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Kitchen extraction cleaning in St Giles
TR19 grease cleaning of complete kitchen extract systems, from canopy to discharge for commercial sites in St Giles and across Greater London. CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, and fully insured.
- Rancid smells from grease in the duct
- A system with no record of a TR19 clean
- A smoky, hot kitchen with weak extraction
Common questions in St Giles
Can parking be tricky for a job in St Giles?
Tell us where a van can stop near your site in St Giles, and about any building rules on loading. Night visits tend to make loading easier on London streets.
Can you work in St Giles outside opening hours?
Yes. We work evenings, overnight and at weekends. Your customers, staff or residents in St Giles needn’t be disturbed. Tell us your opening hours when you ask for a quote.
Do you work in St Giles?
Yes. Our technicians work in St Giles, within the South East and London area we cover.
Will my insurer ask for a TR19 certificate?
Extract grease is fuel for a kitchen fire, so many insurers want evidence it’s being cleaned to TR19. Our certificate and photo report give you that evidence.
Are you a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member?
Our work is to BESA TR19® Grease, and we are a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, and certificates go through the BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite portal. We have been trading since 2009.
What do you need from me for a quote?
Only a few details: the address, the site type, your opening hours and how we reach the system. Photos and the last report help too. After that, simply call us on 0345 646 2711, or email photos.
Do I have to clean my extract to TR19 by law?
The legal duty sits in the Fire Safety Order 2005 rather than in TR19 itself. In practice, TR19 is how kitchens show they’re managing grease, and an insurer may refuse or reduce a claim without it.
Which sectors do you work in?
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.
Commercial kitchen extraction cleaning in St Giles
Many insurers ask for proof that the extract has been cleaned to TR19, and some may refuse or reduce a claim when it’s missing. The certificate and photo report from each clean in St Giles give you that record, ready for the fire risk assessment file. If you’re dealing with grease dripping from the canopy or filters and rancid smells from grease in the duct, we can help, from canopies and hoods, horizontal duct runs and plenums and filters onwards. Canopy cleaning, extract cleaning and duct cleaning are often used to mean the same thing, but a proper TR19® clean in St Giles covers all of it, from the hood to the fan.
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.
Across London, many commercial kitchens are squeezed into basements and narrow back-of-house spaces, and the duct may run up through several floors before it discharges at the roof. For a kitchen in St Giles, that usually means a longer system to clean and more access panels to plan around.
Our accreditations include CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, and we are fully insured. We are also a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease, and we’ve been trading since 2009.
- Location
- St Giles (W1F, W1D, W1T)
- Wider area
- Greater London
- Records
- TR19® certificate and photo report
- Price
- A fixed quote up front
- When we work
- When your site is closed, plus a 24/7 line
- Telephone
- 0345 646 2711
- Updated
- 30 October 2026
What we are called out for in St Giles
Grease in an extract starts as vapour. As the air cools on its way through the duct, the fat condenses and sticks, and the layer grows a little with every meal cooked. Filters catch some of it, but never all.
Signs it’s time to call us include:
- Rancid smells from grease in the duct
- Grease dripping from the canopy or filters
- Missing paperwork after a change of operator
- Proof of cleaning requested by an insurer
If you run a church or community hall kitchen, near Soho Baptist Chapel or elsewhere in St Giles, its extract still collects grease from every lunch and event.
What to look for in a quote
- If they look at the system before pricing
- How areas they cannot reach will be recorded
- If the quote is a fixed price or an estimate
- Whether a written report and pictures are included
How we price kitchen extract cleaning
We do not publish a price list, because sites vary so much. What we look at:
- Whether we need access equipment or extra panels
- A single visit or a regular plan
- The size of the system
- The number of sites or systems
Every site is different, so we price each one individually. The size of the job, how we reach it, its condition and the working hours all play a part.
Helping us quote
Photos let us diagnose from a distance. The most useful are:
- Your opening hours and when the area is out of use
- Any access panels or hatches you can see
- Wide pictures of the system and the area around it
- The postcode and the type of business
Getting a quote doesn’t take long. Call or email with a few details and you’ll usually have a fixed price within one working day. If we need to see the system first, we book a survey around your hours.
What staff can safely do
For ventilation and air handling systems, in-house care is mostly about checks: keeping grilles clear, noting unusual noise or smells and logging filter changes. Cleaning inside ducts and units is specialist work.
Logging matters as much as cleaning. A simple log of filter washes, wipe-downs and checks helps show that the system is managed between specialist visits, next to our reports.
