Essex · Kitchen extract cleaning
Kitchen extract cleaning in Great Holland, Essex
TR19 grease cleaning of complete kitchen extract systems, from canopy to discharge in Great Holland, surveyed first and signed off with a written report and photos. Call for a fixed quote.
- Rancid smells from grease in the duct
- Grease drips onto cooking equipment
- An extract that has never been cleaned to TR19
Leave it or put it right?
Environmental health officers inspect food businesses, in Great Holland 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. In a small place like Great Holland, a system that fails can take a site out of use.
Combining work into one visit or one programme can make for a more efficient booking. Tell us about everything you’d like looked at and we will price it together.
Why us?
- A BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease
- Accredited under CHAS and SafeContractor, with ISO 9001
- Trading since 2009
- A fixed price before any work starts
Kitchen extract cleaning in Great Holland, done properly
Insurers often want evidence of regular TR19 cleaning, and a claim can be refused or reduced without it. For a kitchen in Great Holland, our certificate and photo report give you that record for the maintenance log. If you’re dealing with an overdue clean flagged by an EHO or fire officer and ductwork thick with old, hardened grease, we can help. Extraction cleaning, hood cleaning and TR19 duct cleaning all end up in the same place: a system that’s clean inside, not just on the surface, and a certificate that proves it.
Each job starts with a look at where grease has built up: wet film or deposit thickness readings show which parts of the duct need the most attention, and the same readings after the clean show the result.
Somewhere as small as Great Holland, commercial kitchens are few: perhaps a pub, a school or care home kitchen, or a hall used for events. Each still has a canopy and duct that collect grease, whatever the size of the place.
Accreditations are easy to claim and worth checking. We’re a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease, and we hold CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, with full insurance on top.
- Location
- Great Holland (CO13)
- Region
- Essex
- Records
- Certificate plus before-and-after photos
- Quotes
- Fixed quote, normally within a working day
- When we work
- Evenings, overnight and weekends; 24/7 emergencies
- Telephone
- 0345 646 2711
- Last updated
- 30 October 2026
Towns and villages near Great Holland
Other services in Great Holland
Kitchen extracts in Great Holland
The coast is only about 2 miles from Great Holland. Metal on the roof weathers faster close to the coast, and the extract fan and cowl are no exception. Look up Great Holland on the FSA’s food hygiene register and you will find about 26 cafés, restaurants and staff canteens and about 4 takeaways and sandwich shops across Great Holland and its immediate surroundings (about a mile and a half). Wherever food is cooked under a canopy, the extract above it gathers grease and needs cleaning on a schedule. Fire safety in Great Holland falls to Essex County 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.
Volunteers running a hall kitchen near Church of All Saints, or anywhere in Great Holland, may not know when the extract was last cleaned, and a grease test settles it. If you run a café or takeaway near Kirby Cross station, early starts and late finishes leave little time to clean, so overnight extract cleaning suits.
Great Holland is about 3 miles north-east of Clacton-on-Sea, in Essex. From the centre of Great Holland to the outskirts, kitchen extract cleaning is available to all kinds of commercial premises, from a single unit to a large public building. Across Essex, we cover 644 places, and Great Holland is one of them. Chelmsford is in our area too, around 32 miles away.
Here we cover the CO13 postcode area for kitchen extract cleaning. Whether your site is on Rosery Mews, Orchard Drive and Laxton Grove or anywhere close by, our technicians can take on the work. Other places close to Great Holland include Kirby Cross (1 mile north-east), Kirby-le-Soken (1 mile north-east), Thorpe Cross (2 miles north-west), Lane End (2 miles north) and Frinton-on-Sea (2 miles east). Further out, we also cover Colchester (14 miles west), Clacton-on-Sea (3 miles south-west), Harwich (7 miles north), Camulodunum (15 miles west), Greenstead (12 miles west) and Wivenhoe (11 miles west).
Landmarks near Great Holland
We work in commercial kitchens and buildings around Tendring Technology College, The Ship Inn and Greensward and the streets around them. The closest station to Great Holland is Kirby Cross station, roughly 0.6 miles north of the centre. For a walk, there’s Great Holland Pits.
FAQs for Great Holland
Which fire service covers Great Holland?
Essex County Fire and Rescue Service is the fire and rescue service for Great Holland. TR19® is not law, but it’s the benchmark many fire officers and insurers look to when they ask how often the extract is cleaned.
Who would carry out a food hygiene inspection at a kitchen in Great Holland?
That’s Tendring council, whose environmental health officers carry out food hygiene inspections in Great Holland. How often a business is inspected depends on the risk rating the council gives it, so it’s worth staying ready all year.
How often does a kitchen extract system need cleaning?
It depends on how many hours a day the kitchen cooks. Heavy use of 12 to 16 hours a day calls for a clean at least every 3 months under BESA guidance, and lighter use less often. We’ll recommend a date after measuring the grease.
