Hampshire · Kitchen extract cleaning
Kitchen extract cleaning in Soake, Hampshire
Professional kitchen extract cleaning in and around Soake, timed so the site keeps working and signed off in writing with photos.
- A new tenancy or takeover with no cleaning history
- Cleaning needed before an insurance renewal or survey
- A smoky, hot kitchen with weak extraction
Common questions in Soake
Who would carry out a food hygiene inspection at a kitchen in Soake?
Food hygiene inspections in Soake are carried out by Winchester City council. How often a business is inspected depends on the risk rating the council gives it, so it’s worth staying ready all year.
Is Soake within the area you cover?
Yes. Villages and rural sites across the South East are part of our work, Soake included. Just mention lanes, gates or anything else about the site when you book.
What is TR19?
BESA’s ventilation hygiene specification in two main parts: TR19® Grease for kitchen extract systems and TR19® Air for general ventilation. It is not law, but it’s the benchmark.
What about areas you can’t get to?
Anything we can’t reach goes on the report, with a note of where it is, and we explain what access is needed, for example new access panels.
Which sectors do you work in?
Any site with a kitchen or a ventilation system to look after, from a single café to a large school. Hotels, schools, care homes, offices, shops and leisure sites are all part of our work.
Can one contract cover all our sites?
Yes. Our area covers London and the South East, so we can schedule a run of sites on one programme. Every site has its own report.
How long will the clean take?
Allow anything from a few hours to a full night, depending on the size of the system. The survey tells us how long your system will need.
What accreditations do you hold?
We are members of Vent Hygiene Elite, the scheme run by BESCA, and we clean to BESA TR19® Grease. We also hold CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, and we are fully insured.
Commercial kitchen extraction cleaning in Soake
Insurers often want evidence of regular TR19 cleaning, and some may refuse or reduce a claim when it’s missing. The certificate and photo report from each clean in Soake give you that record for the maintenance log. The work covers extract fans, discharge points and canopies and hoods, and the jobs we see most are cleaning needed before an insurance renewal or survey and a kitchen taken over without any extract records. Most calls from Soake 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.
Access decides how thorough a clean can be. Sections without access panels are recorded on the report, and new panels can be fitted so they’re cleaned next time.
For a kitchen in or near Soake, the visit is planned around opening hours and the journey, and the clean itself is the same full TR19® job as in any town: canopy, filters, duct, fan and discharge, with a certificate and photo report at the end.
A written report with photos follows each visit, so there’s a dated record of the work. Kitchen extract cleaning to TR19® Grease is certificated through the BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite portal.
- Location
- Soake (PO7)
- Region
- Hampshire
- Paperwork
- Certificate and photo report
- Quotes
- A fixed price before we start
- When we work
- Nights, weekends or holidays to suit you
- Telephone
- 0345 646 2711
- Updated
- 30 October 2026
When to call us in Soake
How fast grease builds up depends mostly on how long the kitchen cooks each day. BESA guidance sets minimum cleaning intervals of every 3 months for 12 to 16 hours a day, 6 months for 6 to 12 hours, and 12 months for 2 to 6 hours. Those are minimums, and grease readings can show a kitchen needs cleaning sooner.
If you notice any of these, it’s worth a diagnosis:
- A kitchen with no current TR19 certificate
- Stale cooking odours from the system
- An inspection that picked up a dirty extract
- A kitchen taken over without any extract records
Kitchens that cook twelve hours or more a day, as some healthcare kitchens do, fall into BESA’s three-monthly minimum; Queen Alexandra Hospital is the nearest hospital to Soake, about 3.2 miles south.
What your quote should include
- Proof of insurance
- What hours they’ll be on site
- Whether the price is fixed
- What happens if part of the system can’t be accessed
What affects the quote in Soake
Your quote is based on your site. We take into account:
- How easy every part is to reach
- Site rules, permits and inductions
- The condition of the system
- Whether it’s a one-off visit or part of a schedule
Every site is different, so each one gets its own fixed quote. Size, access, the condition of the system and when we can work all make a difference.
Asking for a quote
When you call or email, it’s useful to have:
- The times we could work without disrupting the site
- Your last certificate, test record or report
- Any access panels or hatches you can see
- Anything you’ve noticed, such as smells, noise, drips or poor airflow
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, you get a fixed price before any work starts.
