EC Cleaners Network · South West England
Commercial kitchen extract cleaning support across South West England.
For restaurants, hotels, care providers, healthcare, education, food businesses, workplace catering, public estates and multi-site operators across Bristol, Cornwall, Devon, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire.
South West coverage
Where we can help
If you already know the county or area you need, use the links below. If you manage several properties across the South West, you can submit them together and keep each site’s requirements and evidence separately identified.
Bristol
Bristol City Centre, Clifton, Redland, Bedminster, Southville, Broadmead, Stokes Croft, Hotwells, Brislington, Fishponds and surrounding commercial areas.
From restaurants and hotels to universities, healthcare, offices, leisure and large managed estates.
Cornwall
Truro, Falmouth, Newquay, Penzance, St Austell, Camborne, Redruth, Bodmin, St Ives, Padstow, Bude and surrounding areas.
Particularly relevant to hotels, restaurants, holiday parks, leisure businesses, care, education and food-related premises.
Devon
Exeter, Plymouth, Torquay, Paignton, Barnstaple, Newton Abbot, Tiverton, Bideford, Exmouth, Honiton, Totnes and surrounding areas.
Covering city-centre hospitality, coastal hotels, universities, healthcare, care, leisure and public-sector catering.
Gloucestershire
Gloucester, Cheltenham, Stroud, Cirencester, Tewkesbury, Dursley, Tetbury, Cinderford, Moreton-in-Marsh and surrounding locations.
For hospitality, hotels, schools, healthcare, care, visitor destinations, food businesses and managed commercial properties.
Somerset
Bath, Taunton, Weston-super-Mare, Yeovil, Bridgwater, Frome, Wells, Glastonbury, Shepton Mallet, Minehead and surrounding areas.
Including hotels, restaurants, healthcare, education, care, visitor attractions and workplace catering.
Wiltshire
Swindon, Salisbury, Chippenham, Trowbridge, Devizes, Melksham, Warminster, Calne, Corsham, Marlborough and surrounding locations.
For restaurants, hotels, schools, healthcare, care, manufacturing, logistics, business parks and workplace catering.
Looking for Dorset, Bournemouth, Poole or Weymouth?
Please use our
South Coast page.
Popular South West locations
You do not need to know which county page to use before getting in touch. Tell us where the property is and what has prompted the requirement.
Bristol
Restaurants, hotels, university estates, healthcare, office catering and mixed-use commercial property across Bristol.
Swindon
Hospitality, commercial estates, workplace catering, education, healthcare and logistics-related premises across Swindon and the surrounding area.
Exeter & Plymouth
For commercial kitchen extraction requirements in Exeter, Plymouth, Torquay and the wider county.
Bath & Taunton
For hotels, restaurants, education, healthcare, care and other commercial kitchens across Somerset.
Gloucester & Cheltenham
Commercial kitchen extraction requirements across Gloucester, Cheltenham and the wider Gloucestershire area.
Truro, Newquay & Falmouth
Hospitality, leisure, hotels, food businesses and other commercial properties across Cornwall.
When you need help with a commercial kitchen extract system
Sometimes the requirement is straightforward: the system is due for cleaning and you need an appropriate contractor.
Other enquiries are less clear. You may have a TR19® report showing areas that could not be reached, an insurer asking for evidence, a fire-risk action, a landlord requirement, several conflicting quotations, or uncertainty about what a previous clean actually covered.
EC Cleaners Network helps organise that information so that the requirement is clearer before an independent specialist contractor is appointed.
You can send us what you already have — a report, photographs, drawings, an old certificate or contractor quotation — rather than trying to work everything out first.
Why organisations contact us
The system is due for cleaning
You need to arrange the next visit and want the intended scope to be clear before contractors price the work.
A report has raised a problem
Previous documentation shows grease build-up, inaccessible ductwork, missing access or work that still needs completing.
Someone has asked for evidence
An insurer, landlord, facilities manager, fire-risk adviser or other professional has asked for action or supporting documentation.
What sort of requirement do you have?
Kitchen Extract Cleaning
For grease-contaminated commercial kitchen extraction systems, including the canopy, ductwork, risers, fan and discharge where these form part of the agreed contractor scope.
