Essex · Kitchen extract cleaning
Kitchen Extract Cleaning in Lanham Green
Kitchen extract cleaning across Lanham Green and nearby, timed so the site keeps working and finished with a written report and photos.
- A kitchen with no current TR19 certificate
- Grease smells coming from the extract
- A smoky, hot kitchen with weak extraction
Lanham Green: your questions answered
Do you work in villages like Lanham Green?
Yes, smaller places are covered as well as towns. Let us know about access, parking and anything unusual about getting there when you book.
Who carries out food hygiene inspections in Lanham Green?
Kitchens in Lanham Green are inspected by Braintree council’s environmental health officers. An officer may look up into the canopy, so clean filters on the day and a recent certificate on file both help.
Will the clean disrupt our service?
Cleans are timed to avoid service. Most kitchens book us overnight or at weekends and the kitchen is ready to cook when we leave.
How long does it take to clean a kitchen extract system?
A small kitchen with a short duct can be done in a few hours, but large systems may be spread over more than one visit. We’ll tell you how long when we quote.
How do you protect the area?
Protection goes down first: floor sheeting and covers over nearby surfaces and equipment. We tidy up and take our waste away before we leave.
What does kitchen extract cleaning cost?
Every site is different, so each gets its own fixed quote. For a quote, give us a ring on 0345 646 2711 or send us an email and tell us about the site and its opening hours.
Is a quote from pictures possible?
Normally, yes. Send a few wide pictures plus close-ups of panels, filters or grilles, and we usually come back within one working day. If pictures are not enough, we’ll survey first.
Do you have a 24/7 line?
Yes, day and night, every day of the year. Our office is open from 8am to 6pm on weekdays, with the emergency line covering every other hour.
How we handle kitchen extract cleaning in Lanham Green
Cooking sends fat-laden vapour into the canopy with every service. It cools inside the duct and settles as a sticky film that thickens month by month. That film is fuel, and a proper clean removes it before it becomes a fire risk. Typical jobs include heavy grease build-up inside the duct runs and a TR19 certificate needed for the insurer, on discharge points, plenums and filters and canopies and hoods. Searching for commercial kitchen extraction cleaning in Lanham Green? We have been cleaning kitchen extracts across the South East since 2009, with a certificate and photo report after every clean.
Grease that collects out of sight, behind the filters and along the duct, is what insurers and fire officers worry about, which is why a TR19® clean in Lanham Green goes well beyond the canopy.
In a village or hamlet like Lanham Green, the kitchens that need extract cleaning are usually a pub, a school, a care home or a hall kitchen, wherever there is one. Every one of them still needs its extract kept clear of grease, whatever the size of the place.
Good records are part of the job. Each visit is written up with pictures, listing what was done, anything we couldn’t reach and when the next visit is due. File it in your maintenance log so it’s to hand when an insurer or inspector asks.
- Where
- Lanham Green (CM77)
- Wider area
- Essex
- Reporting
- Certificate plus before-and-after photos
- Quote
- A fixed quote up front
- Working hours
- When your site is closed, plus a 24/7 line
- Call
- 0345 646 2711
- Checked
- 30 October 2026
How we price kitchen extract cleaning
The price is fixed before any work begins. It’s based on:
- Whether we need access equipment or extra panels
- How many systems or sites are involved
- The size of the system
- The times the site is available
What you pay reflects the actual work. That is why every job is surveyed first, and the price is agreed before we start.
Helping us quote
When you call or email, it’s useful to have:
- Any access panels or hatches you can see
- Your opening hours and when the area is out of use
- Where the plant sits or the system leaves the building, such as a roof or outside wall
- Your last certificate, test record or report
For a fixed quote, ring 0345 646 2711 or drop us a line with the site type, your trading hours and a short description of the system. A few photos and your last certificate or report help a lot. We usually come back within one working day.
Towns and villages near Lanham Green
What else we do in Lanham Green
Part by part
Canopy and plenum
The plenum is out of sight behind the filters, so it’s easy to forget. We take the filters out and clean the plenum and housing thoroughly.
Grease filters
Gaps around filters let fat through to the duct. Each filter is checked as it goes back in, and flag any that do not.
When it’s something else
Not every problem is solved by kitchen extract cleaning, and we will tell you before we start. It does not solve:
- Blocked drains from a neglected grease trap (a separate service)
- A fan motor or bearings that have failed (that needs a fan repair or replacement)
- A duct that’s holed or coming apart
If in doubt, phone us on 0345 646 2711 or send us an email and we will say what we think.
