Kent · Kitchen extract cleaning
TR19 kitchen extract cleaning in Dean Street
Need kitchen extract cleaning in Dean Street? We survey first, send you a fixed quote and work around your opening hours, then sign off with a report and pictures.
- Cleaning needed before an insurance renewal or survey
- Grease drips onto cooking equipment
- A new tenancy or takeover with no cleaning history
Managing agents and facilities teams in Dean Street
Under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, the responsible person must assess and reduce fire risk, which may be the employer, owner, landlord, FM or managing agent. Where responsibility is shared, records matter even more.
We work for landlords, managing agents and facilities managers as well as the people running the site. Where a system serves more than one tenant, such as a shared riser, it helps to agree who arranges the work, and we are happy to quote for all of it.
Kitchen extract cleaning in Dean Street, done properly
The canopy over the range is only the start of a kitchen extract system. 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. We are often asked to deal with poor airflow at the canopy and a kitchen with no current TR19 certificate, across discharge points, plenums and filters and vertical risers. Searching for commercial kitchen extraction cleaning in Dean Street? We’ve been cleaning kitchen extracts across the South East since 2009, with a certificate and photo report after every clean.
Most kitchens in Dean Street fall into one of BESA’s three bands: 3-monthly for heavy use, 6-monthly for moderate use and yearly for light use, adjusted by what the grease readings show.
For a kitchen in or near Dean Street, the visit is planned around opening hours and the journey, and the clean covers the whole system, as it would anywhere: canopy to discharge, then a TR19® certificate and a photo report.
The paperwork matters as much as the work. Each visit is written up with pictures, listing what was done, anything we couldn’t reach and when the next visit is due. Keep it with your fire safety records so it’s to hand when an insurer or inspector asks.
- Place
- Dean Street (ME15)
- Region
- Kent
- Paperwork
- Certificate plus before-and-after pictures
- Quote
- Fixed quote, normally within a working day
- When we work
- Nights, weekends or holidays to suit you
- Telephone
- 0345 646 2711
- Reviewed
- 30 October 2026
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Fixed quotes for kitchen extract cleaning in Dean Street
There’s no set price list, because no two systems are the same. What we look at:
- The times the site is available
- A single visit or a regular plan
- The condition we find in the survey
- The scale of the work
Whatever the type of site, the quote works the same way: the size of the job, access, condition and working hours. Ask for a fixed quote and we will go through it with you.
Helping us quote
Photos let us diagnose from a distance. Try to include:
- Close-ups of filters, grilles, hatches or access panels
- The paperwork from the last visit, if you have it
- The postcode and the type of business
- Photos showing the whole system and its surroundings
There’s no standard price list, because every site is different. Instead, we look at your site first, from pictures or a survey, then send a fixed quote. To get going, ring 0345 646 2711, or email photos.
Dean Street kitchens: local notes
The FSA’s data shows about 15 bars, pubs and nightclubs registered within roughly a mile and a half of the centre of Dean Street. A pub or hotel kitchen that cooks every day builds up grease in its extract like any other. Food hygiene inspections in Dean Street are the job of Maidstone council’s environmental health team. The cleanliness of the kitchen and its equipment, extraction included, is part of what they check. Before-and-after photos from each clean are a simple way to show the extract is in hand. Fire safety in Dean Street falls to Kent Fire and Rescue Service. Grease in a kitchen extract is a recognised fire risk, and the fire authority enforces the law on managing it in most commercial premises.
Commuter trade near East Farleigh station can mean long cooking hours, and long hours put a kitchen into BESA’s more frequent cleaning bands. Bursars and site managers at schools such as East Farleigh Primary School tend to book extract cleaning for when the kitchen is empty.
Dean Street is about 2 miles south-west of Maidstone, in Kent. From the centre of Dean Street to the outskirts, we cover kitchen extract cleaning for every kind of premises, from a single unit to a large public building. Dean Street is one of 922 places in Kent we cover for kitchen extract cleaning.
Every address in ME15 is covered for kitchen extract cleaning, from busy streets to back roads. Kitchen extract cleaning is available to premises on Forge Lane and Dean Street and nearby roads. We also cover the places around Dean Street: East Farleigh (1 mile west), Coxheath (1 mile south), Fant (1 mile north), Kettle Corner (1 mile west) and Farleigh Green (1 mile west). We also work in nearby towns such as Sittingbourne (12 miles north-east), Sevenoaks (14 miles west), Royal Tunbridge Wells (13 miles south-west), Gravesend (13 miles north), Tonbridge (10 miles west) and Northfleet (14 miles north-west).
