Surrey · Kitchen extract cleaning
Kitchen extraction cleaning in Shackleford
Kitchen extract cleaning for commercial sites in Shackleford and across Surrey. BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease.
- Heavy grease build-up inside the duct runs
- Rancid smells from grease in the duct
- Extraction mentioned at an environmental health visit
What affects the cost of kitchen extract cleaning
The diagnosis comes before the price. We look at:
- Parking and loading at the site
- Any permits to work or inductions
- The condition we find in the survey
- The number of sites or systems
Leaving it longer rarely makes the work cheaper. Problems in a system tend to grow, and a neglected system can mean more work. If you are unsure, phone us on 0345 646 2711, or email photos for straight advice and a fixed quote.
Helping us quote
Photos and a few facts are often enough to price the work. Send what you can of the following:
- How we’d reach plant on a roof or in a plant room
- When the site is open and when it’s quiet
- Anything you’ve noticed, such as smells, noise, drips or poor airflow
- Detail shots of panels, filters and grilles
Quoting starts with a diagnosis, either from photos 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 any work starts.
Kitchen extract cleaning for kitchens and businesses in Shackleford
Cooking sends fat-laden vapour into the canopy with every service. As it cools, it clings to the inside of the ductwork and keeps building. That layer will burn, and a proper clean removes it before it becomes a fire risk. If you are dealing with extraction mentioned at an environmental health visit and a smoky, hot kitchen with weak extraction, we can put it right. Need a TR19 duct cleaning contractor for Shackleford? We’ve been cleaning kitchen extracts across the South East since 2009, as a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member.
Before we clean, we look at where the grease is: wet film or deposit thickness readings show which parts of the duct need the most attention, and readings afterwards go into your report.
In a small place like Shackleford, kitchens are often in older or extended buildings, with long single-storey duct runs, and those horizontal sections are where grease settles. We agree access and timings in advance.
It’s worth checking any contractor’s accreditations. We’re a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease, and we hold CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, and we’re fully insured.
- Where
- Shackleford (GU8)
- Region
- Surrey
- Paperwork
- TR19® certificate and photo report
- Price
- A fixed quote up front
- Hours
- Nights, weekends or holidays to suit you
- Telephone
- 0345 646 2711
- Reviewed
- 30 October 2026
Towns and villages near Shackleford
What else we do in Shackleford
Questions from Shackleford
Which fire authority looks after Shackleford?
Surrey Fire and Rescue Service is the fire and rescue service for Shackleford. Records of extract cleaning are a sensible thing to have ready if a fire safety officer carries out an audit.
Who carries out food hygiene inspections in Shackleford?
Kitchens in Shackleford are inspected by Guildford council’s environmental health officers. How often a business is inspected depends on the risk rating the council gives it, so it’s worth staying ready all year.
Will my insurer ask for a TR19 certificate?
Grease in an extract is a known fire risk, which is why many insurers require TR19 cleaning. Each clean gives you a certificate and photo report to show them.
What types of premises do you cover?
All kinds of commercial and public premises: kitchens, offices, schools, healthcare, retail, leisure and food production. We fit the work around how the site operates.
What’s TR19?
BESA’s ventilation hygiene specification in two main parts: TR19® Grease for kitchen extracts and TR19® Air for supply and extract systems. It isn’t legislation, but it’s the standard people check against.
What do you do to protect the area?
By covering it before any work starts. The work is kept contained and leave the area clean.
How long does it take to clean a kitchen extract system?
That depends on the size of the system, the amount of grease and the number of access points. As a guide, it takes as long as the system needs, from a few hours to several planned visits.
Will the clean disrupt our service?
When the kitchen is closed, at whatever time suits you. We need the equipment cool, and we leave the kitchen ready to cook.
Grease, kitchens and Shackleford
Look up Shackleford on the FSA’s food hygiene register and you will find about 3 restaurants, cafés and canteens within about 1.5 miles of central Shackleford. Those that fry, grill or roast under a canopy need their extracts cleaned at intervals set by how long they cook. Food hygiene inspections in Shackleford are the job of Guildford council’s environmental health team. Extraction counts as kitchen equipment, so its condition can come up on the day. A dated certificate in the maintenance file answers the question before it’s asked. The fire and rescue service for Shackleford is Surrey 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.
