Hampshire · Kitchen extract cleaning
Kitchen Extract Cleaning in Sandy Down
Our technicians work in Sandy Down on kitchen extract cleaning. Fixed quotes, work around your opening hours and photo reports on every job.
- Years of baked-on grease in the ducts
- A system with no record of a TR19 clean
- Rancid smells from grease in the duct
Your questions about kitchen extract cleaning in Sandy Down
Do you clean school canteen extracts around Sandy Down out of term?
Yes, out-of-term visits are normal for schools. With about 3 schools and colleges on the FSA’s register within roughly a mile and a half of Sandy Down, it pays to plan holiday dates ahead. Booking early in the term gives the best choice of holiday dates.
Who enforces fire safety at workplaces in Sandy Down?
That is Hampshire and Isle of Wight 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?
Yes, for many jobs. Send a few wide pictures plus close-ups of panels, filters or grilles, and we typically come back within one working day. If pictures are not enough, we will survey first.
Do you work in Sandy Down?
Yes. Our technicians work in Sandy Down, as part of our area across London and the South East.
What about areas you can’t get to?
We never leave them off the paperwork. The report says which parts couldn’t be reached and why, along with a quote to put access in.
When do you clean the extract?
We clean while the kitchen is closed, working evenings, overnight or at weekends to suit you. We need the equipment switched off and cooled first.
Do insurers need proof of extract cleaning?
Because a dirty extract can spread a fire through a building. Many insurers require TR19 cleaning, and may refuse or reduce a claim without proof, so keep every certificate.
Does the law say I must clean to TR19?
The legal duty sits in the Fire Safety Order 2005 rather than in TR19 itself. TR19 is the industry benchmark for meeting that duty in a kitchen extract, and an insurer may refuse or reduce a claim without it.
About our kitchen extract cleaning in Sandy Down
We have been trading since 2009, cleaning kitchen extracts across the South East and London. As a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, we clean to BESA TR19® Grease, and we hold CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001 and are fully insured. The work covers discharge points, vertical risers and horizontal duct runs, and the jobs we see most are stale cooking odours from the system and a smoky, hot kitchen with weak extraction. When a restaurant in Sandy Down asks for duct cleaning, it’s nearly always the kitchen extract they mean, and that’s our main job: canopy to fan, to TR19® Grease.
A clean in Sandy Down covers the canopy, plenum, filters, ductwork, risers and fan, then record anything that couldn’t be reached.
In a village or hamlet like Sandy Down, the kitchens that need extract cleaning are normally a pub, a school, a care home or a hall kitchen, wherever there is one. Each still has a canopy and duct that collect grease.
Our accreditations include CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, and we are fully insured. On top of that, we are a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease, trading since 2009.
- Location
- Sandy Down (SO41)
- Region
- Hampshire
- Reporting
- Certificate plus before-and-after photos
- Price
- Fixed quote, typically within a working day
- When we work
- Evenings, overnight and weekends; 24/7 emergencies
- Phone
- 0345 646 2711
- Last updated
- 30 October 2026
How the visit works
Night work is normal for us. A lot of visits happen overnight or at weekends, so the site can open as normal afterwards. On site, the work takes as long as the system needs, from a few hours to several planned visits. Somewhere like Sandy Down, lanes, gates and parking are worth mentioning in advance.
- You send pictures or we visit, and the system is surveyed from 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.
- We re-test, photograph and send your certificate and photo report.
Getting ready for the visit
- Make sure someone can let us in and lock up afterwards
- Dig out any earlier paperwork for the system
- Move anything stored near the system
Get a fixed quote
For kitchen extract cleaning in Sandy Down, call 0345 646 2711 or send us an email. Let us know the site type and the opening hours, plus photos or the previous report if they’re to hand. We usually send a fixed quote within one working day.
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In-house cleaning or a specialist?
Logging matters as much as cleaning. A dated log of in-house cleaning and checks shows an inspector that the system is looked after between visits, alongside our reports.
When your team notices a problem between visits, such as dripping grease, a noisy fan, a smell or a filter that will not come clean, they should report it rather than try to fix it. We can diagnose it and quote.
Aftercare tips
Here’s the after-treatment advice, short and simple:
- Never cook with filters missing or out of place
- Diarise the next clean as soon as you get the certificate
- Report grease drips, smells or fan noise straight away
- File each certificate with the fire risk assessment
If we couldn’t get into part of the duct, the report says so plainly. A TR19 report should record what wasn’t cleaned as well as what was, and new access panels can be fitted so the next clean covers it.