Why do insurers care about extract cleaning?
Extract grease is fuel for a kitchen fire, which is why many insurers require TR19 cleaning. Our certificate and photo report give you that evidence.
What do you do to protect the area?
We cover floors and nearby surfaces with sheeting before work begins, and anything we remove is contained. Before we leave, we tidy up and clean down.
What about areas you cannot get to?
We record them on the report, with a note of where it is, and we explain what access is needed, for example new access panels.
What types of premises do you cover?
We work for restaurants, pubs, hotels, schools, colleges, hospitals, care homes, offices and shops, plus food production and leisure sites.
Is there a survey before the work?
Yes, every time. Diagnosis comes before treatment: the survey tells us what the system needs and how to reach it and the fixed quote is built on it.
What affects the cost of kitchen extract cleaning
You will get a fixed price before we start. It’s based on:
- Whether it’s a one-off visit or part of a schedule
- Site rules, permits and inductions
- The scale of the work
- How easy every part is to reach
Leaving it longer rarely makes the work cheaper. Problems in a system tend to grow, and a neglected system can mean more work. If you are unsure, call 0345 646 2711 or use the quote form and we will give you an honest view and a fixed quote.
What we need to know
Photos let us diagnose from a distance. The most useful are:
- Your opening hours and when the area is out of use
- Close-ups of filters, grilles, hatches or access panels
- The site address and the type of premises
- Problems your staff have spotted
Photos are the quickest way to a quote: the system from a couple of angles, plus any access panels or hatches. Add the site type and your opening hours, and many jobs can be priced from that alone.
The process
On the day, we arrive at the time agreed with you, often in the evening, overnight or at the weekend so the site keeps working. Equipment that has to be off is switched off and allowed to cool before we start, and floors and nearby surfaces are sheeted. The work itself takes one visit for most kitchens, while large or complex systems may need more than one. Seeing the system in pictures first means the trip to Great Holland can be planned properly.
- You send pictures or we visit, and the system is surveyed from canopy to discharge.
- We take grease readings at set points and give you a fixed quote.
- The kitchen is closed, the equipment cooled and everything nearby protected.
- Filters, canopy and plenum are cleaned, then the ducts, risers, fan and discharge.
- Readings are repeated, photos taken, and your TR19 certificate and photo report issued.
How to prepare
- Arrange a key holder or contact on site
- Allow time for equipment near the work to be turned off and cool down
- Tell us about access, such as roof hatches, plant rooms, ceilings or locked areas
Ask for a quote
Quotes are quick. Send a few details and pictures, and we normally reply with a fixed quote within one working day. Where a survey is needed, we arrange a time that suits the site.
Related advice
Aftercare tips
Looking after the system between visits is straightforward, and it makes the next visit easier:
- Empty any grease troughs or cups on the canopy
- Flag any change in how the extract sounds or works
- Keep the cleaning records where you can find them
- Diarise the next clean as soon as you get the certificate
The kitchen is left clean and ready for the next service. Grease and dirty water are collected and taken off site, so you can start cooking as normal.
Tell whoever looks after the system when something changes. Drips, odours and fan noise often mean grease is building, and a grease thickness test can confirm it.
What a clean won’t put right
Before you book, it helps to know what’s not included:
- Blocked drains from a neglected grease trap (a separate service)
- A canopy that’s too small or a system that was badly designed
- A fan motor that has burnt out
Not sure which it is? You can ring 0345 646 2711 or drop us a line and we will tell you honestly.
Where we work
- Canopies and hoods
- Vertical risers
- Horizontal duct runs
- Discharge points
- Plenums and filters
- Extract fans
In-house cleaning or a specialist?
A few tasks are always specialist work: opening up ductwork, cleaning fans, drop testing fire dampers and measuring grease call for the right kit, training and safe access. That’s our job.
For ventilation and air handling systems, in-house care is mostly about checks: keeping grilles clear, noting unusual noise or smells and logging filter changes. Cleaning inside ducts and units is specialist work.
Signs you need kitchen extract cleaning in Great Holland
The reason for all this is fire. A flare-up on the range can be drawn up into the canopy and duct, and once grease in the duct catches, fire can spread through the building’s ductwork. That is why controlling extract grease belongs in the fire risk assessment.
These are the problems we see most often:
- Years of baked-on grease in the ducts
- A TR19 certificate needed for the insurer
- A smoky, hot kitchen with weak extraction
- Rancid smells from grease in the duct
If you run catering at a historic house or estate in the area (Thorpe Hall is about 2.2 miles north-west), event kitchens in older buildings often have awkward duct runs that need planning.
Before booking anyone
- What paperwork you get at the end
- Whether the quote shows VAT
- Their accreditations, such as BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite, CHAS or SafeContractor
- If they look at the system before pricing