Kent · Kitchen extract cleaning
Kitchen extraction cleaning in Otford
Need kitchen extract cleaning in Otford? We diagnose first, fix the price and book the work around your hours, finishing with a written report and photos.
- Years of baked-on grease in the ducts
- An extract that has never been cleaned to TR19
- Grease drips onto cooking equipment
When it’s something else
We’d rather tell you now than book work that will not help, so these are the things it will not cover:
- Fire dampers that won’t close (that needs damper testing and remedials)
- Ductwork that’s corroded, split or leaking (that is for a ductwork contractor)
- A broken extract fan that will not run
Not sure which it is? You can phone us on 0345 646 2711 or send us an email and we will tell you honestly before you book.
What we work on in Otford
- Canopies and hoods
- Plenums and filters
- Vertical risers
- Extract fans
- Discharge points
- Horizontal duct runs
Kitchen extract cleaning in Otford
Not sure when the extract was last cleaned, or by whom? Just call us on 0345 646 2711 or use the quote form with pictures of the canopy and filters, and you will have a fixed quote for kitchen extract cleaning in Otford, normally within one working day. The work covers horizontal duct runs, canopies and hoods and discharge points, and people most often call us about an extract that no longer clears the smoke and an extract that has never been cleaned to TR19. Most calls from Otford come after an insurer, an EHO or a fire officer asks to see the last TR19 certificate. We handle the clean and the paperwork in one visit.
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.
Size doesn’t change the work: a kitchen in a place like Otford gets the whole system cleaned, canopy to discharge. The visit is booked around your opening hours, and the journey is planned ahead.
The report is your system’s health record: dated, with photos, and showing what was done. For TR19® Grease cleans, the certificate comes through the BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite portal and sits alongside the report.
- Where
- Otford (TN14)
- Region
- Kent
- Paperwork
- Certificate and photo report
- Price
- Fixed quote, normally within a working day
- When we work
- After hours by arrangement; emergencies any time
- Call
- 0345 646 2711
- Last updated
- 30 October 2026
What affects the cost of kitchen extract cleaning
The survey tells us what the work involves. We look at:
- Where the site is and how we reach it
- Site requirements such as sign-in and permits
- How many systems or sites are involved
- Whether it’s a one-off visit or part of a schedule
Whatever the type of site, the quote works the same way: how much there is, how we reach it, what state it’s in and when we can work. Ask for a fixed quote and we will go through it with you.
Asking for a quote
We can often survey from pictures. The most useful are:
- Any symptoms, from odd noises to smells or leaks
- The site address and the type of premises
- How we’d reach plant on a roof or in a plant room
- Any access panels or hatches you can see
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.
In-house cleaning or a specialist?
Logging matters as much as cleaning. A simple log of filter washes, wipe-downs and checks shows an inspector that the system is looked after between visits, next to our reports.
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.
How it works
Your staff don’t need to do much on the day. Someone lets us in at the agreed time and shows us where everything is, and the rest is down to us. Afterwards, the area is left tidy and the written report follows. Visits to a place like Otford are planned ahead, so we arrive with what the survey says the job needs.
- We survey the system first, from your pictures and details or on a site visit.
- We measure the grease at set points along the system, then give you a fixed price.
- Once the kitchen has closed and the equipment has cooled, we sheet and protect the area.
- The whole route is cleaned, from the canopy through the ductwork to the fan and the discharge.
- We test again, photograph the result and issue your TR19 certificate and photo report.
Getting ready for the visit
- Allow time for equipment near the work to be turned off and cool down
- Let us know about permits to work or site inductions
- Mention any locked doors, roof access or ceiling voids
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 many jobs can be priced from that alone.
Advice
Otford: your questions answered
Can a school canteen extract in Otford be done out of term time?
Yes, and it’s the easiest time to do it. Food Standards Agency records list about 11 schools, colleges and universities with registered kitchens within about a mile and a half of Otford. Send us your term dates when you call us on 0345 646 2711 or email us, and we will fit the work in.
Which fire authority looks after Otford?
Otford 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.
Can you quote from pictures?
In many cases, yes. Photos of the system and the access, plus your opening hours and last report, are often enough. Larger or hidden systems need a survey on site first.
Which kinds of sites do you work on?
Commercial premises of every kind: from restaurants, pubs and hotels to schools, hospitals, care homes, offices, shops and food production sites. Work is timed around how each site runs.
