Kitchen extract cleaning in Cambridge
Cambridge feeds two very different crowds. Term brings students back to college dining halls that serve formal dinners several nights a week, while the year-round tourist trade fills the cafes and restaurants of King's Parade, Trinity Street, Bridge Street and Market Square. Mill Road is the city's independent food street, running from the centre over the railway bridge into Romsey with Korean, Turkish, Italian and Bangladeshi kitchens side by side, and the leisure park off Cherry Hinton Road adds a run of chain restaurants near the station. Beyond the centre, Addenbrooke's and the wider Biomedical Campus, the Science Park and the business parks along Milton Road all run staff catering at scale.
A college kitchen roasting for three hundred diners on a Michaelmas evening puts a heavy load on its extract, but the long vacations mean annual cooking hours can look deceptively modest, so the TR19 interval has to be judged on actual use: three months for kitchens working long days over solid fuel or fryers, six for most restaurants and pubs, twelve for a light-use cafe. Listed college buildings with ductwork threaded through medieval fabric make thorough cleaning harder and more important. We arrange TR19 kitchen extract cleaning in Cambridge through contractors used to dealing with bursars, conference offices and facilities teams.
Compliance in Cambridge
Food hygiene in the city is inspected by Cambridge City Council's environmental health team, whose officers cover everything from college kitchens to the stalls on Market Square, and Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service handles fire safety enforcement across the same premises. The colleges present a particular case: many kitchens sit within listed buildings where a duct fire would threaten irreplaceable fabric, and their insurers and the loss adjusters who act for them expect extract cleaning records to be complete and current. Conference trade over the summer vacation, when colleges let rooms and run banquets for visiting groups, keeps kitchens busy well beyond the academic year, which needs to be reflected in the cleaning interval rather than assumed away.
How it works for a Cambridge kitchen
Send us the postcode and a note on how the kitchen is used and we will pass it to a Cambridge contractor who can quote within a working day. For a college or hotel kitchen the specialist we assign will usually survey first, then work around vacation dates or overnight so service is not disrupted. Every clean ends with the TR19 certificate, grease readings and photographs, and we diarise the next visit using the TR19 frequency table. Get a Cambridge quote.
Services we arrange here: Kitchen Extract Cleaning · Canopy Cleaning · Ductwork Cleaning · Extractor Fan Cleaning · Filter Cleaning and Replacement
Also covering the towns around Cambridge
Cambourne · Ely · Haverhill · Huntingdon · Mildenhall · Newmarket · Royston · Saffron Walden · Soham · St Ives · St Neots
Nearby: Ely · Newmarket · St Neots · Huntingdon · Royston · Saffron Walden · St Ives — all covered from Cambridge. Other cities in East of England: Norwich · Ipswich · Peterborough · Luton · Chelmsford · Colchester · Watford
Frequently asked questions
Our college kitchen only cooks at full volume in term. Does that change how often it needs a TR19 clean?
It can, but the interval is set by the hours the kitchen actually cooks, not the calendar. Add up service across the three terms, the May Ball season and any summer conference catering; if the total is close to full-time use for much of the year, the six-month band is the safer choice. The contractor will measure grease depth at each visit, which shows whether the interval is right.
Can a Mill Road restaurant get the extract cleaned without closing for a day?
Yes. Most of the cleans we arrange on Mill Road take place after the last service or early in the morning, and a single canopy with a short run is normally finished in a few hours. Where the duct discharges over a neighbouring flat or a shared yard, the contractor will plan access in advance so the work does not spill into your trading hours.
Does the certificate satisfy the insurer for a Cambridge hotel or guest house?
The report the contractor issues records grease-depth readings, before-and-after photographs and the next due date, which is what most insurers and loss adjusters ask to see when a policy condition on extract cleaning applies. Check your policy wording for the required interval; hotels with a busy breakfast and dinner service are usually expected to be on the six-month band.