Kent · Kitchen extract cleaning
Key's Green kitchen extract cleaning
Kitchen extract cleaning across Key's Green and nearby, booked around your opening hours and finished with a written report and photos.
- Grease smells coming from the extract
- A system with no record of a TR19 clean
- Proof of cleaning requested by an insurer
Kitchen extract cleaning around Key's Green
Look up Key's Green on the FSA’s food hygiene register and you will find about 3 cafés, restaurants and staff canteens in Key's Green and the streets around it, up to about 1.5 miles out. Any of them cooking under a canopy is sending grease into its ductwork every service. The fire and rescue service for Key's Green is 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. In Key's Green, food businesses are inspected by environmental health officers from Tunbridge Wells council. A greasy canopy or dripping filters are the sort of thing an inspection can pick up. Keeping each certificate and photo report on file helps show the extract is looked after.
If you run catering at a historic house or estate in the area (Scotney Castle is about 3.6 miles south-east), event kitchens in older buildings often have awkward duct runs that need planning. Healthcare kitchens, like those at hospitals such as Pembury Hospital (about 2.4 miles north-west), often cook for long hours, which puts them in BESA’s heavier-use bands.
Key's Green is about 4 miles east of Royal Tunbridge Wells, in Kent. Across the TN12 area, we can carry out kitchen extract cleaning at your premises. We cover 922 places across Kent, large and small. There’s also a page for Maidstone, about 12 miles away.
Every address in TN12 is covered for kitchen extract cleaning, from busy streets to back roads. We cover sites on Cryals Road and Beech Lane and the roads around them. Other places close to Key's Green include Lamberhurst Quarter (1 mile south), Petteridge (1 mile north-east), Pembury (2 miles north-west), Matfield (2 miles north-east) and Brenchley (2 miles north-east). Within a short drive, we also cover Maidstone (12 miles north-east), Sevenoaks (13 miles north-west), Royal Tunbridge Wells (4 miles west), Tonbridge (6 miles north-west), Kings Hill (10 miles north) and Foley Park (13 miles north-east).
What’s near Key's Green
Around Key's Green, our work takes us to kitchens and buildings near Brenchley Wood and The Blue Boys Inn, among other places. For rail, the closest station is Frant station, roughly 3.5 miles south-west. A little further out are Pembury Hospital (2.4 miles north-west) and Old Scotney Castle (3.7 miles south-east). The countryside around Key's Green includes Bewl Water and Tudeley Woods RSPB reserve.
How we handle kitchen extract cleaning in Key's Green
We’ve been trading since 2009, cleaning kitchen extracts across the South East and London. We are a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease, and we hold CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001 and are fully insured. If you’re dealing with ductwork thick with old, hardened grease and an extract that no longer clears the smoke, we can help, from plenums and filters, extract fans and vertical risers onwards. Extraction cleaning, hood cleaning and TR19 duct cleaning all end up in the same place: a clean that goes past the canopy into the duct and fan, backed by a certificate.
Grease that collects out of sight, behind the filters and along the duct, is what insurers and fire officers worry about, so that is where most of the work in Key's Green goes.
In a small place like Key's Green, kitchens are often in older or extended buildings, with long single-storey duct runs, and those horizontal sections are where grease settles. Access, parking and timings are agreed before the day.
Duct Doctor has been trading since 2009, as a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease. We also hold CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, and we’re fully insured.
- Location
- Key's Green (TN12)
- Wider area
- Kent
- Paperwork
- Certificate plus before-and-after pictures
- Quotes
- Fixed quote, typically within a working day
- When we work
- Evenings, overnight and weekends; 24/7 emergencies
- Call
- 0345 646 2711
- Last updated
- 30 October 2026
How the visit works
The visit has three parts: getting the area ready, doing the work and signing it off. Getting ready means protecting surfaces and switching off what needs to be off, and the sign-off is a written report with photos. Most of the time goes on the work itself, which takes anything from a few hours to a full night, depending on the size of the system. Somewhere as small as Key's Green, the date and timings are agreed with you well before the day.
- 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.
- Canopy, plenum, filters, duct runs, risers, fan and discharge are all cleaned to TR19® Grease.
- We test again, photograph the result and issue your TR19 certificate and photo report.
Getting ready for the visit
- Clear loose items from the work area
- Let us know about permits to work or site inductions
- Tell us about access, such as roof hatches, plant rooms, ceilings or locked areas
How to get a quote
For a fixed quote, call us on 0345 646 2711 or send us an email with the site type, your trading hours and a short description of the system. Photos and the last report, if you have one, make the quote quicker. You will usually have a quote within one working day.
