Kitchen extract cleaning in Oxford

TR19® kitchen extract cleaning in Oxford

Oxford’s kitchens range from medieval college halls to modern restaurants, busy pubs, hotels and large hospital kitchens. Old or new, every extract system collects grease and needs cleaning. We clean kitchen extract to BESA’s TR19® Grease specification across Oxford and the rest of Oxfordshire: canopy, plenum, filters, ductwork, fan and discharge.

We survey first, from photos or on site, so we understand the building before we quote. You get a fixed quote, usually within one working day. We clean when the kitchen is closed, then issue 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 have taken over a kitchen and don’t know when the extract was last cleaned, start with a TR19 inspection. Grease readings and photos show the state of the system and what it needs.

College kitchens and historic buildings

The colleges of the University of Oxford have their own kitchens, many serving dining halls, conferences and events as well as students. Oxford Brookes University adds more. These kitchens follow the academic year, with heavy use in term and quieter vacations, which are the natural time to clean. In term, cleaning can still be done overnight or between events.

Many of these kitchens, and many restaurants and pubs in the centre, sit in historic and listed buildings. The extract may have been threaded through old walls, roof spaces and chimneys long after the building was built. Ductwork like that can be hard to reach, and adding access is not always simple. Where reaching a duct means opening up historic walls or ceilings, the building owner may need to speak to the council’s conservation team first. We record any section we can’t reach on the report, and where new access panels can be fitted within the ductwork itself, we can fit them.

The city centre is compact and busy, with restricted vehicle access on some streets, so we plan parking and access before the visit. The John Radcliffe Hospital and other hospitals, schools and care homes add kitchens that need careful planning around meals and hygiene.

College kitchens also host conferences, summer schools and events when students are away, so the quiet weeks can be shorter than they look. It helps to book cleans well ahead and fit them around the events calendar, rather than leave them until the last week of the vacation.

Food Standards Agency records list about 366 restaurants, cafés and canteens, 47 takeaways, 97 pubs and bars and 14 hotels and guest houses within roughly a mile and a half of the centre of Oxford, plus 80 schools and colleges and 28 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 Oxford

• 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 Oxford

From the centre, the nearest railway station is Oxford station. Well-known places nearby include Clarendon Shopping Centre (1.1 miles west), Warneford Hospital (less than half a mile east) and Rumble Museum (less than half a mile east). Around the centre, kitchens we look after include those in schools, pubs, cafés and halls near places such as East Oxford Primary School, Cheney School, Headington Rye Oxford and St Clement's Church. Green spaces within reach include CS Lewis Nature Reserve and Headington Hill.