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Kitchen Extract Cleaning in St Nicholas
Kitchen extract cleaning for businesses, landlords and public buildings in St Nicholas. CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, and fully insured.
- Heavy grease build-up inside the duct runs
- A new tenancy or takeover with no cleaning history
- A system with no record of a TR19 clean
Kitchen extract cleaning around St Nicholas
The Food Standards Agency lists about 9 pubs, bars and clubs as registered food businesses across St Nicholas and its immediate surroundings (about a mile and a half). Breakfasts, bar meals and functions all put grease into the extract wherever they’re cooked. Fire safety in St Nicholas falls to Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue Service. The Fire Safety Order puts the duty on whoever runs a kitchen to control its fire risk, and a greasy duct is fuel. It’s Stevenage council that sends environmental health officers to food businesses in St Nicholas. A greasy canopy or dripping filters are the sort of thing an inspection can pick up. A dated certificate in the maintenance file answers the question before it’s asked.
Where a hall near All Saints Church, or anywhere in St Nicholas, hosts lunch clubs or events, its extract gathers grease just as a café’s does. School kitchens, at schools like The Leys Primary and Nursery School for example, are typically cleaned in the holidays so no lunches are lost.
St Nicholas is about 1 mile north of Stevenage, in Hertfordshire. For kitchen extract cleaning in and around St Nicholas, it’s easy to get a fixed quote: please phone us on 0345 646 2711 or send us an email. We work across South East England and London, St Nicholas included. Our area takes in 381 places across Hertfordshire, large and small. For sites nearby, see our Milton Keynes page, about 26 miles away.
Work in SG1 and SG2 follows the same survey, fixed quote and written report as everywhere else we cover. We cover sites on York Road, Ripon Road and Drury Lane and nearby roads. Neighbouring places we cover for kitchen extract cleaning include Rooks Nest (1 mile west), Pin Green (1 mile south-west), Chells (1 mile south-east), Stevenage (1 mile south) and Bedwell (1 mile south-west). We also work in nearby towns such as St Albans (14 miles south-west), Bishop's Stortford (15 miles east), Welwyn Garden City (9 miles south), Harpenden (10 miles south-west), Hitchin (4 miles north-west) and Hoddesdon (14 miles south-east).
Around St Nicholas
We work in commercial kitchens and buildings around Church of Saint Nicholas and The Nobel School, among other places. St Nicholas’s nearest station is Stevenage station, roughly 2 miles south-west of the centre. Nearby you will also find Wymondley Castle (2.7 miles north-west) and Stevenage Museum (1.8 miles south-west). The countryside around St Nicholas includes Pryor's Wood.
Kitchen duct cleaning in St Nicholas
The ducts are where most of the grease hides. Access panels let us into the duct runs and risers, removing thick grease by hand, then using degreasers, hot water or steam to suit the deposit. Any section we can’t reach is recorded on the report, and new panels can be fitted. Typical jobs include years of baked-on grease in the ducts and an overdue clean flagged by an EHO or fire officer, across plenums and filters, extract fans and canopies and hoods. Kitchens in St Nicholas book us for TR19 cleaning for three reasons: the insurer asked, the EHO asked, or the canopy is dripping. We handle the clean and the paperwork in one visit.
Grease that collects out of sight, behind the filters and along the duct, is what insurers and fire officers worry about, which is why a TR19® clean in St Nicholas goes well beyond the canopy.
Size doesn’t change the work: a kitchen in a place like St Nicholas gets the whole system cleaned, canopy to discharge. We plan the visit around your hours, with the journey sorted in advance.
Nothing is signed off by word of mouth: a dated report with photos of the work, and for TR19® Grease cleans, a certificate issued through the BESCA VHE portal. Any parts we couldn’t reach are recorded on it too.
- Where
- St Nicholas (SG1, SG2)
- Region
- Hertfordshire
- Records
- Certificate and photo report
- Price
- A fixed quote up front
- Hours
- Nights, weekends or holidays to suit you
- Phone
- 0345 646 2711
- Page updated
- 30 October 2026
What your team can do, and what needs us
Some jobs should never be done in-house: opening up ductwork, cleaning fans, drop testing fire dampers and measuring grease call for the right kit, training and safe access. That is our job.
Your own staff can handle the daily basics: wiping canopies, washing grease filters and recording it in a log. What they cannot safely do is clean inside the ductwork, the fan or the risers, which is where we come in.
What happens on the day
We work around your opening hours, not the other way round. Most visits are booked for when the area is out of use, such as evenings, overnight, early mornings or weekends. Once we are in, the area is sheeted and anything that has to be off is turned off and cooled, and the work takes a single shift for most kitchens, with long duct runs and tall risers needing more time. For a site near St Nicholas, the work is booked around your opening hours, evenings and weekends included.
