane and nearby roads. Neighbouring places we cover for grease filter exchange include Beacon End (1 mile east), Copford Green (1 mile south-west), Eight Ash Green (1 mile north), Heckfordbridge (2 miles south) and Lexden (2 miles east). Within a short drive, we also cover Colchester (4 miles east), Braintree (11 miles west), Clacton-on-Sea (15 miles east), Maldon (12 miles south-west), Witham (10 miles south-west) and Halstead (9 miles north-west).
What’s near Stanway
Around Stanway, our work takes us to kitchens and buildings near White Hart Toby Carvery pub and The Stanway School and the streets around them. For rail, the closest station is Marks Tey station, roughly 1.5 miles west. Nearby you will also find Social History Museum (3.5 miles east) and Birch Castle (2.6 miles south). The countryside around Stanway includes Iron Latch.
Nearby places to Stanway
Also in Stanway
Leave it or put it right?
Dripping canopies and greasy smells often start with the filters. Drips land on surfaces and equipment below and that’s the kind of thing inspectors look for. Our emergency line runs 24/7, but a planned visit to Stanway is calmer for everyone.
A single site or a whole portfolio, we price it on the same basis: the work involved, the access and the timing. The price is fixed before we start.
What you get with us
- Every visit written up, with photos
- Work around your opening hours, with 24/7 emergency cover
- One contact for all your sites in London and the South East
- Ventilation hygiene specialists since 2009
Read what affects the cost and our accreditations.
The process
The visit has three parts: getting the area ready, doing the work and signing it off. Getting ready means protecting surfaces and switching off what needs to be off, and the sign-off is a written report with pictures. The middle part takes longest, which takes a short visit, depending on how many filters the canopies hold. In a small place like Stanway, the journey is planned ahead and the visit arranged around the site’s hours.
- First, we record the size, type and number of filters in each canopy.
- A change schedule is agreed to match the kitchen’s cooking hours.
- At every visit, the greasy filters are lifted out.
- Clean, dry filters are fitted in their place, with no gaps left between them.
- Anything we notice, such as bent filters or a dirty plenum, is pointed out.
Preparing for the visit
- Let us know when the site is closed or quiet
- Allow time for equipment near the work to be turned off and cool down
- Arrange a key holder or contact on site
How to get a quote
Need a price for grease filter exchange? Please call us on 0345 646 2711, or email photos and tell us about the site. We will explain what we’d do and send a fixed quote before you commit to anything.
Advice
Stanway questions
Can you clean school kitchen extracts in Stanway during the holidays?
Yes, holiday work suits schools best. With about 7 schools and colleges on the FSA’s register within roughly a mile and a half of Stanway, it pays to plan holiday dates ahead. Tell us your holiday dates and we’ll book the visit for when the site is empty.
Who would carry out a food hygiene inspection at a kitchen in Stanway?
That is Colchester council, whose environmental health officers carry out food hygiene inspections in Stanway. Have your latest TR19® certificate and photo report to hand, as an officer may ask how the extract is maintained.
Do you deal with bent or broken filters?
Each filter is looked at when we exchange. We tell you about any that are damaged, because gaps let grease into the plenum.
What does grease filter exchange cost?
Filters, canopies and how often you need visits all affect the price. Tell us what you have and we’ll come back with a fixed quote quickly.
What types of premises do you cover?
Any site with a kitchen or a ventilation system to look after, from a small pub to a hospital. We work with hotels, schools, care homes, offices, retail and leisure sites.
Where does the waste go?
It leaves the site with us at the end of the visit. During the work, it’s contained to keep the area clean.
Are you insured?
Yes, we’re fully insured. We also hold CHAS and SafeContractor, for sites that check contractor safety.
What does TR19 mean?
BESA’s ventilation hygiene specification in two main parts: TR19® Grease for kitchen extracts and TR19® Air for supply and extract systems. It isn’t legislation, but it’s the standard people check against.
Part by part
Busy restaurant and pub kitchens
Heavy cooking means more grease reaching every part of the system. Regular changes help protect the ductwork.
School, care home and staff kitchens
Visits can be planned around holidays and quieter periods so the filters are clean when cooking picks up.
What affects the cost of grease filter exchange
We quote each job individually. These are the things that affect it:
- Access, including roofs, risers and ceiling voids
- Site rules, permits and inductions
- Where the site is and how we reach it
- The condition we find in the survey
Leaving it longer rarely makes the work cheaper. Problems in a system tend to grow, which can make the next visit longer. If you are unsure, call 0345 646 2711 or send us an email for straight advice and a fixed quote.
What to send for a quote
Many jobs can be priced from pictures and some basics. Useful things to send:
- When the site is open and when it’s quiet
- Your last certificate, test record or report
- Where the plant sits or the system leaves the building, such as a roof or outside wall
- The site address and the type of premises
Some systems can be priced from photos; 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.
In-house cleaning or a specialist?
When your team notices a problem between visits, like drips, unusual noise, smells or damaged filters, they should report it rather than try to fix it. We’ll take a look and give you a fixed quote.
For ventilation and air handling systems, in-house care is mostly about checks: clear grilles, a log of filter changes and reporting anything odd. The inside of ducts and units needs a specialist.
Managing agents and facilities teams in Stanway
Records are where multi-site compliance often slips. Each visit ends with a dated report and pictures, ready to show insurers, fire officers or EHOs.
We regularly work with managing agents. Send the address, what’s needed and how access works, and we will send a fixed quote.