Essex · Kitchen extract cleaning
TR19 kitchen extract cleaning in Hare Street
TR19 grease cleaning of complete kitchen extract systems, from canopy to discharge for businesses, landlords and public buildings in Hare Street. CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, and fully insured.
- Fat running down the canopy edge
- A smoky, hot kitchen with weak extraction
- Missing paperwork after a change of operator
About our kitchen extract cleaning in Hare Street
Insurers often want evidence of regular TR19 cleaning, and some may refuse or reduce a claim when it’s missing. The certificate and photo report from each clean in Hare Street give you that record, ready for the fire risk assessment file. Common call-outs are for grease drips onto cooking equipment and an overdue clean flagged by an EHO or fire officer, across plenums and filters, discharge points and vertical risers. Kitchen extract cleaning, TR19 cleaning, extraction cleaning: whatever you call it, in Hare Street it means the same thing to us: the whole system, cleaned and certificated.
Access decides how thorough a clean can be. Where a duct run has no panels, we say so on the report and can fit new ones.
Rural kitchens often have long, low duct runs through a roof space or along an outside wall, and those horizontal sections are where grease settles. Access, parking and timings are agreed before the day.
Duct Doctor has been trading since 2009, as a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease. We also hold CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, and we are fully insured.
- Place
- Hare Street (CM5)
- Region
- Essex
- Paperwork
- Certificate and photo report
- Quotes
- Fixed quote, usually within a working day
- Working hours
- Overnight and weekend work, 24/7 emergency callout
- Call
- 0345 646 2711
- Checked
- 30 October 2026
Common questions in Hare Street
Can you work in Hare Street outside opening hours?
Yes, we can come after you close and finish before you open. The work in Hare Street can fit around your hours. When you ring 0345 646 2711, or email photos, mention when the site is quiet.
Who would carry out a food hygiene inspection at a kitchen in Hare Street?
In Hare Street, it’s Epping Forest council that carries out food hygiene inspections. Ratings are published by the Food Standards Agency, so a clean extract and good records are worth keeping up.
Which sectors do you work in?
Any commercial site with kitchens or ventilation, from a small pub to a hospital. Hotels, schools, care homes, offices, shops and leisure sites are all part of our work.
Do you have a 24/7 line?
Yes. For anything urgent, such as a fan failure or damage after a fire, ring the 24/7 line, and we will advise on what to do next.
What information do you need?
The site address, the type of premises and your opening hours, along with a few pictures and any previous report.
Will my insurer ask for a TR19 certificate?
Because a dirty extract can spread a fire through a building. Many policies say the extract must be cleaned to TR19, and a claim may be reduced without proof, so keep every certificate.
Are you a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member?
We’re a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease. CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001 sit alongside that, and we’re fully insured.
How long will the clean take?
It takes a single shift for most kitchens, with long duct runs and tall risers needing more time. The survey tells us how long your system will need.
Signs you need kitchen extract cleaning in Hare Street
A lot of duct grease gets there because the filters let it through. Damaged, missing or overloaded filters let grease straight past, and it does not stop until it reaches the fan.
Signs it’s time to call us include:
- Poor airflow at the canopy
- Heavy grease build-up inside the duct runs
- Missing paperwork after a change of operator
- Cleaning needed before an insurance renewal or survey
A hospital like St. Margaret's Hospital, about 4.6 miles north-west, is the kind of site where a kitchen may cook for patients, staff and visitors all day.
What your quote should include
- Which accreditations they hold, and whether you can check them
- What hours they’ll be on site
- Whether the whole system is included, or only the parts that are easy to reach
- Whether the price is fixed
How we price kitchen extract cleaning
The diagnosis comes before the price. The main factors are:
- The number of sites or systems
- Parking and loading at the site
- Working hours and out-of-hours timing
- Site rules, permits and inductions
Several systems or sites on one quote can make for a more efficient booking. Tell us about everything you’d like looked at, and you’ll get one fixed quote.
What to send for a quote
We can often survey from photos. The most useful are:
- The paperwork from the last visit, if you have it
- Detail shots of panels, filters and grilles
- When the site is open and when it’s quiet
- Where the plant sits or the system leaves the building, such as a roof or outside wall
For kitchen extract cleaning in Hare Street, phone us on 0345 646 2711 or use the quote form. Let us know the site type and the opening hours, plus pictures or the previous report if they’re to hand. A fixed quote typically follows within one working day.
