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Kitchen Extract Cleaning in Kingston upon Thames
Professional kitchen extract cleaning in and around Kingston upon Thames, timed so the site keeps working and finished with a written report and pictures.
- An extract that has never been cleaned to TR19
- Heavy grease build-up inside the duct runs
- Rancid smells from grease in the duct
Kingston upon Thames: your questions answered
Who carries out food hygiene inspections in Kingston upon Thames?
That’s Kingston-Upon-Thames council, whose environmental health officers carry out food hygiene inspections in Kingston upon Thames. How often a business is inspected depends on the risk rating the council gives it, so it’s worth staying ready all year.
Can school kitchens in Kingston upon Thames be cleaned in the holidays?
Yes. The holidays are the usual time for school work. Around Kingston upon Thames, the Food Standards Agency lists about 40 schools and colleges with registered kitchens within a mile and a half or so. Send us your term dates when you ring 0345 646 2711 or send us an email, and we will fit the work in.
Do you offer emergency callouts?
Yes, any time. For anything urgent, such as a fan failure or damage after a fire, ring the 24/7 line and we will talk you through the next steps.
Can you look after several sites?
Yes. We work across South East England and London, so we can schedule a run of sites as one programme. Each site gets its own report and pictures.
What paperwork comes with a kitchen extract 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 photos, readings, any areas not reached and the next clean date.
Is TR19 a legal requirement?
TR19 isn’t written into law, but the Fire Safety Order 2005 does require the responsible person to manage fire risk. TR19 is the standard insurers and fire officers expect, and many policies require it.
How long will the clean take?
Short systems are done in a few hours, while long runs and tall risers take longer and may need more than one visit. We will tell you how long when we quote.
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. Measured grease levels set the real interval.
Kitchen extract cleaning in Kingston upon Thames
Cooking sends fat-laden vapour into the canopy with every service. As it cools, it clings to the inside of the ductwork and keeps building. That layer will burn, and cleaning the whole system is how you keep it under control. Common call-outs are for grease drips onto cooking equipment and a new tenancy or takeover with no cleaning history, across plenums and filters, discharge points and canopies and hoods. When a restaurant in Kingston upon Thames asks for duct cleaning, it’s nearly always the kitchen extract they mean, and that is exactly what we do: the whole run from hood to roof, cleaned to TR19® Grease.
Access decides how thorough a clean can be. Sections without access panels are recorded on the report, and new panels can be fitted so they’re cleaned next time.
In a London area like Kingston upon Thames, a kitchen extract often passes through shared space on its way out: a riser, a service void, the floors above. A duct fire there can reach parts of the building far from the range, which is why keeping it clean to TR19® matters.
Our accreditations include CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, and we’re fully insured. On top of that, we are a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease, trading since 2009.
- Where
- Kingston upon Thames (KT2, KT1, TW10)
- Region
- Greater London
- Reporting
- Certificate plus before-and-after pictures
- Quote
- A fixed price before any work starts
- When we work
- Evenings, overnight and weekends; 24/7 emergencies
- Phone
- 0345 646 2711
- Checked
- 30 October 2026
What we do, step by step
Your trading hours come first. 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 a few hours for a small kitchen, longer for a large system. In a London area like Kingston upon Thames, parking, loading and building access are planned before the day of the work.
- Diagnosis comes first, with a survey of the system and how it’s reached.
- Grease readings set the baseline, and a fixed quote follows.
- We arrive after close, protect the area and contain the waste.
- Heavy deposits are scraped by hand and the system 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
- Make sure someone can let us in and lock up afterwards
- Mention any locked doors, roof access or ceiling voids
- Make sure equipment near the work can be switched off and left to cool
How to get a quote
Quotes are quick. Send a few details and pictures, and we normally reply with a fixed quote within one working day. If we need to see the system first, we book a survey around your hours.
Related advice
What affects the quote in Kingston upon Thames
The quote reflects the site in front of us. We consider:
- When the work can happen, such as evenings, overnight or weekends
- Any permits to work or inductions
- Parking and loading at the site
- The scale of the work
Every site is different, so each one gets its own fixed quote. The size of the job, how we reach it, its condition and the working hours all make a difference.
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:
- Where the plant sits or the system leaves the building, such as a roof or outside wall
- Close-ups of filters, grilles, hatches or access panels
- The postcode and the type of business
- A few general shots of the system
Photos are the quickest way to a quote: the system from a couple of angles, plus any access panels or hatches. Add the site type and your opening hours, and we can price many jobs without a visit.
