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Kitchen Extract Cleaning in Kew
Our technicians work in Kew on kitchen extract cleaning. Fixed quotes, work around your opening hours and photo reports as standard.
- A kitchen taken over without any extract records
- Years of baked-on grease in the ducts
- Grease dripping from the canopy or filters
FAQs for Kew
How do you handle parking and loading in Kew?
Parking and loading in London need planning, so tell us about bays, permits and building rules when you book. If the building has a loading slot system, we’ll book into it.
Who enforces fire safety at workplaces in Kew?
Fire safety enforcement in Kew is handled by London Fire Brigade. 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?
TR19® itself is not law. The law is the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, which makes the responsible person assess and reduce fire risk, and cleaning to TR19 is the recognised way to show you’ve dealt with extract grease.
Do you look at the system first?
Yes, always. Diagnosis comes before treatment: the survey tells us what the system needs and how to reach it and the fixed quote is built on it.
How much notice do you need?
The more notice, the better, especially for out-of-hours work. Quotes normally come back within one working day, and there’s a 24/7 line for emergencies.
Where does the waste go?
We contain it and take it with us. Grease, debris and waste water are collected as the work goes on rather than letting it spread.
Will I get a certificate after the clean?
A TR19 certificate and a photo report. Certificates are issued through the BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite portal, and the report shows before and after pictures, readings, any areas not reached and the next clean date.
Will the clean disrupt our service?
We clean while the kitchen is closed, working evenings, overnight or at weekends to suit you. We need the equipment switched off and cooled first.
Kitchen extract cleaning for kitchens and businesses in Kew
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 Kew give you that record for the maintenance log. If you’re dealing with an overdue clean flagged by an EHO or fire officer and a system with no record of a TR19 clean, we can put it right. When a restaurant in Kew asks for duct cleaning, it’s nearly always the kitchen extract they mean, and that’s exactly what we do: canopy to fan, to TR19® Grease.
Each job starts with a look at where grease has built up: grease readings at set points tell us where the heaviest deposits are, and readings afterwards go into your report.
In London, few kitchens can spare a day to close, so work in Kew is normally booked for the night or the early hours. Parking, loading and access to the roof are agreed with the building before the night of the clean.
The paperwork matters as much as the work. You get a written report with photos after every visit, covering the work done, any areas we couldn’t access and a recommended next date. File it in your maintenance log so it’s ready for an insurer, fire officer or EHO.
- Location
- Kew (W4, TW9, TW8)
- Wider area
- Greater London
- Records
- TR19® certificate and photo report
- Quotes
- Fixed quote, normally within a working day
- Working hours
- Nights, weekends or holidays to suit you
- Telephone
- 0345 646 2711
- Reviewed
- 30 October 2026
Different parts, different methods
Restaurant and pub kitchens
A pub or restaurant cannot afford to cancel a service for a clean. Overnight and weekend cleans keep the kitchen trading, and hand back a clean kitchen ready to cook.
Schools, hospitals and care homes
Institutional kitchens tend to cook to set hours, so cleans can be booked when the kitchen is closed. The certificate goes straight into the site’s maintenance records.
What affects the cost of kitchen extract cleaning
The quote reflects the site in front of us. We consider:
- Site requirements such as sign-in and permits
- How big the system is
- The number of sites or systems
- How easy every part is to reach
A single site or a whole portfolio, we price it on the same basis: what needs doing, how we get to it and when. The price is fixed before any work starts.
Helping us quote
To help us quote quickly, please include:
- The roof, plant room or outside wall the system runs to
- When the site is open and when it’s quiet
- A few general shots of the system
- The site address and the type of premises
To get a fixed quote, call us on 0345 646 2711, or email photos and tell us the type of site, your opening hours and roughly what the system looks like. Photos and the last report, if you have one, make the quote quicker. You will typically have a quote within one working day.
Why it’s worth doing now in Kew
If there’s a fire and the extract hasn’t been cleaned, the paperwork becomes the problem. Many policies require cleaning to TR19, and an insurer can refuse or reduce a claim without proof. A certificate in the file answers that question. London sites work long hours, and the longer a job is left, the bigger it gets.
Leaving it longer rarely makes the work cheaper. Build-up, wear and faults tend to get worse, not better, which can make the next visit longer. If you are unsure, give us a ring on 0345 646 2711 or drop us a line and we’ll give you an honest view and a fixed quote.
Why Kew businesses choose us
- CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001
- Ventilation hygiene specialists since 2009
- Each visit written up, with photos
- A BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease
Take a look at our cost guide and our accreditations.
