Essex · Kitchen extract cleaning
Kitchen Extract Cleaning in Kelvedon Hatch
Kitchen extract cleaning for Kelvedon Hatch, from a team that has been trading since 2009. Evenings, overnight and weekends, plus a 24/7 emergency line.
- Stale cooking odours from the system
- A kitchen with no current TR19 certificate
- Grease drips onto cooking equipment
FAQs for Kelvedon Hatch
Which environmental health team covers Kelvedon Hatch?
That is Brentwood council, whose environmental health officers carry out food hygiene inspections in Kelvedon Hatch. Have your latest TR19® certificate and photo report to hand, as an officer may ask how the extract is maintained.
Which fire service covers Kelvedon Hatch?
It’s Essex County Fire and Rescue Service, which covers Kelvedon Hatch. It’s worth keeping your fire risk assessment, TR19® certificates and photo reports together, ready to show.
What’s the right cleaning interval for a kitchen extract?
BESA guidance gives minimum intervals of 3, 6 or 12 months, depending on daily cooking hours. Kitchens that fry or grill a lot may need cleaning sooner, which grease thickness testing will show.
What does kitchen extract cleaning cost?
There’s no set price, as it depends on the job: the size of the system, its condition, access and when we can work. We fix the price before we start.
What accreditations do you hold?
Duct Doctor is a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease. We also hold CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, and we are fully insured.
What types of premises do you cover?
We work for restaurants, pubs, hotels, schools, colleges, hospitals, care homes, offices and shops, as well as food production and leisure sites.
Do you cover Kelvedon Hatch?
Yes. Kelvedon Hatch is part of the area we cover, as part of our area across London and the South East.
Do you work with multi-site operators?
Yes. One number covers all your sites in our area, with visits on a regular schedule.
About our kitchen extract cleaning in Kelvedon Hatch
The part of the system nobody sees is often the dirtiest. We reach horizontal runs and vertical risers through access panels, removing thick grease by hand, then using degreasers, hot water or steam to suit the deposit. Anything out of reach is noted in the report, and new panels can be fitted. We’re often asked to deal with a TR19 certificate needed for the insurer and an inspection that picked up a dirty extract, across horizontal duct runs, plenums and filters and extract fans. If you need a kitchen extract clean in Kelvedon Hatch, you get one team and one number for every site.
Kitchens that fry and grill hardest need the most frequent cleans, so we look at the menu as well as the opening hours when we suggest the next date.
For a kitchen in or near Kelvedon Hatch, the visit is planned around opening hours and the journey, and the clean covers the whole system, as it would anywhere: canopy to discharge, then a TR19® certificate and a photo report.
We’re CHAS and SafeContractor accredited, we hold ISO 9001 and we are fully insured. We’re also a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease, and we have been trading since 2009.
- Where
- Kelvedon Hatch (CM15, CM14)
- Region
- Essex
- Records
- Certificate and photo report
- Price
- A fixed quote up front
- Working hours
- Overnight and weekend work, 24/7 emergency callout
- Call
- 0345 646 2711
- Checked
- 30 October 2026
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What else we do in Kelvedon Hatch
What we do, step by step
We are used to working while the site is closed. Evenings, nights and weekends are when much of our work happens, so the site can open as normal afterwards. The visit itself takes a few hours for a small kitchen, longer for a large system. The timing of a visit to Kelvedon Hatch is set by you, and the travel is our side of the planning.
- First the diagnosis: a survey of the whole system and its access points.
- 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.
- Heavy deposits are scraped by hand and the system degreased to TR19® Grease.
- Then the clean bill of health: readings, a TR19 certificate and a photo report with the next date.
Getting ready for the visit
- Mention any locked doors, roof access or ceiling voids
- Tell us the best time to work, such as after service or at a weekend
- Make sure equipment near the work can be switched off and left to cool
Ask for a quote
Want a quote for kitchen extract cleaning? Please call us on 0345 646 2711 or use the quote form with a few details about the site. We’ll explain what we’d do and send a fixed quote before anything is booked.
Advice
In-house cleaning or a specialist?
Staff cleaning doesn’t replace a specialist visit; it supports it. Clean filters and tidy surfaces slow the build-up, but the parts you cannot see still need a specialist at the right interval.
A few tasks are always specialist work: entering ducts, working on fans, testing dampers and taking grease readings need training, the right equipment and safe access. Leave those to us.
