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Kitchen extract cleaning in Temple Bar, Greater London
Looking for kitchen extract cleaning in Temple Bar? We diagnose first, fix the price and book the work around your hours, finishing with a written report and photos.
- Heavy grease build-up inside the duct runs
- A kitchen taken over without any extract records
- A system with no record of a TR19 clean
Keeping the system healthy
Aftercare is simple, and it makes the next visit easier:
- Flag any change in how the extract sounds or works
- Never cook with filters missing or out of place
- Keep the extract on whenever the range is lit
- Wipe the canopy down at the end of each day
We hand the kitchen back clean, with the sheeting removed and waste taken away. Grease and dirty water are collected and taken off site, so you can start cooking as normal.
Run the extract whenever the kitchen is cooking. Switching it off early leaves vapour to settle on the canopy and plenum, and the next clean has more to do.
Kitchen extract cleaning for kitchens and businesses in Temple Bar
The canopy over the range is only the start of a kitchen extract system. Beyond the filters run the plenum, the ducts and risers, the fan and the point where air leaves the building, and each part collects grease. Our clean follows the air from canopy to discharge, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease. We’re often asked to deal with extraction mentioned at an environmental health visit and grease dripping from the canopy or filters, across extract fans, discharge points and plenums and filters. When a restaurant in Temple Bar asks for duct cleaning, it’s nearly always the kitchen extract they mean, and that is our main job: canopy to fan, to TR19® Grease.
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.
In London, few kitchens can spare a day to close, so extract cleaning in Temple Bar is normally done overnight, after the last service. Before the clean, we agree loading, parking and roof access with whoever manages the building.
Accreditations are easy to claim and worth checking. Ours are BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite membership, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease, plus CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, and we’re fully insured.
- Place
- Temple Bar (WC2B, WC2E, EC1N)
- Region
- Greater London
- Records
- Certificate plus before-and-after pictures
- Price
- A fixed quote up front
- Hours
- After hours by arrangement; emergencies any time
- Call
- 0345 646 2711
- Reviewed
- 30 October 2026
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Temple Bar kitchens: local notes
Food Standards Agency records include about 528 pubs and bars and about 201 hotels and guest houses within about 1.5 miles of central Temple Bar. Any of them serving cooked food has an extract to keep clean, from canopy to discharge. London Fire Brigade covers Temple Bar. Its fire safety officers can audit commercial kitchens, and grease in the extract is part of a kitchen’s fire risk. It’s the City of London Corporation that sends environmental health officers to food businesses in Temple Bar. An officer looking round a kitchen will see the canopy, and grease there is hard to miss. Keeping each certificate and photo report on file helps show the extract is looked after.
Church and community hall kitchens, near Temple Church or anywhere around Temple Bar, are easy to forget, but their extracts collect grease like any other. A hospital like St Philip's Hospital, about within half a mile west, is the kind of site where a kitchen may cook for patients, staff and visitors all day. School kitchens, at schools like St Clement Danes CofE Primary School for example, are normally cleaned in the holidays so no lunches are lost.
Temple Bar is about 1 mile south of St Pancras, in Greater London. Every kind of commercial site in Temple Bar, we can take on kitchen extract cleaning. Visits can be booked for evenings, overnight or weekends so trading isn’t interrupted. Our Greater London coverage runs to 764 places, Temple Bar among them.
Here we cover the WC2B, WC2E and EC1N postcode area for kitchen extract cleaning. Whether your site is on Shoe Lane, Drury Lane and New Square or anywhere close by, we can help. Main roads around Temple Bar include the A4 and A40, so getting to you is simple for kitchen extract cleaning. Other places close to Temple Bar include Temple (1 mile south), Clare Market (1 mile west), Aldwych (1 mile west), Blackfriars (1 mile east) and Covent Garden (1 mile west). Within a short drive, we also cover Kensington (4 miles west), Walthamstow (6 miles north-east), Hampstead (4 miles north-west), Ruislip (13 miles west), Brompton (3 miles south-west) and Stockwell (3 miles south).
What’s near Temple Bar
Typical jobs here are in premises near British Library of Political and Economic Science, Mercers' School and London Nautical School. Other local landmarks include Lincoln's Inn Fields (less than half a mile north-west) and Queen's Head Tavern (within half a mile north-east). Temple Bar has its own railway station: City Thameslink station. A little further out are Montfichet's Tower (0.5 miles east) and Twinings Museum (within half a mile south-west). Green spaces nearby include Ludgate Hill and Barnsbury Wood.
