Hertfordshire · Kitchen extract cleaning
TR19 kitchen extract cleaning in Letchworth
Need kitchen extract cleaning in Letchworth? We survey first, send you a fixed quote and work around your opening hours, then sign off with a report and photos.
- Poor airflow at the canopy
- A TR19 certificate needed for the insurer
- Grease smells coming from the extract
Letchworth questions
Can you work in Letchworth outside opening hours?
Yes, evening, overnight and weekend work is normal for us. The work in Letchworth can fit around your hours. Just give us a ring on 0345 646 2711 or email us with your opening times and we’ll plan around them.
Which fire and rescue service is responsible for Letchworth?
Letchworth is in the area of Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue Service. Records of extract cleaning are a sensible thing to have ready if a fire safety officer carries out an audit.
How far ahead should we book?
It depends on the time you need and how big the job is. Tell us your preferred dates when you ask for a quote, and if it’s an emergency, call us any time.
How often should a kitchen extract be cleaned?
BESA guidance gives minimum intervals of 3, 6 or 12 months, depending on daily cooking hours. Kitchens that fry or grill a lot may need cleaning sooner, and readings will tell you.
How long does it take to clean a kitchen extract system?
Length of duct, grease levels and access all affect it. Most jobs take a single shift for most kitchens, with long duct runs and tall risers needing more time.
Which parts of the extract do you clean?
The whole system: canopy inside and out, plenum, grease filters, ductwork, risers, extract fan and discharge, plus attenuators where fitted. Anything we cannot reach is recorded on the report.
Can you set up regular visits?
Yes. Regular plans can run on 3, 6 or 12-monthly cycles, to suit the system and how it’s used.
What paperwork comes with a kitchen extract clean?
You get both a certificate and a photo report. They belong in the maintenance log, ready for your insurer or an inspection.
How we handle kitchen extract cleaning in Letchworth
A closed kitchen is not earning, so the timing of a clean matters. Cleans are booked for evenings, overnight or weekends, or during holidays where a site closes for them. With the equipment off and cool and the area sheeted, we clean and hand the kitchen back ready for the next service. If you have a system with no record of a TR19 clean and grease smells coming from the extract, we can put it right, from extract fans, canopies and hoods and discharge points onwards. Canopy cleaning, extract cleaning and duct cleaning are often used to mean the same thing, but a proper TR19® clean in Letchworth covers all of it, from the hood to the fan.
Kitchens that fry and grill hardest need the most frequent cleans, so we look at the menu as well as the opening hours when we suggest the next date.
Most kitchens in a town like Letchworth can’t close for a day, so cleans are booked after closing, early in the morning or on a quiet day. By the next service, the kitchen is ready to cook in again.
The paperwork matters as much as the work. Each visit is written up with photos, listing what was done, anything we couldn’t reach and when the next visit is due. Keep it with your fire safety records so it’s to hand when an insurer or inspector asks.
- Where
- Letchworth (SG6)
- Region
- Hertfordshire
- Records
- Certificate and photo report
- Price
- A fixed quote up front
- Working hours
- Nights, weekends or holidays to suit you
- Phone
- 0345 646 2711
- Checked
- 30 October 2026
Nearby places to Letchworth
Also in Letchworth
Multi-site and managed buildings
The Fire Safety Order 2005 puts the duty to manage fire risk on the responsible person, and that can be the employer, the owner, a landlord, a facilities manager or a managing agent. With shared responsibility, good records help everyone.
We also work for facilities teams across offices, schools and healthcare in Letchworth and across Hertfordshire. Larger estates can be phased building by building to keep disruption down.
What kitchen extract cleaning looks like in Letchworth
The FSA’s food hygiene register shows about 70 cafés, restaurants and staff canteens and about 32 takeaways and sandwich shops within roughly a mile and a half of the centre of Letchworth. Any of them cooking under a canopy is sending grease into its ductwork every service. Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue Service covers Letchworth. 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. Environmental health officers from North Hertfordshire council inspect food businesses in Letchworth. 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.
For schools such as Hillshott Infant School and Nursery, kitchen extract cleaning is normally booked for the holidays, when the canteen is closed. A hospital like Fairfield Hospital, about 1.9 miles north-west, is the kind of site where a kitchen may cook for patients, staff and visitors all day.
Letchworth is about 5 miles north of Stevenage, in Hertfordshire. We carry out kitchen extract cleaning for commercial premises of every kind in Letchworth and the rest of Hertfordshire. 381 places in Hertfordshire are on our list, from busy centres to quieter spots. There’s also a page for Milton Keynes, roughly 24 miles from Letchworth.
