Greater London · Kitchen extract cleaning
Little Chelsea kitchen extract cleaning
Kitchen extract cleaning for commercial sites in Little Chelsea and across Greater London. CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, and fully insured.
- Rancid smells from grease in the duct
- Ductwork thick with old, hardened grease
- Fat running down the canopy edge
Do you need kitchen extract cleaning in Little Chelsea?
Grease in an extract starts as 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. The grease filters stop some, never all of it.
The symptoms we’re asked about most include:
- Grease dripping from the canopy or filters
- An inspection that picked up a dirty extract
- Stale cooking odours from the system
- A smoky, hot kitchen with weak extraction
A kitchen near Imperial Wharf station that serves breakfast and dinner can run its extract twelve hours or more, which shortens the cleaning interval.
What to look for in a quote
- How areas they can’t reach will be recorded
- Whether a written report and pictures are included
- Whether the whole system is included, or only the parts that are easy to reach
- How VAT is shown on the quote
Kitchen duct cleaning in Little Chelsea
Has the extract gone a while without a clean, or has the paperwork gone missing? Just call us on 0345 646 2711, or send details by email with photos of the canopy and filters, and we will come back with a fixed price for the work in Little Chelsea, typically within one working day. Common call-outs are for grease drips onto cooking equipment and rancid smells from grease in the duct, across vertical risers, canopies and hoods and horizontal duct runs. Whether you call it kitchen extract cleaning, TR19 cleaning or kitchen duct cleaning, it’s the job we do every week across Greater London.
What can be cleaned depends on what can be reached. Where a duct run has no panels, we say so on the report and can fit new ones.
London kitchens tend to trade late and open early, so work in Little Chelsea is normally booked for the night or the early hours. Before the clean, we agree loading, parking and roof access with whoever manages the building.
Duct Doctor has been trading since 2009, as a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease. CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001 are in place too, and we carry full insurance.
- Location
- Little Chelsea (SW10, SW3, SW7)
- Region
- Greater London
- Reporting
- Certificate and photo report
- Quote
- A fixed quote up front
- Hours
- When your site is closed, plus a 24/7 line
- Call
- 0345 646 2711
- Page updated
- 30 October 2026
How the job changes from site to site
Canopy and plenum
Canopies vary from a single hood to long runs over several appliances, every section is cleaned and recorded in the photo report before and after.
Schools, hospitals and care homes
Institutional kitchens tend to cook to set hours, so cleans can be planned for holidays or quiet times. The certificate and report suit estates and compliance files.
For landlords and multi-site operators
Under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, the responsible person must assess and reduce fire risk, which may be the employer, owner, landlord, FM or managing agent. Where responsibility is shared, records matter even more.
When the building owner and the occupier are different, the lease normally sets out who maintains what. We can quote either party, and the report can go to both.
What we do, step by step
We work around your opening hours, not the other way round. We book the visit for a time the area is closed, whether that is an evening, overnight or a weekend. Once we are in, the area is sheeted and anything that has to be off is turned off and cooled, and the job takes one visit for most kitchens, while large or complex systems may need more than one. Expect the work in Little Chelsea to happen after your last customer leaves, not during trading.
- You send photos or we visit, and the system is surveyed from canopy to discharge.
- Grease thickness is measured and the price is fixed before work starts.
- On the night, the equipment is off and cool and the kitchen is sheeted.
- Filters, canopy and plenum are cleaned, then the ducts, risers, fan and discharge.
- Readings are repeated, pictures taken, and your TR19 certificate and photo report issued.
How to prepare
- Allow time for equipment near the work to be turned off and cool down
- Make sure someone can let us in and lock up afterwards
- Let us know how we reach the system, including roofs, risers and plant rooms
Get a fixed quote
For a fixed quote, give us a ring on 0345 646 2711 or drop us a line and tell us the type of site, your opening hours and roughly what the system looks like. A few pictures and your last certificate or report help a lot. You’ll normally have a quote within one working day.
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Your questions about kitchen extract cleaning in Little Chelsea
Can parking be tricky for a job in Little Chelsea?
We plan it in advance, so let us know about loading bays, permits and access rules at the building. Much of our London work is done overnight, which helps.
Which fire authority looks after Little Chelsea?
It’s London Fire Brigade, which covers Little Chelsea. TR19® is not law, but it’s the benchmark many fire officers and insurers look to when they ask how often the extract is cleaned.
Do you look at the system first?
Yes. Photos often do the job, and larger or hidden systems get a visit.
Are you a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member?
