Kent · Grease filter exchange
Grease filter exchange in Winterbourne, Kent
Need grease filter exchange in Winterbourne? We survey first, send you a fixed quote and work around your opening hours, finishing with a written report and pictures.
- Weak extraction at the canopy
- Filters left unwashed on busy weeks
- Filters so greasy the air can barely pass
Winterbourne questions
Which fire and rescue service is responsible for Winterbourne?
It’s Kent Fire and Rescue Service, which covers Winterbourne. It’s worth keeping your fire risk assessment, TR19® certificates and photo reports together, ready to show.
Can the work in Winterbourne be done at night or at weekends?
Yes, we can come after you close and finish before you open. Your customers, staff or residents in Winterbourne needn’t be disturbed. Tell us your opening hours when you ask for a quote.
Can you set up regular visits?
Yes, of course. Tell us what you have and how it’s used, and we’ll suggest a schedule and quote for it.
What types of filter do you exchange?
We work with both baffle and mesh filters. We check what’s in your canopies first and set up the service around them.
How regularly do grease filters need exchanging?
It depends on how much and what the kitchen cooks. Heavy cooking means more frequent changes than lighter ones. We agree the interval with you.
What do you do to protect the area?
We start with protection: floor sheeting and covers over nearby surfaces and equipment. The area is left tidy, with our waste taken away.
What paperwork should we keep on file?
Everything that shows the system is looked after: reports, certificates, pictures and your own cleaning or check logs. One maintenance log per site keeps it simple.
How much notice do you need?
It depends on the time you need and how big the job is. Tell us your preferred dates when you ask for a quote, and for anything urgent, ring our 24/7 emergency line.
How we handle grease filter exchange in Winterbourne
We set up grease filter exchange for kitchens in Winterbourne on a schedule that suits their cooking. Busy kitchens need changes more often, lighter ones less. The interval is agreed before the first visit. If you have drips falling from the filters onto equipment and grease left in baffles after washing, we can put it right.
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. Access, parking and timings are agreed before the day.
The paperwork matters as much as the work. Each visit is written up with photos, listing what was done, anything we couldn’t reach and when the next visit is due. File it in your maintenance log so it’s to hand when an insurer or inspector asks.
- Where
- Winterbourne (ME13)
- Wider area
- Kent
- Records
- Report and photos after the visit
- Price
- A fixed quote up front
- Hours
- Overnight and weekend work, 24/7 emergency callout
- Phone
- 0345 646 2711
- Page updated
- 30 October 2026
What we do, step by step
Every visit runs to the same pattern: sheeting and protection first, isolate whatever needs isolating, do the work, tidy up and leave you the report. The visit itself takes a short visit, depending on how many filters the canopies hold. Photos of the system and how to reach it help us plan a visit to Winterbourne.
- First, we check the canopies and the filters in them.
- We note any filters that are bent, damaged or missing.
- Greasy filters are swapped for clean ones.
- We check the filters are seated and the canopy is ready to use.
- Anything that needs attention, such as a greasy plenum, is pointed out.
Getting ready for the visit
- Clear the space around the work
- Plan for cooking equipment or plant to be off before we arrive
- Dig out any earlier paperwork for the system
Ask for a quote
For a fixed quote, call 0345 646 2711 or drop us a line 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 will normally have a quote within one working day.
Related advice
For landlords and multi-site operators
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.
Facilities teams in offices, schools and healthcare sites book us too across Kent. Work can be phased by floor, building or site to keep disruption down.
How we price grease filter exchange
The survey tells us what the work involves. The main factors are:
- The condition we find in the survey
- Whether several sites go on one quote
- Travel, parking and unloading
- How easy every part is to reach
A single site or a whole portfolio, we price it on the same basis: what needs doing, how we get to it and when. The price is fixed before any work starts.