How the job changes from site to site
Canopy and plenum
Behind the grease filters sits the plenum, which daily cleaning never reaches. With the filters out, the plenum is scraped and degreased.
Restaurant and pub kitchens
Busy restaurant and pub kitchens often cook for long hours, frying and grilling, so their cleaning interval is often 3 or 6 months under BESA guidance. We clean after close or before opening.
Nearby places to Soake
Also in Soake
What staff can safely do
Away from the kitchen, the in-house job is mainly checking: keeping grilles clear, noting unusual noise or smells and logging filter changes. Cleaning inside ducts and units is specialist work.
Keep a record of what your team does. A dated log of in-house cleaning and checks shows an inspector that the system is looked after between visits, next to our reports.
Managing agents and facilities teams in Soake
Whether it’s one building or many, you get the same standard: diagnosis, a fixed price, work booked around your hours and a written report with photos.
When the building owner and the occupier are different, the lease normally sets out who maintains what. We’re happy to deal with either side, and the report can go to both.
What we do, step by step
Everything the job needs comes with us, including protection sheets, the right tools and access kit. All we need from you is clear access and the right equipment switched off. The visit takes as long as the system needs, from a few hours to several planned visits. If the van will struggle with a lane or gateway near Soake, let us know and we’ll plan around it.
- We survey the system, from your pictures or on site, canopy to discharge.
- We take grease readings at set points and give you a fixed quote.
- On the night, the equipment is off and cool and the kitchen is sheeted.
- Filters, canopy and plenum are cleaned, then the ducts, risers, fan and discharge.
- Readings are repeated, pictures taken, and your TR19 certificate and photo report issued.
Before we arrive
- Let us know about permits to work or site inductions
- Have your last certificate or report to hand
- Plan for cooking equipment or plant to be off before we arrive
Get a fixed quote
For kitchen extract cleaning in Soake, call us on 0345 646 2711, or email photos. Tell us what kind of premises it is and when it’s open, and send photos or your last report if you can. We usually send a fixed quote within one working day.
Related advice
What kitchen extract cleaning can’t fix
Some problems need a different service or another trade:
- A fan motor that has burnt out
- Extraction that cannot cope with the cooking because of its design
- Ductwork that’s corroded, split or leaking (that’s for a ductwork contractor)
If you are not sure, just call 0345 646 2711, or email photos and we’ll give you a straight answer.
What the work covers
- Vertical risers
- Extract fans
- Discharge points
- Horizontal duct runs
- Plenums and filters
- Canopies and hoods
Grease, kitchens and Soake
The FSA’s food hygiene register includes about 14 pubs and bars across Soake and its immediate surroundings (about a mile and a half). Where they serve hot food, their kitchen extracts need cleaning to TR19® like any restaurant’s. Environmental health officers from Winchester City council inspect food businesses in Soake. 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. Soake is covered by Hampshire and Isle of Wight 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 look after a school kitchen, at a school such as Denmead Junior School or anywhere near Soake, the holidays are the usual time for a TR19® clean.
Soake is about 1 mile north-west of Waterlooville, in Hampshire. Every kind of commercial site in Soake, kitchen extract cleaning is something we can help with. We can work out of hours so the site keeps running. Soake is one of 683 places in Hampshire we cover for kitchen extract cleaning. Portsmouth is in our area too, about 6 miles from Soake.
Every address in PO7 is covered for kitchen extract cleaning, from busy streets to back roads. Kitchen extract cleaning is available to premises on Soake Road and Hambledon Road and the roads around them. We also cover the places around Soake: Furzeley Corner (1 mile south-west), Hart Plain (1 mile east), Cowplain (1 mile east), Waterlooville (1 mile south-east) and Purbrook Heath (2 miles south). Larger places within reach include Gosport (8 miles south-west), Havant (4 miles south-east), Eastleigh (14 miles west), Fareham (7 miles south-west), Hedge End (11 miles west) and Petersfield (9 miles north-east).
Landmarks near Soake
We work in commercial kitchens and buildings around The Mead End pub and The Cowplain School. The closest station to Soake is Bedhampton station, about 3.7 miles south-east of the centre. Well-known places in the area include Clanfield Earthwork (4.7 miles north-east) and Queen Alexandra Hospital (3.2 miles south). Not far away are Southmoor Nature Reserve and Portsdown Hill.