Around Dean Street
We work in commercial kitchens and buildings around Walnut Tree pub, St Augustine Academy and Quarry Wood. Dean Street’s nearest station is East Farleigh station, roughly 0.6 miles north-west of the centre. Well-known places in the area include Allington Castle (3 miles north) and Fremlin Walk (2 miles north-east). Green spaces nearby include Boxley Hills.
Why it’s worth doing now in Dean Street
There’s no law that names TR19, but the Fire Safety Order 2005 still applies. It puts a duty on the responsible person to assess and reduce fire risk, and in a kitchen that means keeping extract grease under control. Cleaning to TR19 is the recognised way to show you’ve done it. In a small place like Dean Street, a system that fails can take a site out of use.
Working hours, access and the scale of the site all affect the cost. Each of those is built into the quote, and the price is fixed before we start.
Why us?
- A single point of contact for sites across the South East and London
- Work around your opening hours, with 24/7 emergency cover
- Every job surveyed first
- We’re fully insured
Take a look at our cost guide and how to check a contractor.
How the visit works
We turn up at the time agreed with you, which is often after service, overnight or at a weekend. Anything that needs to be off for the work is switched off and left to cool first, and the area around the work is covered and protected. The work itself takes a few hours for a small kitchen, longer for a large system. Somewhere as small as Dean Street, the date and timings are agreed with you well before the day.
- We start with a survey, so we know every part of the system before we quote.
- Grease readings are taken at set points and you get a fixed quote.
- With the kitchen closed and equipment off and cool, the area is sheeted.
- 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.
Before we arrive
- Tell us where we can park and unload
- Make sure equipment near the work can be switched off and left to cool
- Mention any locked doors, roof access or ceiling voids
How to get a quote
Need a price for kitchen extract cleaning? Please call 0345 646 2711 or send us an email and tell us about the site. We will talk you through the work and give you a fixed quote before you commit to anything.
Related advice
Your questions about kitchen extract cleaning in Dean Street
Who enforces fire safety at workplaces in Dean Street?
That’s Kent Fire and Rescue Service. If a fire safety officer visits a commercial kitchen, they may ask about the fire risk assessment and how the extract is kept clean.
Who would carry out a food hygiene inspection at a kitchen in Dean Street?
The local authority for Dean Street is Maidstone council, and its environmental health team does the inspecting. An officer may look up into the canopy, so clean filters on the day and a recent certificate on file both help.
Is Dean Street in your area?
Yes. We work across Greater London, Surrey, Kent, Sussex, Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Hertfordshire and Essex, and that includes Dean Street.
How long does a kitchen extract clean take?
Allow as long as the system needs, from a few hours to several planned visits. We’ll confirm the time when we quote.
Which kinds of sites do you work on?
Any commercial site with kitchens or ventilation, from a single café to a large school. We work with hotels, schools, care homes, offices, retail and leisure sites.
What happens if you cannot reach some of it?
Anything we cannot reach goes on the report, with photos where possible, and we tell you what would make it reachable, such as extra access panels in ductwork.
Do you offer maintenance contracts?
Yes, of course. Send details of the systems and how they’re used, and we will suggest a schedule and quote for it.
What accreditations do you hold?
We clean to BESA TR19® Grease as a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, and certificates go through the BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite portal. Duct Doctor has been trading since 2009.
Staff cleaning versus specialist work
Staff cleaning and specialist work aren’t the same thing. 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. Reaching it takes a specialist with the right equipment.
If your staff spot something between visits, like drips, unusual noise, smells or damaged filters, they should report it rather than try to fix it. We can diagnose it and quote.
Keeping the system healthy
A little care between visits keeps the system in better shape. Our advice:
- Keep the extract on whenever the range is lit
- Keep grease collection points emptied
- Keep the baffle filters clean
- Flag any change in how the extract sounds or works
You leave with a date for the next clean, set from your daily cooking hours and the readings we took. We can put the system on a 3, 6 or 12-monthly plan, so the date isn’t missed.
Regular filter cleaning is the simplest thing a kitchen can do. A filter that is clean and seated properly stops more grease getting into the plenum, which slows build-up further down the system.
What we’re called out for in Dean Street
We often find duct sections that haven’t been cleaned since they were installed. Most of the time it’s because there were never enough access panels, so nobody could get to them. Grease in those sections keeps building out of sight.
Keep an eye out for these warning signs:
- Proof of cleaning requested by an insurer
- A new tenancy or takeover with no cleaning history
- Grease smells coming from the extract
- Ductwork thick with old, hardened grease
A hall kitchen that only cooks for events, whether near Church of Saint Mary or elsewhere in Dean Street, still needs its extract cleaned, just less often.
Comparing quotes
- Whether the quote shows VAT
- Which accreditations they hold, and whether you can check them
- When they can work, and whether that’s outside your opening hours
- What’s included in the scope, part by part