Postcode districts we cover here for kitchen extract cleaning: SG6. Local streets include Station Road, Willian Church Road and Rowland Way, all of which we cover for kitchen extract cleaning. Being close to the A505 and B656, Letchworth is simple for us to get to at any hour. Nearby, we also carry out kitchen extract cleaning in Letchworth Garden City (1 mile west), Norton (1 mile north-east), Willian (1 mile south), Walsworth (2 miles south-west) and Poets Estate (2 miles south-west). We also work in nearby towns such as Stevenage (5 miles south), Welwyn Garden City (12 miles south), Harpenden (12 miles south-west), Hitchin (3 miles south-west), Hatfield (15 miles south) and Hertford (14 miles south-east).
Near you in Letchworth
Typical jobs here are in premises near Norton School, The Highfield School and Three Magnets pub and the streets around them. Letchworth has its own railway station: Letchworth Garden City station. A little further out are Fairfield Hospital (1.9 miles north-west) and First Garden City Heritage Museum (within half a mile south). For a walk, there’s Purwell Ninesprings.
Aftercare tips
Looking after the system between visits is straightforward, and it makes the next visit easier:
- Run the extract fan throughout cooking
- Clean grease off the canopy surfaces regularly
- Do not let the canopy gutters overflow
- Keep the cleaning records where you can find them
After cleaning, we re-test the same points we measured at the start, so you can see the difference in numbers as well as pictures. Your TR19 certificate is then issued through the BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite portal.
Keep the fan on throughout service. Switching it off early leaves vapour to settle on the canopy and plenum, and the next clean has more to do.
In-house cleaning or a specialist?
Keep a record of what your team does. A dated log of in-house cleaning and checks helps show that the system is managed between specialist visits, alongside our reports.
In-house cleaning and specialist cleaning do different jobs. A daily filter wipe and a weekly filter wash keep grease down at the front of the system, but they don’t reach the grease that builds up further in. Reaching it takes a specialist with the right equipment.
The process
The first job on site is protection: floors, worktops and anything near the work are covered. After that, the system is made safe and the work begins. It takes anything from a few hours to a full night, depending on the size of the system, and the area is cleaned down before we leave. Three things shape a visit in Letchworth: when you are closed, where we can park and how we get to the system.
- 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 we start.
- On the day, cooking equipment is switched off and left to cool, and everything nearby is sheeted.
- Canopy, plenum, filters, duct runs, risers, fan and discharge are all cleaned to TR19® Grease.
- Readings and photos are taken again, and you receive a TR19 certificate and photo report.
How to prepare
- Tell us about access, such as roof hatches, plant rooms, ceilings or locked areas
- Name a contact who can let us in at the agreed time
- Tell us where we can park and unload
Getting a quote
Photos are the quickest way to a quote: wide shots of the system, close-ups of anything that worries you and how we’d get to it. Add the site type and your opening hours, and we can price many jobs without a visit.
Advice
How the job changes from site to site
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.
Grease filters
We clean the grease filters as part of the job, and refitted so they sit properly in the housing. We will tell you if any need replacing.
Common problems we fix in Letchworth
It’s common for parts of a duct to have been missed for years. Most of the time it’s because there were never enough access panels, so nobody could get to them. That hidden grease keeps building where nobody looks.
Signs it’s time to call us include:
- A smoky, hot kitchen with weak extraction
- An extract that has never been cleaned to TR19
- Cleaning needed before an insurance renewal or survey
- Missing paperwork after a change of operator
Volunteers running a hall kitchen near Church of St Paul, or anywhere in Letchworth, may not know when the extract was last cleaned, and a grease test settles it.
Comparing quotes
- When they can work, and whether that’s outside your opening hours
- What’s included in the scope, part by part
- Whether the quote is based on a survey or photos
- Whether the price is fixed
When it’s something else
Not every problem is solved by kitchen extract cleaning, and we’d rather say so up front. It does not solve:
- A fan motor or bearings that have failed (that needs a fan repair or replacement)
- A damper that sticks or has a damaged link
- Damaged duct sections that need replacing
If in doubt, call 0345 646 2711, or email photos and we will say what we think.
Parts of the system we cover
- Vertical risers
- Canopies and hoods
- Extract fans
- Horizontal duct runs
- Plenums and filters
- Discharge points