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Kitchen extract cleaning in Westcombe Park, Greater London
Kitchen extract cleaning for Westcombe Park and the surrounding area: a survey, a fixed price, careful work and proper paperwork. Call for a fixed quote.
- Grease smells coming from the extract
- Grease dripping from the canopy or filters
- Heavy grease build-up inside the duct runs
Grease, kitchens and Westcombe Park
The FSA’s food hygiene register shows about 306 cafés, restaurants and staff canteens and about 96 takeaways and sandwich shops in and around Westcombe Park, up to about a mile and a half out. Any of them cooking under a canopy is sending grease into its ductwork every service. Food hygiene inspections in Westcombe Park are the job of Greenwich council’s environmental health team. 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. Westcombe Park sits within the area of London Fire Brigade. Grease in a kitchen extract is a recognised fire risk, and the fire authority enforces the law on managing it in most commercial premises.
If you run a café or takeaway near Westcombe Park station, early starts and late finishes leave little time to clean, so overnight extract cleaning suits. If you run catering at a healthcare site, such as a hospital like Greenwich District Hospital about less than half a mile west, the extract may need cleaning more often than a part-time kitchen.
Westcombe Park is about 2 miles east of New Cross, in Greater London. Anywhere in SE10, we can carry out kitchen extract cleaning at your premises. Our Greater London coverage runs to 764 places, Westcombe Park among them.
Our technicians cover all of the SE10, SE7 and SE3 postcode area for kitchen extract cleaning and the streets around it. That includes premises on Webb Road, Horn Lane and Hardy Road and nearby roads. If your site is just outside Westcombe Park, we cover Vanbrugh Park Estate (1 mile south-west), Maze Hill (1 mile west), Greenwich (1 mile west), New Charlton (1 mile north-east) and Charlton (1 mile east). Within a short drive, we also cover London (5 miles west), City of Westminster (8 miles west), Marylebone (7 miles west), Kensington (10 miles west), St Pancras (7 miles north-west) and Shoreditch (5 miles north-west).
Near you in Westcombe Park
We work in commercial kitchens and buildings around Blackheath High School, Wildwood Montessori School and East Greenwich Pleasaunce. There’s a railway station in Westcombe Park itself: Westcombe Park station. Well-known places in the area include Greenwich Castle (1 mile south-west) and Charlton Athletic Museum (0.8 miles east). Open spaces near Westcombe Park include Tower Hill and Gilbert's Pit.
Kitchen extract cleaning for kitchens and businesses in Westcombe Park
A closed kitchen is not earning, so the timing of a clean matters. We work evenings, overnight and at weekends, or during holidays where a site closes for them. Equipment is switched off and left to cool, the area is sheeted, and the kitchen is handed back ready to cook. We are often asked to deal with proof of cleaning requested by an insurer and a smoky, hot kitchen with weak extraction, across canopies and hoods, plenums and filters and vertical risers. For TR19 kitchen extract cleaning in Westcombe Park, one call covers the survey, the clean and the paperwork.
A kitchen running fryers and chargrills all day builds up grease much faster than one that mostly steams and boils, so the interval is set by what you cook as well as how long.
London kitchens are often tucked into basements or the back of a building, and the duct may run up through several floors before it discharges at the roof. For a kitchen in Westcombe Park, that typically means a longer system to clean and more access panels to plan around.
The paperwork matters as much as the work. 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. Keep it with your fire safety records so it’s to hand when an insurer or inspector asks.
- Where
- Westcombe Park (SE10, SE7, SE3)
- Region
- Greater London
- Records
- Certificate plus before-and-after photos
- Quotes
- A fixed price before work begins
- Working hours
- Out of hours as standard, 24/7 emergency line
- Phone
- 0345 646 2711
- Reviewed
- 30 October 2026
Nearby places to Westcombe Park
What else we do in Westcombe Park
How it works
Your staff don’t need to do much on the day. Someone lets us in at the agreed time and shows us where everything is, and the rest is down to us. Afterwards, the area is left tidy and the written report follows. Most London sites cannot stop for the day, so work in Westcombe Park is usually done overnight, early in the morning or at weekends.
- We start with a survey, so we know every part of the system before we quote.
- Grease readings are taken at set points and you get a fixed quote.
- With the kitchen closed and equipment off and cool, the area is sheeted.
- The whole route is cleaned, from the canopy through the ductwork to the fan and the discharge.
- Readings and pictures are taken again, and you receive a TR19 certificate and photo report.
