Kent · Kitchen extract cleaning
TR19 kitchen extract cleaning in Canterbury
Kitchen extract cleaning for Canterbury, with a survey first and a report with pictures at the end. Ask us for a fixed quote.
- Grease drips onto cooking equipment
- A smoky, hot kitchen with weak extraction
- Heavy grease build-up inside the duct runs
Leave it or put it right?
Environmental health officers inspect food businesses, in Canterbury as everywhere else, and they look at the cleanliness of the premises and equipment, extraction included. Keeping the extract clean helps the whole kitchen pass muster. Records matter in Canterbury: insurers and inspectors may ask to see them.
Putting the work off seldom saves money. Problems in a system tend to grow, and a neglected system can mean more work. If you are not sure what’s needed, give us a ring on 0345 646 2711 or send us an email and we’ll give you an honest view and a fixed quote.
What you get with us
- A BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease
- A single point of contact for sites across the South East and London
- Work around your opening hours, with 24/7 emergency cover
- Full insurance on every job
See our cost guide and how to check a contractor.
Kitchen duct cleaning in Canterbury
A kitchen extract system is far more than the canopy you can see. Behind it sit the plenum and grease filters, then the ductwork, risers, extract fan and discharge, and grease settles in every one of them. Our clean follows the air from canopy to discharge, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease. The work covers discharge points, canopies and hoods and vertical risers, and the jobs we see most are grease smells coming from the extract and an inspection that picked up a dirty extract. Kitchens in Canterbury book us for TR19 cleaning for three reasons: the insurer asked, the EHO asked, or the canopy is dripping. Either way, the answer is the same: a proper clean and the paperwork to match.
BESA sets minimum intervals by hours of cooking a day: 3-monthly for heavy use, 6-monthly for moderate use and yearly for light use, adjusted by what the grease readings show.
A place as big as Canterbury has kitchens of every kind, from takeaways and restaurants to school, hotel and staff kitchens. BESA’s minimum intervals run from every three months for heavy use to once a year for light use, so the right schedule depends on the kitchen.
A written report with pictures follows every visit, so there’s a dated record of the work. Where the work is a TR19® Grease clean, the certificate is issued through the BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite portal.
Canterbury: your questions answered
Do you work at weekends in Canterbury?
Yes, evening, overnight and weekend work is normal for us. The work in Canterbury can fit around your hours. Just call 0345 646 2711 or email us with your opening times and we’ll plan around them.
Do you do school kitchen extract cleaning in Canterbury in the summer holidays?
Yes. The holidays are the usual time for school work. With about 34 schools and colleges on the FSA’s register within roughly a mile and a half of Canterbury, it pays to plan holiday dates ahead. Send us your term dates when you phone us on 0345 646 2711 or send us an email, and we will fit the work in.
Do you clean the whole extract system or just the canopy?
Everything from canopy to discharge: canopy inside and out, plenum, grease filters, ductwork, risers, extract fan and discharge, plus attenuators where fitted. Anything we cannot reach is recorded on the report.
Are you accredited for kitchen extract cleaning?
We’re a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease. We also hold CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, and we are fully insured.
What do you need from me for a quote?
The site address, the type of premises and your opening hours, along with a few pictures and any previous report.
What happens to the waste?
We contain it and take it with us. We collect grease, debris and waste water as we go rather than letting it spread.
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.
What if parts of the system can’t be reached?
We record them on the report, with photos where possible, and we explain what access is needed, for example new access panels.
Also near Canterbury
What else we do in Canterbury
Keeping the system healthy
Good habits slow the build-up between visits. A few tips:
- Diarise the next clean as soon as you get the certificate
- Don’t let the canopy gutters overflow
- Wash or exchange the filters often
- File each certificate with the fire risk assessment
After cleaning, we re-test the same points we measured at the start, giving you before and after readings alongside the photos. Your TR19 certificate is then issued through the BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite portal.
Report drips, smells or a noisy fan early. Drips, odours and fan noise often mean grease is building, and a grease thickness test can confirm it.
The process
Every visit runs to the same pattern: protect the area, isolate whatever needs isolating, do the work, tidy up and leave you the report. The visit itself takes a single shift for most kitchens, with long duct runs and tall risers needing more time. For a managed building in Canterbury, let us know about sign-in, permits and who holds the keys.
- We survey the system first, from your pictures and details or on a site visit.
- We measure the grease at set points along the system, then give you a fixed price.
- Once the kitchen has closed and the equipment has cooled, we sheet and protect the area.
- We clean the canopy, plenum, filters, ducts, risers, fan and discharge.
- Finally the system is re-tested and photographed, and the certificate and report follow.
Preparing for the visit
- Let us know how we reach the system, including roofs, risers and plant rooms
- Dig out any earlier paperwork for the system
- Let us know about permits to work or site inductions
Get a fixed quote
We do not publish a price list, because every site is different. We look at your system first, from pictures or on a visit, then send a fixed quote. To start, give us a ring on 0345 646 2711 or use the quote form.
