Essex · Grease filter exchange
Grease filter exchange in Tilty, Essex
We cover Tilty for grease filter exchange. Fixed quotes, work around your opening hours and photo reports as standard.
- A greasy plenum behind the filters
- Poor airflow through the filters
- Filter washing that keeps being missed
Grease filter exchange in Tilty
Whether your canopy has baffle or mesh filters, they load up with grease. Once they’re clogged, airflow drops and the fan has to work harder. A steady cycle of clean filters keeps extraction strong. The work covers wall canopies, mesh filters and island canopies, and common reasons people get in touch are grease left in baffles after washing and filters left unwashed on busy weeks.
Rural kitchens often have long, low duct runs through a roof space or along an outside wall, and those horizontal sections are where grease settles. We agree access and timings in advance.
Accreditations are easy to claim and worth checking. Ours are BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite membership, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease, plus CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, and we are fully insured.
- Location
- Tilty (CM6)
- Wider area
- Essex
- Records
- Report and pictures after the visit
- Quote
- Fixed quote, normally within a working day
- Working hours
- Nights, weekends or holidays to suit you
- Telephone
- 0345 646 2711
- Updated
- 30 October 2026
Leave it or put it right?
Some kitchens in Tilty wash filters themselves to save the cost of a service, and that can work if it’s done thoroughly and on time. When it doesn’t happen reliably, an exchange makes it automatic. Systems in rural buildings are often out of sight and out of mind.
One small site or a whole estate, the quote is built the same way: what needs doing, how we get to it and when. The price is fixed before work begins.
Why choose Duct Doctor in Tilty
- CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001
- Work around your opening hours, with 24/7 emergency cover
- Member of BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease
- We’re fully insured
Take a look at our cost guide and how to check a contractor.
Tilty questions
Which fire and rescue service is responsible for Tilty?
It’s Essex County Fire and Rescue Service, which covers Tilty. Records of extract cleaning are a sensible thing to have ready if a fire safety officer carries out an audit.
Who would carry out a food hygiene inspection at a kitchen in Tilty?
In Tilty, it’s Uttlesford council that carries out food hygiene inspections. An officer may look up into the canopy, so clean filters on the day and a recent certificate on file both help.
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.
What types of premises do you cover?
Any commercial site with kitchens or ventilation, from a single café to a large school. Hotels, schools, care homes, offices, shops and leisure sites are all part of our work.
What about areas you can’t get to?
Anything we cannot reach goes on the report, with photos where possible, and we tell you what would make it reachable, for example new access panels.
Can we skip TR19 cleans if the filters are changed regularly?
No. Some grease passes the filters as vapour and settles in the ducts, so the full system still needs cleaning to TR19.
What paperwork should we keep on file?
Anything that proves the system is maintained: reports, certificates, pictures and your own cleaning or check logs. A single log for each site works best.
Do you offer maintenance contracts?
Yes. Regular plans can run on 3, 6 or 12-monthly cycles, depending on what the system needs.
How we price grease filter exchange
You will get a fixed price before any work starts. It’s based on:
- The number of sites or systems
- How easy every part is to reach
- The times the site is available
- How big the system is
Kitchens, offices, schools and hospitals are all priced the same way: the size of the job, access, condition and working hours. Ask for a fixed quote and we will go through it with you.
What to send for a quote
A few details help us quote accurately. When you get in touch, it helps to send:
- The times we could work without disrupting the site
- Anything you’ve noticed, such as smells, noise, drips or poor airflow
- Where the plant sits or the system leaves the building, such as a roof or outside wall
- The postcode and the type of business
If you need grease filter exchange in Tilty, call 0345 646 2711, or send details by email. Let us know the site type and the opening hours, and send pictures or your last report if you can. A fixed quote typically follows within one working day.
