Kent · Kitchen extract cleaning
Paddock Wood kitchen extract cleaning
Kitchen extract cleaning for commercial sites in Paddock Wood and across Kent. BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease.
- Heavy grease build-up inside the duct runs
- Missing paperwork after a change of operator
- An extract that has never been cleaned to TR19
What kitchen extract cleaning looks like in Paddock Wood
The FSA’s food hygiene register includes about 3 pubs, bars and clubs within about 1.5 miles of central Paddock Wood. Where they serve hot food, their kitchen extracts need cleaning to TR19® like any restaurant’s. Environmental health officers from Tunbridge Wells council inspect food businesses in Paddock Wood. 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. Kent Fire and Rescue Service covers Paddock Wood. The Fire Safety Order puts the duty on whoever runs a kitchen to control its fire risk, and a greasy duct is fuel.
Kitchens that cook twelve hours or more a day, as some healthcare kitchens do, fall into BESA’s three-monthly minimum; Tunbridge Wells Hospital is the nearest hospital to Paddock Wood, about 4 miles south-west. A hall kitchen that only cooks for events, whether near St Andrew's Church or elsewhere in Paddock Wood, still needs its extract cleaned, just less often.
Paddock Wood is about 5 miles east of Tonbridge, in Kent. We carry out kitchen extract cleaning for businesses, landlords and public buildings in Paddock Wood and the rest of Kent. Across Kent, we cover 922 places, Paddock Wood among them. You can also see our page for Maidstone, roughly 9 miles from Paddock Wood.
Here we cover the TN12 postcode area for kitchen extract cleaning. If you need kitchen extract cleaning at premises on Church Road, Station Road and Forest Road or anywhere close by, our technicians can take on the work. You’ll find Paddock Wood on the B2017 and B2160, so it’s easy for us to get to for kitchen extract cleaning. Neighbouring places we cover for kitchen extract cleaning include Whetsted (1 mile north-west), Colt's Hill (1 mile west), Five Oak Green (2 miles west), Matfield (2 miles south-west) and Brenchley (2 miles south). Within a short drive, we also cover Maidstone (9 miles north-east), Sevenoaks (11 miles north-west), Royal Tunbridge Wells (6 miles south-west), Tonbridge (5 miles west), Kings Hill (7 miles north) and Foley Park (10 miles north-east).
Landmarks near Paddock Wood
Around Paddock Wood, our work takes us to kitchens and buildings near Mascalls School, Foal Hurst Wood and John Brunt V.C. Pub, among other places. There’s a railway station in Paddock Wood itself: Paddock Wood station. Nearby you’ll also find Tunbridge Wells Hospital (4 miles south-west) and The Hop Farm Museum (1.4 miles north). Open spaces near Paddock Wood include Tudeley Woods RSPB reserve.
About our kitchen extract cleaning in Paddock Wood
Insurers often want evidence of regular TR19 cleaning, and a claim can be refused or reduced without it. For a kitchen in Paddock Wood, our certificate and photo report give you that record, ready for the fire risk assessment file. The work covers discharge points, plenums and filters and horizontal duct runs, and people most often call us about cleaning needed before an insurance renewal or survey and a system with no record of a TR19 clean. When a restaurant in Paddock Wood asks for duct cleaning, it’s nearly always the kitchen extract they mean, and that is exactly what we do: the whole run from hood to roof, cleaned to TR19® Grease.
A kitchen running fryers and chargrills all day builds up grease much faster than one that mostly steams and boils, so the interval is set by what you cook as well as how long.
In a smaller place like Paddock Wood, the kitchens with extract systems are more likely to be a pub, a café, a takeaway or a school or care home kitchen than a big restaurant. Quieter kitchens still collect grease in the duct, just more slowly, so cleaning is planned around how much it cooks and what the readings show.
Good records are part of the job. You get a written report with photos after each visit, covering the work done, any areas we couldn’t access and a recommended next date. Keep it with your fire safety records so it’s to hand when an insurer or inspector asks.
- Where
- Paddock Wood (TN12)
- Region
- Kent
- Reporting
- Certificate and photo report
- Quotes
- A fixed price before we start
- When we work
- Nights, weekends or holidays to suit you
- Phone
- 0345 646 2711
- Reviewed
- 30 October 2026
What kitchen extract cleaning can’t fix
Not every problem is solved by kitchen extract cleaning, and we’d rather say so up front. It will not put right:
- An undersized canopy or fan
- Faulty fire dampers in the duct
- Fat blocking the kitchen drains
If in doubt, call 0345 646 2711, or email photos and we’ll say what we think before booking.