If your kitchen is in a listed or historic building, like the houses around Shackleford (Wanborough Manor is about 2.1 miles north), fitting access panels needs care. Church and community hall kitchens, near Church of St Mary or anywhere around Shackleford, are easy to forget, but their extracts collect grease like any other. If you look after a school kitchen, at a school such as St Mary's CofE Voluntary Controlled Infant School or anywhere near Shackleford, the holidays are the usual time for a TR19® clean.
Shackleford is about 5 miles south-west of Guildford, in Surrey. Every kind of commercial site in Shackleford, we can take on kitchen extract cleaning. We can work out of hours so trading isn’t interrupted. Our Surrey coverage runs to 395 places, Shackleford among them.
Work in GU8 follows the same survey, fixed quote and written report as everywhere else we cover. Kitchen extract cleaning is available to premises on The Street, Lombard Street and Chalk Lane and the roads around them. We also cover the places around Shackleford: Hurtmore (1 mile east), Puttenham (2 miles north), Compton (2 miles north-east), Wanborough (2 miles north) and Binscombe (2 miles east). Larger places within reach include Guildford (5 miles north-east), Woking (9 miles north-east), Camberley (10 miles north), Farnham (6 miles west), Dorking (15 miles east) and Frimley (8 miles north).
Local landmarks in Shackleford
Around Shackleford, our work takes us to kitchens and buildings near Middlebriars Wood and Prior's Field School and the streets around them. Shackleford’s nearest station is Godalming station, roughly 2.2 miles south-east of the centre. Other landmarks nearby include Guildford Castle (4.5 miles north-east) and Charterhouse School Museum (1.8 miles east). Green spaces nearby include Farncombe Wood and Hog's Back.
How the job changes from site to site
Schools, hospitals and care homes
In a care home or hospital, the kitchen may cook every day of the year. Cleans are planned between meals or overnight with as little disruption as possible.
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. We clean after close or before opening.
Looking after it afterwards
Think of this as the after-treatment advice, in brief:
- Keep to the recommended cleaning interval
- Run the extract fan throughout cooking
- Empty any grease troughs or cups on the canopy
- Clean the grease filters regularly between TR19 cleans
When the clean is finished, grease readings are taken again at the same points, so you can see the difference in numbers as well as photos. A TR19 certificate follows, issued through the BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite portal.
Report drips, smells or a noisy fan early. Drips, odours and fan noise often mean grease is building, and a grease thickness test can confirm it.
What happens if it’s left?
Every week without a clean adds another layer. Under BESA guidance, grease shouldn’t exceed a mean of 200 microns between cleans, and anywhere reaching 500 microns or more needs a spot clean straight away. The longer it’s left, the bigger the job becomes. In a place like Shackleford, ductwork and fans are easy to forget until something goes wrong.
No two sites are the same, so each one gets its own fixed quote. The size of the job, how we reach it, its condition and the working hours all make a difference.
Why book with us
- Evenings, overnight and weekends, plus 24/7 emergency callout
- A single point of contact for sites across the South East and London
- Photo reports with every job
- Ventilation hygiene specialists since 2009
Take a look at our cost guide or our accreditations and certificates.
Staff cleaning versus specialist work
Your own staff can handle the daily basics: wiping down canopy surfaces, cleaning filters and keeping a simple log. What they can’t safely do is clean inside the ductwork, the fan or the risers, which is where we come in.
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.
Multi-site and managed buildings
We also work for facilities teams across offices, schools and healthcare in Shackleford and across Surrey. Larger estates can be phased building by building around the people who use them.
Keeping records across a portfolio is half the battle. Each visit produces a dated report with photos, ready to show insurers, fire officers or EHOs.
How the visit works
Before we leave, we walk the area with whoever is on site. We point out anything that couldn’t be reached or needs a follow-up, and it goes on the report too. The visit takes one visit for most kitchens, while large or complex systems may need more than one. If the van will struggle with a lane or gateway near Shackleford, let us know and we’ll plan around it.
- First comes a survey of the whole system, by photos or a visit.
- Set points are tested for grease thickness and the quote is fixed before work begins.
- With the kitchen closed and equipment off and cool, the area is sheeted.
- We clean the canopy, plenum, filters, ducts, risers, fan and discharge.
- We test again, photograph the result and issue your TR19 certificate and photo report.
Preparing for the visit
- Dig out any earlier paperwork for the system
- Arrange a key holder or contact on site
- Tell us where we can park and unload
How to get a quote
Getting a quote does not take long. Call or email with a few details and you will typically have a fixed price within one working day. Where a survey is needed, we arrange a time that suits the site.