The people you actually speak to are the people who test your cupboards
CH Fume Cupboard Services is an independent specialist based in Formby, Liverpool, working with laboratories the length of the UK. No sales team between you and the engineer, and no upsell dressed up as compliance.
In this section
Compliance paperwork should tell you the truth about your lab
Too many laboratories hold a folder of certificates that nobody has read, covering cupboards nobody has properly measured. Meanwhile a technician quietly knows which unit “doesn’t pull as well as it used to”, and a head of department is asked to approve a replacement budget with no evidence behind it.
We started CH Fume Cupboard Services to fix that gap. Every fume cupboard we test gets real measurements, photographs, a plain-English verdict and a ranked list of what to do next. If a unit passes, you can prove it. If it fails, you know exactly why, what the fix costs, and whether it is worth doing.
We install and sell fume cupboards, but we are not tied to selling you one. Roughly half the assessments we carry out end with “service it, don’t replace it” — and that is why estates teams keep calling us back when there genuinely is a case for replacement.
A school science block cannot lose a prep room in week three of term. A pathology lab cannot pause for a convenient site visit. We schedule around that reality: holidays, shutdowns, evenings and weekends, agreed when we quote.
How we work
Four commitments we hold to on every job
These are the things clients tell us made the difference — so they are written down rather than implied.
Priced before we travel
You get a written price for the scope agreed. If we find extra work on site, it is quoted and approved before it starts.
Measured, not estimated
Readings are taken with calibrated instruments and recorded per unit, against the target they are judged by.
Reported in plain English
Reports are written for technicians, estates managers and auditors — not to make the engineer look clever.
Reminded in advance
We tell you six weeks before your 14-month examination falls due, so a certificate never quietly lapses.
Before and after
What changes when we take over your extraction
Most new clients arrive in one of the situations on the left. This is what the same lab looks like a year later.
- Nobody is certain when each cupboard was last examined
- Certificates give a pass with no readings behind it
- A unit is out of use and nobody has priced the repair
- Replacement quotes cover the whole room, with no priorities
- Testing is booked mid-term because that suited the contractor
Sound familiar? It is the most common starting point we see, and it is fixable in one visit.
- Every unit is on an asset register with its next due date
- Reports carry readings, photographs and ranked actions
- Minor faults are corrected on the testing visit itself
- Capital spend is staged over years, worst unit first
- Visits are pencilled into holidays twelve months ahead
Where we work
Full UK coverage, one point of contact
We are based on the Merseyside coast and travel nationally. Multi-site organisations get one schedule, one report format and one person who knows every location — not a different subcontractor per region.
North West & North Wales
Liverpool, Manchester, Cheshire, Lancashire, Wrexham and the Wirral — our home patch, often next-day.
Midlands & Yorkshire
Birmingham, Nottingham, Leeds, Sheffield and surrounding university and industrial labs.
South & South West
London, Home Counties, Bristol and the South Coast, scheduled in planned regional runs.
Scotland & Northern Ireland
Central belt, Highlands and Belfast, arranged as grouped multi-day visits to keep travel costs down.
Corridor of laboratory buildings on a UK research campus
Tell us about your lab
A ten-minute call is usually enough for us to tell you what your fume cupboards need and what it will cost.