Ventilation Hygiene
For general supply, return and extract ventilation systems outside the grease-contaminated kitchen extraction route.
Access Problems
For ductwork that has been recorded as inaccessible, areas repeatedly excluded from cleaning or systems requiring additional access provision.
Existing Reports & Evidence
If you already have a report, photographs, certificate or quotation and need help understanding what has been recorded and what still appears unresolved.
Choosing a Contractor
For organisations wanting greater clarity around who is quoting, what they propose to do, what assumptions have been made and what evidence will be supplied afterwards.
Send Us the Requirement
Tell us where the site is, what has prompted the enquiry and what information you already have.
A kitchen extract system is more than the canopy
One of the most common problems with kitchen-extraction work is assuming that cleaning the visible hood and filters means the complete system has been dealt with.
Depending on the building, grease-laden air may travel from the canopy through horizontal ductwork, vertical risers and concealed sections before reaching an extract fan and final discharge.
The quotation should make it clear which parts of that route are included.
Canopy & plenum
The visible kitchen-facing part of the system where grease-laden air enters the extraction route.
Ductwork & risers
Horizontal and vertical sections that may pass through ceilings, plant areas, shafts and other parts of the building.
Fan & discharge
The downstream fan and discharge point should not be assumed to be included unless the contractor’s scope says so.
Read: What Is Included in a Commercial Kitchen Extract System? →
What if some of the ductwork cannot be reached?
This is an important issue, particularly in older hotels, restaurants, historic buildings and properties where the extraction route passes through several parts of the building.
If a previous report says that part of the ductwork was inaccessible, the next contractor needs to know about that before attending.
Otherwise the same section may simply be excluded again.
If you already have a report showing inaccessible ductwork, send it with the enquiry.
It may help identify whether additional access, enabling work or further specialist assessment is needed.
Read: What To Do About Inaccessible Kitchen Extract Ductwork →
Kitchen extraction and general ventilation are not the same thing
Large hotels, hospitals, universities, offices and other managed properties may contain several different ventilation systems.
TR19® Grease relates specifically to commercial kitchen grease extraction and management of the associated grease-related fire risk.
TR19® Air is a separate BESA specification covering cleanliness and hygiene within general ventilation systems.
If a property has both, they should be identified separately rather than being treated as one vague “duct cleaning” job.
A cheaper quotation does not always mean the same job for less money
Commercial kitchen extraction systems vary enormously, so quotations need to be compared on scope as well as price.
One contractor may be pricing the canopy and easily accessible ductwork. Another may have allowed for a vertical riser, roof fan, restricted working hours, access equipment or more detailed reporting.
What is included?
Canopy, plenum, ductwork, risers, fan and discharge should be clearly identified where relevant.
How will it be accessed?
Look for assumptions around roof access, access panels, high-level equipment, permits or enabling work.
What will you receive afterwards?
Understand what photographs, reporting, measurements, exclusions and outstanding actions will be recorded.
If the requirement came from fire safety, insurance or a landlord
Keep the original recommendation or request and send it with the contractor enquiry.
A detailed instruction should not be reduced to simply “get a TR19 certificate”. The contractor needs to understand which system has been identified, what issue has been raised and what evidence is expected after the work.
TR19® Grease is an industry specification rather than legislation in itself. Separate fire-safety duties apply to commercial premises.
Insurance requirements also differ from policy to policy, so the relevant policy wording or insurer request should be checked rather than assumed.
After the work, you should be able to understand what was actually done
A useful completion record should help identify the kitchen and extraction system, show what was completed and make any exclusions or outstanding problems clear.
The correct system
Make sure the evidence can be tied back to the right site, kitchen and extraction route.
The completed work
Reporting and photographs should make the contractor’s completed scope understandable.
Anything still outstanding
Inaccessible or incomplete areas should remain visible rather than disappearing once the visit has finished.
Managing several South West properties?
Hotel groups, restaurant operators, care providers, universities, healthcare organisations, public bodies and facilities-management companies may need to manage several properties at the same time.
