Wokingham · Kitchen extract cleaning
Hare Hatch kitchen extract cleaning
One call covers kitchen extract cleaning in Hare Hatch, from survey to sign-off. CHAS and SafeContractor accredited, ISO 9001 and fully insured.
- A system with no record of a TR19 clean
- A smoky, hot kitchen with weak extraction
- An overdue clean flagged by an EHO or fire officer
Multi-site and managed buildings
Facilities teams in offices, schools and healthcare sites book us too in Hare Hatch and across Wokingham. Larger estates can be phased building by building to keep disruption down.
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. With shared responsibility, good records help everyone.
How we handle kitchen extract cleaning in Hare Hatch
We’ve been trading since 2009, cleaning kitchen extracts across the South East and London. We’re a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease, and we hold CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001 and are fully insured. Typical jobs include missing paperwork after a change of operator and a kitchen with no current TR19 certificate, across extract fans, vertical risers and canopies and hoods. Canopy cleaning, extract cleaning and duct cleaning are often used to mean the same thing, but in Hare Hatch, as everywhere, the insurer wants the full system cleaned, not just the hood.
A kitchen running fryers and chargrills all day builds up grease much faster than one that mostly steams and boils, so we look at the menu as well as the opening hours when we suggest the next date.
Somewhere as small as Hare Hatch, 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.
The paperwork matters as much as the work. You get a written report with pictures after every visit, covering the work done, any areas we couldn’t access and a recommended next date. Keep it with your fire safety records so it’s to hand when an insurer or inspector asks.
- Where
- Hare Hatch (RG10)
- Wider area
- Wokingham
- Paperwork
- TR19® certificate and photo report
- Price
- A fixed price before we start
- When we work
- Out of hours as standard, 24/7 emergency line
- Phone
- 0345 646 2711
- Page updated
- 30 October 2026
Hare Hatch kitchens: local notes
Food Standards Agency records list about 8 cafés, restaurants and staff canteens in and around Hare Hatch, up to about a mile and a half out. Every kitchen in that count with a canopy has a full extract system, canopy to discharge, to keep clear of grease. The fire and rescue service for Hare Hatch is 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. Environmental health officers from Wokingham council inspect food businesses in Hare Hatch. A greasy canopy or dripping filters are the sort of thing an inspection can pick up. A TR19® certificate and photo report after each clean gives you a record to show an inspector.
Term dates shape school work: for a school like Robert Piggott CofE Infant School, an extract clean fits neatly into a half-term or summer break. If you run catering at a healthcare site, such as a hospital like St Mark's Hospital about 4.7 miles north-east, the extract may need cleaning more often than a part-time kitchen. If you run catering at a historic house or estate in the area (Harleyford Manor is about 4.3 miles north), event kitchens in older buildings often have awkward duct runs that need planning.
Hare Hatch is about 4 miles north-east of Woodley, in Wokingham. Every kind of commercial site in Hare Hatch, we can take on kitchen extract cleaning. Visits can be booked for evenings, overnight or weekends so trading isn’t interrupted. Across Wokingham, we cover 35 places, Hare Hatch among them. There’s also a page for Reading, about 7 miles away.
Here we cover the RG10 postcode area for kitchen extract cleaning. If you need kitchen extract cleaning at premises on Bath Road, Tag Lane and Milley Lane or anywhere close by, we can help. Close by, we work in The Holt (1 mile north-east), Kiln Green (1 mile north-east), Ruscombe (1 mile south-west), Twyford (1 mile south-west) and Waltham St Lawrence (2 miles east). Larger places within reach include Reading (7 miles south-west), Wokingham (6 miles south), Woodley (4 miles south-west), Earley (6 miles south-west), Crowthorne (9 miles south) and Lower Earley (6 miles south-west).
Around Hare Hatch
Locally, jobs take us to businesses close to The Queen Victoria pub, Loddon Nature Reserve and The Piggott School. For rail, the closest station is Wargrave station, roughly 1.4 miles west. Nearby you will also find St Mark's Hospital (4.7 miles north-east) and Frazer Nash Archives (3.3 miles north-west). The countryside around Hare Hatch includes Weycock Hill and Hurley Chalk Pit.
Hare Hatch: your questions answered
Who carries out food hygiene inspections in Hare Hatch?
That is Wokingham council, whose environmental health officers carry out food hygiene inspections in Hare Hatch. It helps to keep the extract cleaning records with your food safety paperwork, so they’re ready if asked for.
Do you clean school canteen extracts around Hare Hatch out of term?
