Hampshire · Kitchen extract cleaning
Kitchen Extract Cleaning in Knightwood
We cover Knightwood for TR19 Grease cleaning of complete kitchen extract systems, from canopy to discharge. Fixed quotes, work around your opening hours and photo reports as standard.
- Stale cooking odours from the system
- An inspection that picked up a dirty extract
- A new tenancy or takeover with no cleaning history
TR19 kitchen extract cleaning in Knightwood
Across Knightwood, we clean kitchen extract systems to BESA TR19® Grease. We survey first and take grease readings, then clean the canopy, plenum, filters, ducts, fan and discharge. You get a TR19 certificate and a photo report at the end. The work covers plenums and filters, extract fans and horizontal duct runs, and the jobs we see most are missing paperwork after a change of operator and a system with no record of a TR19 clean. Hood cleaning is where most enquiries from Knightwood start: a clean that goes past the canopy into the duct and fan, backed by a certificate.
What can be cleaned depends on what can be reached. Sections without access panels are recorded on the report, and new panels can be fitted so they’re cleaned next time.
For a smaller kitchen near Knightwood, a TR19® clean is the same job as anywhere: canopy, filters, plenum, duct, fan and discharge. We plan the visit around your hours, with the journey sorted in advance.
It’s worth checking any contractor’s accreditations. Ours are BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite membership, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease, plus CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, and we’re fully insured.
- Where
- Knightwood (SO53, SO52)
- Region
- Hampshire
- Paperwork
- Certificate plus before-and-after photos
- Quote
- A fixed quote up front
- Working hours
- Evenings, overnight and weekends; 24/7 emergencies
- Telephone
- 0345 646 2711
- Reviewed
- 30 October 2026
How the job changes from site to site
Ductwork and risers
Long flat runs of duct are where grease collects. Each run is cleaned through its access panels, recording any that can’t be reached.
Restaurant and pub kitchens
A pub or restaurant can’t 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.
What kitchen extract cleaning looks like in Knightwood
The FSA’s food hygiene register shows about 21 restaurants, cafés and canteens and about 16 takeaways and sandwich shops within about 1.5 miles of central Knightwood. Each one that cooks under a canopy has an extract system that collects grease and needs regular cleaning. It’s Eastleigh council that sends environmental health officers to food businesses in Knightwood. Extraction counts as kitchen equipment, so its condition can come up on the day. A TR19® certificate and photo report after each clean gives you a record to show an inspector. The fire and rescue service for Knightwood is Hampshire and Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service. Its fire safety officers can audit commercial kitchens, and grease in the extract is part of a kitchen’s fire risk.
A hall kitchen that only cooks for events, whether near St Francis or elsewhere in Knightwood, still needs its extract cleaned, just less often. If you run a café or takeaway near Chandlers Ford station, early starts and late finishes leave little time to clean, so overnight extract cleaning suits. For schools such as Knightwood Primary School, kitchen extract cleaning is usually booked for the holidays, when the canteen is closed.
Knightwood is about 1 mile west of Chandler's Ford, in Hampshire. If you need kitchen extract cleaning in Knightwood, please phone us on 0345 646 2711 or email us for a fixed quote. Our area covers London and the South East, Knightwood included. Our Hampshire coverage runs to 683 places, and Knightwood is one of them.
Work in SO53 and SO52 follows the same survey, fixed quote and written report as everywhere else we cover. Whether your site is on Foyle Road, Harvest Road and Flexford Road or anywhere close by, our technicians can take on the work. Close by, we work in Chilworth Old Village (2 miles south-west), Chilworth (2 miles south), North Baddesley (2 miles west), Toothill (3 miles south-west) and Bassett (3 miles south). Further out, we also cover Winchester (6 miles north-east), Eastleigh (3 miles south-east), Fareham (13 miles south-east), Totton (7 miles south-west), Hedge End (7 miles south-east) and Romsey (4 miles west).
Near you in Knightwood
Typical jobs here are in premises near Toynbee School. The closest station to Knightwood is Chandlers Ford station, about 0.8 miles south-east. Nearby you’ll also find Romsey Community Hospital (3.5 miles west) and Eastleigh Museum (2.5 miles south-east). Not far away are Flexford Nature Reserve.
How we price kitchen extract cleaning
The diagnosis comes before the price. The main factors are:
- Travel, parking and unloading
- How easy every part is to reach
- Whether several sites go on one quote
- The condition of the system
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 work begins.
