Hampshire · Grease filter exchange
Grease filter exchange in Winchester, Hampshire
Grease filter exchange across Winchester and nearby, booked around your opening hours and finished with a written report and pictures.
- Hand-washed filters that still look greasy
- Filters left unwashed on busy weeks
- Gaps where filters have been removed
Grease filter exchange in Winchester
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. We’re often asked to deal with bent or damaged filters that don’t sit properly and a canopy running with filters missing, on wall canopies, school and hospital kitchens and mesh filters.
A place as big as Winchester has kitchens of every kind, from takeaways and restaurants to school, hotel and staff kitchens. BESA’s minimum intervals run from every three months for heavy use to once a year for light use, so the right schedule depends on the kitchen.
A written report with photos follows each visit, so you have a record of what was done and when. Where the work is a TR19® Grease clean, the certificate is issued through the BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite portal.
The process
Each visit runs to the same pattern: protect the area, isolate whatever needs isolating, do the work, clear away and leave you the report. The visit itself takes well under an hour for most canopies. Larger sites in Winchester can be done in phases, out of hours, so part of the building keeps working.
- The filters in each canopy are measured and counted.
- We set the interval with you.
- The dirty set is lifted out.
- A clean set is fitted and checked for gaps.
- The dirty filters leave with us and the next visit is booked.
How to prepare
- Clear loose items from the work area
- Let us know about parking and loading
- Plan for cooking equipment or plant to be off before we arrive
Getting 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 get going, phone us on 0345 646 2711 or use the quote form.
Advice
Different parts, different methods
Mesh filters
Mesh filters use layers of metal mesh to trap grease. They clog quickly in a busy kitchen, so they need changing often.
Canopy filter housings
We check that filters sit snugly in the housing at each visit since a gap is a route for grease.
Kitchen extracts in Winchester
The FSA’s food hygiene register shows about 121 cafés, restaurants and staff canteens and about 29 takeaways and sandwich shops in Winchester and the streets around it, up to about 1.5 miles out. Each canopy among them has filters that load with grease and need swapping or cleaning. Environmental health officers from Winchester City council inspect food businesses in Winchester. 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. Fire safety in Winchester falls to Hampshire and Isle of Wight 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 run a café or takeaway near Winchester station, early starts and late finishes leave little time to clean, so overnight extract cleaning suits. A hospital like St John's Rooms And Chapel, about under half a mile east, is the kind of site where a kitchen may cook for patients, staff and visitors all day.
Winchester is in Hampshire. Wherever you are in the SO22 postcode area, we cover grease filter exchange for commercial sites. Across Hampshire, we cover 683 places, Winchester among them. You can also see our page for Southampton, about 10 miles away.
Work in SO22, SO23, SO32 and SO21 is surveyed, quoted and booked the same way as anywhere else. Local streets include The Square, Market Street and Market Lane, all of which we cover for grease filter exchange. Main roads around Winchester include the A31 and A32, so getting to you is simple for evening and night visits. Close by, we work in Bar End (1 mile south-east), Highcliffe (1 mile east), Hyde (1 mile north), St Cross (1 mile south) and Stanmore (1 mile south-west). Within a short drive, we also cover Eastleigh (6 miles south), Fareham (15 miles south), Andover (13 miles north-west), Totton (13 miles south-west), Chandler's Ford (6 miles south-west) and Hedge End (10 miles south). Being one of Hampshire’s larger places, Winchester has a wide mix of commercial premises, all within our area for grease filter exchange.
Near you in Winchester
Around Winchester, our work takes us to kitchens and buildings near Peter Symonds College, The Green Man pub and Leigh House Hospital and the streets around them. The nearest railway station is Winchester station, roughly 0.6 miles north of the centre. A little further out are Winchester City Museum (less than half a mile north-east) and St John's Rooms And Chapel (less than half a mile east). The countryside around Winchester includes Winnall Moors and Twyford Down.
