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Kitchen extract cleaning in Steward's Green, Essex
Kitchen extract cleaning for commercial sites in Steward's Green and across Essex. CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, and fully insured.
- Grease drips onto cooking equipment
- Grease smells coming from the extract
- Heavy grease build-up inside the duct runs
Your questions about kitchen extract cleaning in Steward's Green
Who would carry out a food hygiene inspection at a kitchen in Steward's Green?
The local authority for Steward's Green is Epping Forest council, and its environmental health team does the inspecting. It helps to keep the extract cleaning records with your food safety paperwork, so they’re ready if asked for.
Can you clean school kitchen extracts in Steward's Green during the holidays?
Yes, and it’s the easiest time to do it. Around Steward's Green, the Food Standards Agency lists about 4 schools and colleges with registered kitchens within a mile and a half or so. Send us your term dates when you give us a ring on 0345 646 2711, or send details by email, and we will fit the work in.
How long does a kitchen extract clean take?
A small kitchen with a short duct can be done in a few hours, while long runs and tall risers take longer and may need more than one visit. We will tell you how long when we quote.
What does kitchen extract cleaning cost?
There’s no set price, as it depends on the job: how big it is, what state it’s in, how we reach it and the working hours. You get a fixed price before any work starts.
Do you offer emergency callouts?
Yes. For anything urgent, such as a fan failure or damage after a fire, ring the 24/7 line, and we will advise on what to do next.
What do you do to protect the area?
By covering it before any work starts. We keep the work contained and leave the area clean.
Do insurers need proof of extract cleaning?
Many insurers ask for proof of regular cleaning to TR19, and many policies require it. Without proof, a claim can be refused or reduced, so it’s worth checking your policy wording.
How often should a kitchen extract be cleaned?
The minimum is set by BESA guidance on daily use, from 3-monthly to 12-monthly. Heavy frying and grilling can mean shorter intervals, and readings will tell you.
Commercial kitchen extraction cleaning in Steward's Green
Many insurers ask for proof that the extract has been cleaned to TR19, and a claim can be refused or reduced without it. The certificate and photo report from each clean in Steward's Green give you that record, ready for the fire risk assessment file. Common call-outs are for heavy grease build-up inside the duct runs and rancid smells from grease in the duct, on discharge points, canopies and hoods and vertical risers. Most calls from Steward's Green come after an insurer, an EHO or a fire officer asks to see the last TR19 certificate. We handle the clean and the paperwork in one visit.
The fire risk in a kitchen extract sits in the parts nobody sees: the plenum, the duct and the fan, so that’s where most of the work in Steward's Green goes.
In a small place like Steward's Green, kitchens are often in older or extended buildings, with long single-storey duct runs, and those horizontal sections are where grease settles. We agree access and timings in advance.
Accreditations are easy to claim and worth checking. We’re a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease, and we hold CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, and we’re fully insured.
- Location
- Steward's Green (CM16)
- Region
- Essex
- Reporting
- TR19® certificate and photo report
- Price
- A fixed price before work begins
- When we work
- Evenings, overnight and weekends; 24/7 emergencies
- Call
- 0345 646 2711
- Updated
- 30 October 2026
Kitchen extract cleaning in Steward's Green: the local picture
Food Standards Agency records include about 11 pubs, bars and clubs in and around Steward's Green, up to about a mile and a half out. Breakfasts, bar meals and functions all put grease into the extract wherever they’re cooked. Environmental health officers from Epping Forest council inspect food businesses in Steward's Green. An officer looking round a kitchen will see the canopy, and grease there is hard to miss. A TR19® certificate and photo report after each clean gives you a record to show an inspector. Essex County Fire and Rescue Service covers Steward's Green. In most workplaces, including commercial kitchens, it’s the fire and rescue authority that enforces the Fire Safety Order.
A hall kitchen that only cooks for events, whether near Church of St John the Baptist or elsewhere in Steward's Green, still needs its extract cleaned, just less often. A hospital like St. Margaret's Hospital, about 1.1 miles north, is the kind of site where a kitchen may cook for patients, staff and visitors all day. Older buildings often hide long, awkward duct runs, and if you run a kitchen at a historic venue in the area (Hill Hall is about 1.6 miles south-east), access may need planning.
Steward's Green is about 4 miles north-east of Loughton, in Essex. We carry out kitchen extract cleaning for commercial premises of every kind in Steward's Green and the rest of Essex. Steward's Green is one of 644 places in Essex we cover for kitchen extract cleaning. Our London page covers sites nearby, about 16 miles away.
