Kitchen extract cleaning in Reading

TR19® kitchen extract cleaning in Reading

Reading is a large Berkshire town with a busy centre, business parks along the M4, a university and a large hospital. Restaurants, pubs, hotels, staff restaurants and institutional kitchens all need their extract cleaned. We clean kitchen extract to BESA’s TR19® Grease specification across Reading, Wokingham and the rest of Berkshire.

Every job starts with a survey, from photos or on site, followed by a fixed quote, usually within one working day. We clean when the kitchen or building is closed: evenings, overnight or at weekends. You then 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 and ventilation duct cleaning for more.

If you have moved into a building or taken over a kitchen and don’t know when the extract or ventilation was last cleaned, a TR19 inspection is the place to start. It shows what is there and what needs doing.

Town-centre restaurants and offices along the M4

Reading’s town centre has restaurants, bars and pubs around The Oracle and the main shopping streets, many in buildings with flats or offices above. Kitchens in those buildings often send their extract up through the building to a roof fan, and the duct needs cleaning along its whole length, not just at the canopy.

The M4 corridor is lined with offices and business parks. Many of those buildings have staff restaurants and cafés, but their bigger job is often the ventilation: supply and extract ductwork, air handling units and fire and smoke dampers. BESA’s TR19® covers those systems too, under TR19® Air, with a risk-based approach of inspecting and cleaning where needed. We clean AHUs and ductwork out of hours and test fire dampers and smoke dampers, so staff arrive to a working building.

The University of Reading and the Royal Berkshire Hospital add large institutional kitchens. University kitchens follow the academic year, so holidays are the natural time to clean them, while hospital kitchens cook every day and need cleaning planned around meals and infection control. Wokingham adds busy suburbs with pubs, restaurants, schools and care homes.

Business park buildings often have plant on the roof and in plant rooms, with long supply and extract runs above ceilings. Access panels are not always where they are needed. Our survey finds them, and any section we can’t reach is recorded so new panels can be fitted.

Food Standards Agency records list about 287 restaurants, cafés and canteens, 83 takeaways, 72 pubs and bars and 10 hotels and guest houses within roughly a mile and a half of the centre of Reading, plus 29 schools and colleges and 42 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 Reading

• 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 Reading

From the centre, the nearest railway station is Reading West station. Well-known places nearby include The Oracle (less than half a mile north-east), Royal Berkshire Hospital (0.8 miles east) and Berkshire Medical Heritage Centre Museum (0.8 miles east). Around the centre, kitchens we look after include those in schools, pubs, cafés and halls near places such as Coley Primary School, Kendrick School, Eurospeak Language School and All Nations Christian Centre. Green spaces within reach include Fobney Island Wetland Reserve and Sonning Hill.