Kent · Kitchen extract cleaning
Kitchen extract cleaning in Offham, Kent
Our technicians work in Offham on kitchen extract cleaning. Fixed quotes, work around your opening hours and photo reports as standard.
- Grease drips onto cooking equipment
- Stale cooking odours from the system
- A system with no record of a TR19 clean
Different parts, different methods
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
Filters need cleaning far more often than the duct, and a filter exchange service can take that off your hands. Keeping them clean helps the rest of the system stay cleaner.
Kitchen extract cleaning in Offham
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. That clean bill of health comes as a TR19 certificate and a photo report, issued through the BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite portal. The work covers canopies and hoods, vertical risers and discharge points, and the jobs we see most are missing paperwork after a change of operator and heavy grease build-up inside the duct runs. Hood cleaning is where most enquiries from Offham start: a clean that goes past the canopy into the duct and fan, backed by a certificate.
BESA sets minimum intervals by hours of cooking a day: every 3 months for 12–16 hours, every 6 months for 6–12 hours and every 12 months for 2–6 hours, with grease readings setting the real interval.
Somewhere as small as Offham, commercial kitchens are few: perhaps a pub, a school or care home kitchen, or a hall used for events. Each still has a canopy and duct that collect grease.
We’ve been trading since 2009, and we’re 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.
- Place
- Offham (ME19)
- Wider area
- Kent
- Records
- TR19® certificate and photo report
- Quotes
- A fixed quote up front
- Working hours
- Out of hours as standard, 24/7 emergency line
- Phone
- 0345 646 2711
- Reviewed
- 30 October 2026
What affects the quote in Offham
The survey tells us what the work involves. The main factors are:
- Whether we need access equipment or extra panels
- The scale of the work
- The number of sites or systems
- The times the site is available
One small site or a whole estate, the quote is built the same way: the work involved, the access and the timing. You will have a fixed price before we start.
Helping us quote
What to send for a quote:
- Your opening hours and when the area is out of use
- Where the site is and what kind of site it is
- Your last certificate, test record or report
- Where the plant sits or the system leaves the building, such as a roof or outside wall
Photos are enough for some jobs, while others need a look on site. Larger sites, and anything hidden behind walls, ceilings or floors, are normally surveyed first. Either way, the quote is fixed before any work is booked.
FAQs for Offham
Who carries out food hygiene inspections in Offham?
In Offham, it’s Tonbridge and Malling council that carries out food hygiene inspections. It helps to keep the extract cleaning records with your food safety paperwork, so they’re ready if asked for.
Which fire service covers Offham?
Offham is in the area of Kent Fire and Rescue Service. Records of extract cleaning are a sensible thing to have ready if a fire safety officer carries out an audit.
Is Offham in your area?
Yes. Our technicians work in Offham, within the South East and London area we cover.
How long does a kitchen extract clean take?
Short systems are 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 much does kitchen extract cleaning cost?
Every site is different, so each gets its own fixed quote. To get one, ring 0345 646 2711 or use the quote form with the site type, opening hours and a few pictures.
How do you protect the area?
With sheeting and covers, before anything else happens. The work is kept contained and clean down when we finish.
Do you work with multi-site operators?
Yes. You deal with one contact for every site in our area, with visits on a regular schedule.
Why do insurers care about extract cleaning?
Grease in an extract is a known fire risk, so many insurers want evidence it’s being cleaned to TR19. Each clean gives you a certificate and photo report to show them.
Why it’s worth doing now in Offham
A clogged extract does not only raise the fire risk. Blocked filters and narrowed ducts slow the airflow, leaving the kitchen hot and smoky, while the fan works harder to move less air. Grease drips, smells and condensation are common next. A planned visit to Offham is easier to arrange than an emergency callout.
You won’t find a price list here, because the cost depends on the site in front of us. For a fixed quote, phone us on 0345 646 2711 or send us an email, and we will explain what it covers.
Why Offham businesses choose us
- A written report with pictures after every visit
- Every job surveyed first
- Work around your opening hours, with 24/7 emergency cover
- Trading since 2009
Read what affects the cost and our accreditations.
Aftercare tips
Results last longer with the right care. Here’s what we suggest:
- File each certificate with the fire risk assessment
- Give the canopy a daily wipe
- Make sure every filter is fitted before cooking
- Flag any change in how the extract sounds or works
Every clean ends with a photo report. Before and after photos show each part of the system, and lists what was cleaned, any areas we couldn’t reach and the date the next clean is due.