Yes, out-of-term visits are normal for schools. With about 2 schools and colleges on the FSA’s register within roughly a mile and a half of Hare Hatch, it pays to plan holiday dates ahead. Just give us a ring on 0345 646 2711, or email photos with your term dates and we will plan around them.
How long does a kitchen extract clean take?
Allow anything from a few hours to a full night, depending on the size of the system. The survey tells us how long your system will need.
What happens to the waste?
Waste is contained during the work and removed when we leave, including grease, debris and dirty water. None of it is left on site.
Can one contract cover all our sites?
Yes. You deal with one contact for every site across London and the South East, with visits on a regular schedule.
Which kinds of sites do you work on?
All kinds of commercial and public premises: kitchens, offices, schools, healthcare, retail, leisure and food production. Work is timed around how each site runs.
What’s the right cleaning interval for a kitchen extract?
BESA guidance sets minimums by daily cooking hours: every 3 months for 12 to 16 hours, 6 months for 6 to 12 hours and 12 months for 2 to 6 hours. Grease readings can show a shorter interval is needed.
How much does kitchen extract cleaning cost?
We do not publish prices, because the cost depends on the job: how big it is, what state it’s in, how we reach it and the working hours. You get a fixed price before work begins.
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What your team can do, and what needs us
Staff cleaning doesn’t replace a specialist visit; it supports it. Regular in-house cleaning slows the build-up, but the parts you cannot see still need a specialist at the right interval.
For ventilation and air handling systems, in-house care is mostly about checks: clear grilles, a log of filter changes and reporting anything odd. The inside of ducts and units needs a specialist.
The process
We work around your opening hours, not the other way round. Most visits are booked for when the area is out of use, such as evenings, overnight, early mornings or weekends. Once we’re in, the area is sheeted and anything that has to be off is turned off and cooled, and the job takes one visit for most kitchens, while large or complex systems may need more than one. Pictures of the system and its access let us plan the work in Hare Hatch before we set off.
- We start with a survey, so we know every part of the system before we quote.
- We measure the grease at set points along the system, then give you a fixed price.
- On the day, cooking equipment is switched off and left to cool, and everything nearby is sheeted.
- We clean the canopy, plenum, filters, ducts, risers, fan and discharge.
- We test again, photograph the result and issue your TR19 certificate and photo report.
How to prepare
- Agree a time when the area can be out of use
- Mention any sign-in, permit or induction we need
- Let us know about parking and loading
How to get a quote
Here’s what helps us quote: where the site is, what it is and its opening hours, a few pictures and the last certificate or report, if there is one. Then call us on 0345 646 2711 or email us.
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How we price kitchen extract cleaning
The price is fixed before any work begins. It’s based on:
- Site rules, permits and inductions
- How many systems or sites are involved
- Where the site is and how we reach it
- Working hours and out-of-hours timing
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 you’ll get one fixed quote.
What to send for a quote
A few details help us quote accurately. When you get in touch, it helps to send:
- Detail shots of panels, filters and grilles
- Problems your staff have spotted
- Wide pictures of the system and the area around it
- How we’d reach plant on a roof or in a plant room
To get a fixed quote, call 0345 646 2711, or send details by email and tell us the type of site, your opening hours and roughly what the system looks like. A few photos and your last certificate or report help a lot. We typically come back within one working day.
Aftercare tips
Think of this as the after-treatment advice, short and simple:
- Keep the baffle filters clean
- Refit filters properly after cleaning
- Keep the cleaning records where you can find them
- Keep to the recommended cleaning interval
The report gives a recommended date for the next clean, based on your cooking hours and the grease we measured. We can put the system on a 3, 6 or 12-monthly plan, so the date isn’t missed.
Run the extract whenever the kitchen is cooking. Cooking with the extract off lets grease and heat settle in the canopy, and the next clean has more to do.
When it’s something else
Before you book, it helps to know what’s not included:
- A fan motor or bearings that have failed (that needs a fan repair or replacement)
- Fire dampers that won’t close (that needs damper testing and remedials)
- Damaged duct sections that need replacing
Not sure which it is? You can phone us on 0345 646 2711 or email us and we’ll tell you honestly.
What the work covers
- Canopies and hoods
- Discharge points
- Vertical risers
- Horizontal duct runs
- Plenums and filters
- Extract fans
What the work involves, part by part
Canopy and plenum
Behind the grease filters sits the plenum, which daily cleaning never reaches. We take the filters out and clean the plenum and housing thoroughly.
Grease filters
Filters need cleaning far more often than the duct and we offer a filter exchange service for that. Clean filters slow the build-up further down the system.