Stick to the cleaning interval on the certificate. BESA guidance links the minimum interval to daily cooking hours, so a change in hours may mean a change in interval, and grease readings will show it.
Leave it or put it right?
Any food business in Sandy Down can expect visits from the council’s environmental health officers, and they look at the cleanliness of the premises and equipment, extraction included. Keeping the extract clean helps the whole kitchen pass muster. A fault that closes a site in a village like Sandy Down affects everyone who depends on it.
Kitchens, offices, schools and hospitals are all priced the same way: the size of the job, access, condition and working hours. Ask for a fixed quote and we’ll explain each part.
Why book with us
- Fixed quotes, typically within one working day
- In business since 2009
- We diagnose before we treat
- Accredited under CHAS and SafeContractor, with ISO 9001
Read our cost guide and how to check a contractor.
Kitchen extract cleaning around Sandy Down
The coast is only about 3 miles from Sandy Down. Salt air speeds up corrosion of roof-level fans, discharge cowls and their fixings. The FSA’s food hygiene register includes about 4 pubs, bars and clubs and about 3 hotels and B&Bs across Sandy Down and its immediate surroundings (about a mile and a half). A pub or hotel kitchen that cooks every day builds up grease in its extract like any other. It’s New Forest council that sends environmental health officers to food businesses in Sandy Down. A greasy canopy or dripping filters are the sort of thing an inspection can pick up. Keeping each certificate and photo report on file helps show the extract is looked after.
Healthcare kitchens, like those at hospitals such as Lymington New Forest Hospital (about 1.9 miles south), often cook for long hours, which puts them in BESA’s heavier-use bands.
Sandy Down is about 3 miles north of Lymington, in Hampshire. If you need kitchen extract cleaning in Sandy Down, it’s easy to get a fixed quote: please phone us on 0345 646 2711 or use the quote form. Our area covers London and the South East, Sandy Down included. Our area takes in 683 places across Hampshire, from busy centres to quieter spots. We also work in Southampton, about 11 miles from Sandy Down.
Postcode districts we cover here for kitchen extract cleaning: SO41. Whether your site is on Sandy Down, Lower Sandy Down and Hurstly Lane or a nearby road, our technicians can take on the work. We also cover Battramsley (1 mile south), Boldre (1 mile south-east), Mount Pleasant (1 mile south-west), Pilley (1 mile south-east) and Warborne (2 miles south-east). Larger places within reach include Eastleigh (15 miles north-east), Totton (9 miles north), Chandler's Ford (15 miles north-east), Hedge End (14 miles north-east), Lymington (3 miles south) and Romsey (14 miles north).
Near you in Sandy Down
Locally, jobs take us to businesses close to The Hobler Public House, among other places. Sandy Down’s nearest station is Brockenhurst station, about 1.6 miles north of the centre. Nearby you’ll also find Lymington New Forest Hospital (1.9 miles south) and St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery (2.6 miles south). The countryside around Sandy Down includes Boldre Foreshore.
When to call us in Sandy Down
It’s common for parts of a duct to have been missed for years. The usual reason is a lack of access panels, so those sections were never reached. Grease in those sections keeps building out of sight.
The symptoms we’re asked about most include:
- Missing paperwork after a change of operator
- Years of baked-on grease in the ducts
- An extract that no longer clears the smoke
- Grease smells coming from the extract
If you run a church or community hall kitchen, near Church of St John or elsewhere in Sandy Down, its extract still collects grease from every lunch and event.
Comparing quotes
- What insurance they carry
- When the next visit should be, and why
- Whether the figure could change on the day
- What hours they’ll be on site
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Managing agents and facilities teams in Sandy Down
Whether it’s one building or many, you get the same standard: the system surveyed, the price fixed, the visit fitted around trading and everything written up afterwards.
Facilities teams in offices, schools and healthcare sites book us too in Sandy Down and across Hampshire. Work can be phased by floor, building or site around the people who use them.
How the job changes from site to site
Extract fan and discharge
At the end of the system is the discharge, and grease can collect there too. It’s cleaned as far as safe access allows, and any limits are recorded.
Canopy and plenum
Grease meets the system first at the canopy and the plenum behind the filters. Both are scraped and degreased inside and out, with the filter housing cleaned too.