How often does a kitchen extract system need cleaning?
BESA guidance sets minimums by daily cooking hours: every 3 months for 12 to 16 hours, 6 months for 6 to 12 hours and 12 months for 2 to 6 hours. Measured grease levels set the real interval.
Do we have to close the kitchen for the clean?
We clean while the kitchen is closed, working evenings, overnight or at weekends to suit you. Equipment needs to be off and cool before we start.
What should I send you?
Just the basics: the address, the site type, your opening hours and how we reach the system. Photos and the last report help too. After that, simply call us on 0345 646 2711 or email us.
Do you clean the whole extract system or just the canopy?
We clean every part the grease travels through. Canopy, plenum, filters, ductwork, risers, fan and discharge are all included, reached through access panels where necessary.
Looking after it afterwards
Think of this as the after-treatment advice, short and simple:
- Keep the extract on whenever the range is lit
- File each certificate with the fire risk assessment
- Report grease drips, smells or fan noise straight away
- Make sure every filter is fitted before cooking
Every clean ends with a photo report. Before and after photos show each part of the system, alongside a list of what was cleaned, anything out of reach and the recommended next clean date.
Run the extract whenever the kitchen is cooking. Cooking with the extract off lets grease and heat settle in the canopy, and the next clean has more to do.
Otford kitchens: local notes
The FSA’s data shows about 8 pubs, bars and clubs registered in Otford and the streets around it, up to about 1.5 miles out. A pub or hotel kitchen that cooks every day builds up grease in its extract like any other. Otford is covered by Kent Fire and Rescue Service. The Fire Safety Order puts the duty on whoever runs a kitchen to control its fire risk, and a greasy duct is fuel. Kitchens in Otford get their food hygiene inspections from Sevenoaks council. A greasy canopy or dripping filters are the sort of thing an inspection can pick up. Our report lists what was cleaned and when, which is useful to have ready.
If you run catering at a healthcare site, such as a hospital like Sevenoaks Hospital about 1.6 miles south, the extract may need cleaning more often than a part-time kitchen. A hall kitchen that only cooks for events, whether near Church of St Bartholomew or elsewhere in Otford, still needs its extract cleaned, just less often. Commuter trade near Otford station can mean long cooking hours, and long hours put a kitchen into BESA’s more frequent cleaning bands.
Otford is about 2 miles north of Sevenoaks, in Kent. Anywhere in TN14, we can carry out kitchen extract cleaning at your premises. Across Kent, we cover 922 places, and Otford is one of them. For sites nearby, see our Maidstone page, about 15 miles away.
Work in TN14 is surveyed, quoted and booked the same way as anywhere else. Streets in the area include Station Road, High Street and Bubblestone Road, all of which we cover for kitchen extract cleaning. If your site is just outside Otford, we cover Twitton (1 mile west), Shoreham (2 miles north), Sepham Heath (2 miles north-west), Halstead (3 miles north-west) and Badgers Mount (3 miles north-west). Further out, we also cover Maidstone (15 miles east), Dartford (9 miles north), Royal Tunbridge Wells (13 miles south), Gravesend (12 miles north-east), Tonbridge (9 miles south-east) and Northfleet (11 miles north-east).
Around Otford
Locally, jobs take us to businesses close to Knole Academy, The Woodman pub and Fackenden Down, among other places. There’s a railway station in Otford itself: Otford station. Other landmarks nearby include Kemsing Castle Bank (1.7 miles east) and Otford Heritage Centre (within half a mile south-east). The countryside around Otford includes Dryhill Nature Reserve.
What else we do in Otford
Multi-site and managed buildings
Landlords, managing agents and facilities managers book us, not only the businesses that use the systems. Where a system serves more than one tenant, such as a shared riser, it helps to agree who arranges the work, and we can quote for the whole system.
Managing agents often deal with us directly. Send the address, what’s needed and how access works and we’ll come back with a fixed quote.
Part by part
Canopy and plenum
Behind the grease filters sits the plenum, which daily cleaning never reaches. We take the filters out and clean the plenum and housing thoroughly.
Restaurant and pub kitchens
Restaurants and pubs tend to cook long hours with plenty of frying and grilling, which can put them in BESA’s 3 or 6-monthly bands. Cleans are done after close, overnight or before opening.