Essex · Kitchen extract cleaning
Kitchen extract cleaning in Woodham Mortimer, Essex
Kitchen extract cleaning for Woodham Mortimer, from a team that has been trading since 2009. Out-of-hours visits and 24/7 emergency callout.
- Rancid smells from grease in the duct
- Poor airflow at the canopy
- Missing paperwork after a change of operator
Kitchen extract cleaning for kitchens and businesses in Woodham Mortimer
Many insurers ask for proof that the extract has been cleaned to TR19, and a claim can be refused or reduced without it. For a kitchen in Woodham Mortimer, our certificate and photo report give you that record, ready for the fire risk assessment file. Typical jobs include a TR19 certificate needed for the insurer and a kitchen with no current TR19 certificate, on extract fans, plenums and filters and horizontal duct runs. Whether you call it kitchen extract cleaning, TR19 cleaning or kitchen duct cleaning, in Woodham Mortimer it means the same thing to us: the whole system, cleaned and certificated.
Grease that collects out of sight, behind the filters and along the duct, is what insurers and fire officers worry about, which is why a TR19® clean in Woodham Mortimer goes well beyond the canopy.
For a kitchen in or near Woodham Mortimer, the visit is planned around opening hours and the journey, and the clean itself is the same full TR19® job as in any town: canopy, filters, duct, fan and discharge, with a certificate and photo report at the end.
Good records are part of the job. Each visit is written up with photos, covering the work done, any areas we couldn’t access and a recommended next date. Keep it with your fire safety records so it’s ready for an insurer, fire officer or EHO.
- Place
- Woodham Mortimer (CM9)
- Wider area
- Essex
- Records
- Certificate and photo report
- Quotes
- A fixed price before work begins
- Hours
- Overnight and weekend work, 24/7 emergency callout
- Call
- 0345 646 2711
- Last updated
- 30 October 2026
What a clean won’t put right
We will not sell you work that doesn’t address the problem, so these are the things it will not cover:
- Fat blocking the kitchen drains
- A fan motor that has burnt out
- A duct that is holed or coming apart
If in doubt, call us on 0345 646 2711 or drop us a line and we will say what we think before you book.
What we work on in Woodham Mortimer
- Discharge points
- Horizontal duct runs
- Canopies and hoods
- Vertical risers
- Plenums and filters
- Extract fans
Questions from Woodham Mortimer
Who enforces fire safety at workplaces in Woodham Mortimer?
Essex County Fire and Rescue Service is the fire and rescue service for Woodham Mortimer. TR19® isn’t law, but it’s the benchmark many fire officers and insurers look to when they ask how often the extract is cleaned.
Will you come out to Woodham Mortimer?
Yes. Villages and rural sites across the South East are part of our work, Woodham Mortimer included. Just mention lanes, gates or anything else about the site when you book.
What do you do with what you remove?
We take it away at the end of the visit. While we work, it’s kept contained to keep the area clean.
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, which grease thickness testing will show.
Can you price the work without visiting?
Often, yes. With good photos, the site type and your last report, we can price many jobs. Where we can’t see enough, we arrange a survey.
How long does a kitchen extract clean take?
Allow a single shift for most kitchens, with long duct runs and tall risers needing more time. The survey tells us how long your system will need.
What’s TR19?
It’s BESA’s specification and the benchmark insurers, fire officers and EHOs look to. It sets out inspection, cleaning and record keeping and expects a risk-based approach.
What does a TR19 kitchen extract clean include?
We clean every part the grease travels through. That means canopy, plenum, filters, ducts, risers, fan and discharge, reached through access panels where necessary.
Kitchen extracts in Woodham Mortimer
Food Standards Agency records list about 5 restaurants, cafés and canteens within 1.5 miles or so of the middle of Woodham Mortimer. Each one that cooks under a canopy has an extract system that collects grease and needs regular cleaning. The fire and rescue service for Woodham Mortimer is Essex County Fire and Rescue Service. Its fire safety officers can audit commercial kitchens, and grease in the extract is part of a kitchen’s fire risk. Food hygiene inspections in Woodham Mortimer are the job of Maldon council’s environmental health team. 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.
Healthcare kitchens, like those at hospitals such as Baddow Hospital (about 4.9 miles west), often cook for long hours, which puts them in BESA’s heavier-use bands. Church and community hall kitchens, near Church of St Margaret or anywhere around Woodham Mortimer, are easy to forget, but their extracts collect grease like any other.
