Kent · Kitchen extract cleaning
Kitchen extract cleaning in Hemsted, Kent
Kitchen extract cleaning across Hemsted and nearby, booked around your opening hours and finished with a written report and photos.
- A kitchen with no current TR19 certificate
- Grease drips onto cooking equipment
- Grease smells coming from the extract
How we handle kitchen extract cleaning in Hemsted
Think of it as a health check for the kitchen’s airways: diagnose with a survey, treat with a thorough clean, then sign it off. The sign-off is a TR19 certificate with a photo report, issued through the BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite portal. If you are dealing with grease dripping from the canopy or filters and years of baked-on grease in the ducts, we can help. For TR19 kitchen extract cleaning in Hemsted, one call covers the survey, the clean and the paperwork.
A clean in Hemsted covers the canopy, plenum, filters, ductwork, risers and fan, then record anything that couldn’t be reached.
For a kitchen in or near Hemsted, the visit is planned around opening hours and the journey, and the clean itself is the same full TR19® job as in any town: canopy, filters, duct, fan and discharge, with a certificate and photo report at the end.
Good records are part of the job. You get a written report with pictures after every visit, listing what was done, anything we couldn’t reach and when the next visit is due. Keep it with your fire safety records so it’s to hand when an insurer or inspector asks.
- Location
- Hemsted (CT18)
- Region
- Kent
- Records
- Certificate plus before-and-after photos
- Price
- A fixed price before we start
- Working hours
- Evenings, overnight and weekends; 24/7 emergencies
- Telephone
- 0345 646 2711
- Page updated
- 30 October 2026
What we do, step by step
Your trading hours come first. Most visits are booked for when the area is out of use, such as evenings, overnight, early mornings or weekends. Once we are in, the area is sheeted and anything that has to be off is turned off and cooled, and the work takes anything from a few hours to a full night, depending on the size of the system. The timing of a visit to Hemsted is set by you, and the travel is our side of the planning.
- You send photos or we visit, and the system is surveyed from canopy to discharge.
- Grease thickness is measured and the price is fixed before work starts.
- 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, pictures taken, and your TR19 certificate and photo report issued.
Before we arrive
- Clear the space around the work
- Name a contact who can let us in at the agreed time
- Mention any sign-in, permit or induction we need
How to get a quote
Photos are the quickest way to a quote: wide shots of the system, close-ups of anything that worries you and how we’d get to it. Tell us what kind of site it is and when it’s open, and many jobs can be priced from that alone.
Advice
Also near Hemsted
What else we do in Hemsted
When something else is needed
Some problems need a different service or another trade:
- Blocked drains from a neglected grease trap (a separate service)
- Damaged duct sections that need replacing
- An undersized canopy or fan
If you are not sure, just phone us on 0345 646 2711 or email us and we will give you a straight answer before you book.
Parts of the system we cover
- Discharge points
- Extract fans
- Horizontal duct runs
- Vertical risers
- Plenums and filters
- Canopies and hoods
Hemsted: your questions answered
Which fire service covers Hemsted?
That is Kent Fire and Rescue Service. A recent cleaning certificate and a note of the next clean date show that grease in the extract is being managed.
Can the work in Hemsted be done at night or at weekends?
Yes, out-of-hours work is a big part of what we do. The work in Hemsted can fit around your hours. Tell us your opening hours when you ask for a quote.
Do insurers need proof of extract cleaning?
Grease-filled ducts can carry fire well beyond the kitchen. Many policies say the extract must be cleaned to TR19, and a claim may be reduced without proof, so keep every certificate.
What information do you need?
A short description and a few photos plus the address and your hours. If we need more, we will ask.
What happens to the waste?
Anything we remove is contained as we work and taken away with us, including grease, debris and dirty water. We do not leave it behind.
Can one contract cover all our sites?
Yes. Our area covers London and the South East, so we can schedule a run of sites as one programme. Each site gets its own report and photos.
How far ahead should we book?
The more notice, the better, especially for out-of-hours work. Quotes usually come back within one working day, and emergencies are covered by our 24/7 line.
