Southampton · Kitchen extract cleaning
Kitchen extract cleaning in Itchen, Southampton
We cover Itchen for kitchen extract cleaning. Fixed quotes, work around your opening hours and photo reports on every job.
- Grease dripping from the canopy or filters
- A smoky, hot kitchen with weak extraction
- Grease smells coming from the extract
Kitchen extract cleaning in Itchen
Few kitchens can stop cooking for a day so the extract can be cleaned. Cleans are booked for evenings, overnight or weekends, or between services where the kitchen has a gap. With the equipment off and cool and the area sheeted, we clean and hand the kitchen back ready for the next service. The work covers discharge points, horizontal duct runs and extract fans, and people most often call us about extraction mentioned at an environmental health visit and a kitchen with no current TR19 certificate. Whether you call it kitchen extract cleaning, TR19 cleaning or kitchen duct cleaning, in Itchen it means the same thing to us: the whole system, cleaned and certificated.
BESA sets minimum intervals by hours of cooking a day: 3-monthly for heavy use, 6-monthly for moderate use and yearly for light use, with grease readings setting the real interval.
In a smaller place like Itchen, many kitchens sit in older buildings or later extensions, with the duct running through a roof space or up an outside wall. Long horizontal runs like that hold grease and need access panels to reach.
Good records are part of the job. Each visit is written up with pictures, listing what was done, anything we couldn’t reach and when the next visit is due. File it in your maintenance log so it’s ready for an insurer, fire officer or EHO.
- Where
- Itchen (SO19, SO14)
- Region
- Southampton
- Records
- Certificate and photo report
- Quote
- Fixed quote, typically within a working day
- When we work
- Evenings, overnight and weekends; 24/7 emergencies
- Telephone
- 0345 646 2711
- Page updated
- 30 October 2026
What happens on the day
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 we take it from there. Before we leave, the area is tidied and the paperwork follows. In a smaller place like Itchen, parking is rarely the issue, but tell us about gates, roof access and opening hours.
- We start with a survey, so we know every part of the system before we quote.
- Set points are tested for grease thickness and the quote is fixed before work begins.
- With the kitchen closed and equipment off and cool, the area is sheeted.
- We clean the canopy, plenum, filters, ducts, risers, fan and discharge.
- Readings and photos are taken again, and you receive a TR19 certificate and photo report.
Getting ready for the visit
- Make sure someone can let us in and lock up afterwards
- Let us know when the site is closed or quiet
- Move anything stored near the system
Ask for a quote
Getting a quote doesn’t take long. Call or email with a few details and you’ll usually have a fixed price within one working day. If we need to see the system first, we book a survey around your hours.
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Leave it or put it right?
Any food business in Itchen can expect visits from the council’s environmental health officers, and a greasy canopy or dripping filters will not go unnoticed. Keeping the extract clean helps the whole kitchen pass muster. A quieter site near Itchen still needs its system looked after.
A single site or a whole portfolio, we price it on the same basis: the work involved, the access and the timing. The price is fixed before work begins.
Why us?
- Every job surveyed first
- Fixed quotes, usually within one working day
- One number for every site across the South East and London
- Fully insured
Read how cleaning jobs are priced and how to check a contractor.
How the job changes from site to site
Canopy and plenum
Grease meets the system first at the canopy and the plenum behind the filters. Both are scraped and degreased inside and out, with the filter housing cleaned too.
Schools, hospitals and care homes
School kitchens can look lightly used but still need a TR19 clean at least every 12 months under BESA guidance. Holidays make it simple to schedule.
Itchen: your questions answered
Does being near the coast affect kitchen extract cleaning in Itchen?
It can. Itchen is within about 1 mile of the coast, and salt air speeds up corrosion. Rooftop fans, discharge cowls and fixings are checked for corrosion as well as grease.
Which fire authority looks after Itchen?
Fire safety enforcement in Itchen is handled by Hampshire and Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service. Records of extract cleaning are a sensible thing to have ready if a fire safety officer carries out an audit.
Is TR19 a legal requirement?
The legal duty sits in the Fire Safety Order 2005 rather than in TR19 itself. TR19 is the industry benchmark for meeting that duty in a kitchen extract, and many insurers ask for proof of it.
What do you do with what you remove?
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 long does a kitchen extract clean take?
Short systems are done in a few hours, but large systems may be spread over more than one visit. Your quote says how long to expect.
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.
Can one contract cover all our sites?
Yes. Tell us the addresses and what each needs and we will quote them together.
What is TR19?