In-house cleaning or a specialist?
When your team notices a problem between visits, like drips, unusual noise, smells or damaged filters, it’s best reported rather than tackled in-house. We will take a look and send you a fixed quote.
For ventilation and air handling systems, in-house care is mostly about checks: clear grilles, a log of filter changes and reporting anything odd. The inside of ducts and units needs a specialist.
FAQs for Temple Bar
Can you work in Temple Bar outside opening hours?
Yes, we can come after you close and finish before you open. The work in Temple Bar can fit around your hours. When you give us a ring on 0345 646 2711, or email photos, mention when the site is quiet.
Which council inspects kitchens in Temple Bar?
That is the City of London Corporation, whose environmental health officers carry out food hygiene inspections in Temple Bar. Have your latest TR19® certificate and photo report to hand, as an officer may ask how the extract is maintained.
Do you work in Temple Bar?
Yes. We cover Temple Bar and across Greater London, as part of our work across South East England and London. To book, call us on 0345 646 2711 or email us.
Can you look after several sites?
Yes. We work across South East England and London, so sites at different addresses can be planned together on one programme. Every site has its own report.
Do you offer maintenance contracts?
Yes. Scheduled maintenance plans are part of what we do, set at the interval the system needs. Each report recommends when the next visit should be.
What if parts of the system cannot be reached?
They’re marked on the report. Often the fix is extra access, such as new panels in ductwork, and we can fit those.
Is there a survey before the work?
Yes. Photos often do the job, and larger or hidden systems get a visit.
What does TR19 mean?
A BESA specification in two main parts: TR19® Grease for kitchen extracts and TR19® Air for supply and extract systems. It isn’t law, but it’s the benchmark.
When something else is needed
Some problems need a different service or another trade:
- Fat blocking the kitchen drains
- A broken extract fan that won’t run
- An undersized canopy or fan
If in doubt, ring 0345 646 2711, or email photos and we will say what we think.
Parts of the system we cover
- Extract fans
- Canopies and hoods
- Plenums and filters
- Vertical risers
- Discharge points
- Horizontal duct runs
What happens on the day
Night work is normal for us. A lot of visits happen overnight or at weekends, so a kitchen or building can carry on as usual the next day. The visit itself takes anything from a few hours to a full night, depending on the size of the system. A name and number for whoever controls access to the building in Temple Bar saves time on the night.
- First the diagnosis: a survey of the whole system and its access points.
- We record grease levels at set points, then fix the price.
- After the kitchen closes, we sheet the area and set up to contain grease and water.
- Heavy deposits are scraped by hand and the system degreased to TR19® Grease.
- Then the clean bill of health: readings, a TR19 certificate and a photo report with the next date.
Getting ready for the visit
- Tell us the best time to work, such as after service or at a weekend
- Mention any parking or loading restrictions
- Find the previous report, if there is one
Get a fixed quote
Quotes are quick. Send a few details and photos, and we typically reply with a fixed quote within one working day. If we need to see the system first, we book a survey around your hours.
Related advice
Managing agents and facilities teams in Temple Bar
Keeping records across a portfolio is half the battle. Every visit ends with a dated report and photos, ready to show insurers, fire officers or EHOs.
Under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, the responsible person must assess and reduce fire risk, and that can be the employer, the owner, a landlord, a facilities manager or a managing agent. Where responsibility is shared, records matter even more.
Why act early in Temple Bar
Any food business in Temple Bar can expect visits from the council’s environmental health officers, and they look at the cleanliness of the premises and equipment, extraction included. A clean extract is one less thing to worry about on the day. Shared walls, risers and roofs mean a problem at one London site seldom stays put.
A single site or a whole portfolio, we price it on the same basis: the work involved, the access and the timing. The price is fixed before we start.
Why Temple Bar businesses choose us
- Evenings, overnight and weekends, plus 24/7 emergency callout
- One contact for all your sites in London and the South East
- We’re fully insured
- Survey first, then a fixed quote
How the job changes from site to site
Schools, hospitals and care homes
In a care home or hospital, the kitchen may cook every day of the year. We plan the clean around meal times and work in a contained, tidy way, so residents and patients aren’t disturbed.
Restaurant and pub kitchens
A pub or restaurant can’t afford to cancel a service for a clean. We work overnight and at weekends where that suits, and hand back a clean kitchen ready to cook.