Kingston upon Thames kitchens: local notes
Look up Kingston upon Thames on the FSA’s food hygiene register and you will find about 225 restaurants, cafés and canteens and about 65 takeaways and sandwich shops across Kingston upon Thames and its immediate surroundings (about a mile and a half). Any of them cooking under a canopy is sending grease into its ductwork every service. Kitchens in Kingston upon Thames get their food hygiene inspections from Kingston-Upon-Thames council. The cleanliness of the kitchen and its equipment, extraction included, is part of what they check. A TR19® certificate and photo report after each clean gives you a record to show an inspector. Night work suits London kitchens, and roads and loading bays tend to be quieter too.
A kitchen near Kingston station that serves breakfast and dinner can run its extract twelve hours or more, which shortens the cleaning interval. If you look after a school kitchen, at a school such as St Luke's CofE Primary School or anywhere near Kingston upon Thames, the holidays are the usual time for a TR19® clean.
Kingston upon Thames is about 7 miles south-west of Kensington, in Greater London. We provide kitchen extract cleaning for businesses, landlords and public buildings in Kingston upon Thames and the rest of Greater London. Across Greater London, we cover 764 places, and Kingston upon Thames is one of them. You can also see our page for London, roughly 11 miles from Kingston upon Thames.
Kitchen extract cleaning in KT2, KT1 and TW10 follows the same survey, fixed quote and written report as everywhere else we cover. We cover sites on Sigrist Square, Old London Road and London Road and nearby roads. You’ll find Kingston upon Thames on the B3365, so it’s easy for us to get to for kitchen extract cleaning. Close by, we work in Norbiton (1 mile east), Coombe (2 miles east), New Malden (2 miles south-east), Coombe Hill (2 miles north-east) and Motspur Park (2 miles east). Further out, we also cover London (11 miles north-east), City of Westminster (9 miles north-east), Marylebone (10 miles north-east), Kensington (7 miles north-east), St Pancras (11 miles north-east) and Shoreditch (12 miles north-east).
Near you in Kingston upon Thames
Typical jobs here are in premises near Canbury Gardens, The Grey Horse pub and Kingston Grammar School, among other places. Kingston upon Thames has its own railway station: Kingston station. Other landmarks nearby include Eel Pie Island Museum (2.6 miles north-west) and Kingston Hospital (0.7 miles east). For a walk, there’s Rose Walk and Kingston Hill Road area.
What happens if it’s left?
Any food business in Kingston upon Thames can expect visits from the council’s environmental health officers, and they look at the cleanliness of the premises and equipment, extraction included. Keeping the extract clean helps the whole kitchen pass muster. A busy site in Kingston upon Thames builds up dirt and wear quickly, so putting it off makes the eventual job larger.
You won’t find a price list here, because each job is priced on what it involves. For a fixed quote, call us on 0345 646 2711, or send details by email, and we will talk you through it.
Why Kingston upon Thames businesses choose us
- Fixed quotes from a survey or photos
- A written report with pictures after every visit
- Evenings, overnight and weekends, plus 24/7 emergency callout
- Every job surveyed first
Take a look at how cleaning jobs are priced or how to check a contractor.
What the work involves, part by part
Extract fan and discharge
Attenuators, where fitted, can soak up grease and need attention. Where they can be cleaned, they are, and the report notes anything that can’t.
Restaurant and pub kitchens
Busy restaurant and pub kitchens often cook for long hours, frying and grilling, which can put them in BESA’s 3 or 6-monthly bands. Cleans are done after close, overnight or before opening.
When to call us in Kingston upon Thames
Grease in the extract matters because it burns. 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 Kingston upon Thames, keeping that fuel under control is part of the fire risk assessment.
If you notice any of these, it’s worth a diagnosis:
- A new tenancy or takeover with no cleaning history
- An extract that has never been cleaned to TR19
- Proof of cleaning requested by an insurer
- Poor airflow at the canopy
Church and community hall kitchens, near Church of St Luke or anywhere around Kingston upon Thames, are easy to forget, but their extracts collect grease like any other.
Before you book anyone
- Their accreditations, such as BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite, CHAS or SafeContractor
- If the quote is a fixed price or an estimate
- If they look at the system before pricing
- Whether they recommend a next date
When it’s something else
To be straight with you, some problems need a different fix:
- Ductwork that’s corroded, split or leaking (that is for a ductwork contractor)
- An undersized canopy or fan
- Faulty fire dampers in the duct
Not sure which it is? You can give us a ring on 0345 646 2711 or email us and we’ll tell you honestly.
What we work on in Kingston upon Thames
- Vertical risers
- Horizontal duct runs
- Canopies and hoods
- Plenums and filters
- Extract fans
- Discharge points
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Landlords, agents and facilities managers
Running several sites is easier with one contractor. We work across London and the South East, so a run of sites can go into one programme and kept on a regular cycle.
We also work for facilities teams across offices, schools and healthcare in Kingston upon Thames and across Greater London. Work can be phased by floor, building or site to keep disruption down.