Before we arrive
- Tell us about access, such as roof hatches, plant rooms, ceilings or locked areas
- Tell us about site rules, permits or sign-in
- Tell us where we can park and unload
Get a fixed quote
Need a price for kitchen extract cleaning? Please phone us on 0345 646 2711 or send us an email with a few details about the site. We will explain what we’d do and send a fixed quote before anything is booked.
Related advice
In-house cleaning or a specialist?
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, next to our reports.
When your team notices a problem 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 can diagnose it and quote.
Between visits
Aftercare is simple, and it helps at the next visit:
- Keep to the recommended cleaning interval
- Keep the baffle filters clean
- Keep the extract on whenever the range is lit
- Wipe the canopy down at the end of each day
Every clean ends with a photo report. It shows the system before and after, part by part, and lists what was cleaned, any areas we couldn’t reach and the date the next clean is due.
Report drips, smells or a noisy fan early. Drips, odours and fan noise often mean grease is building, and a grease thickness test can confirm it.
For landlords and multi-site operators
Records are where multi-site compliance often slips. Each visit ends with a dated report and pictures, so you can show an insurer or inspector what was done at each site.
If you look after several sites, we can schedule visits across all of them on one quote. Every building has its own written report, so each one has its own record.
When something else is needed
We will always give you a straight diagnosis, so here’s what this work cannot put right:
- Ductwork that is corroded, split or leaking (that is for a ductwork contractor)
- Faulty fire dampers in the duct
- A grease trap that needs emptying
If in doubt, give us a ring on 0345 646 2711 or use the quote form and we will say what we think before you book.
What the work covers
- Plenums and filters
- Vertical risers
- Horizontal duct runs
- Canopies and hoods
- Extract fans
- Discharge points
Signs you need kitchen extract cleaning in Westcombe Park
It’s common for parts of a duct to have been missed for years. The usual reason is a lack of access panels, so those sections were never reached. Grease in those sections keeps building out of sight.
It’s time to book a visit if you see:
- Years of baked-on grease in the ducts
- A system with no record of a TR19 clean
- An overdue clean flagged by an EHO or fire officer
- Proof of cleaning requested by an insurer
Volunteers running a hall kitchen near St George's Church, or anywhere in Westcombe Park, may not know when the extract was last cleaned, and a grease test settles it.
Comparing quotes
- Whether the quote shows VAT
- What insurance they carry
- Their accreditations, such as BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite, CHAS or SafeContractor
- Whether they recommend a next date
How we price kitchen extract cleaning
The price is fixed before any work begins. It takes into account:
- Any permits to work or inductions
- When the work can happen, such as evenings, overnight or weekends
- Whether it’s a one-off visit or part of a schedule
- How big the system is
What you pay reflects the actual work. That’s why every job is surveyed first, and the price is agreed before any work starts.
Helping us quote
A few details help us quote accurately. When you get in touch, it helps to send:
- Photos showing the whole system and its surroundings
- Your last certificate, test record or report
- How we’d reach plant on a roof or in a plant room
- The times we could work without disrupting the site
Photos are enough for some jobs, while others need a look on site. Larger sites, and anything hidden behind walls, ceilings or floors, are normally surveyed first. Either way, the quote is fixed before any work is booked.
Your questions about kitchen extract cleaning in Westcombe Park
Can parking be tricky for a job in Westcombe Park?
Tell us where a van can stop near your site in Westcombe Park, and about any building rules on loading. Much of our London work is done overnight, which helps.
Who is the fire and rescue service for Westcombe Park?
That’s London Fire Brigade. It’s worth keeping your fire risk assessment, TR19® certificates and photo reports together, ready to show.
What types of premises do you cover?
All kinds of commercial and public premises: kitchens, offices, schools, healthcare, retail, leisure and food production. Work is timed around how each site runs.
Is TR19 a legal requirement?
Strictly, the legal duty comes from the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, not from TR19. TR19 is the industry benchmark for meeting that duty in a kitchen extract, and an insurer may refuse or reduce a claim without it.
What’s the right cleaning interval for a kitchen extract?
BESA guidance sets minimums by daily cooking hours: 3-monthly for heavy use, 6-monthly for moderate use and 12-monthly for light use. Measured grease levels set the real interval.
Do you offer maintenance contracts?
Yes. Plans on a 3, 6 or 12-monthly cycle are available, to suit the system and how it’s used.
Do you survey before quoting?
Yes. Photos often do the job, while bigger or harder-to-see systems are surveyed on site.
What about areas you can’t get to?
We record them on the report, with pictures where possible, and we tell you what would make it reachable, for example new access panels.