Kitchen extract cleaning in Chelmsford

TR19® kitchen extract cleaning in Chelmsford

Chelmsford is the county town of Essex and became a city in 2012. Alongside its restaurants, pubs and hotels, it has the kitchens you’d expect in a county town: council buildings, schools, a university campus and a large hospital. Every one has an extract system that needs regular cleaning. We clean kitchen extract to BESA’s TR19® Grease specification across Chelmsford and the rest of Essex.

We survey first, from photos or on site, then give you a fixed quote, usually within one working day. We clean when the kitchen is closed: evenings, overnight, at weekends or in the holidays. You get a TR19® certificate and a photo report with before and after pictures. We are a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease. See kitchen extract cleaning for what a full clean covers.

If you’re not sure when your extract was last cleaned, a TR19 inspection with grease readings shows where you stand. It is also useful when you take over a lease or a new catering contract.

A county town of public sector and high-street kitchens

As the home of Essex County Council and Chelmsford City Council, Chelmsford has a large public sector, with offices, staff canteens and civic buildings. Broomfield Hospital, schools, colleges and the Anglia Ruskin University campus add institutional kitchens that cook to a fixed timetable. That makes planning simple: school and university kitchens are cleaned in the holidays, and hospital and care kitchens between the evening meal and breakfast.

Public sector kitchens often sit inside larger buildings, with extract running through ceiling voids and fire compartments. Where a duct passes through a fire-resisting wall or floor, there is usually a fire damper, and BESA says every fire damper should be tested at least annually. We can test fire dampers in the same programme as the extract clean.

The city centre and riverside have a busy mix of restaurants, bars and pubs, and the villages around Chelmsford have pubs with kitchens in older buildings. Those often have extract that runs through roof spaces or out through rear extensions, sometimes with sections that haven’t been cleaned for years. Our survey finds the full route before we quote.

Where catering in a council building, school or hospital is run by a contract caterer, the contract should say who arranges extract cleaning. We can work with both the caterer and the building owner, so everyone knows when the clean is happening and who holds the certificate. The same applies to cleaning, filter changes and damper testing in the building’s wider ventilation.

Food Standards Agency records list about 194 restaurants, cafés and canteens, 69 takeaways, 52 pubs and bars and 4 hotels and guest houses within roughly a mile and a half of the centre of Chelmsford, plus 33 schools and colleges and 36 hospitals, care and childcare premises. Every one that cooks under a canopy has an extract that needs cleaning. Source: FSA food hygiene rating data, October 2026.

Our services in Chelmsford

• Kitchen extract cleaning: Full TR19® Grease cleaning of your kitchen extract, from the canopy and filters through the ductwork to the fan and discharge, with a certificate and photo report.
• Canopy and hood cleaning: Kitchen canopies and hoods cleaned inside and out, along with the plenum behind the filters and the filters themselves, as part of a full TR19® Grease clean or between cleans.
• Ductwork cleaning: Kitchen extract ductwork cleaned along its full length, horizontal runs and vertical risers, through access panels, with grease readings before and after.
• Extract fan cleaning: Kitchen extract fans and their housings cleaned of grease, so the fan does its job and the last part of the system isn’t left as a fire risk.
• Fire damper testing: Fire dampers drop tested, reset and recorded, and smoke dampers tested through their controls, so you can show each one closes when it should.
• Air handling unit cleaning: Air handling units cleaned inside: filter sections, coils, drain trays, fans and internal surfaces, as part of TR19® Air ventilation hygiene.
• Ventilation duct cleaning: General supply and extract ductwork inspected and cleaned to BESA’s TR19® Air, the hygiene specification for ventilation beyond the kitchen.
• TR19 inspections and grease testing: Grease thickness testing, surveys and TR19® audits that show how much grease is in your kitchen extract and when it needs cleaning.
• Extract fan repair and replacement: Kitchen extract fans diagnosed, repaired or replaced, so smoke, heat and grease are pulled out of the kitchen and the extract system works as it should.
• Grease filter exchange: Dirty canopy grease filters swapped for clean ones on a regular schedule, so the first line of defence in your extract keeps working.
• Commercial kitchen deep cleaning: Commercial kitchens deep cleaned from ceiling to floor, including the places daily cleaning can’t reach: behind, under and inside the cooking equipment.
• Grease trap cleaning: Under-sink and inline grease traps emptied and cleaned on a schedule, so fats, oils and grease stay out of your drains and the sewer.

We also offer smoke damper testing, access panel installation, laundry extract cleaning, LEV testing, odour control maintenance and maintenance contracts.

Around Chelmsford

From the centre, the nearest railway station is Chelmsford station. Well-known places nearby include Bond Street Chelmsford (0.5 miles south-west), Priory Hospital (less than half a mile north) and Peter Edwards Museum And Library (0.8 miles south-west). Around the centre, kitchens we look after include those in schools, pubs, cafés and halls near places such as Trinity Road Primary School, The Boswells School, Chelmsford College and Church of the Holy Trinity. Green spaces within reach include Newland Grove.