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Shoreditch ventilation duct cleaning

Professional ventilation duct cleaning in and around Shoreditch, booked around your opening hours and signed off in writing with photos.

  • Systems missing access panels
  • Ducts that need a clean before handover
  • Dusty supply ductwork that hasn’t been cleaned in years

Ventilation duct cleaning near Shoreditch

Your questions about ventilation duct cleaning in Shoreditch

Do you do school ventilation cleaning in Shoreditch in the summer holidays?

Yes. The holidays are the usual time for school work. There are about 80 schools, colleges and universities on the FSA’s food hygiene register within about 1.5 miles of Shoreditch. You can phone us on 0345 646 2711 or send us an email with the dates the site is empty.

Can parking be tricky for a job in Shoreditch?

Tell us where a van can stop near your site in Shoreditch, and about any building rules on loading. Night visits tend to make loading easier on London streets.

Can you clean ventilation out of hours?

Yes. The work is planned around the building’s hours. Holidays suit schools, and evenings or weekends suit offices.

Are grilles and diffusers included?

Yes. Removable grilles come down for cleaning and go back up. Fixed ones are cleaned in place.

Can you set up regular visits?

Yes. Plans on a 3, 6 or 12-monthly cycle are available, to suit the system and how it’s used.

Do we get a certificate after the clean?

Yes, both a certificate and a photo report. It also notes unreached sections and a recommended next inspection.

What does ventilation duct cleaning cost?

Every site is different, so each gets its own fixed quote. For a quote, give us a ring on 0345 646 2711 or send us an email and tell us about the site and its opening hours.

Do you offer emergency callouts?

Yes. For anything urgent, such as a fan failure or damage after a fire, ring the 24/7 line, and we will advise on what to do next.

Ventilation duct cleaning in Shoreditch

We cover Shoreditch and the rest of Greater London for ventilation duct cleaning, in offices, schools, healthcare buildings and retail. Each building gets a survey first and a fixed quote. If you’re dealing with musty smells from the ventilation and ducts that need a clean before handover, we can help.

London offices and flats often have ductwork added through successive refits, leaving sections that are hard to reach and seldom cleaned. An inspection first shows where cleaning is needed in a building in Shoreditch.

Nothing is signed off by word of mouth: a written report, dated and illustrated with pictures, and for TR19® Grease cleans, a certificate issued through the BESCA VHE portal. Any parts we couldn’t reach are recorded on it too.

Location
Shoreditch (E1, E2, N1)
Wider area
Greater London
Records
Report and photos after the visit
Quotes
A fixed quote up front
Hours
Out of hours as standard, 24/7 emergency line
Telephone
0345 646 2711
Updated
30 October 2026
The Duct Doctor team standing beside their branded white and blue vans

What we do, step by step

A visit follows the same order every time: protect the area, make the system safe, carry out the ventilation duct cleaning, tidy up and leave you the report. The visit itself takes a shift or two for a small system, longer for a whole building. Many London buildings have a managing agent, a security desk or a permit-to-work system, so tell us who to contact in Shoreditch.

  1. We survey the system from drawings, photos or a site visit.
  2. Ducts are inspected at access points and the condition recorded.
  3. The area below is protected and the system switched off.
  4. Dust and debris are removed from ducts, grilles and diffusers.
  5. A certificate and before and after pictures follow, with anything not reached recorded.

Before we arrive

  • Mention any locked doors, roof access or ceiling voids
  • Let us know when the site is closed or quiet
  • Tell us where we can park and unload

Get a fixed quote

Some systems can be priced from pictures; others need a survey. Big or complicated sites, and systems that are hard to see in photos, get a survey first. Either way, the quote is fixed before any work is booked.

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Advice

When to call us in Shoreditch

Filters never catch everything, and that fine dust settles along the supply ducts. Extract ducts collect whatever the rooms give off: dust, fibres and lint.

The symptoms we are asked about most include:

  • Rooms that feel airless when the system runs
  • Damp or stale smells from grilles
  • Ventilation full of debris from building work
  • Supply ducts with years of dust inside

Healthcare ventilation, from large hospitals like St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics (about 0.5 miles west) to small clinics, depends on clean filters, coils and ducts.

Questions to ask before booking

  • Whether they’re fully insured
  • Whether a written report and photos are included
  • Whether the quote shows VAT
  • Whether the whole system is included, or only the parts that are easy to reach

Questions to ask before you book

Why deal with it now?

Dust in ducts doesn’t go away on its own. The longer it’s left, the more there is to remove, and the more gets blown back into the rooms. A building in Shoreditch may have flats or offices above and alongside, and a fault in the system can affect them too.

We do not list prices on the website, because the cost depends on the site in front of us. For a fixed quote, give us a ring on 0345 646 2711, or send details by email, and we’ll talk you through it.