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Leave it or put it right?
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. Somewhere as small as Key's Green, losing a kitchen or building to a fault is felt by everyone who uses it.
A single site or a whole portfolio, the quote is built the same way: what needs doing, how we get to it and when. The price is fixed before work begins.
Why Key's Green businesses choose us
- CHAS and SafeContractor accredited, with ISO 9001
- A written report with photos after every visit
- Fixed quotes from a survey or photos
- In business since 2009
Landlords, agents and facilities managers
Landlords, managing agents and facilities managers book us, not only the businesses that use the systems. Where a system serves more than one tenant, such as a shared riser, it helps to agree who arranges the work, and we’re happy to quote for all of it.
Multi-site operators often want one contractor and one number. We work across London and the South East, so a run of sites can go into one programme and kept to a regular schedule.
When it’s something else
We won’t sell you work that does not address the problem, so these are the things it will not cover:
- Blocked drains from a neglected grease trap (a separate service)
- Ductwork that is corroded, split or leaking (that’s for a ductwork contractor)
- A fan motor that has burnt out
Not sure which it is? You can call us on 0345 646 2711 or use the quote form and we’ll tell you honestly before booking.
What the work covers
- Horizontal duct runs
- Discharge points
- Extract fans
- Vertical risers
- Plenums and filters
- Canopies and hoods
Key's Green: your questions answered
Which fire authority looks after Key's Green?
It’s Kent Fire and Rescue Service, which covers Key's Green. It’s worth keeping your fire risk assessment, TR19® certificates and photo reports together, ready to show.
Who carries out food hygiene inspections in Key's Green?
That’s Tunbridge Wells council, whose environmental health officers carry out food hygiene inspections in Key's Green. Have your latest TR19® certificate and photo report to hand, as an officer may ask how the extract is maintained.
What about areas you cannot get to?
We never leave them off the paperwork. You’ll know exactly which parts weren’t reached and why, and we can quote to improve the access.
What types of premises do you cover?
Restaurants and pubs, hotels, schools and colleges, hospitals and care homes, offices and retail, as well as food production and leisure sites.
What do you do with what you remove?
We contain it and take it with us. Grease, debris and waste water are collected as the work goes on, so it doesn’t spread.
What do I get after the clean?
You receive a TR19 certificate and a photo report. The certificate is issued through the BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite portal, and the report includes before and after photos, grease readings and the recommended next clean date.
What should I send you?
The site address, the type of premises and your opening hours, along with a few pictures and any previous report.
How long does a kitchen extract clean take?
Length of duct, grease levels and access all affect it. Most jobs take anything from a few hours to a full night, depending on the size of the system.
What the work involves, part by part
Restaurant and pub kitchens
Restaurants and pubs tend to cook long hours with plenty of frying and grilling, so their cleaning interval is often 3 or 6 months under BESA guidance. Cleans are done after close, overnight or before opening.
Extract fan and discharge
Grease that reaches the fan coats the blades and the housing. It’s isolated, opened and cleaned as part of the TR19 clean.
Fixed quotes for kitchen extract cleaning in Key's Green
You’ll get a fixed price before work begins. It’s based on:
- Travel, parking and unloading
- Site rules, permits and inductions
- The times the site is available
- Access, including roofs, risers and ceiling voids
Whatever the type of site, the quote works the same way: the size of the job, access, condition and working hours. Ask for a fixed quote and we will explain each part.
What to send for a quote
What to send for a quote:
- The postcode and the type of business
- Any previous report or certificate
- When the site is open and when it’s quiet
- Anything you’ve noticed, such as smells, noise, drips or poor airflow
Photos are enough for some jobs, while others need a look on site. Big or complicated sites, and systems that are hard to see in photos, get a survey first. Either way, you get a fixed price before we start.
Common problems we fix in Key's Green
Cooking fat leaves the pan as a fine vapour. As the air cools on its way through the duct, the fat condenses and sticks, and the layer grows a little with every meal cooked. Filters catch some of it, but never all.
Clients typically contact us when they notice something like this:
- An overdue clean flagged by an EHO or fire officer
- Proof of cleaning requested by an insurer
- Grease smells coming from the extract
- An extract that no longer clears the smoke
Volunteers running a hall kitchen near Chapel Of Ease Of St Luke, or anywhere in Key's Green, may not know when the extract was last cleaned, and a grease test settles it.
Before booking anyone
- Whether they recommend a next date
- What happens if part of the system can’t be accessed
- Exactly which parts of the system are covered
- What records you will receive afterwards