Medway · Grease filter exchange
Grease filter exchange in Wainscott, Medway
Looking for grease filter exchange in Wainscott? We survey first, send you a fixed quote and work around your opening hours, finishing with a written report and pictures.
- A canopy that drips grease
- Weak extraction at the canopy
- Gaps where filters have been removed
FAQs for Wainscott
Can sea air affect grease filter exchange in Wainscott?
It can. Salt air reaches Wainscott, which is within about 2 miles of the coast, and it speeds up rust. We look at fans, cowls and fixings for rust as well as grease.
Who carries out food hygiene inspections in Wainscott?
That is Medway council, whose environmental health officers carry out food hygiene inspections in Wainscott. Have your latest TR19® certificate and photo report to hand, as an officer may ask how the extract is maintained.
What does grease filter exchange cost?
Pricing depends on the kitchen, so we quote once we know your filters and schedule. We send you a fixed quote before the first visit.
What should go in our maintenance log?
Visit reports, certificates and your in-house cleaning logs. Insurers, fire officers and EHOs may all ask to see them, so keep them where they can be found quickly.
Do you look at the system first?
Yes. For many sites, photos and a few details are enough, while bigger or harder-to-see systems are surveyed on site.
What if some of our filters are damaged?
Each filter is looked at when we exchange. Any that are bent or damaged are flagged since a poor fit lets grease past.
What about areas you can’t get to?
They’re listed in the report, never skipped quietly. The report says which parts couldn’t be reached and why, and we can quote to improve the access.
What is TR19?
It’s BESA’s specification and the benchmark insurers, fire officers and EHOs look to. It sets out inspection, cleaning and record keeping and expects a risk-based approach.
About our grease filter exchange in Wainscott
Washing filters in the kitchen sink is messy and easily missed on a busy week. With a filter exchange, we bring a clean set and take the dirty one away and the canopy is refilled straight away. If you’re dealing with poor airflow through the filters and a canopy running with filters missing, we can help, from school and hospital kitchens, wall canopies and baffle filters onwards.
Around a smaller place like Wainscott, kitchen extracts tend to belong to pubs, cafés, takeaways and school or care home kitchens. A kitchen that cooks fewer hours still builds up grease, so cleaning is planned around how much it cooks and what the readings show.
For insurers and inspectors, the record counts. That’s why every job is written up in a report with pictures, plus a TR19® certificate through the BESCA VHE portal where the work is a TR19® Grease clean.
- Where
- Wainscott (ME2, ME3)
- Wider area
- Medway
- Paperwork
- Report and photos after the visit
- Price
- Fixed quote, normally within a working day
- When we work
- Nights, weekends or holidays to suit you
- Call
- 0345 646 2711
- Checked
- 30 October 2026
Also in Wainscott
What the work involves, part by part
The plenum
Clean filters reduce the grease reaching the plenum, but it still needs cleaning as part of TR19.
Canopy filter housings
Grease collects in the channels and drip trays below the filters. If it needs attention, we’ll tell you.
Multi-site and managed buildings
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.
Where a tenant occupies the premises but the landlord owns the building, it’s worth checking the lease for who maintains the systems. We are happy to deal with either side, and the report can go to both.
How we price grease filter exchange
The quote reflects the site in front of us. We take into account:
- Site rules, permits and inductions
- The condition we find in the survey
- Travel, parking and unloading
- The number of sites or systems
Combining work into one visit or one programme often makes better use of the time. Mention every system or site you need covered, and you will get one fixed quote.
What we need to know
We can often survey from pictures. Try to include:
- The postcode and the type of business
- Any access panels or hatches you can see
- Problems your staff have spotted
- The paperwork from the last visit, if you have it
For grease filter exchange in Wainscott, call 0345 646 2711, or send details by email. Let us know the site type and the opening hours, plus photos or the previous report if they’re to hand. A fixed quote typically follows within one working day.
When to call us in Wainscott
Every fry, grill and sauté sends grease-laden vapour upwards. The filters catch much of it, and day by day they load up and airflow falls away.
These are the problems we see most often:
- Damaged filters letting grease past
- Filters so greasy the air can barely pass
- Filters that come out of the sink still dirty
- Drips falling from the filters onto equipment
Kitchens that cook twelve hours or more a day, as some healthcare kitchens do, fall into BESA’s three-monthly minimum; French Hospital is the nearest hospital to Wainscott, about 1.6 miles south.