Honest limits
We won’t sell you work that doesn’t address the problem, so here are the limits:
- Odours from the discharge that filters won’t stop
- A noisy or failed extract fan
- Grease already built up in the ductwork, which needs a full TR19 clean
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 we work on in Tilty
- Mesh filters
- Baffle filters
- Island canopies
- Wall canopies
- Restaurants and pubs
- School and hospital kitchens
Nearby places to Tilty
Also in Tilty
Kitchen extracts in Tilty
The Food Standards Agency lists about 4 bars, pubs and nightclubs as registered food businesses across Tilty and its immediate surroundings (about a mile and a half). A pub or hotel kitchen that cooks every day builds up grease in its extract like any other. Fire safety in Tilty falls to Essex County 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. Food hygiene inspections in Tilty are the job of Uttlesford council’s environmental health team. Extraction counts as kitchen equipment, so its condition can come up on the day. A TR19® certificate and photo report after each clean gives you a record to show an inspector.
Where a hall near Church of St Mary the Virgin, or anywhere in Tilty, hosts lunch clubs or events, its extract gathers grease just as a café’s does.
Tilty is about 3 miles north-west of Great Dunmow, in Essex. We carry out grease filter exchange for commercial premises of every kind in Tilty and the rest of Essex. Our Essex coverage runs to 644 places, Tilty among them. Chelmsford is in our area too, around 14 miles away.
Every address in CM6 is within our area for grease filter exchange, from the main roads to the quietest streets. Nearby, we also carry out grease filter exchange in Duton Hill (1 mile north-east), Great Easton (1 mile south-east), Chickney (1 mile west), Sibley's Green (2 miles north-east) and Monk Street (2 miles north-east). Further out, we also cover Chelmsford (14 miles south-east), Braintree (10 miles east), Harlow (13 miles south-west), Witham (15 miles south-east), Saffron Walden (8 miles north-west) and Halstead (13 miles east).
Around Tilty
In Tilty, that means kitchens and buildings near The Rising Sun Public House and the streets around them. For rail, the closest station is Stansted Airport station, roughly 3.2 miles south-west of the centre. Nearby you’ll also find Little Easton Moat (1.8 miles south). For a walk, there’s West Wood.
What staff can safely do
Keep a record of what your team does. A dated log of in-house cleaning and checks helps show that the system is managed between specialist visits, alongside our reports.
In-house cleaning and specialist cleaning do different jobs. A daily filter wipe and a weekly filter wash keep grease down at the front of the system, but grease that has passed the filters is out of reach. Reaching it takes a specialist with the right equipment.
The process
Your trading hours come first. Most visits are booked for when the area is out of use, such as evenings, overnight, early mornings or weekends. When the team arrives, the work area is protected and the relevant equipment is switched off to cool, and the job takes less than an hour in most kitchens. The timing of a visit to Tilty is set by you, and the travel is our side of the planning.
- The filters in each canopy are measured and counted.
- An exchange schedule is agreed to suit your cooking.
- The dirty set is lifted out.
- Clean filters go in and we check they sit snugly.
- The dirty filters leave with us and the next visit is booked.
Before we arrive
- Clear loose items from the work area
- Plan for cooking equipment or plant to be off before we arrive
- Tell us where we can park and unload
Get a fixed quote
To get a fixed quote, ring 0345 646 2711, or email photos 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’ll normally have a quote within one working day.
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When to call us in Tilty
Repeated removal and washing takes its toll on filters. A bent filter doesn’t seat properly and grease passes round them.
Any of these means the system needs a check-up:
- Grease filters clogged with grease
- Grease left in baffles after washing
- Filters that leave gaps in the canopy
- Grease collecting in the filter channels
Older buildings often hide long, awkward duct runs, and if you run a kitchen at a historic venue in the area (Horham Hall is about 2 miles north), access may need planning.
Comparing quotes
- What hours they’ll be on site
- Whether the quote shows VAT
- What paperwork you get at the end
- What’s included in the scope, part by part
Different parts, different methods
The plenum
With good filters, less grease ends up in the plenum, but it’s still cleaned during a full TR19 clean.
Mesh filters
Mesh filters are still found in many canopies. They can be on the same exchange schedule as baffle filters.