Kitchen extract cleaning in Southampton

TR19® kitchen extract cleaning in Southampton

Southampton is a port city and a university city, with a busy centre, waterfront restaurants and a long list of pubs, hotels and institutional kitchens. All of them rely on extract systems that collect grease with every service. We clean kitchen extract to BESA’s TR19® Grease specification across Southampton and the surrounding area, covering the canopy, plenum, filters, ductwork, fan and discharge.

We survey first, from photos or on site, and give you a fixed quote, usually within one working day. We clean when the kitchen is closed: evenings, overnight or at weekends. Afterwards you get a TR19® certificate and a photo report with before and after pictures, ready for your insurer and EHO. We are a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease. Read more on our kitchen extract cleaning page.

Not sure when the system 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 before an insurance renewal.

A port, two universities and a busy city centre

Southampton’s docks handle cruise ships and cargo, and the city has grown around the water. Hotels near the port and the centre serve travellers and visitors, often from early breakfast until late. Kitchens that cook for that many hours sit in BESA’s heavier cleaning bands, and their extract needs cleaning more often than a quieter kitchen.

The University of Southampton and Solent University bring halls of residence, refectories and cafés, and with them term-time peaks and holiday lulls. Holidays are the natural time to clean those systems. Southampton General Hospital and the city’s care homes have kitchens that cook every day of the year, where cleaning has to be planned around meals and infection control.

In the centre, shopping and leisure areas such as WestQuay bring restaurants and food outlets that often share extract routes or roof space. Where tenants’ ducts join a common system, it matters who cleans which part, and the landlord and each tenant should be clear about that. Waterfront sites also face salt air, which can corrode roof fans and fixings. When we clean the extract fan, we check its condition and tell you what we find.

Away from the centre, suburban high streets and district centres have their own restaurants, takeaways and pubs. Many are in converted shops with flats above, where the extract runs up the back wall. A clean duct protects the people living above as well as the business.

Food Standards Agency records list about 373 restaurants, cafés and canteens, 140 takeaways, 103 pubs and bars and 25 hotels and guest houses within roughly a mile and a half of the centre of Southampton, plus 42 schools and colleges and 60 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 Southampton

• 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 Southampton

From the centre, the nearest railway station is St Denys station. Well-known places nearby include Marlands Shopping Centre (1 mile south-west), Royal South Hants Hospital (less than half a mile south) and R J Mitchell Museum (0.9 miles south-west). Around the centre, kitchens we look after include those in schools, pubs, cafés and halls near places such as Bevois Town Primary School, St Anne's Catholic School, St Mary's Independent School and Saint Mary's. Green spaces within reach include Netley Common.