East Sussex · Kitchen extract cleaning
St Helen's kitchen extract cleaning
Kitchen extract cleaning for businesses, landlords and public buildings in St Helen's. CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, and fully insured.
- An overdue clean flagged by an EHO or fire officer
- A TR19 certificate needed for the insurer
- Fat running down the canopy edge
What happens on the day
The first job on site is protection: sheeting goes over floors and surfaces close to the work. Then we make the system safe and start. It takes a few hours for a small kitchen, longer for a large system, and we clear up before we go. Everything the job in St Helen's needs is worked out beforehand, from the survey.
- First comes a survey of the whole system, by pictures or a visit.
- We measure the grease at set points along the system, then give you a fixed price.
- With the kitchen closed and equipment off and cool, the area is sheeted.
- Canopy, plenum, filters, duct runs, risers, fan and discharge are all cleaned to TR19® Grease.
- We test again, photograph the result and issue your TR19 certificate and photo report.
Before we arrive
- Mention any locked doors, roof access or ceiling voids
- Move anything stored near the system
- Name a contact who can let us in at the agreed time
Ask for a quote
Photos are enough for some jobs, while others need a look on site. Big or complicated sites, and systems that are hard to see in pictures, get a survey first. Either way, you get a fixed price before work begins.
Advice
About our kitchen extract cleaning in St Helen's
Few kitchens can stop cooking for a day so the extract can be cleaned. We work evenings, overnight and at weekends, or during holidays where a site closes for them. With the equipment off and cool and the area sheeted, we clean and hand the kitchen back ready for the next service. Common call-outs are for a kitchen with no current TR19 certificate and missing paperwork after a change of operator, on extract fans, vertical risers and horizontal duct runs. Hood cleaning is where most enquiries from St Helen's start: a clean that goes past the canopy into the duct and fan, backed by a certificate.
BESA sets minimum intervals by hours of cooking a day: every 3 months for 12–16 hours, every 6 months for 6–12 hours and every 12 months for 2–6 hours, with grease readings setting the real interval.
For a smaller kitchen near St Helen's, a TR19® clean is the same job as anywhere: canopy, filters, plenum, duct, fan and discharge. We plan the visit around your hours, with the journey sorted in advance.
The report is your system’s health record: dated, with pictures, and showing what was done. Grease extract cleans are also certificated to TR19® Grease through the BESCA VHE portal, ready for your insurer.
- Where
- St Helen's (TN34, TN37)
- Wider area
- East Sussex
- Reporting
- Certificate plus before-and-after pictures
- Quotes
- A fixed price before work begins
- When we work
- Evenings, overnight and weekends; 24/7 emergencies
- Phone
- 0345 646 2711
- Page updated
- 30 October 2026
Questions from St Helen's
Do you work in villages like St Helen's?
Yes, smaller places are covered as well as towns. Just mention lanes, gates or anything else about the site when you book.
Do you clean school canteen extracts around St Helen's out of term?
Yes. The holidays are the usual time for school work. There are about 9 schools, colleges and universities on the FSA’s food hygiene register within about 1.5 miles of St Helen's. Just call 0345 646 2711, or email photos with your term dates and we’ll plan around them.
What’s the right cleaning interval for a kitchen extract?
BESA guidance gives minimum intervals of 3, 6 or 12 months, depending on daily cooking hours. Heavy frying and grilling can mean shorter intervals, which grease thickness testing will show.
Can you look after several sites?
Yes. Tell us the addresses and what each needs and you’ll get one fixed quote.
When do you clean the extract?
The clean is done when the kitchen is not cooking, working evenings, overnight or at weekends to suit you. Equipment needs to be off and cool before work begins.
Which parts of the extract do you clean?
The whole system: canopy inside and out, plenum, grease filters, ductwork, risers, extract fan and discharge, plus attenuators where fitted. Any part without access is noted.
Do you look at the system first?
Yes. Every job is surveyed first, from your pictures and details, or with a visit where necessary. A fixed quote follows.
What do you do with what you remove?
We take it away at the end of the visit. While we work, it’s kept contained so the area stays clean.
Landlords, agents and facilities managers
If you look after several sites, we can schedule visits across all of them on one quote. Each site gets its own report and photos, so each one has its own record.
Managing agents often deal with us directly. Tell us the site, the work and the access arrangements, and we’ll send a fixed quote.
What affects the cost of kitchen extract cleaning
We don’t publish a price list, because no two systems are the same. What we look at:
- Site requirements such as sign-in and permits
- A single visit or a regular plan
- Where the site is and how we reach it
- The times the site is available
The price reflects the work, not guesswork. That’s why we survey first, from pictures or on site, and the price is agreed before work begins.