What we need to know
To help us quote quickly, send us:
- Detail shots of panels, filters and grilles
- Where the plant sits or the system leaves the building, such as a roof or outside wall
- The paperwork from the last visit, if you have it
- The postcode and the type of business
For kitchen extract cleaning in Knightwood, call 0345 646 2711, or send details by email. Tell us what kind of premises it is and when it’s open, and send photos or your last report if you can. We usually send a fixed quote within one working day.
What your team can do, and what needs us
In-house cleaning and specialist cleaning do different jobs. Wiping filters daily and washing them weekly keeps the visible parts in order, but they don’t reach the grease that builds up further in. That part needs specialist access and equipment.
When your team notices a problem between visits, such as dripping grease, a noisy fan, a smell or a filter that won’t come clean, they should report it rather than try to fix it. We’ll take a look and give you a fixed quote.
Knightwood questions
Who is the fire and rescue service for Knightwood?
Knightwood is in the area of Hampshire and Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service. It’s worth keeping your fire risk assessment, TR19® certificates and photo reports together, ready to show.
Do you do school kitchen extract cleaning in Knightwood in the summer holidays?
Yes. The holidays are the usual time for school work. Around Knightwood, the Food Standards Agency lists about 6 schools and colleges with registered kitchens within a mile and a half or so. Send us your term dates when you call us on 0345 646 2711 or send us an email, and we will fit the work in.
Do you work with multi-site operators?
Yes. We work across South East England and London, so sites at different addresses can be planned together on one programme. Every site has its own report.
What’s TR19?
TR19® is BESA’s specification for ventilation hygiene. TR19® Grease, a standalone specification since 2019, covers grease in kitchen extract systems, while TR19® Air covers other supply and extract ductwork.
How often should a kitchen extract be cleaned?
BESA guidance sets minimums by daily cooking hours: 3-monthly for heavy use, 6-monthly for moderate use and 12-monthly for light use. Grease readings can show a shorter interval is needed.
How long does a kitchen extract 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. Your quote says how long to expect.
What types of premises do you cover?
Any site with a kitchen or a ventilation system to look after, from a small pub to a hospital. Hotels, schools, care homes, offices, shops and leisure sites are all part of our work.
Is a quote from photos possible?
Yes, if we can see what we need. If not, a site survey comes first, and the quote follows that.
Keeping the system healthy
After the visit, a few habits help the work last:
- Tell us when the extract starts to drip or smell
- Keep to the recommended cleaning interval
- Run the extract fan throughout cooking
- Keep the baffle filters clean
The certificate records when the clean was done, where and by whom. File it with the fire risk assessment and the maintenance log, so it’s to hand when an insurer, fire officer or EHO asks.
Wipe the canopy down regularly and empty grease troughs or collection points. A daily wipe is not a deep clean, but it helps between visits.
Landlords, agents and facilities managers
Whether it’s one building or many, you get the same standard: a survey first, a fixed quote, the work timed around the site and a report with photos.
When the building owner and the occupier are different, it’s worth checking the lease for who maintains the systems. We can quote either party and send the paperwork to whoever needs it.
Honest limits
We’d rather tell you now than book work that will not help, so these are the things it won’t cover:
- A broken extract fan that won’t run
- Faulty fire dampers in the duct
- Extraction that cannot cope with the cooking because of its design
Not sure which it is? You can call us on 0345 646 2711 or send us an email and we will tell you honestly.
Parts of the system we cover
- Plenums and filters
- Canopies and hoods
- Discharge points
- Horizontal duct runs
- Extract fans
- Vertical risers
Towns and villages near Knightwood
What else we do in Knightwood
What we do, step by step
On the day, we arrive at the time agreed with you, often in the evening, overnight or at the weekend so the site keeps working. Anything that needs to be off for the work is switched off and left to cool before any work starts, and floors and nearby surfaces are sheeted. On site, it takes a single shift for most kitchens, with long duct runs and tall risers needing more time. Everything the job in Knightwood needs is worked out beforehand, from the survey.
- 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 any work starts.
- On the day, cooking equipment is switched off and left to cool, and everything nearby is sheeted.
- The whole route is cleaned, from the canopy through the ductwork to the fan and the discharge.
- We test again, photograph the result and issue your TR19 certificate and photo report.
Preparing for the visit
- Move anything stored near the system
- Allow time for equipment near the work to be turned off and cool down
- Find the previous report, if there is one
How to get a quote
Here’s what helps us quote: where the site is, what it is and its opening hours, photos of the system and the last certificate or report, if there is one. Once you have those, call 0345 646 2711, or send details by email.