Oxfordshire · Kitchen extract cleaning
Kitchen extraction cleaning in Swinford
Looking for kitchen extract cleaning in Swinford? We survey first, send you a fixed quote and work around your opening hours, then sign off with a report and photos.
- Stale cooking odours from the system
- An extract that has never been cleaned to TR19
- An inspection that picked up a dirty extract
About our kitchen extract cleaning in Swinford
Few kitchens can stop cooking for a day so the extract can be cleaned. Cleans are booked for evenings, overnight or weekends, or between services where the kitchen has a gap. With the equipment off and cool and the area sheeted, we clean and hand the kitchen back ready for the next service. If you have stale cooking odours from the system and a kitchen with no current TR19 certificate, we can put it right. Canopy cleaning, extract cleaning and duct cleaning are often used to mean the same thing, but in Swinford, as everywhere, the insurer wants the full system cleaned, not just the hood.
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.
Rural kitchens often have long, low duct runs through a roof space or along an outside wall, where grease settles in the flat sections. We agree access and timings in advance.
Good records are part of the job. You get a written report with pictures after every visit, listing what was done, anything we couldn’t reach and when the next visit is due. File it in your maintenance log so it’s to hand when an insurer or inspector asks.
- Where
- Swinford (OX29)
- Region
- Oxfordshire
- Paperwork
- Certificate plus before-and-after pictures
- Quote
- A fixed price before work begins
- When we work
- When your site is closed, plus a 24/7 line
- Phone
- 0345 646 2711
- Reviewed
- 30 October 2026
Swinford: your questions answered
Do you cover smaller places like Swinford?
Yes, Swinford is part of our area, however small the site. Let us know about access, parking and anything unusual about getting there when you book.
Can you clean school kitchen extracts in Swinford during the holidays?
Yes, out-of-term visits are normal for schools. With about 4 schools and colleges on the FSA’s register within roughly a mile and a half of Swinford, it pays to plan holiday dates ahead. Send us your term dates when you call 0345 646 2711 or email us, and we will fit the work in.
Can you set up regular visits?
Yes. Scheduled maintenance plans are part of what we do, with visits at the interval your system needs. The report from each visit recommends the next date.
How long does a kitchen extract clean take?
Allow as long as the system needs, from a few hours to several planned visits. We’ll confirm the time when we quote.
What should I send you?
Only a few details: the address, the site type, your opening hours and how we reach the system. Photos and any previous paperwork make it quicker. After that, simply ring 0345 646 2711 or use the quote form.
What about areas you cannot get to?
They’re marked on the report. In ductwork, new access panels are often the answer, which we can install.
How much does kitchen extract cleaning cost?
There’s no set price, as it depends on the job: the size of the system, its condition, access and when we can work. We fix the price before we start.
What do I get after the clean?
Yes, a TR19 certificate, along with a photo report. It records what was cleaned, what wasn’t accessible and the recommended next clean date.
What the work involves, part by part
Canopy and plenum
The plenum is out of sight behind the filters, so it’s easy to forget. With the filters out, the plenum is scraped and degreased.
Ductwork and risers
Risers take the extract up through floors to roof level, and grease often collects at the bottom of them. They’re cleaned through access points along their height.
What your team can do, and what needs us
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.
In-house cleaning and specialist cleaning do different jobs. A daily filter wipe and a weekly filter wash keep grease down at the front of the system, but grease that has passed the filters is out of reach. That part needs specialist access and equipment.
Multi-site and managed buildings
Whether it’s one building or many, you get the same standard: the system surveyed, the price fixed, the visit fitted around trading and everything written up afterwards.
When the building owner and the occupier are different, the lease normally sets out who maintains what. We are happy to deal with either side, and the report can go to both.
What happens on the day
Your trading hours come first. 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 job takes a single shift for most kitchens, with long duct runs and tall risers needing more time. Somewhere like Swinford, lanes, gates and parking are worth mentioning in advance.
- You send photos or we visit, and the system is surveyed from canopy to discharge.
- We take grease readings at set points and send you a fixed quote.
- The kitchen is closed, the equipment cooled and everything nearby protected.
- Filters, canopy and plenum are cleaned, then the ducts, risers, fan and discharge.
- We re-test, photograph and send your certificate and photo report.