Honest limits
We won’t sell you work that doesn’t address the problem, so here are the limits:
- A fan motor or bearings that have failed (that needs a fan repair or replacement)
- Damaged duct sections that need replacing
- A grease trap that needs emptying
If in doubt, call us on 0345 646 2711 or email us and we will say what we think.
Parts of the system we cover
- Vertical risers
- Discharge points
- Plenums and filters
- Extract fans
- Horizontal duct runs
- Canopies and hoods
Aftercare tips
No system stays clean for ever, but care slows the build-up. A few tips:
- Clean the grease filters regularly between TR19 cleans
- Wipe the canopy down at the end of each day
- Keep to the recommended cleaning interval
- Report grease drips, smells or fan noise right away
When the clean is finished, grease readings are taken again at the same points, giving you before and after readings alongside the pictures. A TR19 certificate follows, issued through the BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite portal.
Report drips, smells or a noisy fan early. Grease dripping from the canopy, a burning smell or a fan that sounds rough are all signs of build-up, and a grease thickness test can confirm it.
Also near St Giles
What else we do in St Giles
Multi-site and managed buildings
Under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, the responsible person must assess and reduce fire risk, and that can be the employer, the owner, a landlord, a facilities manager or a managing agent. Where responsibility is shared, records matter even more.
Multi-site operators often want one contractor and one number. We work across London and the South East, so visits at different addresses can be planned together and kept to a regular schedule.
What we do, step by step
Your trading hours come first. We book the visit for a time the area is closed, whether that is an evening, overnight or a weekend. Once we are in, the area is sheeted and anything that has to be off is turned off and cooled, and the job takes anything from a few hours to a full night, depending on the size of the system. Before any visit in St Giles, we agree where the van can stop and how equipment reaches the system.
- 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
- Make sure someone can let us in and lock up afterwards
- Have your last certificate or report to hand
- Let us know when the site is closed or quiet
Get a fixed quote
We don’t publish a price list, because every site is different. Instead, we look at your site first, from pictures or a survey, then send a fixed quote. To start, call 0345 646 2711 or send us an email.
Advice
Kitchen extracts in St Giles
The FSA’s food hygiene register shows about 4,024 restaurants, cafés and works canteens and about 612 takeaways within roughly a mile and a half of the centre of St Giles. Each one that cooks under a canopy has an extract system that collects grease and needs regular cleaning. In London, kitchens are typically cleaned overnight, when the kitchen is closed and loading is easier. The fire and rescue service for St Giles is London Fire Brigade. In most workplaces, including commercial kitchens, it’s the fire and rescue authority that enforces the Fire Safety Order.
If you run catering at a healthcare site, such as a hospital like St Paul's Hospital about within half a mile east, the extract may need cleaning more often than a part-time kitchen. For kitchens close to Tottenham Court Road station, where the day often starts early and ends late, the extract can be cleaned overnight.
St Giles is about 1 mile east of City of Westminster, in Greater London. Every kind of commercial site in St Giles, we can take on kitchen extract cleaning. Visits can be booked for evenings, overnight or weekends so the site keeps running. Our area takes in 764 places across Greater London, from busy centres to quieter spots.
Work in W1F, W1D and W1T follows the same survey, fixed quote and written report as everywhere else we cover. If you need kitchen extract cleaning at premises on Duck Lane, Drury Lane and Bridle Lane or anywhere close by, our technicians can take on the work. You’ll find St Giles on the A301 and A400, which makes it straightforward for our technicians to reach for kitchen extract cleaning. Other places close to St Giles include Seven Dials (1 mile south), West End (1 mile south-west), Soho (1 mile south-west), Covent Garden (1 mile south-east) and Chinatown (1 mile south-west). We also work in nearby towns such as Kensington (3 miles west), Walthamstow (7 miles north-east), Hampstead (4 miles north-west), Ruislip (13 miles west), Stockwell (3 miles south) and Orpington (13 miles south-east).
Landmarks near St Giles
We work in commercial kitchens and buildings around LSE Shaw Library, The Crown pub and Mercers' School, among other places. Also close by are London Nautical School (1 mile south-east) and St Anne's Churchyard (within half a mile south-west). There’s a railway station in St Giles itself: Tottenham Court Road station. Nearby you will also find Montfichet's Tower (1.1 miles east) and Kingly Court (0.5 miles west). Open spaces near St Giles include Barnsbury Wood and Ludgate Hill.