For landlords and multi-site operators
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’re happy to quote for all of it.
Where a tenant occupies the premises but the landlord owns the building, the lease normally sets out who maintains what. We are happy to deal with either side, and the report can go to both.
What staff can safely do
When your team notices a problem 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.
Your own staff can handle the daily basics: wiping down canopy surfaces, cleaning filters and keeping a simple log. What they can’t safely do is clean inside the ductwork, the fan or the risers, which is where we come in.
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Kitchen extracts in Hare Street
It’s Epping Forest council that sends environmental health officers to food businesses in Hare Street. They look at how clean the premises and equipment are, and the kitchen extract is part of that. A TR19® certificate and photo report after each clean gives you a record to show an inspector. Fire safety in Hare Street falls to Essex County 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.
Historic houses near Hare Street, such as Hill Hall about 3 miles west, are a reminder that older buildings with event kitchens can have long, awkward duct routes. A hall kitchen that only cooks for events, whether near Church of St Margaret of Antioch or elsewhere in Hare Street, still needs its extract cleaned, just less often.
Hare Street is about 5 miles north-west of Brentwood, in Essex. We provide kitchen extract cleaning for commercial premises of every kind in Hare Street and the rest of Essex. Our Essex coverage runs to 644 places, and Hare Street is one of them. For sites nearby, see our Chelmsford page (12 miles or so).
Every address in CM5 is covered for kitchen extract cleaning, from busy streets to back roads. We also cover the places around Hare Street: Little End (1 mile north-east), Stanford Rivers (1 mile north), Clatterford End (1 mile north-west), Marden Ash (2 miles north-east) and Navestock Heath (2 miles south). We also work in nearby towns such as Chelmsford (12 miles east), Basildon (13 miles south-east), Harlow (8 miles north-west), Brentwood (5 miles south-east), Billericay (9 miles east) and Loughton (7 miles west).
What’s near Hare Street
We work in commercial kitchens and buildings around The Woodman Public House, among other places. Well-known places in the area include St. Margaret's Hospital (4.6 miles north-west). For a walk, there’s Gernon Bushes.
How the visit works
Your trading hours come first. We book the visit for a time the area is closed, whether that’s an evening, overnight or a weekend. Once we are in, the area is sheeted and anything that has to be off is turned off and cooled, and the work takes one visit for most kitchens, while large or complex systems may need more than one. Seeing the system in photos first means the trip to Hare Street can be planned properly.
- Diagnosis comes first, with a survey of the system and how it’s reached.
- We record grease levels at set points, then fix the price.
- We arrive after close, protect the area and contain the waste.
- Heavy deposits are scraped by hand and the system degreased to TR19® Grease.
- The sign-off: post-clean readings, a TR19 certificate and a photo report with the next clean date.
Preparing for the visit
- Mention any parking or loading restrictions
- Arrange a key holder or contact on site
- Tell us about access, such as roof hatches, plant rooms, ceilings or locked areas
Getting a quote
Photos are enough for some jobs, while others need a look on site. Big or complicated sites, and systems that are hard to see in pictures, get a survey first. Either way, the quote is fixed before any work is booked.
Advice
What the work involves, part by part
Restaurant and pub kitchens
Losing a service is not an option for most restaurants and pubs. We work overnight and at weekends where that suits, and hand back a clean kitchen ready to cook.
Grease filters
Between TR19 cleans, filters still need regular cleaning and we offer a filter exchange service for that. Clean filters slow the build-up further down the system.
Keeping the system healthy
Looking after the system between visits is straightforward, and it makes the next visit easier:
- Never cook with filters missing or out of place
- File each certificate with the fire risk assessment
- Report grease drips, smells or fan noise straight away
- Give the canopy a daily wipe
The certificate records when the clean was done, where and by whom. File it with the fire risk assessment and the maintenance log so it’s ready when anyone asks to see it.
Tell whoever looks after the system when something changes. Grease dripping from the canopy, a burning smell or a fan that sounds rough are all signs of build-up, and a grease thickness test can confirm it.