Advice
Part by part
Restaurant and pub kitchens
Busy restaurant and pub kitchens often cook for long hours, frying and grilling, so their cleaning interval is often 3 or 6 months under BESA guidance. Cleans are done after close, overnight or before opening.
Ductwork and risers
Grease builds up most where the duct turns. Those are among the points where we take readings before and after, so the report shows the difference.
In-house cleaning or a specialist?
In-house cleaning and specialist cleaning do different jobs. A daily filter wipe and a weekly filter wash keep grease down at the front of the system, but grease that has passed the filters is out of reach. That part needs specialist access and equipment.
Your own staff can handle the daily basics: wiping down canopy surfaces, cleaning filters and keeping a simple log. Inside the ducts, risers and fan is specialist work, which is where we come in.
What affects the quote in Canterbury
Some jobs are bigger than they look, and some smaller. The main factors:
- When the work can happen, such as evenings, overnight or weekends
- Travel, parking and unloading
- Site requirements such as sign-in and permits
- How big the system is
Combining work into one visit or one programme often makes better use of the time. Tell us about everything you’d like looked at and we will price it together.
What to send for a quote
Before you ask for a quote, gather:
- Your last certificate, test record or report
- The site address and the type of premises
- Any access panels or hatches you can see
- Wide photos of the system and the area around it
Quotes are quick. Send a few details and pictures, and we usually reply with a fixed quote within one working day. If we need to see the system first, we book a survey around your hours.
Kitchen extract cleaning in Canterbury: the local picture
The FSA’s food hygiene register includes about 52 bars, pubs and nightclubs and about 18 hotels and guest houses within about 1.5 miles of central Canterbury. Wherever they cook, the canopy, duct and fan collect grease just as a restaurant’s do. Food hygiene inspections in Canterbury are the job of Canterbury City council’s environmental health team. Extraction counts as kitchen equipment, so its condition can come up on the day. Keeping each certificate and photo report on file helps show the extract is looked after. Kent Fire and Rescue Service covers Canterbury. The Fire Safety Order puts the duty on whoever runs a kitchen to control its fire risk, and a greasy duct is fuel.
Healthcare kitchens can’t easily close, so their extracts are cleaned overnight or between meal services; the nearest hospital to Canterbury is Eastbridge Hospital of St Thomas the Martyr, about less than half a mile west. A kitchen near Canterbury East station that serves breakfast and dinner can run its extract twelve hours or more, which shortens the cleaning interval.
Canterbury is in Kent. If you need kitchen extract cleaning in Canterbury, please phone us on 0345 646 2711, or email photos for a fixed quote. We work across South East England and London, including Canterbury. Canterbury is one of 922 places in Kent where we work for kitchen extract cleaning. There’s also a page for Maidstone, about 24 miles away.
Postcode districts we cover here for kitchen extract cleaning: CT1, CT2, CT4 and CT3. If you need kitchen extract cleaning at premises on Long Market, High Street and High Street St Gregorys or a nearby road, we can help. Main roads around Canterbury include the A2 and A28, which makes travel easy for evening and night visits. If your site is just outside Canterbury, we cover Wincheap (1 mile south-west), Harbledown (1 mile west), Hales Place (1 mile north), Thanington (1 mile south-west) and Stuppington (1 mile south). We also work in nearby towns such as Ashford (13 miles south-west), Margate (15 miles north-east), Dover (14 miles south-east), Folkestone (14 miles south), Ramsgate (15 miles east) and Whitstable (6 miles north-west). As one of the bigger places in Kent, Canterbury has commercial sites of every size, all within our area for kitchen extract cleaning.
Near you in Canterbury
Locally, jobs take us to businesses close to Canterbury School of Architecture, Bus Company Island and St Thomas of Canterbury Church. You’ll also find The Old Buttermarket pub (less than half a mile south-west) and Barton Court Grammar School (0.5 miles east). Canterbury has its own railway station: Canterbury East station. Well-known places in the area include Whitefriars Shopping Centre (under half a mile south-west) and Canterbury Roman Museum (within half a mile south). Green spaces nearby include Blean Woods RSPB Reserve.
What we are called out for in Canterbury
Grease in the extract matters because it burns. Flames from a pan or grill can be pulled into the canopy by the fan, and once grease in the duct catches, fire can spread through the building’s ductwork. For a kitchen in Canterbury, keeping that fuel under control is part of the fire risk assessment.
Any of these means the system needs a check-up:
- A TR19 certificate needed for the insurer
- Heavy grease build-up inside the duct runs
- Grease smells coming from the extract
- A kitchen taken over without any extract records
Where a hall near Church of St Margaret, or anywhere in Canterbury, hosts lunch clubs or events, its extract gathers grease just as a café’s does.
Comparing quotes
- Whether the work can be done while the site is closed
- When the next visit should be, and why
- Whether they’re fully insured
- Whether VAT is included