Kent · Kitchen extract cleaning
Brabourne Lees kitchen extract cleaning
Kitchen extract cleaning in Brabourne Lees, surveyed first and signed off with a written report and pictures. Ask us for a fixed quote.
- A TR19 certificate needed for the insurer
- Heavy grease build-up inside the duct runs
- Grease dripping from the canopy or filters
Questions from Brabourne Lees
Who enforces fire safety at workplaces in Brabourne Lees?
That is Kent Fire and Rescue Service. Records of extract cleaning are a sensible thing to have ready if a fire safety officer carries out an audit.
Who inspects food businesses in Brabourne Lees?
That is Ashford council, whose environmental health officers carry out food hygiene inspections in Brabourne Lees. An officer may look up into the canopy, so clean filters on the day and a recent certificate on file both help.
What do you do with what you remove?
Waste is contained during the work and removed when we leave, including grease, debris and dirty water. None of it is left on site.
Do you offer maintenance contracts?
Yes. Scheduled maintenance plans are part of what we do, set at the interval the system needs. The report from each visit recommends the next date.
Is there a survey before the work?
Yes. We always survey first, either from photos and details you send or on a site visit. Then you get a fixed quote.
How much notice should we give?
For planned work, earlier is better, especially if the next clean or test is due soon. Emergencies are different, because our line is open 24/7.
What is TR19?
It’s the industry benchmark for cleaning ventilation and kitchen extract systems, written by BESA. It sets out inspection, cleaning and record keeping, and it takes a risk-based approach.
What does kitchen extract cleaning cost?
Every site is different, so each gets its own fixed quote. To get one, give us a ring on 0345 646 2711 or drop us a line and tell us about the site and its opening hours.
Kitchen extract cleaning for kitchens and businesses in Brabourne Lees
Has the extract gone a while without a clean, or has the paperwork gone missing? Send a few photos of the canopy and filters when you phone us on 0345 646 2711, or email photos, and we will come back with a fixed price for the work in Brabourne Lees, usually within one working day. The work covers extract fans, discharge points and horizontal duct runs, and people most often call us about ductwork thick with old, hardened grease and a smoky, hot kitchen with weak extraction. Extraction cleaning, hood cleaning and TR19 duct cleaning all end up in the same place: a clean that goes past the canopy into the duct and fan, backed by a certificate.
Each job starts with a look at where grease has built up: grease readings at set points tell us where the heaviest deposits are, and readings afterwards go into your report.
Work in a small place like Brabourne Lees starts with a call to agree access and timings, and the clean covers the whole system, as it would anywhere: canopy to discharge, then a TR19® certificate and a photo report.
Think of the report as the system’s health record: dated, with photos, and showing what was done. Grease extract cleans are also certificated to TR19® Grease through the BESCA VHE portal, ready for your insurer.
- Place
- Brabourne Lees (TN25)
- Region
- Kent
- Paperwork
- Certificate and photo report
- Quotes
- A fixed quote up front
- When we work
- When your site is closed, plus a 24/7 line
- Call
- 0345 646 2711
- Reviewed
- 30 October 2026
Leave it or put it right?
Leaving the clean until the next refit doesn’t make the grease go away. Over time, soft grease bakes into a harder, thicker crust, and that takes more work to shift. Regular cleans keep each visit shorter. A planned visit to Brabourne Lees is easier to arrange than an emergency callout.
Putting the work off seldom saves money. Build-up, wear and faults tend to get worse, not better, which can make the next visit longer. If you are not sure what’s needed, call us on 0345 646 2711 or send us an email for straight advice and a fixed quote.
Why choose Duct Doctor in Brabourne Lees
- Full insurance on every job
- One contact for all your sites in London and the South East
- Trading since 2009
- BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease
See our cost guide or our accreditations.
How the job changes from site to site
Canopy and plenum
Whether it’s one hood or a long island canopy, each section is cleaned and photographed before and after.
Schools, hospitals and care homes
Some healthcare kitchens never fully close. Cleans are planned between meals or overnight with as little disruption as possible.
What a clean won’t put right
We’d rather tell you now than book work that will not help, so here are the limits:
- A damper that sticks or has a damaged link
- A broken extract fan that won’t run
- An undersized canopy or fan
If in doubt, ring 0345 646 2711, or email photos and we will say what we think before you book.
Where we work
- Discharge points
- Extract fans
- Plenums and filters
- Vertical risers
- Canopies and hoods
- Horizontal duct runs
Kitchen extract cleaning in Brabourne Lees: the local picture
Food Standards Agency records list about 3 restaurants, cafés and canteens within 1.5 miles or so of the middle of Brabourne Lees. Wherever food is cooked under a canopy, the extract above it gathers grease and needs cleaning on a schedule. Brabourne Lees sits within the area of Kent Fire and Rescue Service. In most workplaces, including commercial kitchens, it’s the fire and rescue authority that enforces the Fire Safety Order. Kitchens in Brabourne Lees get their food hygiene inspections from Ashford council. An officer looking round a kitchen will see the canopy, and grease there is hard to miss. Before-and-after pictures from each clean are a simple way to show the extract is in hand.
