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TR19 kitchen extract cleaning in St Luke's
Kitchen extract cleaning for St Luke's, from a team that has been trading since 2009. Evenings, overnight and weekends, plus a 24/7 emergency line.
- Grease drips onto cooking equipment
- A smoky, hot kitchen with weak extraction
- A TR19 certificate needed for the insurer
How the visit works
Protection comes first: floors, worktops and anything near the work are covered. After that, the system is made safe and the work begins. It takes a few hours for a small kitchen, longer for a large system, and we clear up before we go. Expect the work in St Luke's to happen after your last customer leaves, not during trading.
- You send photos or we visit, and the system is surveyed from canopy to discharge.
- Grease thickness is measured and the price is fixed before work starts.
- 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.
How to prepare
- Find the previous report, if there is one
- Let us know when the site is closed or quiet
- Let us know how we reach the system, including roofs, risers and plant rooms
Get a fixed quote
To help us quote: the address, the type of site and when it’s open, a few pictures and any previous report or certificate. Then call us on 0345 646 2711, or send details by email.
Advice
How we handle kitchen extract cleaning in St Luke's
Across St Luke's, we clean kitchen extract systems to BESA TR19® Grease. The job starts with a survey and grease readings, then works through canopy, plenum, filters, ductwork, fan and discharge. You get a TR19 certificate and a photo report at the end. If you have missing paperwork after a change of operator and a kitchen with no current TR19 certificate, we can help. Some call it canopy cleaning, others extract cleaning or duct cleaning, but in St Luke's, as everywhere, the insurer wants the full system cleaned, not just the hood.
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.
In London, few kitchens can spare a day to close, so extract cleaning in St Luke's is usually done overnight, after the last service. Parking, loading and access to the roof are agreed with the building before the night of the clean.
The report is your system’s health record: dated, with photos, and showing what was done. For TR19® Grease cleans, the certificate comes through the BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite portal and sits alongside the report.
- Where
- St Luke's (N1, EC1V, EC2A)
- Wider area
- Greater London
- Reporting
- Certificate and photo report
- Price
- Fixed quote, usually within a working day
- Working hours
- Nights, weekends or holidays to suit you
- Telephone
- 0345 646 2711
- Last updated
- 30 October 2026
What your team can do, and what needs us
Staff cleaning and specialist work aren’t the same thing. Wiping filters daily and washing them weekly keeps the visible parts in order, but they don’t reach the grease that builds up further in. Reaching it takes a specialist with the right equipment.
Away from the kitchen, the in-house job is mainly checking: clear grilles, a log of filter changes and reporting anything odd. The inside of ducts and units needs a specialist.
Grease, kitchens and St Luke's
Look up St Luke's on the FSA’s food hygiene register and you will find about 2,774 restaurants, cafés and works canteens and about 843 takeaways in and around St Luke's, up to about a mile and a half out. Each one that cooks under a canopy has an extract system that collects grease and needs regular cleaning. St Luke's sits within the area of London Fire Brigade. Its fire safety officers can audit commercial kitchens, and grease in the extract is part of a kitchen’s fire risk. Overnight is the normal time to clean a London kitchen extract, so trading is not affected.
A hospital like St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics, about within half a mile east, is the kind of site where a kitchen may cook for patients, staff and visitors all day. A hall kitchen that only cooks for events, whether near Jewin Welsh Presbyterian Chapel or elsewhere in St Luke's, still needs its extract cleaned, just less often.
St Luke's is about 2 miles north of London, in Greater London. Whatever kind of site you run in St Luke's, we can take on kitchen extract cleaning. We can work out of hours so trading isn’t interrupted. St Luke's is one of 764 places in Greater London we cover for commercial clients.
Work in N1, EC1V and EC2A is surveyed, quoted and booked the same way as anywhere else. Local streets include Long Lane, City Road and Moor Lane, all of which we cover for kitchen extract cleaning. You will find St Luke's on the A1 and A501, which makes it straightforward for our technicians to reach for kitchen extract cleaning. We also cover the places around St Luke's: Finsbury (1 mile south), Barbican Estate (1 mile south), Shoreditch (1 mile east), Hoxton (1 mile north-east) and City of London (1 mile south). Further out, we also cover City of Westminster (3 miles west), Kensington (5 miles west), Walthamstow (5 miles north-east), Hampstead (4 miles north-west), Ruislip (14 miles west) and Brompton (4 miles south-west).