Getting ready for the visit
- Make sure someone can let us in and lock up afterwards
- Tell us where we can park and unload
- Find the previous report, if there is one
Getting a quote
If you need kitchen extract cleaning in Swinford, ring 0345 646 2711 or use the quote form. Tell us what kind of premises it is and when it’s open, plus photos or the previous report if they’re to hand. We usually send a fixed quote within one working day.
Related advice
Kitchen extracts in Swinford
Food Standards Agency data counts about 9 restaurants, cafés and works canteens and about 3 takeaways and sandwich shops in Swinford and the streets around it, up to about 1.5 miles out. Any of them cooking under a canopy is sending grease into its ductwork every service. The fire and rescue service for Swinford is Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service. Grease in a kitchen extract is a recognised fire risk, and the fire authority enforces the law on managing it in most commercial premises. Kitchens in Swinford get their food hygiene inspections from West Oxfordshire council. The cleanliness of the kitchen and its equipment, extraction included, is part of what they check. Before-and-after pictures from each clean are a simple way to show the extract is in hand.
School kitchens, at schools like Eynsham Community Primary School for example, are usually cleaned in the holidays so no lunches are lost. Healthcare kitchens, like those at hospitals such as Radcliffe Infirmary (about 4.2 miles east), often cook for long hours, which puts them in BESA’s heavier-use bands. If you run catering at a historic house or estate in the area (Appleton Manor is about 4.4 miles south), event kitchens in older buildings often have awkward duct runs that need planning.
Swinford is about 6 miles west of Oxford, in Oxfordshire. Anywhere in OX29, we can carry out kitchen extract cleaning at your premises. Across Oxfordshire, we cover 443 places, and Swinford is one of them. For sites nearby, see our Oxford page (6 miles or so).
Kitchen extract cleaning in OX29 follows the same survey, fixed quote and written report as everywhere else we cover. If your site is just outside Swinford, we cover Eynsham (1 mile north-west), Farmoor (1 mile south-east), Cassington (1 mile north-east), Filchampstead (2 miles south) and Wytham (2 miles east). Further out, we also cover Oxford (6 miles east), Didcot (12 miles south-east), Bicester (12 miles north-east), Abingdon-on-Thames (7 miles south-east), Witney (6 miles west) and Carterton (10 miles west).
Around Swinford
Typical jobs here are in premises near The Talbot Public House and Attached Stable and Bartholomew School, among other places. For rail, the closest station is Hanborough station, about 3.6 miles north. A little further out are Oxford Castle and earlier settlement remains (4.4 miles east) and Oxford Bus Museum (3.6 miles north). For a walk, there’s Cumnor Hill and Hook Meadow and The Trap Grounds.
Honest limits
Some problems need a different service or another trade:
- A fan motor that has burnt out
- A grease trap that needs emptying
- An undersized canopy or fan
Not sure which it is? You can ring 0345 646 2711, or send details by email and we’ll tell you honestly before you book.
What we work on in Swinford
- Horizontal duct runs
- Vertical risers
- Extract fans
- Plenums and filters
- Discharge points
- Canopies and hoods
Leave it or put it right?
TR19® is not law, but the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 is. It puts a duty on the responsible person to assess and reduce fire risk, and in a kitchen that means keeping extract grease under control. Cleaning to TR19 is the recognised way to show you’ve done it. Rural sites cannot always move to another kitchen or room when something fails.
Putting the work off seldom saves money. Build-up, wear and faults tend to get worse, not better, which can make the next visit longer. If you are unsure, ring 0345 646 2711, or send details by email for straight advice and a fixed quote.
Why us?
- A written report with photos after each visit
- BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease
- CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001
- A fixed price before any work starts
Take a look at what affects the cost and our accreditations and certificates.
Looking after it afterwards
To keep the system working properly between visits:
- File each certificate with the fire risk assessment
- Run the extract fan throughout cooking
- Refit filters properly after cleaning
- Keep to the recommended cleaning interval
You leave with a date for the next clean, based on your cooking hours and the grease we measured. A 3, 6 or 12-monthly maintenance plan keeps it on track, so the date is not missed.
Regular filter cleaning is the simplest thing a kitchen can do. A filter that is clean and seated properly stops more grease getting into the plenum, which slows build-up further down the system.