Keep the outside of the canopy wiped and any grease cups emptied. A daily wipe isn’t a deep clean, but it helps between visits.
What your team can do, and what needs us
Your own staff can handle the daily basics: wiping down canopy surfaces, cleaning filters and keeping a simple log. Inside the ducts, risers and fan is specialist work, and that’s where we come in.
Good housekeeping makes our visits easier, not unnecessary. Clean filters and tidy surfaces slow the build-up, but the parts you cannot see still need a specialist at the right interval.
Places near Offham
What else we do in Offham
The process
The first job on site is protection: sheeting goes over floors and surfaces close to the work. Then we make the system safe and start. The work on site takes a few hours for a small kitchen, longer for a large system, and the area is cleaned down before we leave. Rural roads and tight entrances are worth telling us about before a visit to Offham.
- We survey the system first, from your pictures and details or on a site visit.
- Set points are tested for grease thickness and the quote is fixed before any work starts.
- Once the kitchen has closed and the equipment has cooled, we sheet and protect the area.
- Canopy, plenum, filters, duct runs, risers, fan and discharge are all cleaned to TR19® Grease.
- We test again, photograph the result and issue your TR19 certificate and photo report.
Getting ready for the visit
- Clear the space around the work
- Name a contact who can let us in at the agreed time
- Let us know how we reach the system, including roofs, risers and plant rooms
Ask for a quote
Getting a quote does not take long. Send a few details and photos, and we normally reply with a fixed quote within one working day. Where a survey is needed, we arrange a time that suits the site.
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What a clean will not put right
It’s worth knowing the limits before booking:
- Extraction that cannot cope with the cooking because of its design
- A fan motor or bearings that have failed (that needs a fan repair or replacement)
- Faulty fire dampers in the duct
If in doubt, give us a ring on 0345 646 2711, or email photos and we’ll say what we think before you book.
Parts of the system we cover
- Extract fans
- Horizontal duct runs
- Discharge points
- Plenums and filters
- Canopies and hoods
- Vertical risers
Offham kitchens: local notes
According to Food Standards Agency records, there are about 15 pubs and bars within 1.5 miles or so of the middle of Offham. Wherever they cook, the canopy, duct and fan collect grease just as a restaurant’s do. In Offham, food businesses are inspected by environmental health officers from Tonbridge and Malling council. An officer looking round a kitchen will see the canopy, and grease there is hard to miss. Our report lists what was cleaned and when, which is useful to have ready. Offham sits within the area of Kent 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.
If you run catering at a historic house or estate in the area (Old Soar Manor is about 3.1 miles south-west), event kitchens in older buildings often have awkward duct runs that need planning. If you look after a school kitchen, at a school such as Offham Primary School or anywhere near Offham, the holidays are the usual time for a TR19® clean. If you run a church or community hall kitchen, near Church of St Michael or elsewhere in Offham, its extract still collects grease from every lunch and event.
Offham is about 7 miles west of Maidstone, in Kent. For kitchen extract cleaning in and around Offham, it’s easy to get a fixed quote: please ring 0345 646 2711 or use the quote form. Our area covers London and the South East, including Offham. Our Kent coverage runs to 922 places, and Offham is one of them. You can also see our page for Maidstone, roughly 7 miles from Offham.
We work across the ME19 postcode area for kitchen extract cleaning and the roads nearby. If you need kitchen extract cleaning at premises on Church Road, Pepingstraw Close and Teston Road or anywhere close by, we can help. If your site is just outside Offham, we cover Wrotham Heath (1 mile west), Comp (2 miles west), Kent Street (2 miles south), New Pound (2 miles south) and Herne Pound (2 miles south). We also work in nearby towns such as Maidstone (7 miles east), Dartford (12 miles north-west), Sevenoaks (8 miles west), Royal Tunbridge Wells (12 miles south-west), Gravesend (10 miles north) and Tonbridge (8 miles south-west).
Around Offham
Typical jobs here are in premises near King's Arms Public House and Manor Park Country Park. Offham’s nearest station is West Malling station, roughly 1.9 miles east. Other landmarks nearby include Leybourne Castle (2.2 miles north-east) and Maidstone Hospital (4.8 miles east).