Hertfordshire · Kitchen extract cleaning
Kitchen Extract Cleaning in Green Tye
Our technicians work in Green Tye on kitchen extract cleaning. Out-of-hours visits, a fixed quote and a written report with pictures on every job.
- A kitchen taken over without any extract records
- Grease drips onto cooking equipment
- Stale cooking odours from the system
Signs you need kitchen extract cleaning in Green Tye
How fast grease builds up depends mostly on how long the kitchen cooks each day. Under BESA guidance, heavy use of 12 to 16 hours a day means a clean at least every 3 months, moderate use every 6 months and light use every 12. Those are minimums, and grease readings can show a kitchen needs cleaning sooner.
The symptoms we’re asked about most are:
- An overdue clean flagged by an EHO or fire officer
- Proof of cleaning requested by an insurer
- An extract that no longer clears the smoke
- Ductwork thick with old, hardened grease
If your kitchen is in a listed or historic building, like the houses around Green Tye (Much Hadham Palace is about 1.3 miles north-west), fitting access panels needs care.
Comparing quotes
- When they can work, and whether that is outside your opening hours
- What’s included in the scope, part by part
- Proof of accreditation you can verify
- If the quote is a fixed price or an estimate
How we handle kitchen extract cleaning in Green Tye
Cooking sends fat-laden vapour into the canopy with every service. As it cools, it clings to the inside of the ductwork and keeps building. That layer will burn, and cleaning the whole system is how you keep it under control. The work covers canopies and hoods, horizontal duct runs and extract fans, and people most often call us about years of baked-on grease in the ducts and a TR19 certificate needed for the insurer. Hood cleaning is where most enquiries from Green Tye start: a clean that goes past the canopy into the duct and fan, backed by a certificate.
We clean every reachable part of the system in Green Tye: canopy, plenum, filters, ducts, risers and fan, and the discharge where it can be reached.
Somewhere as small as Green Tye, 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.
We’ve been trading since 2009, and we are a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease. We also hold CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, and we carry full insurance.
- Place
- Green Tye (SG10)
- Wider area
- Hertfordshire
- Paperwork
- Certificate and photo report
- Quotes
- A fixed price before we start
- When we work
- Nights, weekends or holidays to suit you
- Telephone
- 0345 646 2711
- Reviewed
- 30 October 2026
Places near Green Tye
What else we do in Green Tye
Multi-site and managed buildings
The Fire Safety Order 2005 puts the duty to manage fire risk on the responsible person, and that can be the employer, the owner, a landlord, a facilities manager or a managing agent. Where responsibility is shared, records matter even more.
Whether it’s one building or many, you get the same standard: a survey first, a fixed quote, the work timed around the site and a report with pictures.
Your questions about kitchen extract cleaning in Green Tye
Can you get to a site in Green Tye?
Yes. Green Tye is within the area we cover across London and the South East. The journey is planned ahead, so a few details about the route help.
Can you work in Green Tye outside opening hours?
Yes, out-of-hours work is a big part of what we do. It means the site in Green Tye keeps running as normal. Tell us your opening hours when you ask for a quote.
Are you a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member?
We are members of Vent Hygiene Elite, the scheme run by BESCA, and we clean to BESA TR19® Grease. We hold CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001 too, and we are fully insured.
How do you keep the site clean during the work?
With sheeting and covers, before anything else happens. The work is kept contained and leave the area clean.
How long does it take to clean a kitchen extract system?
It takes one visit for most kitchens, while large or complex systems may need more than one. We will confirm the time when we quote.
How far ahead should we book?
Earlier is better, particularly for night and weekend visits. We typically quote within one working day, and there’s a 24/7 line for emergencies.
Which sectors do you work in?
Restaurants and pubs, hotels, schools and colleges, hospitals and care homes, offices and retail, plus food production and leisure sites.
Do you clean the whole extract system or just the canopy?
The whole system: canopy inside and out, plenum, grease filters, ductwork, risers, extract fan and discharge, plus attenuators where fitted. Any part without access is noted.
Why deal with it now?
After a fire, one of the first questions is often when the extract was last cleaned. Many insurers ask for proof of TR19 cleaning and may reduce or refuse a claim without it. A current certificate is far easier to produce than an explanation. Equipment tucked in a roof space or outbuilding near Green Tye rarely gets looked at unless someone books it.
Kitchens, offices, schools and hospitals are all priced the same way: the size of the job, access, condition and working hours. Call for a fixed quote and we’ll go through it with you.