We can help keep the information organised without treating every property as though it has the same extraction system.
Keep each site clear
Property, kitchen, system, contractor and evidence should remain separately identifiable.
Keep local differences visible
Access, duct routes, working hours, landlord requirements and fan locations can vary from site to site.
Keep unresolved actions open
Missing evidence, inaccessible sections or further work should not be lost within a large programme.
Other regional coverage
What happens when you contact EC?
- Tell us about the property.
Give us the location and a brief explanation of what has prompted the enquiry. - Send anything you already have.
Reports, photographs, quotations, certificates and drawings can all be useful. - We organise the requirement.
We help make the commercial scope and any obvious unanswered questions easier to see. - Appropriate specialist capability can be considered.
The technical assessment and quotation remain the responsibility of the independent contractor or competent professional. - Compare the proposed scope.
Look at what is included, what access is assumed and what evidence will be returned. - Keep the evidence.
Completed work, exclusions and further actions should remain understandable afterwards.
Our role
EC Cleaners Network is designed to make it easier for organisations to move from a requirement, report or problem towards an appropriately scoped contractor appointment and useful evidence afterwards.
We can organise customer-supplied information, help make the requirement clearer, highlight obvious differences between quotations and support introductions to potentially appropriate independent specialists.
We do not inspect or clean the extraction system ourselves and we do not make technical decisions about whether a system is compliant.
The appointed specialist remains responsible for the technical work.
That includes assessment, quotation, safe working, access method, physical delivery, measurements, reporting, certification and professional conclusions within its appointed scope.
South West kitchen extract cleaning: common questions
Which areas do you cover in South West England?
Requirements can be submitted from Bristol, Cornwall, Devon, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire, including locations such as Bristol, Swindon, Exeter, Plymouth, Bath, Taunton, Gloucester, Cheltenham, Truro and Newquay.
Do you cover Dorset?
Dorset, Bournemouth, Poole and Weymouth are covered through our South Coast page.
Can I send you an existing TR19 report?
Yes. Existing reports, photographs, certificates and quotations can provide useful information about the extraction system, work already completed and areas that may still require attention.
Does kitchen extract cleaning include the fan and ductwork?
It can, depending on the system and the contractor’s agreed scope. The proposed quotation should clearly identify which parts of the extraction route are included, excluded or inaccessible.
What if some of the ductwork is inaccessible?
The access problem should remain visible. Additional access provision, enabling work or further specialist assessment may be required before that part of the system can be addressed.
Is TR19® Grease a legal requirement?
TR19® Grease is a BESA industry specification rather than legislation in itself. Separate statutory fire-safety responsibilities apply to non-domestic premises.
How much does commercial kitchen extract cleaning cost?
Independent contractor pricing depends on the system, duct configuration, grease loading, fan position, access, working hours and the evidence required. EC Cleaners Network does not set contractor prices.
Can I submit several properties at once?
Yes. Multi-site requirements can be submitted together while keeping each property’s extraction system, access position, contractor scope and evidence separately identifiable.
Does EC Cleaners Network carry out the cleaning?
No. EC Cleaners Network is operated by Search and Submit Ltd. Independent appointed contractors remain responsible for technical assessment, safe working, physical delivery, reporting and certification within their appointed scope.
Need help with a kitchen extraction requirement in South West England?
Tell us where the property is, what has prompted the enquiry and what information you already have.
You can send an existing report, quotation, photographs or certificate. You do not need to prepare a new technical specification before contacting us.
Responsibility statement:
EC Cleaners Network is operated by Search and Submit Ltd. Search and Submit Ltd does not inspect, clean, test, survey, design, remediate, certify or technically approve kitchen extraction or ventilation systems.
Independent appointed contractors and competent professionals remain responsible for technical assessment, quotations, safe working, physical delivery, reporting, certification, applicable notifications and professional conclusions within their appointed scope.
TR19® Grease and TR19® Air are BESA specifications. References are descriptive and no BESA endorsement of or affiliation with EC Cleaners Network is claimed.
Fire-safety, insurance, landlord and regulatory requirements depend on the individual premises and circumstances.
Page reviewed: 14 September 2026.