A hospital like William Harvey Hospital, about 2.9 miles north-west, is the kind of site where a kitchen may cook for patients, staff and visitors all day. If your kitchen is in a listed or historic building, like the houses around Brabourne Lees (Westenhanger Castle is about 3.2 miles south-east), fitting access panels needs care.
Brabourne Lees is about 5 miles east of Ashford, in Kent. Brabourne Lees gets the same approach as every site we work on: diagnosis first, a fixed price, out-of-hours working where needed and a written report with pictures. Brabourne Lees is one of 922 places in Kent where we work for commercial clients. Our Maidstone page covers sites nearby (22 miles or so).
Postcode districts we cover here for kitchen extract cleaning: TN25. We cover sites on Knatchbull Way, Mountbatten Way and Prospect Way and the roads around them. We also cover the places around Brabourne Lees: Smeeth (1 mile south-west), Lilyvale (1 mile south-east), Bircholt Forstal (1 mile north), Ridgeway (1 mile west) and Stone Hill (1 mile south-east). Further out, we also cover Ashford (5 miles west), Canterbury (12 miles north-east), Dover (14 miles east), Folkestone (9 miles east), Faversham (14 miles north) and Hythe (6 miles south-east).
What’s near Brabourne Lees
For rail, the closest station is Westenhanger station, roughly 3.4 miles south-east of the centre. Other landmarks nearby include Lympne Castle (4.2 miles south-east) and William Harvey Hospital (2.9 miles north-west). Open spaces near Brabourne Lees include Hatch Park and Tolsford Hill.
Managing agents and facilities teams in Brabourne Lees
Facilities teams in offices, schools and healthcare sites book us too in Brabourne Lees and across Kent. Work can be phased by floor, building or site to keep disruption down.
Multi-site operators often want one contractor and one number. We work across London and the South East, so visits at different addresses can be planned together and kept to a regular schedule.
Fixed quotes for kitchen extract cleaning in Brabourne Lees
We quote each job individually. These are the things that affect it:
- The times the site is available
- Parking and loading at the site
- A single visit or a regular plan
- Whether several sites go on one quote
You won’t find a price list here, because the cost depends on the site in front of us. For a fixed quote, phone us on 0345 646 2711 or email us, and we will explain what it covers.
Helping us quote
The more you tell us, the more accurate the quote. With your enquiry, please include:
- Wide pictures of the system and the area around it
- How we’d reach plant on a roof or in a plant room
- The paperwork from the last visit, if you have it
- Any access panels or hatches you can see
To help us quote: where the site is, what it is and its opening hours, a few pictures and any previous report or certificate. Then call 0345 646 2711 or send us an email.
Nearby places to Brabourne Lees
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What we are called out for in Brabourne Lees
Grease in an extract starts as vapour. Once it cools inside the ductwork, it condenses onto every surface it touches, building a layer that gets thicker with every service. The grease filters stop some, never all of it.
These are the problems we see most often:
- Missing paperwork after a change of operator
- A kitchen with no current TR19 certificate
- Grease dripping from the canopy or filters
- An extract that no longer clears the smoke
Where a hall near Church of St Mary, or anywhere in Brabourne Lees, hosts lunch clubs or events, its extract gathers grease just as a café’s does.
Before booking anyone
- Whether the quote shows VAT
- Exactly which parts of the system are covered
- Whether the figure could change on the day
- Their accreditations, such as BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite, CHAS or SafeContractor
How the visit works
The first job on site is protection: floors, worktops and anything near the work are covered. Then we make the system safe and start. The work on site takes a few hours for a small kitchen, longer for a large system, and we clear up before we go. Seeing the system in pictures first means the trip to Brabourne Lees can be planned properly.
- We start with a survey, so we know every part of the system before we quote.
- Set points are tested for grease thickness and the quote is fixed before work begins.
- Once the kitchen has closed and the equipment has cooled, we sheet and protect the area.
- The whole route is cleaned, from the canopy through the ductwork to the fan and the discharge.
- We test again, photograph the result and issue your TR19 certificate and photo report.
Getting ready for the visit
- Mention any locked doors, roof access or ceiling voids
- Plan for cooking equipment or plant to be off before we arrive
- Clear the space around the work
Getting a quote
For a fixed quote, phone us on 0345 646 2711 or use the quote form and tell us the type of site, your opening hours and roughly what the system looks like. Photos and the last report, if you have one, make the quote quicker. You’ll normally have a quote within one working day.