What we need to know
Photos let us diagnose from a distance. The most useful are:
- Your opening hours and when the area is out of use
- Your last certificate, test record or report
- How we’d reach plant on a roof or in a plant room
- Close-ups of filters, grilles, hatches or access panels
Photos are enough for some jobs, while others need a look on site. Big or complicated sites, and systems that are hard to see in pictures, get a survey first. Either way, you get a fixed price before any work starts.
Staff cleaning versus specialist work
If your staff spot something between visits, such as dripping grease, a noisy fan, a smell or a filter that won’t come clean, they should report it rather than try to fix it. We will take a look and send you a fixed quote.
Staff cleaning does not replace a specialist visit; it supports it. Regular in-house cleaning slows the build-up, but hidden parts of the system still need specialist attention.
Looking after it afterwards
To keep the system working properly between visits:
- Always run the extract while cooking
- Don’t let the full clean slip because filters are changed
- Keep canopy surfaces wiped down
- Report damaged filters so they can be replaced
Keep an eye out for filters that have been taken out. Gaps let grease into the plenum, so let us know if one goes missing or gets damaged.
Filters that are left too long stop protecting the system. A regular cycle keeps the rest of the system cleaner between full cleans.
Do you need grease filter exchange in Winterbourne?
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.
If you notice any of these, it’s worth a diagnosis:
- Gaps where filters have been removed
- Hand-washed filters that still look greasy
- Filters so greasy the air can barely pass
- Grease collecting in the filter channels
Healthcare kitchens, like those at hospitals such as Eastbridge Hospital of St Thomas the Martyr (about 5.1 miles east), often cook for long hours, which puts them in BESA’s heavier-use bands.
Questions to ask before booking
- Which accreditations they hold, and whether you can check them
- Whether the quote shows VAT
- Whether inaccessible sections are listed on the report
- Whether they recommend a next date
Nearby places to Winterbourne
Other services in Winterbourne
What the work involves, part by part
Canopy filter housings
Grease collects in the channels and drip trays below the filters. If it needs attention, we’ll tell you.
Mesh filters
Grease lodges deep in the layers of a mesh filter, so a quick rinse rarely gets it clean.
Kitchen extracts in Winterbourne
Food Standards Agency records list about 5 restaurants, cafés and canteens in Winterbourne and the streets around it, up to about 1.5 miles out. Any of those kitchens with a canopy relies on its filters to catch grease before it reaches the duct. Kent Fire and Rescue Service covers Winterbourne. Grease in a kitchen extract is a recognised fire risk, and the fire authority enforces the law on managing it in most commercial premises. In Winterbourne, food businesses are inspected by environmental health officers from Swale council. 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.
School kitchens, at schools like Boughton-under-Blean and Dunkirk Primary School for example, are normally cleaned in the holidays so no lunches are lost. Where a hall near Christ Church, or anywhere in Winterbourne, hosts lunch clubs or events, its extract gathers grease just as a café’s does.
Winterbourne is about 4 miles south-east of Faversham, in Kent. Across the ME13 area, we cover grease filter exchange for commercial sites. Across Kent, we cover 922 places, Winterbourne among them. For sites nearby, see our Maidstone page (19 miles or so).
Every address in ME13 is within our area for grease filter exchange, from busy streets to back roads. Close by, we work in Hickmans Green (1 mile north-west), Oversland (1 mile south-west), South Street (1 mile west), Boughton under Blean (1 mile north) and Crouch (1 mile west). Larger places within reach include Ashford (11 miles south), Canterbury (5 miles east), Sittingbourne (11 miles north-west), Whitstable (6 miles north-east), Faversham (4 miles north-west) and Herne Bay (9 miles north-east).
Local landmarks in Winterbourne
Typical jobs here are in premises near The Queens Head pub and Mount Ephraim Gardens, among other places. The closest station to Winterbourne is Selling station, about 1 mile south-west. A little further out are Chilham Castle (2.9 miles south) and Eastbridge Hospital of St Thomas the Martyr (5.1 miles east). Green spaces nearby include Blean Woods RSPB Reserve.