Kent · Kitchen extract cleaning
Kitchen extract cleaning in North Street, Kent
Kitchen extract cleaning across North Street and nearby, booked around your opening hours and signed off in writing with pictures.
- Grease smells coming from the extract
- Missing paperwork after a change of operator
- Fat running down the canopy edge
Questions from North Street
Is North Street within the area you cover?
Yes. Villages and rural sites across the South East are part of our work, North Street included. Just mention lanes, gates or anything else about the site when you book.
Who enforces fire safety at workplaces in North Street?
North Street is in the area of Kent Fire and Rescue Service. If a fire safety officer visits a commercial kitchen, they may ask about the fire risk assessment and how the extract is kept clean.
What do you need from me for a quote?
A short description and a few pictures plus the address and your hours. If we need more, we will ask.
What types of premises do you cover?
Any commercial site with kitchens or ventilation, from a small pub to a hospital. We work with hotels, schools, care homes, offices, retail and leisure sites.
How do you protect the area?
We start with protection: floor sheeting and covers over nearby surfaces and equipment. We tidy up and take our waste away before we leave.
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 advise on what to do next.
Does the law say I must clean to TR19?
No law names TR19 directly, but the Fire Safety Order 2005 does require the responsible person to manage fire risk. Insurers, fire officers and EHOs look to TR19 as the standard, and many policies require it.
How long does a kitchen extract clean take?
That depends on the size of the system, the amount of grease and the number of access points. Most jobs take anything from a few hours to a full night, depending on the size of the system.
Commercial kitchen extraction cleaning in North Street
We treat an extract system much as a doctor treats a patient: diagnose with a survey, treat with a thorough clean, then sign it off. The sign-off is a TR19 certificate with a photo report, issued through the BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite portal. If you have a kitchen taken over without any extract records and an overdue clean flagged by an EHO or fire officer, we can put it right. For TR19 kitchen extract cleaning in North Street, you get one team and one number for every site.
BESA sets minimum intervals by hours of cooking a day: 3-monthly for heavy use, 6-monthly for moderate use and yearly for light use, adjusted by what the grease readings show.
Rural kitchens often have long, low duct runs through a roof space or along an outside wall, and those horizontal sections are where grease settles. We agree access and timings in advance.
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
- North Street (ME13)
- Region
- Kent
- Paperwork
- Certificate and photo report
- Quote
- A fixed price before we start
- When we work
- Overnight and weekend work, 24/7 emergency callout
- Phone
- 0345 646 2711
- Last updated
- 30 October 2026
How the visit works
The first job on site is protection: sheeting goes over floors and surfaces close to the work. After that, the system is made safe and the work begins. The work on site takes one visit for most kitchens, while large or complex systems may need more than one, and the area is cleaned down before we leave. We agree a date with you, plan the drive to North Street and turn up when the site is quiet.
- We survey the system, from your photos or on site, canopy to discharge.
- Grease thickness is measured and the price is fixed before work starts.
- The kitchen is closed, the equipment cooled and everything nearby protected.
- We work through the system from the canopy to the fan and discharge.
- Readings are repeated, pictures taken, and your TR19 certificate and photo report issued.
Before we arrive
- Make sure equipment near the work can be switched off and left to cool
- Let us know about parking and loading
- Mention any sign-in, permit or induction we need
Ask for a quote
Want a quote for kitchen extract cleaning? Please call us on 0345 646 2711 or email us and tell us about the site. We will explain what we’d do and send a fixed quote before anything is booked.
Advice
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What else we do in North Street
Keeping the system healthy
Simple habits between visits make a real difference. We recommend:
- Keep the baffle filters clean
- Report grease drips, smells or fan noise straight away
- Refit filters properly after cleaning
- Keep the TR19 certificate and photo report in the maintenance log
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 ready when anyone asks to see it.
Report drips, smells or a noisy fan early. Grease dripping from the canopy, a burning smell or a fan that sounds rough are all signs of build-up, and a grease thickness test can confirm it.
When something else is needed
We’d rather tell you now than book work that won’t help, so here are the limits:
- Damaged duct sections that need replacing
- An undersized canopy or fan
- Fat blocking the kitchen drains
If you’re not sure, just call us on 0345 646 2711, or email photos and we will give you a straight answer before you book.