Parts of the system we cover
- Plenums and filters
- Discharge points
- Canopies and hoods
- Horizontal duct runs
- Extract fans
- Vertical risers
What happens on the day
Your trading hours come first. Most visits are booked for when the area is out of use, such as evenings, overnight, early mornings or weekends. Once we are in, the area is sheeted and anything that has to be off is turned off and cooled, and the work takes a single shift for most kitchens, with long duct runs and tall risers needing more time. Around Paddock Wood, access is normally simpler than in a town centre, though gates and roof access are worth mentioning.
- Diagnosis comes first, with a survey of the system and how it’s reached.
- We record grease levels at set points, then fix the price.
- After the kitchen closes, we sheet the area and set up to contain grease and water.
- Heavy deposits are scraped by hand and the system degreased to TR19® Grease.
- Then the clean bill of health: readings, a TR19 certificate and a photo report with the next date.
How to prepare
- Find the previous report, if there is one
- Make sure equipment near the work can be switched off and left to cool
- Tell us about site rules, permits or sign-in
Getting a quote
Quoting starts with a diagnosis, either from pictures and details you send or from a site visit. After that, you get a fixed price for the work so you know the cost before we start.
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Between visits
Here’s the after-treatment advice, in brief:
- Tell us when the extract starts to drip or smell
- Switch the fan on before cooking starts
- File each certificate with the fire risk assessment
- Wipe the canopy down at the end of each day
The certificate records when the clean was done, where and by whom. Keep it in the maintenance log with your fire risk assessment, so it’s to hand when an insurer, fire officer or EHO asks.
Clean the grease filters often, not just on clean day. Clean, well-fitted filters catch more fat before it reaches the duct, so the ductwork stays cleaner for longer.
Why act early in Paddock Wood
Environmental health officers inspect food businesses, in Paddock Wood as everywhere else, and they look at the cleanliness of the premises and equipment, extraction included. Keeping the extract clean helps the whole kitchen pass muster. A site near Paddock Wood that has to close at short notice is hard to cover for.
Several systems or sites on one quote can make for a more efficient booking. Mention every system or site you need covered and we will price it together.
Why us?
- Evenings, overnight and weekends, plus 24/7 emergency callout
- A BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease
- We are fully insured
- Fixed quotes, usually within one working day
See how cleaning jobs are priced and our accreditations and certificates.
In-house cleaning or a specialist?
A few tasks are always specialist work: entering ducts, working on fans, testing dampers and taking grease readings need training, the right equipment and safe access. That is our job.
Your own staff can handle the daily basics: wiping canopies, washing grease filters and recording it in a log. What they cannot safely do is clean inside the ductwork, the fan or the risers, and that’s where we come in.
Your questions about kitchen extract cleaning in Paddock Wood
Which environmental health team covers Paddock Wood?
Food hygiene inspections in Paddock Wood are carried out by Tunbridge Wells council. How often a business is inspected depends on the risk rating the council gives it, so it’s worth staying ready all year.
Can you work in Paddock Wood outside opening hours?
Yes, out-of-hours work is a big part of what we do. It means the site in Paddock Wood keeps running as normal. Your opening times are the first thing we ask for.
Do you work with multi-site operators?
Yes. Tell us the addresses and what each needs and we’ll quote them together.
Can you quote from photos?
Normally, yes. Send a few wide photos plus close-ups of panels, filters or grilles, and a fixed quote usually follows within one working day. If pictures are not enough, we will survey first.
Is Paddock Wood in your area?
Yes. Our area takes in London and the counties of South East England, and that includes Paddock Wood.
What’s TR19?
TR19® is the BESA specification for keeping ventilation systems clean. TR19® Grease, a standalone specification since 2019, covers grease in kitchen extract systems, and TR19® Air covers general supply and extract systems.
What do you do with what you remove?
We contain it and take it with us. We collect grease, debris and waste water as we go rather than letting it spread.
What do you do to protect the area?
Floors and surfaces near the work are sheeted before any work starts, and waste is contained as we go. Before we leave, we tidy up and clean down.
What we’re called out for in Paddock Wood
Grease in the extract matters because it burns. Flames from a pan or grill can be pulled into the canopy by the fan, where burning grease can carry a fire along the ducts and into other parts of the building. That’s why controlling extract grease belongs in the fire risk assessment.
Any of these means the system needs a check-up:
- Grease drips onto cooking equipment
- An extract that has never been cleaned to TR19
- Rancid smells from grease in the duct
- Proof of cleaning requested by an insurer
For kitchens close to Paddock Wood station, where the day often starts early and ends late, the extract can be cleaned overnight.
Questions to ask before booking
- Whether the whole system is included, or only the parts that are easy to reach
- Whether they’re fully insured
- What hours they’ll be on site
- Whether the quote is based on a survey or pictures
What the work involves, 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.
Ductwork and risers
Risers take the extract up through floors to roof level, and grease runs down their walls and pools at the base. They’re cleaned through access points along their height.