Kitchen extract cleaning in Cheltenham
Cheltenham trades on Regency elegance and a racing calendar, and its kitchens reflect both. Montpellier and the Suffolks are the fine-dining and independent quarter, with restaurants along Montpellier Street, Suffolk Road and the streets around Montpellier Gardens; the Promenade, Regent Arcade and the Brewery Quarter carry the chains and bars; and Bath Road, Tivoli and Leckhampton have the neighbourhood restaurants and cafes. The Lower High Street towards Tewkesbury Road is the takeaway end. Cheltenham Racecourse at Prestbury Park hosts the Festival in March, filling every hotel and restaurant in town for a week, and the town's literature, jazz and science festivals keep hotel kitchens busy through the year.
GCHQ, the University of Gloucestershire's Park and Francis Close Hall campuses and Cheltenham General Hospital add large institutional kitchens, and there are many care homes in Pittville, Charlton Kings and Leckhampton. A hotel kitchen on the Promenade or a busy Brewery Quarter chain unit is heavy use under TR19 and needs a three-month clean; a Montpellier restaurant open evenings only may be moderate at six; a Tivoli cafe could be light use at twelve. We arrange kitchen extract cleaning across the borough and the north Cotswolds.
Compliance in Cheltenham
Cheltenham Borough Council's environmental health officers inspect the town's food premises and will ask for a documented extract-cleaning record, with the densely packed Montpellier and Promenade areas among their regular rounds. Gloucestershire Fire and Rescue Service covers the town from its Cheltenham East and Cheltenham West stations and audits hotels and restaurants under the Fire Safety Order; Regency terraces with guest bedrooms above kitchens are a recurring concern. Festival weeks bring temporary catering that needs its own fire safety arrangements. Insurers set TR19 as the cleaning benchmark for hotel and restaurant policies, and a loss adjuster will ask for the certificate and grease readings before accepting a claim for a kitchen fire.
How it works for a Cheltenham kitchen
Describe the kitchen and its trading pattern, including any festival peaks, and we will introduce a contractor covering Cheltenham and Gloucestershire who can quote within a working day and plan the clean well away from race week. Hotels are cleaned overnight; restaurants after service. The contractor issues the TR19 certificate with photographs and readings, and we keep track of the next due date and remind you before it. Get a Cheltenham quote.
Services we arrange here: Kitchen Extract Cleaning · Canopy Cleaning · Ductwork Cleaning · Extractor Fan Cleaning · Filter Cleaning and Replacement
Also covering the towns around Cheltenham
Bishop's Cleeve · Cirencester · Tewkesbury
Nearby: Gloucester · Tewkesbury · Winchcombe · Bishop's Cleeve · Cirencester · Stroud · Stow-on-the-Wold · Evesham — all covered from Cheltenham. Other cities in South West England: Bristol · Bath · Gloucester · Exeter · Plymouth · Bournemouth · Swindon
Frequently asked questions
We are a hotel near the racecourse. Can the clean be scheduled before the Festival in March?
Yes, and it is a sensible time to do it, because Festival week is the heaviest cooking of the year and you want the system clean and certified before it starts. Book in January or February to secure a date; the contractor will work overnight so the hotel stays fully operational. The next clean then falls due in early summer.
How does the cost of a clean compare between a small cafe and a Promenade restaurant?
A cafe with a single canopy and a short run to an external wall is at the lower end because it takes a few hours and needs little access work. A Promenade restaurant with a long duct through a Regency building to a roof fan takes longer and may need panels fitted, so it costs more. Quotes are itemised so you can see what drives the price.
Do you arrange cleaning in the Cotswold towns, such as Winchcombe, Stow and Bourton?
Yes. The contractors we work with in Cheltenham cover Winchcombe, Bishop's Cleeve, Tewkesbury, Stow-on-the-Wold, Bourton-on-the-Water, Moreton-in-Marsh, Northleach and Cirencester. Cotswold pubs and hotels often have old kitchens and stone buildings, so a first-visit survey is standard. See our frequency guide to work out which interval your kitchen falls into.