Why book with us

  • Ventilation hygiene specialists since 2009
  • A fixed price before any work starts
  • Photo reports with every job
  • Work around your opening hours, with 24/7 emergency cover

See our cost guide or our accreditations and certificates.

What ventilation duct cleaning cannot fix

To be straight with you, some problems need a different fix:

  • Grease in kitchen extract systems, cleaned to TR19® Grease instead
  • Building management settings that run the plant
  • Condensation caused by the building rather than the ducts

If in doubt, call 0345 646 2711, or send details by email and we will say what we think before you book.

Where we work

  • Toilet extract systems
  • General extract ductwork
  • Offices and schools
  • Hospitals and care homes
  • Supply ductwork
  • Grilles and diffusers

Ventilation duct cleaning around Shoreditch

Food Standards Agency data includes about 80 schools, colleges and universities, about 69 caring premises (care homes, nurseries and hospitals) and about 62 hotels and B&Bs within roughly a mile and a half of the centre of Shoreditch. Where buildings like these have air handling units, filters, coils and drain trays need regular attention. St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics is the nearest hospital, about 0.5 miles west of Shoreditch. Hospitals show how much a building can rely on its ventilation, and smaller healthcare sites rely on theirs too. Ventilation cleaning in London buildings is normally planned for evenings or weekends.

If you manage offices or shops near Shoreditch High Street station, their ventilation can be inspected and cleaned out of hours. Wherever a school like Virginia Primary School has ducted ventilation, a half-term visit keeps the work out of lesson time.

Shoreditch is about 2 miles north of London, in Greater London. We carry out ventilation duct cleaning for businesses, landlords and public buildings in Shoreditch and the rest of Greater London. Shoreditch is one of 764 places in Greater London where we work for ventilation duct cleaning.

All of E1, E2 and N1 is within our area for ventilation duct cleaning, from the main roads to the quietest streets. You’ll find streets such as New Road, Moor Lane and City Road, all of which we cover for ventilation duct cleaning. You’ll find Shoreditch on the A1 and A10, which makes it straightforward for our technicians to reach for out-of-hours visits. We also cover the places around Shoreditch: Haggerston (1 mile north), Hoxton (1 mile north-west), St Luke's (1 mile west), Spitalfields (1 mile south) and Finsbury (1 mile west). We also work in nearby towns such as City of Westminster (3 miles west), Marylebone (3 miles west), Kensington (6 miles west), Walthamstow (5 miles north-east), Hampstead (5 miles north-west) and Ruislip (15 miles west). Shoreditch is among the bigger places we cover in Greater London for ventilation duct cleaning.

Around Shoreditch

Around Shoreditch, our work takes us to kitchens and buildings near The Prince's School of Traditional Arts, Hackney University Technical College and Bishopsgate Institute Special Collections and Archives. Also close by are Artillery Ground (0.5 miles south-west), Former London Apprentice pub (within half a mile north-west) and St Mary-at-Hill (1.1 miles south). Shoreditch has its own railway station: Shoreditch High Street station. Nearby you’ll also find Tower of London (1.2 miles south) and Gabriel's Wharf (1.8 miles south-west). For a walk, there’s Tower Hill and St. James's Park Lake.

Map of Shoreditch © OpenStreetMap contributors

What affects the quote in Shoreditch

Some jobs are bigger than they look, and some smaller. What affects the quote:

  • Whether we need access equipment or extra panels
  • Parking and loading at the site
  • One-off work versus a regular cycle
  • Any permits to work or inductions

The cost depends on how big the system is, what state it’s in and access to every part of it. You get a fixed price before work begins, so there are no surprises.

What we need to know

What to send for a quote:

  • Where the plant sits or the system leaves the building, such as a roof or outside wall
  • Your opening hours and when the area is out of use
  • Wide pictures of the system and the area around it
  • The postcode and the type of business

To get a fixed quote, call us on 0345 646 2711, or email photos and tell us the type of site, your opening hours and roughly what the system looks like. A few pictures and your last certificate or report help a lot. We usually come back within one working day.

Different parts, different methods

Extract ductwork

Washroom extracts handle damp air, which makes dirt stick. They’re cleaned and their condition recorded.

Supply ductwork

Supply ductwork delivers conditioned air to each room. Fine dust that gets past the filters settles along the runs, and it’s cleaned out through access panels.

In-house cleaning or a specialist?

Good housekeeping makes our visits easier, not unnecessary. Regular in-house cleaning slows the build-up, but the parts you can’t see still need a specialist at the right interval.

Your own staff can handle the daily basics: wiping down canopy surfaces, cleaning filters and keeping a simple log. Inside the ducts, risers and fan is specialist work, which is where we come in.

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Certificate and photo reportWith every clean
24/7 emergency calloutEvenings, nights and weekends
Since 2009South East England and London