Kent · Kitchen extract cleaning
Horton Kirby kitchen extract cleaning
Looking for kitchen extract cleaning in Horton Kirby? We diagnose first, fix the price and book the work around your hours, finishing with a written report and photos.
- Poor airflow at the canopy
- Years of baked-on grease in the ducts
- Fat running down the canopy edge
Horton Kirby: your questions answered
Can the work in Horton Kirby be done at night or at weekends?
Yes, nights and weekends are routine for us. The work in Horton Kirby can fit around your hours. Your opening times are the first thing we ask for.
Who enforces fire safety at workplaces in Horton Kirby?
That’s Kent 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 happens to the waste?
It leaves the site with us at the end of the visit. While we work, it’s kept contained so the area stays clean.
How often does a kitchen extract system need cleaning?
BESA guidance sets minimums by daily cooking hours: 3-monthly for heavy use, 6-monthly for moderate use and 12-monthly for light use. Grease readings can show a shorter interval is needed.
How do you protect the area?
With sheeting and covers, before anything else happens. We keep the work contained and leave the area clean.
Do you have a 24/7 line?
Yes, day and night, every day of the year. Office hours are Monday to Friday, 8am to 6pm, and the emergency line covers the rest.
Do you look at the system first?
Yes. We always survey first, either from pictures and details you send or on a site visit. A fixed quote follows.
How long does it take to clean a kitchen extract system?
Length of duct, grease levels and access all affect it. As a guide, it takes a single shift for most kitchens, with long duct runs and tall risers needing more time.
TR19 kitchen extract cleaning in Horton Kirby
Think of it as a health check for the kitchen’s airways: survey first, clean second, sign-off last. The sign-off is a TR19 certificate with a photo report, issued through the BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite portal. The work covers canopies and hoods, plenums and filters and vertical risers, and the jobs we see most are a TR19 certificate needed for the insurer and an overdue clean flagged by an EHO or fire officer. If you need a kitchen extract clean in Horton Kirby, one call covers the survey, the clean and the paperwork.
Grease that collects out of sight, behind the filters and along the duct, is what insurers and fire officers worry about, so that’s where most of the work in Horton Kirby goes.
Rural kitchens often have long, low duct runs through a roof space or along an outside wall, where grease settles in the flat sections. We agree access and timings in advance.
Nothing is signed off by word of mouth: a written report, dated and illustrated with pictures, plus a certificate through the BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite portal when the work is a TR19® Grease clean. Any parts we couldn’t reach are recorded on it too.
- Where
- Horton Kirby (DA4)
- Region
- Kent
- Paperwork
- Certificate plus before-and-after photos
- Quote
- A fixed price before work begins
- When we work
- Nights, weekends or holidays to suit you
- Call
- 0345 646 2711
- Page updated
- 30 October 2026
How the visit works
Your staff do not need to do much on the day. Someone lets us in at the agreed time and shows us where everything is, and we take it from there. Afterwards, the area is left tidy and the written report follows. Photos of the system and how to reach it help us plan a visit to Horton Kirby.
- 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.
- After the kitchen closes, we sheet the area and set up to contain grease and water.
- The treatment: heavy grease scraped out, then every part degreased to TR19® Grease.
- The sign-off: post-clean readings, a TR19 certificate and a photo report with the next clean date.
How to prepare
- Mention any sign-in, permit or induction we need
- Name a contact who can let us in at the agreed time
- Tell us where we can park and unload
How to get a quote
Photos are enough for some jobs, while others need a look on site. Larger sites, and anything hidden behind walls, ceilings or floors, are normally surveyed first. Either way, you get a fixed price before work begins.
Advice
When it’s something else
We’d rather tell you now than book work that won’t help, so these are the things it won’t cover:
- A damper that sticks or has a damaged link
- Blocked drains from a neglected grease trap (a separate service)
- Damaged duct sections that need replacing
If you are not sure, just ring 0345 646 2711 or email us and we’ll give you a straight answer.