What paperwork comes with a kitchen extract clean?
Yes, a TR19 certificate, along with a photo report. The report lists what was cleaned, anything we couldn’t reach and when the next clean is due.
What staff can safely do
Keep a record of what your team does. A dated log of in-house cleaning and checks shows an inspector that the system is looked after between visits, alongside our reports.
Good housekeeping makes our visits easier, not unnecessary. Clean filters and tidy surfaces slow the build-up, but hidden parts of the system still need specialist attention.
How the job changes from site to site
Canopy and plenum
The plenum is out of sight behind the filters, so it’s easy to forget. With the filters out, the plenum is scraped and degreased.
Ductwork and risers
Vertical risers carry the air up through the building, and grease often collects at the bottom of them. They’re cleaned through access points along their height.
Multi-site and managed buildings
Managing agents often deal with us directly. Send the address, what’s needed and how access works and we will come back with a fixed quote.
For anyone managing more than one site, we can plan visits across the whole estate and price them together. Every building has its own written report, so each one has its own record.
Why act early in Hemsted
There’s no law that names TR19, but the Fire Safety Order 2005 still applies. It puts a duty on the responsible person to assess and reduce fire risk, which in a kitchen includes the grease in the extract. TR19 is the benchmark insurers, fire officers and EHOs look to. Rural sites cannot always move to another kitchen or room when something fails.
What you pay reflects the actual work. That is why we survey first, from pictures or on site, and why the quote is fixed before we start.
Why us?
- We’re fully insured
- Member of BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease
- We diagnose before we treat
- Ventilation hygiene specialists since 2009
See what affects the cost and our accreditations.
When to call us in Hemsted
It’s common for parts of a duct to have been missed for years. Most of the time it’s because there were never enough access panels, so nobody could get to them. That hidden grease keeps building where nobody looks.
Any of these means the system needs a check-up:
- An extract that has never been cleaned to TR19
- Grease dripping from the canopy or filters
- A kitchen taken over without any extract records
- A smoky, hot kitchen with weak extraction
If you run a church or community hall kitchen, near Church of St Mary or elsewhere in Hemsted, its extract still collects grease from every lunch and event.
Questions to ask before you book
- Whether the quote shows VAT
- Whether a written report and pictures are included
- Whether they’re fully insured
- What’s included in the scope, part by part
Kitchen extract cleaning in Hemsted: the local picture
In Hemsted, food businesses are inspected by environmental health officers from Folkestone and Hythe council. The cleanliness of the kitchen and its equipment, extraction included, is part of what they check. Before-and-after photos from each clean are a simple way to show the extract is in hand. Hemsted sits within the area of Kent Fire and Rescue Service. The Fire Safety Order puts the duty on whoever runs a kitchen to control its fire risk, and a greasy duct is fuel.
If your kitchen is in a listed or historic building, like the houses around Hemsted (Westenhanger Castle is about 3.1 miles south), fitting access panels needs care. School kitchens, at schools like Stowting Church of England Primary School for example, are typically cleaned in the holidays so no lunches are lost.
Hemsted is about 5 miles north of Hythe, in Kent. We provide kitchen extract cleaning for commercial premises of every kind in Hemsted and the rest of Kent. We cover 922 places across Kent, large and small. Our Maidstone page covers sites nearby, about 25 miles away.
Here we cover the CT18 postcode area for kitchen extract cleaning. If your site is just outside Hemsted, we cover Woodland (1 mile south-east), Skeete (1 mile south), Stowting (1 mile west), Rhodes Minnis (1 mile north-east) and Stowting Common (1 mile north-west). We also work in nearby towns such as Ashford (8 miles west), Canterbury (10 miles north), Dover (11 miles east), Folkestone (6 miles south-east), Whitstable (15 miles north) and Faversham (14 miles north-west).
Local landmarks in Hemsted
For rail, the closest station is Westenhanger station, about 2.9 miles south. A little further out are Saltwood Castle (4 miles south) and Elham Valley Countryside Centre And Railway Museum (3.7 miles south-east). The countryside around Hemsted includes Hatch Park and Tolsford Hill.