Oxfordshire · Kitchen extract cleaning
Somerton kitchen extract cleaning
Kitchen extract cleaning in Somerton from ventilation hygiene specialists trading since 2009. Out-of-hours visits and 24/7 emergency callout.
- A system with no record of a TR19 clean
- Poor airflow at the canopy
- Grease dripping from the canopy or filters
The process
The visit has three parts: set-up, the treatment itself and the sign-off. Getting ready means protecting surfaces and switching off what needs to be off, while signing off means the written report and pictures. The middle part takes longest, which takes a single shift for most kitchens, with long duct runs and tall risers needing more time. Somewhere as small as Somerton, the date and timings are agreed with you well before the day.
- We start with a survey, so we know every part of the system before we quote.
- We measure the grease at set points along the system, then give you a fixed price.
- On the day, cooking equipment is switched off and left to cool, and everything nearby is sheeted.
- We clean the canopy, plenum, filters, ducts, risers, fan and discharge.
- Finally the system is re-tested and photographed, and the certificate and report follow.
Before we arrive
- Clear loose items from the work area
- Have your last certificate or report to hand
- Tell us about access, such as roof hatches, plant rooms, ceilings or locked areas
Getting a quote
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.
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Kitchen duct cleaning in Somerton
Few kitchens can stop cooking for a day so the extract can be cleaned. We work evenings, overnight and at weekends, or between services where the kitchen has a gap. Equipment is switched off and left to cool, the area is sheeted, and the kitchen is handed back ready to cook. The work covers canopies and hoods, plenums and filters and discharge points, and the jobs we see most are cleaning needed before an insurance renewal or survey and fat running down the canopy edge. For TR19 kitchen extract cleaning in Somerton, you get one team and one number for every site, wherever you are in Oxfordshire.
We clean every reachable part of the system in Somerton: canopy, plenum, filters, ducts, risers and fan, and the discharge where it can be reached.
For a kitchen in or near Somerton, 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.
Insurers, fire officers and environmental health officers all look at records. So every job comes with a written report and photos, and grease extract cleans come with a TR19® certificate issued through the BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite portal.
- Where
- Somerton (OX25)
- Wider area
- Oxfordshire
- Paperwork
- Certificate plus before-and-after photos
- Quotes
- A fixed price before we start
- Hours
- Nights, weekends or holidays to suit you
- Call
- 0345 646 2711
- Page updated
- 30 October 2026
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FAQs for Somerton
Can you come to Somerton after we close?
Yes. We work evenings, overnight and at weekends. Your customers, staff or residents in Somerton needn’t be disturbed. Just phone us on 0345 646 2711 or email us with your opening times and we’ll plan around them.
Which environmental health team covers Somerton?
The local authority for Somerton is Cherwell council, and its environmental health team does the inspecting. How often a business is inspected depends on the risk rating the council gives it, so it’s worth staying ready all year.
What do you do to protect the area?
By covering it before any work starts. The work is kept contained and clean down when we finish.
How long does it take to clean a kitchen extract system?
It takes as long as the system needs, from a few hours to several planned visits. The survey tells us how long your system will need.
What happens if you cannot reach some of it?
We record them on the report, with pictures where possible, and we explain what access is needed, such as extra access panels in ductwork.
Are you accredited for kitchen extract cleaning?
Our work is to BESA TR19® Grease, and we’re a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, and certificates go through the BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite portal. We have been trading since 2009.
Do you work in Somerton?
Yes. Our area takes in London and the counties of South East England, and that includes Somerton.
What types of premises do you cover?
All kinds of commercial and public premises: from restaurants, pubs and hotels to schools, hospitals, care homes, offices, shops and food production sites. Work is timed around how each site runs.
In-house cleaning or a specialist?
Staff cleaning doesn’t replace a specialist visit; it supports it. Regular in-house cleaning slows the build-up, but hidden parts of the system still need specialist attention.
Day-to-day cleaning is something your team can do: wiping down canopy surfaces, cleaning filters and keeping a simple log. Inside the ducts, risers and fan is specialist work, and that is where we come in.
