Oxfordshire · Kitchen extract cleaning
Thame kitchen extract cleaning
Kitchen extract cleaning for businesses, landlords and public buildings in Thame. CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, and fully insured.
- Grease drips onto cooking equipment
- An overdue clean flagged by an EHO or fire officer
- Grease smells coming from the extract
How it works
When we arrive, we check the system against the survey or the pictures you sent. If anything is different, we talk it through with the person on site before carrying on. From there, it takes as long as the system needs, from a few hours to several planned visits. A few pictures of the system and its access points help us plan a visit in Thame.
- You send pictures 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.
- We re-test, photograph and send your certificate and photo report.
Getting ready for the visit
- Have your last certificate or report to hand
- Mention any parking or loading restrictions
- Allow time for equipment near the work to be turned off and cool down
How to get a quote
There’s no standard price list, because no two systems are the same. Instead, we look at your site first, from pictures or a survey, and then give you a fixed quote. To start, phone us on 0345 646 2711, or email photos.
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Kitchen duct cleaning in Thame
Insurers often want evidence of regular TR19 cleaning, and some may refuse or reduce a claim when it’s missing. The certificate and photo report from each clean in Thame give you that record for the maintenance log. The work covers horizontal duct runs, vertical risers and canopies and hoods, and people most often call us about heavy grease build-up inside the duct runs and grease smells coming from the extract. Canopy cleaning, extract cleaning and duct cleaning are often used to mean the same thing, but a proper TR19® clean in Thame covers all of it, from the hood to the fan.
Access decides how thorough a clean can be. Where a duct run has no panels, we say so on the report and can fit new ones.
For a pub, café or restaurant in a town like Thame, losing a day’s trade to cleaning is not an option, so the work is done after service, overnight or on a closed day. By the next service, the kitchen is ready to cook in again.
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.
- Place
- Thame (OX9)
- Wider area
- Oxfordshire
- Paperwork
- Certificate plus before-and-after photos
- Quote
- Fixed quote, typically within a working day
- Hours
- Overnight and weekend work, 24/7 emergency callout
- Phone
- 0345 646 2711
- Last updated
- 30 October 2026
Questions from Thame
Can school kitchens in Thame be cleaned in the holidays?
Yes, holiday work suits schools best. Around Thame, the Food Standards Agency lists about 7 schools and colleges with registered kitchens within a mile and a half or so. Booking early in the term gives the best choice of holiday dates.
Who enforces fire safety at workplaces in Thame?
Fire safety enforcement in Thame is handled by Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service. TR19® is not law, but it’s the benchmark many fire officers and insurers look to when they ask how often the extract is cleaned.
Do I have to clean my extract to TR19 by law?
Strictly, the legal duty comes from the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, not from TR19. In practice, TR19 is how kitchens show they’re managing grease, and an insurer may refuse or reduce a claim without it.
Do you look at the system first?
Yes. Photos often do the job, while bigger or harder-to-see systems are surveyed on site.
How often does a kitchen extract system need cleaning?
The minimum is set by BESA guidance on daily use, from 3-monthly to 12-monthly. Heavy frying and grilling can mean shorter intervals, which grease thickness testing will show.
Do you clean the whole extract system or just the canopy?
Every part the air passes through, as far as access allows. Sections with no access are listed on the report, and extra panels can be fitted.
Can one contract cover all our sites?
Yes. Our area covers London and the South East, so sites at different addresses can be planned together on one programme. Every site has its own report.
Is Thame in your area?
Yes. We cover Thame and the rest of Oxfordshire, within our South East and London area. For a fixed quote, phone us on 0345 646 2711 or drop us a line.
Also in Thame
Kitchen extract cleaning around Thame
Look up Thame on the FSA’s food hygiene register and you’ll find about 18 restaurants, cafés and canteens and about 10 sandwich bars and takeaways across Thame and its immediate surroundings (about a mile and a half). Every kitchen in that count with a canopy has a full extract system, canopy to discharge, to keep clear of grease. In Thame, food businesses are inspected by environmental health officers from South Oxfordshire council. Extraction counts as kitchen equipment, so its condition can come up on the day. Our report lists what was cleaned and when, which is useful to have ready. Thame sits within the area of Oxfordshire 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.
