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Kitchen Extract Cleaning in Anerley
Kitchen extract cleaning for Anerley, with a survey first and a report with pictures at the end. Call for a fixed quote.
- Years of baked-on grease in the ducts
- Proof of cleaning requested by an insurer
- A system with no record of a TR19 clean
Kitchen extract cleaning around Anerley
The Food Standards Agency lists about 44 bars, pubs and nightclubs and about 4 hotels and B&Bs as registered food businesses in and around Anerley, up to about a mile and a half out. Any of them serving cooked food has an extract to keep clean, from canopy to discharge. Kitchens in Anerley get their food hygiene inspections from Bromley council. An officer looking round a kitchen will see the canopy, and grease there is hard to miss. Keeping each certificate and photo report on file helps show the extract is looked after. Most London extract cleaning happens at night, after the last service.
A hall kitchen that only cooks for events, whether near St Paul's or elsewhere in Anerley, still needs its extract cleaned, just less often. A hospital like St Christopher's Hospice, about 0.7 miles north-east, is the kind of site where a kitchen may cook for patients, staff and visitors all day.
Anerley is about 2 miles north-east of Thornton Heath, in Greater London. Across the SE20 area, we can carry out kitchen extract cleaning at your premises. Across Greater London, we cover 764 places, Anerley among them. You can also see our page for London, roughly 6 miles from Anerley.
Here we cover the SE20, SE19 and SE26 postcode area for kitchen extract cleaning. We cover sites on Maple Road, Padua Road and Genoa Road and the roads around them. We also cover the places around Anerley: Penge (1 mile east), Crystal Palace (1 mile north), Sydenham (1 mile north-east), Gipsy Hill (1 mile north-west) and Upper Norwood (1 mile west). We also work in nearby towns such as London (6 miles north), City of Westminster (8 miles north-west), Marylebone (8 miles north-west), Kensington (8 miles north-west), St Pancras (8 miles north) and Shoreditch (8 miles north).
Landmarks near Anerley
In Anerley, that means kitchens and buildings near Crystal Palace School, Crystal Palace Dinosaurs and Harris City Academy Crystal Palace. Anerley has its own railway station: Anerley station. Well-known places in the area include Crystal Palace Museum (0.5 miles north-west) and Whitgift Centre (3.1 miles south-west). Open spaces near Anerley include Dulwich Upper Wood and Knight's Hill.
Kitchen extract cleaning in Anerley
A kitchen extract system is far more than the canopy you can see. Beyond the filters run the plenum, the ducts and risers, the fan and the point where air leaves the building, and each part collects grease. Our clean follows the air from canopy to discharge, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease. We are often asked to deal with rancid smells from grease in the duct and a TR19 certificate needed for the insurer, across extract fans, vertical risers and plenums and filters. Need a TR19 duct cleaning contractor for Anerley? Duct Doctor has covered London and the South East since 2009, as a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member.
A kitchen running fryers and chargrills all day builds up grease much faster than one that mostly steams and boils, so we look at the menu as well as the opening hours when we suggest the next date.
Across London, many commercial kitchens are squeezed into basements and narrow back-of-house spaces, and the duct may run up through several floors before it discharges at the roof. For a kitchen in Anerley, that usually means a longer system to clean and more access panels to plan around.
The sign-off is always in writing: a written report, dated and illustrated with pictures, plus a certificate through the BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite portal when the work is a TR19® Grease clean. It shows what was done and what, if anything, couldn’t be reached.
- Where
- Anerley (SE20, SE19, SE26)
- Region
- Greater London
- Records
- Certificate plus before-and-after photos
- Quote
- Fixed quote, usually within a working day
- When we work
- Overnight and weekend work, 24/7 emergency callout
- Telephone
- 0345 646 2711
- Checked
- 30 October 2026
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Managing agents and facilities teams in Anerley
Keeping records across a portfolio is half the battle. Each visit produces a dated report with photos, so you can show an insurer or inspector what was done at each site.
Facilities teams in offices, schools and healthcare sites book us too across Greater London. Larger estates can be phased building by building to keep disruption down.
In-house cleaning or a specialist?
Some jobs should never be done in-house: opening up ductwork, cleaning fans, drop testing fire dampers and measuring grease need training, the right equipment and safe access. Leave those to us.
Day-to-day cleaning is something your team can do: wiping canopies, washing grease filters and recording it in a log. Inside the ducts, risers and fan is specialist work, and that’s where we come in.
When something else is needed
We’ll always give you a straight diagnosis, so here’s what kitchen extract cleaning will not do:
- Blocked drains from a neglected grease trap (a separate service)
- Damaged duct sections that need replacing
- A canopy that is too small or a system that was badly designed
If in doubt, ring 0345 646 2711, or send details by email and we’ll say what we think before booking.