Woodham Mortimer is about 3 miles west of Maldon, in Essex. We carry out kitchen extract cleaning for commercial premises of every kind in Woodham Mortimer and the rest of Essex. Our Essex coverage runs to 644 places, and Woodham Mortimer is one of them. For sites nearby, see our Chelmsford page (6 miles or so).
All of CM9 is within our area for kitchen extract cleaning, from busy streets to back roads. That includes premises on Maldon Road, Conduit Lane and Bryant's Lane and the roads around them. If your site is just outside Woodham Mortimer, we cover Hazeleigh (1 mile south-east), Woodham Walter (1 mile north), Curling Tye Green (2 miles north-east), Ulting (3 miles north) and Maldon (3 miles east). Within a short drive, we also cover Chelmsford (6 miles west), Basildon (12 miles south-west), Braintree (12 miles north), Brentwood (15 miles south-west), Canvey Island (13 miles south) and Billericay (10 miles south-west).
What’s near Woodham Mortimer
Typical jobs here are in premises near The Hurdlemarker's Arms. The nearest railway station is South Woodham Ferrers station, roughly 4.3 miles south of the centre. Well-known places in the area include Baddow Hospital (4.9 miles west). Open spaces near Woodham Mortimer include Danbury Ridge Nature Reserves.
What your team can do, and what needs us
Good housekeeping makes our visits easier, not unnecessary. Regular in-house cleaning slows the build-up, but hidden parts of the system still need specialist attention.
A few tasks are always specialist work: entering ducts, working on fans, testing dampers and taking grease readings call for the right kit, training and safe access. That’s our job.
Also near Woodham Mortimer
What else we do in Woodham Mortimer
Part by part
Extract fan and discharge
At the end of the system is the discharge, and grease can collect there too. It’s cleaned as far as safe access allows, and any limits are recorded.
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 with as little disruption as possible.
Common problems we fix in Woodham Mortimer
Grease filters are the first line of defence, and they’re often the weak point. Damaged, missing or overloaded filters let grease straight past, and from there it travels on to the fan.
The symptoms we are asked about most are:
- Fat running down the canopy edge
- A TR19 certificate needed for the insurer
- Grease smells coming from the extract
- A kitchen with no current TR19 certificate
Danbury Place, about 2.7 miles west, is one of the historic houses near Woodham Mortimer; if you run event catering at a venue like that, cleans can be booked between functions.
What to look for in a quote
- If the quote is a fixed price or an estimate
- What records you’ll receive afterwards
- Proof of accreditation you can verify
- Whether VAT is included
Multi-site and managed buildings
The Fire Safety Order 2005 puts the duty to manage fire risk on the responsible person, which may be the employer, owner, landlord, FM or managing agent. With shared responsibility, good records help everyone.
Where a tenant occupies the premises but the landlord owns the building, it’s worth checking the lease for who maintains the systems. We are happy to deal with either side, and the report can go to both.
What affects the cost of kitchen extract cleaning
There’s no set price list, because sites vary so much. The quote depends on:
- How many systems or sites are involved
- Any permits to work or inductions
- What state the system is in
- How easy every part is to reach
What you pay reflects the actual work. That is why we survey first, from photos or on site, and the price is agreed before any work starts.
Helping us quote
The more you tell us, the more accurate the quote. With your enquiry, please include:
- How we’d reach plant on a roof or in a plant room
- Your last certificate, test record or report
- Close-ups of filters, grilles, hatches or access panels
- Anything you’ve noticed, such as smells, noise, drips or poor airflow
To help us quote: the address, the type of site and when it’s open, a few photos and the last certificate or report, if there is one. Once you have those, call 0345 646 2711 or use the quote form.
The process
Night work is normal for us. Evenings, nights and weekends are when much of our work happens, so the site can open as normal afterwards. The visit itself takes as long as the system needs, from a few hours to several planned visits. We agree a date with you, plan the drive to Woodham Mortimer and turn up when the site is quiet.
- First the diagnosis: a survey of the whole system and its access points.
- We record grease levels at set points, then fix the price.
- We arrive after close, protect the area and contain the waste.
- 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.
How to prepare
- Mention any sign-in, permit or induction we need
- Mention any locked doors, roof access or ceiling voids
- Name a contact who can let us in at the agreed time
Ask for a quote
Quoting starts with a diagnosis, from your photos and details or, where that is not enough, a survey on site. After that, you get a fixed price for the work, before any work starts.