Where we work
- Discharge points
- Horizontal duct runs
- Vertical risers
- Canopies and hoods
- Plenums and filters
- Extract fans
Part by part
Extract fan and discharge
At the end of the system is the discharge, which can collect grease and stain the surface around it. We clean it where it can be safely reached, and any limits are recorded.
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. We clean after close or before opening.
Staff cleaning versus specialist work
For ventilation and air handling systems, in-house care is mostly about checks: clear grilles, a log of filter changes and reporting anything odd. Cleaning inside ducts and units is specialist work.
Keep a record of what your team does. A simple log of filter washes, wipe-downs and checks helps show that the system is managed between specialist visits, alongside our reports.
Kitchen extract cleaning around North Street
The FSA’s food hygiene register shows about 3 cafés, restaurants and staff canteens within roughly a mile and a half of the centre of North Street. Wherever food is cooked under a canopy, the extract above it gathers grease and needs cleaning on a schedule. Food hygiene inspections in North Street are the job of Swale council’s environmental health team. They look at how clean the premises and equipment are, and the kitchen extract is part of that. Keeping each certificate and photo report on file helps show the extract is looked after. Kent Fire and Rescue Service covers North Street. The Fire Safety Order puts the duty on whoever runs a kitchen to control its fire risk, and a greasy duct is fuel.
Historic houses near North Street, such as Belmont House and Gardens about 2 miles south-west, are a reminder that older buildings with event kitchens can have long, awkward duct routes. If you look after a school kitchen, at a school such as Sheldwich Primary School or anywhere near North Street, the holidays are the usual time for a TR19® clean. Where a hall near Church of St James, or anywhere in North Street, hosts lunch clubs or events, its extract gathers grease just as a café’s does.
North Street is about 2 miles south of Faversham, in Kent. North Street gets the same approach as every site we work on: diagnosis first, a fixed price, out-of-hours working where necessary and a written report with pictures. Across Kent, we cover 922 places, and North Street is one of them. Maidstone is in our area too, about 16 miles from North Street.
We cover every part of ME13 for kitchen extract cleaning and the streets around it. We also cover the places around North Street: Sheldwich (1 mile south), Sheldwich Lees (1 mile south), Painter's Forstal (1 mile north-west), Badlesmere (2 miles south) and Throwley (2 miles south-west). Further out, we also cover Ashford (10 miles south), Canterbury (8 miles east), Sittingbourne (8 miles north-west), Whitstable (8 miles north-east), Herne Bay (12 miles north-east) and Minster (10 miles north).
Around North Street
In North Street, that means kitchens and buildings near The Abbey School. The nearest railway station is Faversham station, about 1.8 miles north. Other landmarks nearby include Newnham Castle (3.7 miles west).
What affects the cost of kitchen extract cleaning
There’s no set price list, because no two systems are the same. What we look at:
- Any permits to work or inductions
- Parking and loading at the site
- Access, including roofs, risers and ceiling voids
- Whether several sites go on one quote
One small site or a whole estate, the quote is built the same way: the work involved, the access and the timing. You’ll have a fixed price before any work starts.
Helping us quote
When you contact us, these details help:
- Anything you’ve noticed, such as smells, noise, drips or poor airflow
- A few general shots of the system
- Close-ups of filters, grilles, hatches or access panels
- The postcode and the type of business
Here’s what helps us quote: the address, the type of site and when it’s open, a few pictures and the last certificate or report, if there is one. Once you have those, ring 0345 646 2711 or email us.
Why act early in North Street
Leaving the clean until the next refit does not make the grease go away. Over time, soft grease bakes into a harder, thicker crust, and that takes more work to shift. Staying on a regular cycle keeps each clean manageable. In a small place like North Street, a system that fails can take a site out of use.
Putting the work off seldom saves money. Build-up, wear and faults tend to get worse, not better, which can make the next visit longer. If you are unsure, phone us on 0345 646 2711 or send us an email and we’ll give you an honest view and a fixed quote.
What you get with us
- Every job surveyed first
- One number for every site across the South East and London
- Fixed quotes, usually within one working day
- CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001