Why act early in Winchester
Some kitchens in Winchester wash filters themselves to save the cost of a service, and it works when it’s done well and never skipped. When it does not happen reliably, an exchange makes it automatic. Leave a system long enough in a busy place like Winchester and the job grows.
What you pay reflects the actual work. That is why every job is surveyed first, and why the quote is fixed before any work starts.
Why book with us
- One number for every site across the South East and London
- Fully insured
- A BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease
- Out-of-hours work and a 24/7 emergency line
Take a look at how cleaning jobs are priced and our accreditations.
What affects the quote in Winchester
Your quote is based on your site. We take into account:
- Site requirements such as sign-in and permits
- One-off work versus a regular cycle
- The condition of the system
- Whether several sites go on one quote
You will not find a price list here, because the cost depends on the site in front of us. For a fixed quote, phone us on 0345 646 2711 or email us, and we’ll talk you through it.
What to send for a quote
Many jobs can be priced from photos and some basics. Useful things to send:
- Your last certificate, test record or report
- Wide pictures of the system and the area around it
- The site address and the type of premises
- Any access panels or hatches you can see
Photos are the quickest way to a quote: the system from a couple of angles, plus any access panels or hatches. Add the site type and your opening hours, and we can price many jobs without a visit.
What we are called out for in Winchester
The type of cooking matters. Frying, grilling and chargrilling produce far more grease than steaming or baking, so the right exchange interval varies.
Any of these means the system needs a check-up:
- Filter washing that keeps being missed
- Hand-washed filters that still look greasy
- Filters so greasy the air can barely pass
- Gaps where filters have been removed
Church and community hall kitchens, near St Swithun-upon-Kingsgate Church or anywhere around Winchester, are easy to forget, but their extracts collect grease like any other.
Comparing quotes
- What hours they’ll be on site
- Whether the whole system is included, or only the parts that are easy to reach
- Whether a written report and pictures are included
- What happens if part of the system cannot be accessed
Managing agents and facilities teams in Winchester
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. Where responsibility is shared, records matter even more.
Landlords, managing agents and facilities managers book us, not only the businesses that use the systems. Shared systems, like a riser serving several units, need a clear agreement on who books the work, and we can quote for the whole system.
Winchester: your questions answered
Which council inspects kitchens in Winchester?
In Winchester, it’s Winchester City council that carries out food hygiene inspections. It helps to keep the extract cleaning records with your food safety paperwork, so they’re ready if asked for.
Do you work at weekends in Winchester?
Yes, we can come after you close and finish before you open. The work in Winchester can fit around your hours. Your opening times are the first thing we ask for.
How long does grease filter exchange take?
It depends on the size of the system, but for a typical site it takes well under an hour for most canopies. We will confirm it with the quote.
Who is the responsible person?
That depends on who controls the premises. The Fire Safety Order 2005 puts the duty on the responsible person, which may be the employer, owner, landlord, facilities manager or managing agent.
Is there a cleaning option for the filters we have?
We offer filter cleaning as well as exchange. We will explain the options when you get in touch.
What types of premises do you cover?
We work for restaurants, pubs, hotels, schools, colleges, hospitals, care homes, offices and shops, plus food production and leisure sites.
Do you cover Winchester?
Yes. We work across Greater London, Surrey, Kent, Sussex, Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Hertfordshire and Essex, Winchester included.
How do you protect the area?
We cover floors and nearby surfaces with sheeting before we start, and anything we remove is contained. Before we leave, we tidy up and clean down.
Places near Winchester
Also in Winchester
When something else is needed
Before you book, it helps to know what’s not included:
- Smell complaints that need odour control equipment
- Grease already built up in the ductwork, which needs a full TR19 clean
- A canopy that needs a proper clean
If in doubt, call us on 0345 646 2711, or email photos and we’ll say what we think.
Where we work
- School and hospital kitchens
- Restaurants and pubs
- Mesh filters
- Wall canopies
- Island canopies
- Baffle filters