Asking for a quote
Photos and a few facts are often enough to price the work. Useful things to send:
- The paperwork from the last visit, if you have it
- Any symptoms, from odd noises to smells or leaks
- Photos showing the whole system and its surroundings
- Close-ups of filters, grilles, hatches or access panels
We don’t publish a price list, because no two systems are the same. Instead, we look at your site first, from photos or a survey, and then send you a fixed quote. To start, call 0345 646 2711 or use the quote form.
What kitchen extract cleaning looks like in St Helen's
St Helen's lies within about 2 miles of the sea. Salt air speeds up corrosion of roof-level fans, discharge cowls and their fixings. Look up St Helen's on the FSA’s food hygiene register and you will find about 138 restaurants, cafés and canteens and about 63 takeaways within roughly a mile and a half of the centre of St Helen's. Each one that cooks under a canopy has an extract system that collects grease and needs regular cleaning. In St Helen's, food businesses are inspected by environmental health officers from Hastings council. Extraction counts as kitchen equipment, so its condition can come up on the day. Our report lists what was cleaned and when, which is useful to have ready.
School kitchens, at schools like Ark Blacklands Primary Academy for example, are typically cleaned in the holidays so no lunches are lost. If you run a church or community hall kitchen, near St Peter & St Paul or elsewhere in St Helen's, its extract still collects grease from every lunch and event. If you run catering at a healthcare site, such as a hospital like Conquest Hospital about 0.9 miles north-west, the extract may need cleaning more often than a part-time kitchen.
St Helen's is about 1 mile north-east of Hastings, in East Sussex. Wherever you are in the TN34 postcode area, we cover kitchen extract cleaning for commercial sites. Our area takes in 289 places across East Sussex, from busy centres to quieter spots. Maidstone is in our area too, about 27 miles from St Helen's.
Postcode districts we cover here for kitchen extract cleaning: TN34 and TN37. We cover sites on Park Avenue, Keppel Road and Down's Road and nearby roads. We also cover the places around St Helen's: Blacklands (1 mile south), Hastings (1 mile south-west), Silverhill (1 mile south-west), Belmont (1 mile south-east) and Hollington (1 mile west). We also work in nearby towns such as Eastbourne (14 miles south-west), Bexhill-on-Sea (5 miles west), Hailsham (14 miles west), Polegate (15 miles west), Old Town (15 miles south-west) and Heathfield (15 miles north-west).
Near you in St Helen's
In St Helen's, that means kitchens and buildings near William Parker Sports College, University School and The Duke pub and the streets around them. The nearest railway station is Ore station, roughly 0.8 miles south-east of the centre. Other landmarks nearby include Priory Meadow Shopping Centre (1.2 miles south) and Hastings Old Town Hall Museum (1.3 miles south-east). Open spaces near St Helen's include Church Wood and Robsack Wood and Senlac Hill.
When something else is needed
In fairness, there are a few things this work won’t fix:
- A grease trap that needs emptying
- A damper that sticks or has a damaged link
- A fan motor or bearings that have failed (that needs a fan repair or replacement)
Not sure which it is? You can call us on 0345 646 2711 or drop us a line and we will tell you honestly before booking.
Parts of the system we cover
- Extract fans
- Canopies and hoods
- Horizontal duct runs
- Plenums and filters
- Discharge points
- Vertical risers
Leave it or put it right?
Putting it off simply moves the grease further down the duct. Over time, soft grease bakes into a harder, thicker crust, which is slower to clean. Regular cleans keep each visit shorter. A quieter site near St Helen's still needs its system looked after.
You will not find a price list here, because the cost depends on the site in front of us. Call for a fixed quote, and we’ll explain what it covers.
Why choose Duct Doctor in St Helen's
- Ventilation hygiene specialists since 2009
- Evenings, overnight and weekends, plus 24/7 emergency callout
- A fixed price before any work starts
- BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease
Take a look at how cleaning jobs are priced or our accreditations and certificates.
Between visits
Good habits slow the build-up between visits. Our tips:
- Clean the grease filters regularly between TR19 cleans
- Refit filters properly after cleaning
- Flag any change in how the extract sounds or works
- Run the extract fan throughout cooking
Any section without access is marked on the report. 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.
Tell whoever looks after the system when something changes. Drips, odours and fan noise often mean grease is building, and a grease thickness test can confirm it.
What staff can safely do
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, alongside our reports.
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.