Here we cover the CM16 postcode area for kitchen extract cleaning. Other places close to Steward's Green include Fiddlers Hamlet (1 mile east), Ivy Chimneys (1 mile west), Epping (1 mile north-west), Hobbs Cross (1 mile south) and Theydon Garnon (1 mile south). Larger places within reach include Harlow (6 miles north), Brentwood (9 miles south-east), Billericay (14 miles east), Loughton (4 miles south-west), Waltham Abbey (5 miles west) and Stansted Mountfitchet (15 miles north).
Landmarks near Steward's Green
Locally, jobs take us to businesses close to St John's Church of England Voluntary Controlled School and The Merry Fiddlers pub, among other places. Nearby you will also find St. Margaret's Hospital (1.1 miles north) and Epping Signalling Museum (0.5 miles north-west). Not far away are Gernon Bushes.
How it works
When we arrive, we check the system against the survey or the photos you sent. Anything unexpected is raised with you before we go further. From there, it takes a single shift for most kitchens, with long duct runs and tall risers needing more time. Rural roads and tight entrances are worth telling us about before a visit to Steward's Green.
- 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.
- We work through the system from the canopy to the fan and discharge.
- We re-test, photograph and send your certificate and photo report.
Getting ready for the visit
- Clear the space around the work
- Let us know about permits to work or site inductions
- Arrange a key holder or contact on site
Getting a quote
Some systems can be priced from pictures; others need a survey. Larger sites, and anything hidden behind walls, ceilings or floors, are normally surveyed first. Either way, you get a fixed price before we start.
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For landlords and multi-site operators
Whether it’s one building or many, you get the same standard: a survey first, a fixed quote, the work timed around the site and a report with photos.
We also work for facilities teams across offices, schools and healthcare in Steward's Green and across Essex. Larger estates can be phased building by building around the people who use them.
Keeping the system healthy
Simple habits between visits make a real difference. Our advice:
- Switch the fan on before cooking starts
- Give the canopy a daily wipe
- Diarise the next clean as soon as you get the certificate
- Keep the baffle filters clean
Any section without access is marked on the report. That is part of an honest TR19 clean, not a failing, and we can fit access panels so it’s reached next time.
Keep the outside of the canopy wiped and any grease cups emptied. It will not replace a TR19 clean, but it slows what reaches the duct.
Why deal with it now?
Grease build-up causes everyday problems too. Filters block, airflow drops and the kitchen gets hotter and smokier and the fan strains to keep up. Smells, dripping grease and condensation often follow. Our emergency line runs 24/7, but a planned visit to Steward's Green is calmer for everyone.
We do not list prices on the website, because the cost depends on the site in front of us. Call for a fixed quote, and we’ll explain what it covers.
Why Steward's Green businesses choose us
- Out-of-hours work and a 24/7 emergency line
- In business since 2009
- A BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease
- Fully insured
Read how cleaning jobs are priced and how to check a contractor.
Honest limits
To be straight with you, there are a few things this work won’t fix:
- A broken extract fan that won’t run
- Extraction that can’t cope with the cooking because of its design
- Ductwork that’s corroded, split or leaking (that’s for a ductwork contractor)
If you’re not sure, just ring 0345 646 2711 or send us an email and we will give you a straight answer.
Parts of the system we cover
- Horizontal duct runs
- Vertical risers
- Plenums and filters
- Canopies and hoods
- Discharge points
- Extract fans
In-house cleaning or a specialist?
Logging matters as much as cleaning. A dated log of in-house cleaning and checks helps show that the system is managed between specialist visits, next to our reports.
If your staff spot something between visits, such as dripping grease, a noisy fan, a smell or a filter that will not come clean, it’s best reported rather than tackled in-house. We’ll take a look and send you a fixed quote.
What affects the quote in Steward's Green
You will get a fixed price before work begins. It takes into account:
- The number of sites or systems
- Whether we need access equipment or extra panels
- One-off work versus a regular cycle
- When the work can happen, such as evenings, overnight or weekends
Leaving it longer rarely makes the work cheaper. Build-up, wear and faults tend to get worse, not better, which can make the next visit longer. If you’re not sure what’s needed, phone us on 0345 646 2711 or send us an email for straight advice and a fixed quote.
Helping us quote
Photos and a few facts are often enough to price the work. Send what you can of the following:
- The roof, plant room or outside wall the system runs to
- Any previous report or certificate
- The times we could work without disrupting the site
- Wide pictures of the system and the area around it
Want a quote for kitchen extract cleaning? Please call 0345 646 2711, or send details by email with a few details about the site. We will explain what we’d do and send a fixed quote before you commit to anything.