Grease, kitchens and Somerton
It’s Cherwell council that sends environmental health officers to food businesses in Somerton. 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. We cover Somerton, about 60 miles from central London, as part of our work across London and the South East. The visit is fixed around your opening hours, not ours.
For kitchens in and around Somerton, the clean covers everything from the canopy to the discharge.
Somerton is about 6 miles north-west of Bicester, in Oxfordshire. We provide kitchen extract cleaning for commercial premises of every kind in Somerton and the rest of Oxfordshire. 443 places in Oxfordshire are on our list, large and small. For sites nearby, see our Oxford page, about 14 miles away.
Postcode districts we cover here for kitchen extract cleaning: OX25. If you need kitchen extract cleaning at premises on Water Street, Wharf Lane and Ardley Road or a nearby road, our technicians can take on the work. We also cover Fritwell (2 miles east), Clifton (2 miles north), Upper Heyford (2 miles south), Souldern (2 miles north-east) and Lower Heyford (3 miles south). Within a short drive, we also cover Oxford (14 miles south), Banbury (8 miles north), Bicester (6 miles south-east), Witney (15 miles south-west), Kidlington (9 miles south) and Headington Quarry (14 miles south).
Local landmarks in Somerton
The nearest railway station is Heyford station, roughly 2.7 miles south. A little further out are Deddington Castle (2.4 miles north-west).
Managing agents and facilities teams in Somerton
We work for landlords, managing agents and facilities managers as well as the people running the site. Where a system serves more than one tenant, such as a shared riser, it helps to agree who arranges the work, and we are happy to quote for all of it.
We regularly work with managing agents. Tell us the site, the work and the access arrangements and we’ll come back with a fixed quote.
What we’re called out for in Somerton
How fast grease builds up depends mostly on how long the kitchen cooks each day. Under BESA guidance, heavy use of 12 to 16 hours a day means a clean at least every 3 months, moderate use every 6 months and light use every 12. They are minimums: measured grease levels set the real interval.
Common reasons sites call us include:
- An extract that no longer clears the smoke
- A system with no record of a TR19 clean
- Cleaning needed before an insurance renewal or survey
- Years of baked-on grease in the ducts
Volunteers running a hall kitchen near Church of St James, or anywhere in Somerton, may not know when the extract was last cleaned, and a grease test settles it.
What your quote should include
- If the quote is a fixed price or an estimate
- What records you’ll receive afterwards
- Which accreditations they hold, and whether you can check them
- Whether a survey comes first
Honest limits
We’d rather tell you now than book work that won’t help, so these are the things it will not cover:
- A grease trap that needs emptying
- A fan motor that has burnt out
- Ductwork that’s corroded, split or leaking (that’s for a ductwork contractor)
If in doubt, call 0345 646 2711 or use the quote form and we’ll say what we think.
Where we work
- Plenums and filters
- Canopies and hoods
- Vertical risers
- Discharge points
- Extract fans
- Horizontal duct runs
How the job changes from site to site
Schools, hospitals and care homes
Even a kitchen that cooks only a few hours a day needs cleaning at least every 12 months under BESA guidance. School holidays are an easy time to do it.
Restaurant and pub kitchens
Busy restaurant and pub kitchens often cook for long hours, frying and grilling, which can put them in BESA’s 3 or 6-monthly bands. Cleans are done after close, overnight or before opening.
Why deal with it now?
TR19® is not law, but the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 is. It puts a duty on the responsible person to assess and reduce fire risk, and in a kitchen that means keeping extract grease under control. Cleaning to TR19 is the recognised way to show you’ve done it. With notice, the visit to Somerton can be fitted around your bookings and events.
A single site or a whole portfolio, the quote is built the same way: what needs doing, how we get to it and when. You’ll have a fixed price before we start.
Why Somerton businesses choose us
- Full insurance on every job
- BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease
- CHAS and SafeContractor accredited, with ISO 9001
- Fixed quotes from a survey or photos