Near you in St Luke's
In St Luke's, that means kitchens and buildings near Barts Health Archives, Charterhouse Square School and The Masque Haunt pub and the streets around them. Other local landmarks include St Mary-at-Hill (1.1 miles south), Central Foundation Boys' School (within half a mile east) and Artillery Ground (less than half a mile south-east). St Luke's has its own railway station: Old Street station. A little further out are Gabriel's Wharf (1.3 miles south-west) and Montfichet's Tower (0.9 miles south-west). For a walk, there’s St. James's Park Lake and Barnsbury Wood.
Different parts, different methods
Canopy and plenum
Behind the grease filters sits the plenum, which daily cleaning never reaches. We take the filters out and clean the plenum and housing thoroughly.
Extract fan and discharge
Grease that reaches the fan coats the blades and the housing. We isolate it, open it up and degrease it.
Multi-site and managed buildings
If you look after several sites, we can schedule visits across all of them on one quote. Every building has its own written report, so each one has its own record.
Under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, the responsible person must assess and reduce fire risk, which may be the employer, owner, landlord, FM or managing agent. With shared responsibility, good records help everyone.
When to call us in St Luke's
Cooking fat leaves the pan as a fine 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:
- An extract that has never been cleaned to TR19
- Ductwork thick with old, hardened grease
- A kitchen taken over without any extract records
- Proof of cleaning requested by an insurer
Commuter trade near Old Street station can mean long cooking hours, and long hours put a kitchen into BESA’s more frequent cleaning bands.
Comparing quotes
- Whether VAT is included
- What insurance they carry
- What records you will receive afterwards
- How they set the interval to the next visit
Fixed quotes for kitchen extract cleaning in St Luke's
A fixed price needs a few facts first. We check:
- How easy every part is to reach
- When the work can happen, such as evenings, overnight or weekends
- The condition of the system
- How big the system is
A single site or a whole portfolio, we price it on the same basis: what needs doing, how we get to it and when. You will have a fixed price before any work starts.
Asking for a quote
We can often survey from photos. The most useful are:
- Any access panels or hatches you can see
- The roof, plant room or outside wall the system runs to
- Wide photos of the system and the area around it
- Where the site is and what kind of site it is
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 photos, get a survey first. Either way, the quote is fixed before any work is booked.
Keeping the system healthy
No system stays clean for ever, but care slows the build-up. A few tips:
- Empty any grease troughs or cups on the canopy
- Clean the grease filters regularly between TR19 cleans
- Refit filters properly after cleaning
- Report grease drips, smells or fan noise straight away
The report gives a recommended date for the next clean, based on your cooking hours and the grease we measured. We can put the system on a 3, 6 or 12-monthly plan, so the date is not missed.
Wipe the canopy down regularly and empty grease troughs or collection points. It won’t replace a TR19 clean, but it slows what reaches the duct.
St Luke's questions
Can a school canteen extract in St Luke's be done out of term time?
Yes. The holidays are the usual time for school work. The FSA’s register shows about 70 schools and colleges with food registrations within roughly a mile and a half of St Luke's. Tell us your holiday dates and we will book the visit for when the site is empty.
Can the work in St Luke's be done at night or at weekends?
Yes, nights and weekends are routine for us. It means the site in St Luke's keeps running as normal. Let us know the hours you’re closed and we’ll book within them.
Do you offer emergency callouts?
Yes. Our emergency line runs 24/7 for anything that cannot wait until a planned visit. Call us any time and explain what’s happened.
What types of premises do you cover?
Commercial premises of every kind: kitchens, offices, schools, healthcare, retail, leisure and food production. We fit the work around how the site operates.
How often should a kitchen extract be cleaned?
The minimum is set by BESA guidance on daily use, from 3-monthly to 12-monthly. Kitchens that fry or grill a lot may need cleaning sooner, which grease thickness testing will show.
What paperwork comes with a kitchen extract clean?
You get both a certificate and a photo report. Keep them in the maintenance log with the fire risk assessment so they’re to hand when an insurer asks.
Can we book visits on a schedule?
Yes, of course. Tell us what you have and how it’s used and we’ll propose a schedule with a fixed quote.
What does TR19 mean?
A BESA specification, with two parts that matter most here: 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.