Commercial Catering gas engineers for London kitchens
CP42 gas safety checks, kitchen plumbing and the drains that keep blocking, for restaurants, cafés, pubs and hotel kitchens across London. One 24 hour number.
Gas Safe registered · 4.9 average from 229 reviews · £10m insured · 12 month guarantee
One firm for the kitchen’s gas, water and drains
Neos Engineering is a Gas Safe registered plumbing, heating, gas and drainage firm in Camden, working for restaurants, cafés, pubs, takeaways, and hotel and staff kitchens acrossall of London. One office and one number for the gas safety check, the plumbing and the drains, answered 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Our review record: 4.9 average from 229 reviews.
What we do in a commercial kitchen
- Gas safety checks and CP42 certificates: the annual Commercial Catering gas safety check on the kitchen’s gas appliances and pipework, with the CP42 certificate for your records.
- Gas repairs: faults on the kitchen’s gas appliances and the pipework that feeds them, by our directors, who hold the Commercial Catering gas qualifications.
- Kitchen plumbing: sinks, taps and water heaters, and the pipework behind them.
- Drains:blocked drainscleared, and recurring kitchen drainage problems traced to the cause through our commercial drainage service.
The CP42 check
A CP42 normally records two things: the kitchen as a whole, meaning the gas isolation, the pipework, the interlock that links the gas supply to the ventilation, and the extraction; and then each appliance. Any defect found goes on the record. No law names the form: the duty behind it is regulation 35 of the 1998 gas safety regulations, and HSE's catering guidance treats an inspection once a year as a reasonable minimum. Our directors carry out the checks.The CP42 guidehas the detail, and the FAQ the short answer.
Interlocks, ventilation and carbon monoxide alarms
HSE says a kitchen with mechanical extraction should have an interlock that stops the gas reaching the appliances if the ventilation fails, and that a manual bypass is not allowed. BS 6173, the standard for gas catering installations, is not retrospective, so an older kitchen without one should assess the risk and control it. HSE also says a domestic carbon monoxide alarm is not normally suitable in a commercial kitchen.Gas interlocks andalarms in kitchens.
The drain that keeps blocking
A kitchen drain that blocks again and again has a reason. Fat and grease cool and harden as they travel, and narrow the pipe until it closes. Clearing it again only moves the date of the next blockage. We clear the run, find out why it keeps happening, and quote any repair that would stop it before it goes ahead.
Fat, oil and grease. Letting fat into a drain that joins a public sewer, where it is likely to obstruct the flow, is an offence under section 111 of the Water Industry Act 1991. Paragraph 2.21 of Approved Document H, the Building Regulations guidance on drainage, says drains from a commercial hot food kitchen should include a grease separator, or some other way of removing grease that works as well.Fat and the sewer law, andgrease trap rules for kitchens in London.
When something fails out of hours
A gas, water or drain fault in the kitchen can be reported on any day at any hour. We are based in Camden, and when you ring, the office gives an arrival window for the kitchen's address.
Approved supplier checks
Our Gas Safe number, our CHAS and SafeContractor accreditations and the £10 million insurance cover are listed in theapproved supplier checklist, which says how to confirm them.
How the work is charged
The hourly rate is confirmed when you book. A call out is charged by the hour, and a return visit or further work is quoted first. The rates for kitchens and other businesses are in the FAQ under business hourly rates.
Start with one kitchen
Book the gas safety check, or send us the drain that keeps blocking, and judge us on that. For a group of sites, we survey oneand quote the scope and the price in writing before anything is booked. For kitchens inside a wider portfolio, seefacilities management companies, and for the rest of our commercial work,everything we do for businesses.
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Rated 4.95 out of 5 on TrustATrader, and 9.95 out of 10 on Checkatrade from reviews left for CJ Plumbing & Heating, one of the two businesses that merged to form Neos. Every review is on a platform we cannot edit, and the links go straight to the originals.
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Start with one kitchen
Tell us by phone or email when the gas safety check is due, or which drain keeps blocking.
What kitchens ask us
Do you carry out CP42 gas safety checks?
Yes. The annual Commercial Catering gas safety check is carried out by our directors, who hold the Commercial Catering gas qualifications, on the kitchen’s gas appliances and pipework, and you get the CP42 certificate for your records. Anything found during the check is raised with you at the time.
Is a CP42 check a legal requirement?
The CP42 itself is an industry form, and no law names it. What the law requires, under regulation 35 of the Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998, is that the employer keeps the kitchen’s gas appliances, pipework and flues safe. HSE’s catering guidance treats an inspection once a year as a reasonable minimum, and the CP42 is the usual record of it.
Does the CP42 check cover the interlock and ventilation?
The usual CP42 form has a part for the kitchen as a whole, which records the interlock linking the gas supply to the ventilation, and the extraction and ventilation themselves, as well as a part for each appliance. Installing or altering an interlock or a ventilation system is separate work and is not part of the check.
The kitchen drain keeps blocking. Can you stop it?
We clear the blockage, find out why it keeps coming back, and quote any repair that would stop it before it goes ahead. In a kitchen, fat and grease hardening inside the pipe is often the reason.
What happens if something fails out of hours?
Call the 24 hour line, answered 365 days a year. We are based in Camden, and the office gives an arrival window for your address when you call.
How are call outs and repairs charged?
The hourly rate is confirmed when you book. A call out is charged by the hour, and a return visit or further work is quoted first. A drainage call out is charged the same way. From £150 + VAT per engineer for the first hour between 8am and 5pm, Monday to Friday. Outside those hours, weekends included, the first hour is £290 + VAT. The first hour covers the call out and finding the fault. After that the visit is charged by the hour, with materials and parking added where they apply. A return visit or further work is quoted first. Larger jobs get a written quote first, and nothing proceeds until you agree it.
Which areas do you cover?
We work for businesses across all of London, from our base in Camden NW1.
How does an arrangement usually start?
With one kitchen: book its gas safety check, or send us the drain that keeps blocking, and judge us on that. For a group of sites, we survey one first and quote the scope and the price in writing before anything is booked.