Why Green Tye businesses choose us
- Every job surveyed first
- We are fully insured
- Accredited under CHAS and SafeContractor, with ISO 9001
- Photo reports with every job
Between visits
Looking after the system between visits is straightforward, and it helps at the next visit:
- Never cook with filters missing or out of place
- Report grease drips, smells or fan noise straight away
- Diarise the next clean as soon as you get the certificate
- Keep grease collection points emptied
You get a photo report after every clean. It shows the system before and after, part by part, alongside a list of what was cleaned, anything out of reach and the recommended next clean date.
Stick to the cleaning interval on the certificate. 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.
How it works
There’s very little for your team to do on the day. A contact on site lets us in at the agreed time and points us to the system, and the rest is down to us. Before we leave, the area is tidied and the paperwork follows. Seeing the system in pictures first means the trip to Green Tye can be planned properly.
- Diagnosis comes first, with a survey of the system and how it’s reached.
- Grease readings set the baseline, and a fixed quote follows.
- We arrive after close, protect the area and contain the waste.
- The treatment: heavy grease scraped out, then every part degreased to TR19® Grease.
- Then the clean bill of health: readings, a TR19 certificate and a photo report with the next date.
Getting ready for the visit
- Find the previous report, if there is one
- Let us know when the site is closed or quiet
- Let us know about parking and loading
Get a fixed quote
To help us quote: where the site is, what it is and its opening hours, a few photos and any previous report or certificate. Once you have those, ring 0345 646 2711 or drop us a line.
Related advice
In-house cleaning or a specialist?
Staff cleaning and specialist work are not 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.
Day-to-day cleaning is something your team can do: wiping canopies, washing grease filters and recording it in a log. Inside the ducts, risers and fan is specialist work, which is where we come in.
When something else is needed
Before you book, it helps to know what’s not included:
- A broken extract fan that won’t run
- Extraction that can’t cope with the cooking because of its design
- A grease trap that needs emptying
If you are not sure, just give us a ring on 0345 646 2711, or send details by email and we’ll give you a straight answer before you book.
Where we work
- Discharge points
- Extract fans
- Vertical risers
- Horizontal duct runs
- Plenums and filters
- Canopies and hoods
Kitchen extract cleaning in Green Tye: the local picture
Food Standards Agency records list about 3 restaurants, cafés and works canteens across Green Tye and its immediate surroundings (about a mile and a half). Each one that cooks under a canopy has an extract system that collects grease and needs regular cleaning. Green Tye is covered by Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue Service. In most workplaces, including commercial kitchens, it’s the fire and rescue authority that enforces the Fire Safety Order. Food hygiene inspections in Green Tye are the job of East Hertfordshire council’s environmental health team. They look at how clean the premises and equipment are, and the kitchen extract is part of that. A dated certificate in the maintenance file answers the question before it’s asked.
Where a hall near Church of St Thomas, or anywhere in Green Tye, hosts lunch clubs or events, its extract gathers grease just as a café’s does. Healthcare kitchens, like those at hospitals such as Herts and Essex Hospital (about 3.6 miles north-east), often cook for long hours, which puts them in BESA’s heavier-use bands.
Green Tye is about 3 miles south-west of Bishop's Stortford, in Hertfordshire. For kitchen extract cleaning in and around Green Tye, it’s easy to get a fixed quote: please call us on 0345 646 2711 or drop us a line. We work across South East England and London, including Green Tye. We cover 381 places across Hertfordshire, large and small. Our Chelmsford page covers sites nearby, about 18 miles away.
We cover every part of SG10 for kitchen extract cleaning and the streets around it. Other places close to Green Tye include Hadham Cross (1 mile west), Much Hadham (1 mile north-west), Nether Street (2 miles south-west), Hadham Ford (2 miles north) and Widford (2 miles south-west). Within a short drive, we also cover Stevenage (13 miles west), Bishop's Stortford (3 miles north-east), Welwyn Garden City (13 miles west), Hoddesdon (8 miles south-west), Cheshunt (11 miles south-west) and Hatfield (15 miles west).
Around Green Tye
The closest station to Green Tye is Bishops Stortford station, roughly 3.2 miles north-east of the centre. A little further out are Herts and Essex Hospital (3.6 miles north-east) and Henry Moore Studios and Gardens (0.8 miles south-west). The countryside around Green Tye includes Thorley Wash nature reserve.