
The team behind the UK's hardest-working kitchens
We design, manufacture and install commercial kitchen ventilation — and stay answerable for how it performs.
Built by installers, not salespeople
Commercial Ventilation & Extraction Solutions began with a simple observation: most problems in commercial kitchens are not caused by bad equipment. They are caused by good equipment that was never sized, matched or commissioned properly — a canopy short of overhang, a fan chosen by diameter, a kitchen with nowhere to draw replacement air from.
So we set out to do the unglamorous part well. We calculate extract rates appliance by appliance. We draw every canopy before we cut it. We measure airflow when we finish, and we hand over the figures. Over more than ten years and five hundred installations, that discipline has become the reason operators, contractors and landlords come back to us.
Today we cover the full scope of commercial kitchen ventilation — canopies, extraction systems, ductwork, fans and supply air — for restaurants, hotels, takeaways, pubs, schools and hospitals throughout the UK.
How we work
Surveyors, designers, fabricators and installation engineers working to four rules.
Calculate, don't guess
Every canopy, duct and fan is sized from the appliances it serves. If we cannot show the working, we do not install it.
Put it in writing
Drawings before fabrication, fixed prices before work starts, and measured airflow figures at handover.
One accountable team
The engineers who survey your kitchen are the same people answerable for how it performs.
Say when it's wrong
If a repair will not last, or a bigger fan will not fix the problem, we tell you — even when it costs us the job.
Standards and memberships
The specifications we work to and the bodies we answer to.
- Logo placeholderDW/172BESA specification for kitchen ventilation systems
- Logo placeholderTR19BESA guidance on ductwork access and condition
- Logo placeholderHVCAHeating & Ventilating Contractors' Association — now BESA
- Logo placeholderConstructionlineUK supplier pre-qualification register
Our timeline
- 2014
Founded as a two-man installation team
Fitting canopies and ductwork for independent restaurants and takeaways.
- 2016
In-house fabrication begins
Bespoke stainless steel canopies manufactured in our own workshop, to our own drawings.
- 2018
Design brought in-house
System calculations and CAD drawings updated for the revised DW/172 specification.
- 2020
Dedicated fan repair and replacement service
Engineers and stock assigned to breakdowns, so kitchens are back in service faster.
- 2022
Regional teams in Manchester and Birmingham
Local coverage added for the North West and the Midlands.
- 2024
500th installation completed
Projects now delivered for hotel groups, schools, hospitals and multi-site operators.
- 2026
Nationwide turnkey delivery
Survey, design, manufacture, installation and commissioning under one contract, UK-wide.
Talk to the people who will do the work
Send us your details and one of our engineers will come back to you with advice and a fixed-price quotation. Surveys are free and without obligation.
Thank you — enquiry received
One of our engineers will be in touch within one working day. If your enquiry is urgent, call us on 07538 039292.