What we work on in Horton Kirby
- Horizontal duct runs
- Canopies and hoods
- Discharge points
- Plenums and filters
- Extract fans
- Vertical risers
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. Keeping them clean helps the rest of the system stay cleaner.
Why deal with it now?
Putting it off simply moves the grease further down the duct. Over time, soft grease bakes into a harder, thicker crust, which is slower to clean. Regular cleans keep each visit shorter. Rural sites cannot always move to another kitchen or room when something fails.
Combining work into one visit or one programme can make for a more efficient booking. Tell us about everything you’d like looked at and we will price it together.
What you get with us
- We’re fully insured
- In business since 2009
- Survey first, then a fixed quote
- CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001
Also near Horton Kirby
What else we do in Horton Kirby
Aftercare tips
Good habits slow the build-up between visits. A few tips:
- Give the canopy a daily wipe
- Run the extract fan throughout cooking
- Report grease drips, smells or fan noise right away
- File each certificate with the fire risk assessment
Every clean ends with a photo report. Before and after pictures show each part of the system, alongside a list of what was cleaned, anything out of reach and the recommended next clean date.
Report drips, smells or a noisy fan early. Drips, odours and fan noise often mean grease is building, and a grease thickness test can confirm it.
What kitchen extract cleaning looks like in Horton Kirby
The FSA’s food hygiene register includes about 7 bars, pubs and nightclubs within 1.5 miles or so of the middle of Horton Kirby. Where they serve hot food, their kitchen extracts need cleaning to TR19® like any restaurant’s. Horton Kirby sits within the area of Kent Fire and Rescue Service. Fire and rescue authorities enforce the Fire Safety Order in most non-domestic premises, and in a kitchen that fire risk includes the grease in the extract. Environmental health officers from Sevenoaks council inspect food businesses in Horton Kirby. 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.
For schools such as Horton Kirby Church of England Primary School, kitchen extract cleaning is usually booked for the holidays, when the canteen is closed. If you run catering at a healthcare site, such as a hospital like Darenth Park Hospital about 3 miles north, the extract may need cleaning more often than a part-time kitchen. For kitchens close to Farningham Road station, where the day often starts early and ends late, the extract can be cleaned overnight.
Horton Kirby is about 4 miles south of Dartford, in Kent. For kitchen extract cleaning in and around Horton Kirby, it’s easy to get a fixed quote: please ring 0345 646 2711 or send us an email. We work across South East England and London, Horton Kirby included. Our Kent coverage runs to 922 places, and Horton Kirby is one of them. There’s also a page for Maidstone, roughly 15 miles from Horton Kirby.
Kitchen extract cleaning in DA4 follows the same survey, fixed quote and written report as everywhere else we cover. Streets in the area include The Street, Rashleigh Way and Churchill Road, and we cover them all for kitchen extract cleaning. If your site is just outside Horton Kirby, we cover Farningham (1 mile south-west), Speed Gate (2 miles south-east), Eynsford (2 miles south-west), Fawkham Green (2 miles south-east) and Maplescombe (3 miles south). Within a short drive, we also cover Maidstone (15 miles south-east), Dartford (4 miles north), Sevenoaks (8 miles south), Gravesend (6 miles north-east), Tonbridge (13 miles south) and Northfleet (5 miles north-east).
What’s near Horton Kirby
In Horton Kirby, that means kitchens and buildings near The Fighting Cocks pub, among other places. The closest station to Horton Kirby is Farningham Road station, roughly 0.8 miles north-west of the centre. Other landmarks nearby include Darenth Park Hospital (3 miles north) and Bluewater (3.5 miles north). Not far away are Sawyers Lake and Wansunt Pit.
Landlords, agents and facilities managers
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 photos.
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.
What staff can safely do
A few tasks are always specialist work: opening up ductwork, cleaning fans, drop testing fire dampers and measuring grease need training, the right equipment and safe access. That’s our job.
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.