What the work covers
- Plenums and filters
- Extract fans
- Discharge points
- Canopies and hoods
- Horizontal duct runs
- Vertical risers
Common problems we fix in Anerley
How fast grease builds up depends mostly on how long the kitchen cooks each day. BESA guidance sets minimum cleaning intervals of every 3 months for 12 to 16 hours a day, 6 months for 6 to 12 hours, and 12 months for 2 to 6 hours. Those are minimums, and grease readings can show a kitchen needs cleaning sooner.
If you notice any of these, it’s worth a diagnosis:
- Grease dripping from the canopy or filters
- A smoky, hot kitchen with weak extraction
- A new tenancy or takeover with no cleaning history
- A system with no record of a TR19 clean
For kitchens close to Anerley station, where the day often starts early and ends late, the extract can be cleaned overnight.
What to look for in a quote
- Whether the quote is based on a survey or pictures
- What paperwork you get at the end
- Which accreditations they hold, and whether you can check them
- Whether the price is fixed
What the work involves, part by part
Extract fan and discharge
The discharge is where air leaves the building, and grease can collect there too. We clean it where it can be safely reached, and any limits are recorded.
Schools, hospitals and care homes
Institutional kitchens tend to cook to set hours, so cleans can be booked when the kitchen is closed. The certificate goes straight into the site’s maintenance records.
Anerley: your questions answered
Can a school canteen extract in Anerley be done out of term time?
Yes. Half-terms and the summer break are the natural time for school work. There are about 31 schools, colleges and universities on the FSA’s food hygiene register within about 1.5 miles of Anerley. Send us your term dates when you call us on 0345 646 2711, or email photos, and we will fit the work in.
Who carries out food hygiene inspections in Anerley?
That’s Bromley council, whose environmental health officers carry out food hygiene inspections in Anerley. Ratings are published by the Food Standards Agency, so a clean extract and good records are worth keeping up.
What paperwork comes with a kitchen extract clean?
Every clean comes with a TR19 certificate and a photo report. Keep them in the maintenance log with the fire risk assessment, ready for your insurer or an inspection.
What do you do with what you remove?
We contain it and take it with us. We collect grease, debris and waste water as we go rather than letting it spread.
Do you look at the system first?
Yes. For many sites, pictures and a few details are enough, while bigger or harder-to-see systems are surveyed on site.
Do I have to clean my extract to TR19 by law?
Strictly, the legal duty comes from the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, not from TR19. TR19 is the industry benchmark for meeting that duty in a kitchen extract, and an insurer may refuse or reduce a claim without it.
Are you accredited for kitchen extract cleaning?
Our work is to BESA TR19® Grease, and we are a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, and certificates go through the BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite portal. We have been trading since 2009.
Which kinds of sites do you work on?
Restaurants and pubs, hotels, schools and colleges, hospitals and care homes, offices and retail, plus food production and leisure sites.
Leave it or put it right?
There’s no law that names TR19, but the Fire Safety Order 2005 still applies. The responsible person must assess and reduce fire risk, which in a kitchen includes the grease in the extract. Cleaning to TR19 is the recognised way to show you’ve done it. Choosing the date yourself beats having a fault choose it for you.
Several systems or sites on one quote often makes better use of the time. Tell us about everything you’d like looked at and we’ll price it together.
Why us?
- Fixed quotes, typically within one working day
- Trading since 2009
- Out-of-hours work and a 24/7 emergency line
- Member of BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease
Take a look at how cleaning jobs are priced and our accreditations and certificates.
What we do, step by step
Your trading hours come first. We book the visit for a time the area is closed, whether that’s an evening, overnight or a weekend. When the team arrives, the work area is protected and the relevant equipment is switched off to cool, and the job takes as long as the system needs, from a few hours to several planned visits. Managed blocks in London often need contractors booked in ahead, and we’re happy to deal with the agent directly for a site in Anerley.
- First comes a survey of the whole system, by photos or a visit.
- We measure the grease at set points along the system, then give you a fixed price.
- On the day, cooking equipment is switched off and left to cool, and everything nearby is sheeted.
- Canopy, plenum, filters, duct runs, risers, fan and discharge are all cleaned to TR19® Grease.
- Finally the system is re-tested and photographed, and the certificate and report follow.
Before we arrive
- Have your last certificate or report to hand
- Clear the space around the work
- Tell us where we can park and unload
How to get a quote
Photos are the quickest way to a quote: the system from a couple of angles, plus any access panels or hatches. Tell us what kind of site it is and when it’s open, and many jobs can be priced from that alone.