West Berkshire · Kitchen extract cleaning
Kitchen extract cleaning in Great Lea Common, West Berkshire
Kitchen extract cleaning for Great Lea Common, from a team that has been trading since 2009. Out-of-hours visits and 24/7 emergency callout.
- Stale cooking odours from the system
- Missing paperwork after a change of operator
- An extract that no longer clears the smoke
About our kitchen extract cleaning in Great Lea Common
We’ve been trading since 2009, cleaning kitchen extracts across the South East and London. As a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, we clean to BESA TR19® Grease, and we are fully insured, with CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001. The work covers vertical risers, horizontal duct runs and plenums and filters, and people most often call us about an extract that has never been cleaned to TR19 and a TR19 certificate needed for the insurer. For TR19 kitchen extract cleaning in Great Lea Common, you get one team and one number for every site, wherever you are in West Berkshire.
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.
Somewhere as small as Great Lea Common, commercial kitchens are few: perhaps a pub, a school or care home kitchen, or a hall used for events. Every one of them still needs its extract kept clear of grease, whatever the size of the place.
Each visit ends with a written report and photos, so there’s a dated record of the work. Kitchen extract cleaning to TR19® Grease is certificated through the BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite portal.
- Place
- Great Lea Common (RG7)
- Region
- West Berkshire
- Paperwork
- TR19® certificate and photo report
- Quote
- Fixed quote, typically within a working day
- When we work
- When your site is closed, plus a 24/7 line
- Call
- 0345 646 2711
- Updated
- 30 October 2026
What the work involves, part by part
Restaurant and pub kitchens
Restaurants and pubs tend to cook long hours with plenty of frying and grilling, so their cleaning interval is often 3 or 6 months under BESA guidance. We clean after close or before opening.
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.
What affects the cost of kitchen extract cleaning
You’ll get a fixed price before we start. It’s based on:
- The condition we find in the survey
- The number of sites or systems
- Site requirements such as sign-in and permits
- Access, including roofs, risers and ceiling voids
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.
Asking for a quote
We can often survey from pictures. The most useful are:
- The roof, plant room or outside wall the system runs to
- A few general shots of the system
- The postcode and the type of business
- Any symptoms, from odd noises to smells or leaks
To help us quote: the address, the type of site and when it’s open, a few pictures and any previous report or certificate. Once you have those, give us a ring on 0345 646 2711 or email us.
Questions from Great Lea Common
Do you do school kitchen extract cleaning in Great Lea Common in the summer holidays?
Yes. The holidays are the usual time for school work. With about 3 schools and colleges on the FSA’s register within roughly a mile and a half of Great Lea Common, it pays to plan holiday dates ahead. Just call 0345 646 2711 or send us an email with your term dates and we’ll plan around them.
Which fire and rescue service is responsible for Great Lea Common?
That’s Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service. 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.
What do you do with what you remove?
It leaves the site with us when we go. While we work, it’s kept contained so the area stays clean.
Which kinds of sites do you work on?
We work for restaurants, pubs, hotels, schools, colleges, hospitals, care homes, offices and shops, plus food production and leisure sites.
Can you set up regular visits?
Yes. Tell us what you have and how it’s used, and we’ll suggest a schedule and quote for it.
What about areas you can’t get to?
We record them on the report, with photos where possible, and we explain what access is needed, for example new access panels.
How do you protect the area?
We start with protection: floor sheeting and covers over nearby surfaces and equipment. We tidy up and take our waste away before we leave.
Do you offer emergency callouts?
Yes. Our emergency line runs 24/7, for problems that can’t wait. Call us any time and explain what’s happened.
What we do, step by step
Every visit runs to the same pattern: sheeting and protection first, make the system safe, carry out the kitchen extract cleaning, tidy up and leave you the report. On site, the work takes as long as the system needs, from a few hours to several planned visits. The timing of a visit to Great Lea Common is set by you, and the travel is our side of the planning.
- Diagnosis comes first, with a survey of the system and how it’s reached.
- Grease readings set the baseline, and a fixed quote follows.
- After the kitchen closes, we sheet the area and set up to contain grease and water.
- Heavy deposits are scraped by hand and the system degreased to TR19® Grease.
- Then the clean bill of health: readings, a TR19 certificate and a photo report with the next date.