Adwell House, about 3.9 miles south, is one of the historic houses near Thame; if you run event catering at a venue like that, cleans can be booked between functions. If you look after a school kitchen, at a school such as Barley Hill Primary School or anywhere near Thame, the holidays are the usual time for a TR19® clean. A hall kitchen that only cooks for events, whether near Church of St Mary or elsewhere in Thame, still needs its extract cleaned, just less often.
Thame is about 8 miles south-west of Aylesbury, in Oxfordshire. Every kind of commercial site in Thame, kitchen extract cleaning is something we can help with. We can work out of hours so the site keeps running. Thame is one of 443 towns, villages and districts in Oxfordshire we cover for kitchen extract cleaning. We also work in Oxford, about 11 miles from Thame.
Our technicians cover all of OX9 for kitchen extract cleaning and the roads nearby. If you need kitchen extract cleaning at premises on Upper High Street, Butter Market and High Street or anywhere close by, our technicians can take on the work. Thame sits on or near the A329 and A418, so getting to you is simple for kitchen extract cleaning. Nearby, we also carry out kitchen extract cleaning in Moreton (1 mile south-west), Towersey (1 mile east), Kingsey (2 miles east), Long Crendon (2 miles north-west) and Haddenham (3 miles north-east). Larger places within reach include Oxford (11 miles west), Didcot (15 miles south-west), Bicester (13 miles north-west), Abingdon-on-Thames (14 miles west), Henley-on-Thames (15 miles south) and Kidlington (14 miles west). Thame is one of the larger places we cover in Oxfordshire for kitchen extract cleaning.
What’s near Thame
In Thame, that means kitchens and buildings near Lord Williams's School and Cross Keys Public House and the streets around them. For rail, the closest station is Haddenham & Thame Parkway station, about 2.1 miles north-east of the centre. A little further out are Thame Museum (0.5 miles north-west) and Thame Community Hospital (within half a mile south-east). Green spaces nearby include Snakemoor.
Why deal with it now?
Any food business in Thame can expect visits from the council’s environmental health officers, and a greasy canopy or dripping filters won’t go unnoticed. Keeping the extract clean helps the whole kitchen pass muster. An inspector or insurer will want to see recent records, so it makes sense to have them ready.
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 any work starts.
What you get with us
- Photo reports with every job
- CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001
- Out-of-hours work and a 24/7 emergency line
- Ventilation hygiene specialists since 2009
Read how cleaning jobs are priced and how to check a contractor.
What staff can safely do
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. Leave those to us.
Keep a record of what your team does. A dated log of in-house cleaning and checks helps show that the system is managed between specialist visits, alongside our reports.
How the job changes from site to site
Schools, hospitals and care homes
Institutional kitchens tend to cook to set hours, so cleans can be planned for holidays or quiet times. The certificate goes straight into the site’s maintenance records.
Ductwork and risers
Vertical risers carry the air up through the building, and grease often collects at the bottom of them. They’re cleaned through access points along their height.
What kitchen extract cleaning can’t fix
To be straight with you, some problems need a different fix:
- Ductwork that’s corroded, split or leaking (that is for a ductwork contractor)
- Extraction that cannot cope with the cooking because of its design
- Blocked drains from a neglected grease trap (a separate service)
If you’re not sure, just phone us on 0345 646 2711, or email photos and we will give you a straight answer.
Where we work
- Horizontal duct runs
- Extract fans
- Vertical risers
- Plenums and filters
- Canopies and hoods
- Discharge points
For landlords and multi-site operators
Records are where multi-site compliance often slips. Each visit ends with a dated report and photos, so you can show an insurer or inspector what was done at each site.
Running several sites is easier with one contractor. We work across London and the South East, so visits at different addresses can be planned together and kept on a regular cycle.
What affects the quote in Thame
We quote each job individually. These are the things that affect it:
- Site requirements such as sign-in and permits
- Whether several sites go on one quote
- Where the site is and how we reach it
- Working hours and out-of-hours timing
No two sites are the same, so each one gets its own fixed quote. The size of the job, how we reach it, its condition and the working hours all make a difference.
Asking for a quote
To speed up the quote, send us:
- Close-ups of filters, grilles, hatches or access panels
- How we’d reach plant on a roof or in a plant room
- Any symptoms, from odd noises to smells or leaks
- Wide photos of the system and the area around it
Quotes are quick. Send a few details and pictures, and we usually reply with a fixed quote within one working day. If we need to see the system first, we book a survey around your hours.