When it’s something else
We’ll always give you a straight diagnosis, so here’s what this work can’t put right:
- An undersized canopy or fan
- A fan motor or bearings that have failed (that needs a fan repair or replacement)
- A damper that sticks or has a damaged link
Not sure which it is? You can give us a ring on 0345 646 2711, or send details by email and we will tell you honestly.
Where we work
- Vertical risers
- Extract fans
- Horizontal duct runs
- Plenums and filters
- Discharge points
- Canopies and hoods
For landlords and multi-site operators
Managing agents often deal with us directly. Tell us the site, the work and the access arrangements and we will come back with a fixed quote.
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.
Part by part
Schools, hospitals and care homes
Some healthcare kitchens never fully close. We plan the clean around meal times and work in a contained, tidy way with as little disruption as possible.
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.
What we are called out for in Kelvedon Hatch
How fast grease builds up depends mostly on how long the kitchen cooks each day. BESA guidance sets minimum cleaning intervals of every 3 months for 12 to 16 hours a day, 6 months for 6 to 12 hours, and 12 months for 2 to 6 hours. They are minimums: measured grease levels set the real interval.
Signs it’s time to call us include:
- Rancid smells from grease in the duct
- A TR19 certificate needed for the insurer
- Years of baked-on grease in the ducts
- An extract that no longer clears the smoke
Older buildings often hide long, awkward duct runs, and if you run a kitchen at a historic venue in the area (Ingatestone Hall is about 5 miles east), access may need planning.
Questions to ask before you book
- Whether they recommend a next date
- Proof of insurance
- Whether the price is fixed
- What hours they’ll be on site
What affects the quote in Kelvedon Hatch
Before we fix a price, we need to know a few things. We look at:
- Whether it’s a one-off visit or part of a schedule
- Where the site is and how we reach it
- Site requirements such as sign-in and permits
- The times the site is available
When the work has to happen, how we reach it and how big the site is all affect the cost. We take each of them into account, and the price is fixed before we start.
What to send for a quote
Photos and a few facts are often enough to price the work. Send what you can of the following:
- Any symptoms, from odd noises to smells or leaks
- The roof, plant room or outside wall the system runs to
- Close-ups of filters, grilles, hatches or access panels
- The postcode and the type of business
To help us quote: the address, the type of site and when it’s open, photos of the system and the last certificate or report, if there is one. Then call us on 0345 646 2711, or email photos.
Grease, kitchens and Kelvedon Hatch
The FSA’s food hygiene register shows about 6 restaurants, cafés and works canteens within about 1.5 miles of central Kelvedon Hatch. Each one that cooks under a canopy has an extract system that collects grease and needs regular cleaning. Environmental health officers from Brentwood council inspect food businesses in Kelvedon Hatch. Extraction counts as kitchen equipment, so its condition can come up on the day. Our report lists what was cleaned and when, which is useful to have ready. Kelvedon Hatch is covered by Essex County 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 hall kitchen that only cooks for events, whether near New Church of St Nicholas or elsewhere in Kelvedon Hatch, still needs its extract cleaned, just less often. Kitchens that cook twelve hours or more a day, as some healthcare kitchens do, fall into BESA’s three-monthly minimum; Brentwood Community Hospital is the nearest hospital to Kelvedon Hatch, about 3.3 miles south-east.
Kelvedon Hatch is about 3 miles north-west of Brentwood, in Essex. Whatever kind of site you run in Kelvedon Hatch, we can take on kitchen extract cleaning. Visits can be booked for evenings, overnight or weekends so the site keeps running. Across Essex, we cover 644 places, and Kelvedon Hatch is one of them. There’s also a page for Chelmsford, about 10 miles away.
Every address in CM15 and CM14 is covered for kitchen extract cleaning, from busy streets to back roads. That includes premises on Church Road, Swan Lane and The Finchingfields and the roads around them. If your site is just outside Kelvedon Hatch, we cover Doddinghurst Common (1 mile south), Navestock Side (1 mile south-west), Bentley (1 mile south), Hook End (1 mile north-east) and Stondon Massey (1 mile north-east). Within a short drive, we also cover Chelmsford (10 miles north-east), Basildon (10 miles south-east), Harlow (10 miles north-west), Brentwood (3 miles south-east), Billericay (7 miles east) and Rayleigh (15 miles east).
Local landmarks in Kelvedon Hatch
Typical jobs here are in premises near The Shepherd Public House. The closest station to Kelvedon Hatch is Shenfield station, about 3.4 miles south-east of the centre. A little further out are Brentwood Community Hospital (3.3 miles south-east). The countryside around Kelvedon Hatch includes Thorndon Park.