TR19® is BESA’s specification for ventilation hygiene. TR19® Grease, a standalone specification since 2019, covers grease in kitchen extract systems, and TR19® Air covers general supply and extract systems.
Common problems we fix in Itchen
The reason for all this is fire. Flames from a pan or grill can be pulled into the canopy by the fan, where burning grease can carry a fire along the ducts and into other parts of the building. For a kitchen in Itchen, keeping that fuel under control is part of the fire risk assessment.
Any of these means the system needs a check-up:
- A new tenancy or takeover with no cleaning history
- An extract that no longer clears the smoke
- A system with no record of a TR19 clean
- Rancid smells from grease in the duct
If you run catering at a healthcare site, such as a hospital like Royal South Hants Hospital about 1.3 miles north-west, the extract may need cleaning more often than a part-time kitchen.
Comparing quotes
- What records you’ll receive afterwards
- Whether the work can be done while the site is closed
- Whether inaccessible sections are listed on the report
- Whether the price is fixed
When something else is needed
A few issues sit outside what this work can do:
- Ductwork that is corroded, split or leaking (that is for a ductwork contractor)
- A fan motor or bearings that have failed (that needs a fan repair or replacement)
- Fire dampers that will not close (that needs damper testing and remedials)
Not sure which it is? You can give us a ring on 0345 646 2711 or drop us a line and we’ll tell you honestly.
Parts of the system we cover
- Vertical risers
- Discharge points
- Plenums and filters
- Horizontal duct runs
- Extract fans
- Canopies and hoods
Places near Itchen
What else we do in Itchen
Grease, kitchens and Itchen
At about 1 mile from the coast, Itchen is close enough for sea air to matter. Salt air speeds up corrosion of roof-level fans, discharge cowls and their fixings. The FSA’s food hygiene register includes about 42 bars, pubs and nightclubs and about 4 hotels and B&Bs within 1.5 miles or so of the middle of Itchen. Any of them serving cooked food has an extract to keep clean, from canopy to discharge. Itchen sits within the area of Hampshire and Isle of Wight 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.
A kitchen near Woolston station that serves breakfast and dinner can run its extract twelve hours or more, which shortens the cleaning interval. For schools such as Ludlow Junior School, kitchen extract cleaning is typically booked for the holidays, when the canteen is closed.
Itchen is about 2 miles south-east of Southampton, in Southampton. Whether your site is in the middle of Itchen or further out, kitchen extract cleaning is available to all kinds of commercial premises, from a single unit to a large public building. Itchen is one of 40 places in Southampton where we work for commercial clients.
Here we cover the SO19 and SO14 postcode area for kitchen extract cleaning. If you need kitchen extract cleaning at premises on Sea Road, Oak Road and West Road or a nearby road, we can help. Main roads around Itchen include the A3025, so getting to you is simple for evening and night visits. Other places close to Itchen include Peartree Green (1 mile north-west), Northam (1 mile north-west), Sholing (1 mile east), Bitterne (1 mile north-east) and St Mary's (1 mile west). We also work in nearby towns such as Shirley (3 miles north-west), Regents Park (3 miles west), Maybush (4 miles north-west), Coxford (4 miles north-west), Freemantle (3 miles west) and Lordswood (4 miles north-west). Itchen is among the bigger places we cover in Southampton for kitchen extract cleaning.
Landmarks near Itchen
We work in commercial kitchens and buildings around Houndwell Park, Woolston School and Oasis Academy Sholing. There’s a railway station in Itchen itself: Woolston station. Well-known places in the area include Bitterne Local History Society Heritage And Research Centre (0.9 miles north) and Marlands Shopping Centre (1.6 miles west). Open spaces near Itchen include Netley Common.
Staff cleaning versus specialist work
Some jobs should never be done in-house: opening up ductwork, cleaning fans, drop testing fire dampers and measuring grease need training, the right equipment and safe access. That’s our job.
Staff cleaning and specialist work aren’t the same thing. Wiping filters daily and washing them weekly keeps the visible parts in order, but grease that has passed the filters is out of reach. Reaching it takes a specialist with the right equipment.
Between visits
So the system stays in good health:
- Give the canopy a daily wipe
- Switch the fan on before cooking starts
- Tell us when the extract starts to drip or smell
- Keep grease collection points emptied
If we couldn’t get into part of the duct, the report says so plainly. That is part of an honest TR19 clean, not a failing, and new access panels can be fitted so the next clean covers it.
Book the next clean before the last one runs out. 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.