Commercial Kitchens · Food Hygiene Rating
Rated 0, 1 or 2? The fix is usually building work, not paperwork.
Most poor ratings get sold a deep clean, which treats one of three scores. We are builders, so we fix the fabric: walls, floor, drainage and extract, under one contract.
Three scores, and only one is about cleaning.
The officer scores three separate things, and a higher score is worse.
How food is handled, stored and prepared on the day. A deep clean helps here.
The condition of the premises: walls, floors, ventilation, drainage, lighting and pest proofing. This is building work.
Your records and systems. This is paperwork and training.
Your rating follows the worst of the three. A spotless kitchen cannot cancel out a bad structural score.
The clean is not wrong. It is just not the whole job.
A clean helps your hygiene score but does nothing for the structural score, which is usually the one holding you down. Cracked walls and lifted coving are still there on the re-visit.
The whole remedy, from one contractor.
Survey and report
We split the officer's report into building work, cleaning and records, in writing, whether or not you use us.
Extract and ductwork cleaning
Canopy, filters, ductwork and fan cleaned to TR19 Grease, the recognised industry standard, by our accredited delivery partners.
Hygienic wall cladding
PVC or stainless cladding to walls and splashbacks, sealed at every junction.
Safety flooring and coving
Slip-resistant, welded at the seams and coved up the wall.
Wash-hand basins and hot water
Dedicated basins with hot water wherever the officer expects them.
Pest treatment and proofing
Gaps and service penetrations sealed, with treatment by our accredited delivery partners.
Grease trap and drainage
Grease management and kitchen drainage installed, serviced or upgraded.
Re-inspection support
Photographs and paperwork for the re-visit.
Councils treat structural work differently to paperwork.
Councils apply a standstill period before they will re-visit, and the visit usually carries a fee. Lambeth's published policy adds this:
“If you were only required to make permanent structural improvements or repairs or to upgrade equipment, we can choose to carry out the requested re-visit sooner than this.”
London Borough of Lambeth, guidance on requesting a food hygiene rating revisit
Building work can be checked sooner than changes to records. Policies vary, so we check your council's.
Answered
plainly.
Because a clean only helps the hygiene score. Most poor ratings are driven by the structural score, and cracked walls, lifted coving or a missing wash-hand basin are still there after the clean.
No, and nobody honestly can. The officer scores what they find on the day, including your practice and records. We fix the building defects properly and give you the evidence.
The works in a single kitchen take around a week. The rating takes longer: a standstill period, a fee, then an unannounced re-visit. Expect the number to change in months.
We will tell you at the survey that building work will not fix it. We would rather lose the job than sell the wrong remedy.
All 32 London boroughs. Every council sets its own re-visit policy, so we check yours.
Send us the report. We will tell you
what it will take.
A free survey, an honest split of the work and a fixed written quote.
Often needed
alongside this.
Areas we cover.
We take food hygiene rating work across all 32 London boroughs. Most of our work is in west London, in Shepherd's Bush, Hammersmith, Fulham, Kensington, Chiswick and White City, and in south west London, in Putney, Wandsworth and Wimbledon. We also work in south east London, in Greenwich, Blackheath and Lewisham.
If your property is outside these areas, call us anyway. We travel across London and will tell you honestly if a job is too far to price properly.