We’re members of Vent Hygiene Elite, the scheme run by BESCA, and we clean to BESA TR19® Grease. We also hold CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, and we’re fully insured.
When do you clean the extract?
When the kitchen is closed, at whatever time suits you. The equipment is switched off and left to cool, and we hand the kitchen back ready for the next service.
What do you need from me for a quote?
Just the basics: where it is, what kind of site, when it’s open and the access. Photos and the last report help too. Then call 0345 646 2711 or use the quote form.
Do you have a 24/7 line?
Yes, any time. For anything urgent, such as a fan failure or damage after a fire, ring the 24/7 line and we’ll talk you through the next steps.
What types of premises do you cover?
Restaurants and pubs, hotels, schools and colleges, hospitals and care homes, offices and retail, plus food production and leisure sites.
Grease, kitchens and Little Chelsea
According to Food Standards Agency records, there are about 122 pubs and bars and about 85 hotels and guest houses within about 1.5 miles of central Little Chelsea. Where they serve hot food, their kitchen extracts need cleaning to TR19® like any restaurant’s. Food hygiene inspections in Little Chelsea are the job of Kensington and Chelsea council’s environmental health team. 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. The fire and rescue service for Little Chelsea is London Fire Brigade. 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.
School kitchens, at schools like Park Walk Primary School for example, are typically cleaned in the holidays so no lunches are lost. If you run catering at a healthcare site, such as a hospital like Chelsea and Westminster Hospital about under half a mile west, the extract may need cleaning more often than a part-time kitchen.
Little Chelsea is about 1 mile north of World's End, in Greater London. Across the SW10 area, we can carry out kitchen extract cleaning at your premises. 764 places in Greater London are on our list, large and small.
Kitchen extract cleaning in SW10, SW3 and SW7 follows the same survey, fixed quote and written report as everywhere else we cover. Whether your site is on Ann Lane, King's Road and Lamont Road or a nearby road, we can help. If your site is just outside Little Chelsea, we cover World's End (1 mile south), South Kensington (1 mile north), Chelsea (1 mile north-east), Chelsea Harbour (1 mile south) and Walham Green (1 mile south-west). Within a short drive, we also cover London (4 miles east), Marylebone (3 miles north-east), St Pancras (4 miles north-east), Shoreditch (5 miles north-east), Walthamstow (10 miles north-east) and Hoxton (5 miles north-east).
What’s near Little Chelsea
In Little Chelsea, that means kitchens and buildings near Burton’s Court, English National Ballet School and Natural History Museum Library and Archives and the streets around them. Other local landmarks include Chelsea Academy (0.5 miles south-west) and The World's End pub (less than half a mile south). The closest station to Little Chelsea is Imperial Wharf station, about 0.7 miles south. Other landmarks nearby include Baynard's Castle (3.8 miles north-east) and Chelsea Stadium Tour And Museum (0.6 miles south-west). Not far away are Campden Hill and WWT London Wetland Centre.
What happens if it’s left?
If your kitchen in Little Chelsea is past its cleaning date, it’s worth booking now. It takes a few hours for a small kitchen, longer for a large system, and we work evenings, overnight and weekends so you do not lose a service. Waiting only adds grease and risk. A building in Little Chelsea may have flats or offices above and alongside, and a fault in the system can affect them too.
What you pay depends on the size of the system, what state it’s in and how easy it is to reach. We give you a fixed price before any work starts, so there are no surprises.
What you get with us
- Out-of-hours work and a 24/7 emergency line
- Fixed quotes from a survey or pictures
- Fully insured
- A written report with photos after each visit
Take a look at how cleaning jobs are priced or how to check a contractor.
What a clean won’t put right
In fairness, some problems need a different fix:
- A broken extract fan that won’t run
- A grease trap that needs emptying
- Faulty fire dampers in the duct
If in doubt, call us on 0345 646 2711 or use the quote form and we will say what we think before booking.
What we work on in Little Chelsea
- Vertical risers
- Canopies and hoods
- Horizontal duct runs
- Extract fans
- Plenums and filters
- Discharge points
Nearby places to Little Chelsea
What else we do in Little Chelsea
What your team can do, and what needs us
If your staff spot something between visits, such as dripping grease, a noisy fan, a smell or a filter that won’t come clean, it’s best reported rather than tackled in-house. We’ll take a look and give you a fixed quote.
Away from the kitchen, the in-house job is mainly checking: clear grilles, a log of filter changes and reporting anything odd. The inside of ducts and units needs a specialist.