Preparing for the visit
- Plan for cooking equipment or plant to be off before we arrive
- Let us know about permits to work or site inductions
- Let us know how we reach the system, including roofs, risers and plant rooms
Getting a 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, and then give you a fixed quote. To start, phone us on 0345 646 2711 or send us an email.
Advice
What a clean won’t put right
Kitchen extract cleaning can’t fix everything, and we’d rather say so up front. It will not put right:
- A fan motor or bearings that have failed (that needs a fan repair or replacement)
- Extraction that cannot cope with the cooking because of its design
- Blocked drains from a neglected grease trap (a separate service)
If you are not sure, just phone us on 0345 646 2711 or send us an email and we’ll give you a straight answer before you book.
What we work on in Great Lea Common
- Discharge points
- Canopies and hoods
- Plenums and filters
- Extract fans
- Horizontal duct runs
- Vertical risers
Grease, kitchens and Great Lea Common
There are about 25 cafés, restaurants and staff canteens and about 8 sandwich bars and takeaways across Great Lea Common and its immediate surroundings (about a mile and a half), according to the Food Standards Agency’s register. Every kitchen in that count with a canopy has a full extract system, canopy to discharge, to keep clear of grease. In Great Lea Common, food businesses are inspected by environmental health officers from Reading council. The cleanliness of the kitchen and its equipment, extraction included, is part of what they check. Keeping each certificate and photo report on file helps show the extract is looked after. Great Lea Common sits within the area of Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service. Its fire safety officers can audit commercial kitchens, and grease in the extract is part of a kitchen’s fire risk.
Healthcare kitchens, like those at hospitals such as Royal Berkshire Hospital (about 2.9 miles north), often cook for long hours, which puts them in BESA’s heavier-use bands. If you run a church or community hall kitchen, near St Paul's Church or elsewhere in Great Lea Common, its extract still collects grease from every lunch and event. If you run catering at a historic house or estate in the area (Stratfield Saye House is about 4.3 miles south), event kitchens in older buildings often have awkward duct runs that need planning.
Great Lea Common is about 3 miles south of Reading, in West Berkshire. Great Lea Common 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. Our West Berkshire coverage runs to 155 places, Great Lea Common among them.
Here we cover the RG7 postcode area for kitchen extract cleaning. Neighbouring places we cover for kitchen extract cleaning include Three Mile Cross (1 mile south-east), Whitley Wood (1 mile north-east), Ryeish Green (1 mile south-east), Green Park (1 mile north-west) and Shinfield (1 mile east). Larger places within reach include Newbury (15 miles west), Thatcham (12 miles west), Burghfield Common (4 miles west), Speenhamland (15 miles west), Calcot (4 miles north-west) and Shaw (14 miles west).
Local landmarks in Great Lea Common
Around Great Lea Common, our work takes us to kitchens and buildings near Geoffrey Field Junior School, Ryeish Green School and Pearman's Copse and the streets around them. The nearest railway station is Reading Green Park station, roughly 1.5 miles north-west of the centre. Well-known places in the area include Berkshire Medical Heritage Centre Museum (3 miles north) and Royal Berkshire Hospital (2.9 miles north). Not far away are Fobney Island Wetland Reserve and Longwater.
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Between visits
After the visit, a few habits help the work last:
- Keep the TR19 certificate and photo report in the maintenance log
- Report grease drips, smells or fan noise straight away
- Diarise the next clean as soon as you get the certificate
- Make sure every filter is fitted before cooking
The report gives a recommended 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 is not missed.
Book the next clean before the last one runs out. BESA guidance links the minimum interval to daily cooking hours, so a change in hours may mean a change in interval, and grease readings will show it.
What staff can safely do
Logging matters as much as cleaning. A simple log of filter washes, wipe-downs and checks helps show that the system is managed between specialist visits, next to our reports.
Day-to-day cleaning is something your team can do: wiping canopies, washing grease filters and recording it in a log. What they cannot safely do is clean inside the ductwork, the fan or the risers, and that is where we come in.
Why deal with it now?
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. In a place like Great Lea Common, ductwork and fans are easy to forget until something goes wrong.
Leaving it longer rarely makes the work cheaper. Problems in a system tend to grow, which can make the next visit longer. If you’re not sure what’s needed, give us a ring on 0345 646 2711, or send details by email and we’ll give you an honest view and a fixed quote.
Why Great Lea Common businesses choose us
- Fixed quotes from a survey or photos
- We’re fully insured
- A written report with photos after every visit
- CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001