Kitchen extract cleaning in East London
East London has reinvented itself as a food destination several times over. Brick Lane and its curry houses remain a draw, Shoreditch and Hoxton pack bars and restaurants into every converted warehouse around Great Eastern Street and Curtain Road, and Hackney's Broadway Market, Kingsland Road and Mare Street have built a reputation for independent kitchens. Canary Wharf runs a very different operation, with corporate dining, hotel restaurants and food halls feeding tens of thousands of office workers, while Stratford's Westfield and the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park support a large cluster of chain restaurants. Out towards Barking, Ilford Lane and Green Street in Upton Park are lined with grill houses, bakeries and sweet centres cooking at high volume.
Grease load varies enormously across the area. A Bangladeshi restaurant on Brick Lane or a Nigerian grill in Dalston will produce enough deposit to justify a three-monthly clean under TR19; a Shoreditch bar with a small plancha and a fryer may sit in the six-month band; a co-working space cafe in Whitechapel could be on twelve. Queen Mary University, the Royal London Hospital and the ExCeL exhibition centre all run kitchens at commercial scale. We arrange extractor fan cleaning and complete TR19 system cleans through contractors based in and around East London.
Compliance in East London
Tower Hamlets, Hackney, Newham, and Barking and Dagenham councils each run their own environmental health inspections, and enforcement in Tower Hamlets in particular is active given the density of restaurants along Brick Lane, Whitechapel Road and Bethnal Green Road. London Fire Brigade covers all four boroughs. Its fire safety officers are alert to the high-rise and mixed-use buildings that dominate Canary Wharf and Stratford, where extract ductwork can pass through several occupied floors, and a grease fire in a riser puts every tenant at risk. Loss adjusters and insurers treat a missing or out-of-date TR19 certificate as a breach of policy conditions, and franchised restaurants in Westfield have to satisfy their franchisor's audit as well.
How it works for a East London kitchen
Once you tell us where the kitchen is and what it cooks, we hand the enquiry to a contractor who covers East London and can price the job within a working day. Evening and overnight cleans are normal here, particularly for Shoreditch and Brick Lane premises that trade until late. The finished job includes a TR19 Grease certificate, photographs of every cleaned section and grease-thickness readings, and we keep a note of when the next clean is due so you are reminded in good time. Request an East London quote.
Services we arrange here: Kitchen Extract Cleaning · Canopy Cleaning · Ductwork Cleaning · Extractor Fan Cleaning · Filter Cleaning and Replacement
Also covering the towns around East London
Barking · Bethnal Green · Bow · Canary Wharf · Canning Town · Chingford · Dagenham · Dalston · East Ham · Hackney · Hornchurch · Ilford · Leyton · Leytonstone · Romford · Shoreditch · Stoke Newington · Stratford · Upminster · Walthamstow · Wanstead · Whitechapel · Woodford
Nearby: Stratford · Shoreditch · Hackney · Canary Wharf · Ilford · Barking · Walthamstow · Romford — all covered from East London. Other cities in London: London · North London · South London · West London
Frequently asked questions
We are a franchise restaurant in Westfield Stratford. Will the report satisfy the franchisor's audit?
Franchisor audits usually ask for a TR19-compliant report with dated photographs, grease-depth readings and the contractor's insurance and qualification details. The contractors we assign produce exactly that on every job, and most have worked in managed shopping-centre environments where the landlord also needs permits and out-of-hours access arranged. Send us the audit checklist if you have one and we will confirm it is covered.
How much notice does a Brick Lane restaurant need to give for a clean?
Usually a few days, though it depends on the contractor's diary in a given week. A first visit may take longer than a routine one if access panels need fitting or the system has not been cleaned for years. If you are responding to an EHO notice or an insurer's deadline, say so when you enquire and we will make sure the contractor knows the date matters.
Our extract runs through a shared riser in a Canary Wharf tower. Who is responsible for cleaning it?
Responsibility is normally set out in your lease. Tenants are usually responsible for the canopy and the duct up to the point where it joins a landlord's common system, and the landlord for the shared riser and roof fan. The contractor can clean your section and report on the boundary so you have evidence of what was done. Check with your managing agent about access to the shared parts.