Parts of the system we cover
- Vertical risers
- Canopies and hoods
- Plenums and filters
- Horizontal duct runs
- Discharge points
- Extract fans
Keeping the system healthy
Results last longer with the right care. We suggest:
- Wash or exchange the filters often
- File each certificate with the fire risk assessment
- Switch the fan on before cooking starts
- Diarise the next clean as soon as you get the certificate
After cleaning, we re-test the same points we measured at the start, so you can see the difference in numbers as well as photos. Your TR19 certificate is then issued through the BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite portal.
Keep the outside of the canopy wiped and any grease cups emptied. A daily wipe is not a deep clean, but it helps between visits.
Kitchen extract cleaning around Lanham Green
The FSA’s data shows about 5 pubs and bars registered within about 1.5 miles of central Lanham Green. Wherever they cook, the canopy, duct and fan collect grease just as a restaurant’s do. The fire and rescue service for Lanham Green is Essex County 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 Lanham Green, food businesses are inspected by environmental health officers from Braintree council. A greasy canopy or dripping filters are the sort of thing an inspection can pick up. Before-and-after pictures from each clean are a simple way to show the extract is in hand.
Where a hall near Parish Church of All Saints, or anywhere in Lanham Green, hosts lunch clubs or events, its extract gathers grease just as a café’s does. If you run catering at a healthcare site, such as a hospital like William Julien Courtauld Hospital about 2.8 miles west, the extract may need cleaning more often than a part-time kitchen.
Lanham Green is about 2 miles south-east of Braintree, in Essex. We provide kitchen extract cleaning for commercial premises of every kind in Lanham Green and the rest of Essex. Across Essex, we cover 644 places, Lanham Green among them. There’s also a page for Chelmsford, roughly 10 miles from Lanham Green.
We work across the CM77 postcode area for kitchen extract cleaning and the roads nearby. Other places close to Lanham Green include Cressing (1 mile south-west), Perry Green (1 mile east), Bradwell (1 mile north-east), Silver End (1 mile south-east) and Stisted (2 miles north). We also work in nearby towns such as Colchester (13 miles east), Chelmsford (10 miles south-west), Maldon (10 miles south), Witham (4 miles south), Camulodunum (11 miles east) and Halstead (6 miles north).
Local landmarks in Lanham Green
Typical jobs here are in premises near The Three Ashes pub and Alec Hunter Academy. The closest station to Lanham Green is Cressing station, roughly 1.4 miles south-west of the centre. Nearby you’ll also find Cressing Temple (1.8 miles south) and William Julien Courtauld Hospital (2.8 miles west). Open spaces near Lanham Green include Belcher's and Broadfield Woods.
What your team can do, and what needs us
Some jobs should never be done in-house: opening up ductwork, cleaning fans, drop testing fire dampers and measuring grease need training, the right equipment and safe access. That is our job.
For ventilation and air handling systems, in-house care is mostly about checks: keeping grilles clear, noting unusual noise or smells and logging filter changes. Cleaning inside ducts and units is specialist work.
Signs you need kitchen extract cleaning in Lanham Green
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 it does not stop until it reaches the fan.
If you notice any of these, it’s worth a diagnosis:
- Rancid smells from grease in the duct
- An extract that has never been cleaned to TR19
- Grease drips onto cooking equipment
- Cleaning needed before an insurance renewal or survey
Term dates shape school work: for a school like Cressing Primary School, an extract clean fits neatly into a half-term or summer break.
Comparing quotes
- Proof of insurance
- What hours they’ll be on site
- What happens if part of the system cannot be accessed
- How they set the interval to the next visit
The process
A visit follows the same order every time: protect the area, isolate whatever needs isolating, carry out the kitchen extract cleaning, clear away and hand over the paperwork. The visit itself takes anything from a few hours to a full night, depending on the size of the system. Pictures of the system and its access let us plan the work in Lanham Green before we set off.
- You send photos or we visit, and the system is surveyed from canopy to discharge.
- We take grease readings at set points and send you a fixed quote.
- The kitchen is closed, the equipment cooled and everything nearby protected.
- Filters, canopy and plenum are cleaned, then the ducts, risers, fan and discharge.
- We re-test, photograph and send your certificate and photo report.
Getting ready for the visit
- Let us know about parking and loading
- Agree a time when the area can be out of use
- Tell us about site rules, permits or sign-in
Getting a quote
Need a price for kitchen extract cleaning? Please give us a ring on 0345 646 2711 or drop us a line and tell us about the site. We will explain what we’d do and send a fixed quote before you commit to anything.