Kitchen Extraction Repair and Cleaning in Sutton

Sutton is a twenty five minute run from where the vans are kept, which is the only reason this page exists. Everything below is about what that means when an extract fan stops during a Friday service.

When a fan fails mid service

The kitchen fills, the gas interlock drops the appliances out, and service stops. That is the sequence, and it is why an extraction fault is an operational emergency rather than a maintenance item. From Purley an engineer is normally with a Sutton kitchen within forty minutes of the call.

What we ask on the phone is deliberately short: what changed, when it changed, and whether the fan is silent or noisy. A silent fan and a screaming fan are different faults and they need different parts on the van. Our guide to what to do when kitchen extraction stops covers the checks worth making from the kitchen floor before anybody attends, and some of them resolve the problem without a visit.

Most first time callouts in this borough are one of four things: a seized or dry bearing, a slipped or broken drive belt, an isolator or contactor that has tripped and not been reset, or an interlock that is doing exactly what it should because the make up air path is blocked. The fourth one is the one that gets misdiagnosed as a fan fault, and it is covered on our page about make up air.

Grease cleaning in Sutton kitchens

The borough’s catering stock is mostly independent restaurants, takeaways and care and school catering rather than large hotel kitchens, and that shapes the work. Smaller sites tend to have shorter duct runs with fewer access panels fitted at installation, so the first clean on a system frequently involves cutting in the access the original installer left out.

Deposit is measured before anything is touched, recorded again afterwards, and photographed both times. Cleaning frequency is set by daily cooking hours, subject to a competent person conducting a cleanliness risk assessment, and the banding is explained on our guide to how often extract ducts need cleaning.

Most commercial insurers treat TR19-compliant kitchen extract cleaning as a condition of cover or a key factor in assessing fire claims. Failing to keep your extract system TR19-compliant, or lacking documentation, can jeopardise your right to indemnity and give your insurer grounds to dispute or reduce a claim.

Areas covered from the same visit

Cheam, Carshalton, Wallington, Mitcham and Morden are worked from the same run as Sutton rather than booked as separate journeys. If you have two sites across the borough, say so when you call and they are quoted as one visit, which is almost always cheaper than two.

What you get in writing

Every job here ends the same way it would anywhere else on this site: a report naming the sections cleaned or the parts replaced, the readings before and after where cleaning was involved, photographs, and a plain statement of anything that could not be reached and why. The TR19 certificate page sets out what that record contains and what it costs.

If the system needs work beyond a clean, the repair and installation pages cover what that involves.