- You send pictures or we visit, and the system is surveyed from 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, photos taken, and your TR19 certificate and photo report issued.
How to prepare
- Mention any sign-in, permit or induction we need
- Have your last certificate or report to hand
- Mention any locked doors, roof access or ceiling voids
Getting a quote
If you need kitchen extract cleaning in St Nicholas, give us a ring on 0345 646 2711 or email us. Let us know the site type and the opening hours, and send photos or your last report if you can. We normally send a fixed quote within one working day.
Related advice
St Nicholas questions
Can school kitchens in St Nicholas be cleaned in the holidays?
Yes, holiday work suits schools best. Around St Nicholas, the Food Standards Agency lists about 20 schools and colleges with registered kitchens within a mile and a half or so. Send us your term dates when you ring 0345 646 2711, or send details by email, and we’ll fit the work in.
Who enforces fire safety at workplaces in St Nicholas?
It’s Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue Service, which covers St Nicholas. If a fire safety officer visits a commercial kitchen, they may ask about the fire risk assessment and how the extract is kept clean.
Can you look after several sites?
Yes. We work across South East England and London, so we can schedule a run of sites on one programme. Every site has its own report.
How do you protect the area?
With sheeting and covers, before anything else happens. The work is kept contained and leave the area clean.
How much notice should we give?
That depends on the slot you want and the size of the job. Tell us your preferred dates when you ask for a quote, and for anything urgent, ring our 24/7 emergency line.
What does kitchen extract cleaning cost?
Size, condition, access and working hours all affect the cost. Call for a fixed quote, normally ready within one working day.
Do we have to close the kitchen for the clean?
The clean is done when the kitchen isn’t cooking, working evenings, overnight or at weekends to suit you. Equipment needs to be off and cool before any work starts.
Will I get a certificate after the clean?
Every clean comes with a TR19 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.
What else we do in St Nicholas
How we price kitchen extract cleaning
The price is fixed before any work begins. It takes into account:
- When the work can happen, such as evenings, overnight or weekends
- How many systems or sites are involved
- Travel, parking and unloading
- The scale of the work
Several systems or sites on one quote often makes better use of the time. Mention every system or site you need covered and we will price it together.
What to send for a quote
Many jobs can be priced from pictures and some basics. Useful things to send:
- Where the plant sits or the system leaves the building, such as a roof or outside wall
- The postcode and the type of business
- Any previous report or certificate
- When the site is open and when it’s quiet
To help us quote: where the site is, what it is and its opening hours, a few photos and any previous report or certificate. Then call 0345 646 2711 or drop us a line.
Different parts, different methods
Restaurant and pub kitchens
Restaurants and pubs tend to cook long hours with plenty of frying and grilling, which can put them in BESA’s 3 or 6-monthly bands. Cleans are done after close, overnight or before opening.
Extract fan and discharge
Some systems have attenuators to cut noise, and they hold grease. Where they can be cleaned, they are, and the report notes anything that can’t.
Why deal with it now?
After a fire, one of the first questions is often when the extract was last cleaned. Many insurers ask for proof of TR19 cleaning and may reduce or refuse a claim without it. A current certificate is far easier to produce than an explanation. When a site near St Nicholas shuts unexpectedly, the people who rely on it notice at once.
The cost depends on the size of the system, what state it’s in and access to every part of it. You get a fixed price before any work starts, so there are no surprises.
Why book with us
- BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease
- One contact for all your sites in London and the South East
- Fixed quotes, typically within one working day
- Full insurance on every job
What we are called out for in St Nicholas
A kitchen in St Nicholas builds up grease in the same places as any other: in long flat runs, at bends and changes of direction, and in the fan housing. The cooler the duct, the more grease drops out of the air.
Any of these means the system needs a check-up:
- Proof of cleaning requested by an insurer
- Fat running down the canopy edge
- A system with no record of a TR19 clean
- Rancid smells from grease in the duct
Older buildings often hide long, awkward duct runs, and if you run a kitchen at a historic venue in the area (Aston Bury is about 3.3 miles south), access may need planning.
Before booking anyone
- How VAT is shown on the quote
- Their accreditations, such as BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite, CHAS or SafeContractor
- If the quote is a fixed price or an estimate
- Whether they recommend a next date
For landlords and multi-site operators
From a single site to a large estate, the standard is the same: the system surveyed, the price fixed, the visit fitted around trading and everything written up afterwards.
We also work for facilities teams across offices, schools and healthcare in St Nicholas and across Hertfordshire. Work can be phased by floor, building or site around the people who use them.