What your quote should include
- What’s included in the scope, part by part
- Whether VAT is included
- Proof of accreditation you can verify
- How areas they cannot reach will be recorded
What happens on the day
At the end of the visit, someone from your team can look over the work with us. We point out anything that couldn’t be reached or needs a follow-up, and the same goes into the written report. All told, the work takes a few minutes per canopy, longer for a large kitchen with several canopies. Tell us when your site near Wainscott is quiet and the visit will be booked for then.
- 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.
- On each visit, the dirty filters come out of the canopy.
- Clean filters go straight back in, seated properly with no gaps.
- We flag any damaged filters or anything wrong with the canopy.
How to prepare
- Clear loose items from the work area
- Agree a time when the area can be out of use
- Tell us where we can park and unload
How to get a quote
We do not publish a price list, because every site is different. Instead, we look at your site first, from photos or a survey, and then send you a fixed quote. To get going, ring 0345 646 2711 or drop us a line.
Advice
Keeping the system healthy
A little care between visits keeps the system in better shape. Our advice:
- Let us know if your cooking hours increase
- Do not refit a filter that’s bent
- Make sure we can reach the canopy on exchange day
- Report a dripping canopy early
Once the clean filters are in, the kitchen can cook right away. We take the greasy filters with us for cleaning.
Filter exchange and TR19 cleaning work best together. A maintenance plan that covers both keeps everything on track.
Kitchen extracts in Wainscott
The coast is only about 2 miles from Wainscott. Corrosion on the fan housing and cowl is worth a look at every clean, alongside the grease. Look up Wainscott on the FSA’s food hygiene register and you will find about 84 restaurants, cafés and works canteens and about 27 takeaways and sandwich shops within about 1.5 miles of central Wainscott. Where they cook under a canopy, the grease filters are the first line of defence and clog quickly. Fire safety in Wainscott falls to Kent Fire and Rescue Service. In most workplaces, including commercial kitchens, it’s the fire and rescue authority that enforces the Fire Safety Order.
Church and community hall kitchens, near St Philip & St James or anywhere around Wainscott, are easy to forget, but their extracts collect grease like any other. If your kitchen is in a listed or historic building, like the houses around Wainscott (Restoration House is about 1.7 miles south), fitting access panels needs care.
Wainscott is about 2 miles north of Rochester, in Medway. We provide grease filter exchange for commercial premises of every kind in Wainscott and the rest of Medway. We cover 68 places across Medway, large and small. For sites nearby, see our Maidstone page, about 10 miles away.
All of ME2 and ME3 is within our area for grease filter exchange, from busy streets to back roads. Streets in the area include Hoo Road, Holly Road and Leigh Road, all of which we cover for grease filter exchange. We also cover Upper Upnor (1 mile south-east), Lower Upnor (1 mile east), Chattenden (1 mile north-east), Cooling Street (2 miles north) and Hoo St Werburgh (2 miles north-east). We also work in nearby towns such as Gillingham (4 miles south-east), Chatham (4 miles south), Rainham (5 miles south-east), Luton (3 miles south), Park Wood (6 miles south-east) and Lordswood (5 miles south).
Local landmarks in Wainscott
Typical jobs here are in premises near Temple School, Broomhill Park and The Hundred of Hoo Academy and the streets around them. Other local landmarks include Royal Oak pub (0.6 miles south-west) and Former Ordnance Store At Chatham Gun Wharf (1.8 miles south). For rail, the closest station is Strood station, roughly 1.1 miles south-west. Well-known places in the area include Upnor Castle (0.7 miles south-east) and Huguenot Museum (1.6 miles south). Open spaces near Wainscott include Rede Common and Gad's Hill.
When it’s something else
Some problems need a different service or another trade:
- Smell complaints that need odour control equipment
- A canopy too small for the cooking beneath it
- Grease behind the filters that a swap can’t remove
If you’re not sure, just give us a ring on 0345 646 2711, or email photos and we’ll give you a straight answer before booking.
Where we work
- Island canopies
- Restaurants and pubs
- Baffle filters
- Wall canopies
- School and hospital kitchens
- Mesh filters