Kitchen extract cleaning in Maidstone

TR19® kitchen extract cleaning in Maidstone

Maidstone is the county town of Kent, on the River Medway, with a busy town centre, plenty of pubs and restaurants, and the kitchens that come with a county town: council offices, schools, colleges and a hospital. Each has an extract system that collects grease and needs regular cleaning. We clean kitchen extract to BESA’s TR19® Grease specification across Maidstone and the rest of Kent, including Medway.

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 a good first step after taking over a lease or a catering contract.

Council, hospital and school kitchens in a county town

Maidstone is home to Kent County Council and Maidstone Borough Council, so there are civic buildings, offices and staff canteens alongside the shops. Maidstone Hospital, schools, colleges and care homes add kitchens that cook every day or to a fixed timetable. School kitchens are cleaned in the holidays, and hospital and care kitchens between the evening meal and breakfast, planned with estates and infection control teams.

Large public buildings often have ventilation and air handling units as well as kitchens, and fire dampers where ducts cross fire-resisting walls and floors. We can clean AHUs and ventilation ductwork and test fire dampers in the same programme as the extract clean.

The town centre has restaurants, bars and pubs around the shopping streets and the riverside, many in older buildings with flats or offices above. Out of town, village pubs across Kent often have kitchens in old buildings, with extract that winds through roof spaces or rear extensions. Our survey finds the whole route, and any section we can’t reach is recorded so access panels can be added.

Kent’s country pubs often trade hardest in summer and at weekends, when food service runs from lunch until late. Grease readings show whether a busy pub kitchen needs cleaning more often than BESA’s minimum for its usual cooking hours.

Food Standards Agency records list about 160 restaurants, cafés and canteens, 66 takeaways, 46 pubs and bars and 1 hotels and guest houses within roughly a mile and a half of the centre of Maidstone, plus 40 schools and colleges and 52 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 Maidstone

• 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 Maidstone

From the centre, the nearest railway station is Maidstone West station. Well-known places nearby include The Mall Maidstone (0.5 miles north), Oakwood Hospital (1.8 miles west) and Maidstone Carriage Museum (less than half a mile north-west). Around the centre, kitchens we look after include those in schools, pubs, cafés and halls near places such as South Borough Primary School, Maidstone Grammar School, St Augustine Academy and St Philip's Church. Green spaces within reach include Burham Down and Boxley Hills.