When to call us in Kew
A lot of duct grease gets there because the filters let it through. Filters that are bent, badly fitted, missing or left uncleaned let more fat into the plenum and duct, and from there it travels on to the fan.
Clients usually contact us when they notice one of these:
- A TR19 certificate needed for the insurer
- Heavy grease build-up inside the duct runs
- Missing paperwork after a change of operator
- An extract that no longer clears the smoke
If you run catering at a healthcare site, such as a hospital like Barnes Hospital about 1.5 miles south-east, the extract may need cleaning more often than a part-time kitchen.
Before you book anyone
- When they can work, and whether that is outside your opening hours
- Their accreditations, such as BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite, CHAS or SafeContractor
- What insurance they carry
- How they set the interval to the next visit
Grease, kitchens and Kew
Look up Kew on the FSA’s food hygiene register and you will find about 287 restaurants, cafés and works canteens and about 80 sandwich bars and takeaways in Kew and the streets around it, up to about 1.5 miles out. Wherever food is cooked under a canopy, the extract above it gathers grease and needs cleaning on a schedule. London jobs normally start after the last service, with loading and roof access agreed with the building first. Fire safety in Kew falls to London Fire Brigade. In most workplaces, including commercial kitchens, it’s the fire and rescue authority that enforces the Fire Safety Order.
If you cook for passing trade around Chiswick station, the extract can be cleaned between your last and first customer. Bursars and site managers at schools such as Grove Park Primary School tend to book extract cleaning for when the kitchen is empty.
Kew is about 2 miles south of Acton, in Greater London. If you need kitchen extract cleaning in Kew, it’s easy to get a fixed quote: please call 0345 646 2711 or use the quote form. Our area covers London and the South East, including Kew. Our Greater London coverage runs to 764 places, Kew among them. You can also see our page for London, about 8 miles away.
Kitchen extract cleaning in W4, TW9 and TW8 is surveyed, quoted and booked the same way as anywhere else. We cover sites on Kew Road, Maze Road and Kent Road and the roads around them. Kew is on the A3000, so it’s easy for us to get to for kitchen extract cleaning. Nearby, we also carry out kitchen extract cleaning in Strand-on-the-Green (1 mile north), Grove Park (1 mile east), North Sheen (1 mile south), Gunnersbury (1 mile north) and Turnham Green (1 mile east). We also work in nearby towns such as London (8 miles east), City of Westminster (6 miles east), Marylebone (6 miles north-east), Kensington (3 miles east), St Pancras (7 miles north-east) and Shoreditch (9 miles east).
Around Kew
Locally, jobs take us to businesses close to Library for Iranian Studies, Kew Green and Chiswick School. Nearby too are Kew College Prep (under half a mile south-west) and Bull's Head pub (within half a mile north). For rail, the closest station is Chiswick station, roughly 0.5 miles south-east of the centre. A little further out are Livat Hammersmith (2.2 miles east) and Barnes Hospital (1.5 miles south-east). Not far away are Kew Gardens Lake and Duke's Hollow.
What a clean won’t put right
Not every problem is solved by kitchen extract cleaning, and we’ll tell you before we start. It will not put right:
- A grease trap that needs emptying
- A fan motor or bearings that have failed (that needs a fan repair or replacement)
- A duct that’s holed or coming apart
Not sure which it is? You can call 0345 646 2711 or send us an email and we will tell you honestly before you book.
Where we work
- Extract fans
- Discharge points
- Horizontal duct runs
- Plenums and filters
- Vertical risers
- Canopies and hoods
In-house cleaning or a specialist?
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.
Logging matters as much as cleaning. A simple log of filter washes, wipe-downs and checks shows an inspector that the system is looked after between visits, alongside our reports.
The process
We work around your opening hours, not the other way round. Most visits are booked for when the area is out of use, such as evenings, overnight, early mornings or weekends. When the team arrives, the work area is protected and the relevant equipment is switched off to cool, and the work takes one visit for most kitchens, while large or complex systems may need more than one. If your building in Kew has sign-in rules, permits or key holders, mention them when you book.
- First the diagnosis: a survey of the whole system and its access points.
- 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.
- Then the clean bill of health: readings, a TR19 certificate and a photo report with the next date.
Getting ready for the visit
- Let us know how we reach the system, including roofs, risers and plant rooms
- Let us know when the site is closed or quiet
- Tell us about site rules, permits or sign-in
Ask for a quote
Every quote begins with a look at the system, either from photos and details you send or from a site visit. After that, you get a fixed price for the work, before work begins.