Burgess Hill · TR19 Grease
We clean the full commercial duct run - grease, dry and laundry ductwork, canopy to roof fan - for kitchens, offices and industrial sites across Burgess Hill, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Burgess Hill
Burgess Hill rates hundreds of food premises, and behind a large share sits an extract duct a canopy clean never reaches - plus the dry ductwork and air-handling that keep its offices and public buildings running.
Kitchens across Burgess Hill work out of tight, mixed premises - Church Road, Church Walk, World's End - their extract snaking through concealed voids to roof-mounted fans. We take the whole run to the TR19 Grease standard, hood to fan, reaching the horizontal legs and vertical risers a canopy wipe never touches.
It is not only kitchens: we also clean the dry supply and extract ductwork in Burgess Hill offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-packed laundry runs behind its hotel and care-home dryers. The busiest kitchens - hospital and college kitchens, staff restaurants, pub and hotel kitchens and the busy town-centre takeaways - coat their hidden ducting in grease quickest, and that is the very path a fire follows.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Burgess Hill insurers and fire risk assessors expect - measured across the whole extract run, not just the visible mouth of the canopy.
Grease is measured by thickness, and the standard sets the depth at which a system must be cleaned and re-tested. Around Church Road and World's End, where the concealed runs thread through mixed roof voids, a canopy-and-filter wipe leaves the ductwork itself - the long hidden sections where grease accumulates and a fire travels - untouched. We access the full Burgess Hill run through existing and newly fitted inspection hatches, clean to bare metal, record before-and-after grease-depth readings at set points, and issue a TR19 Grease certificate with a post-clean depth record.
By system
The fire risk. Fried-food extract coats duct walls in combustible grease; cleaned canopy to fan and certified to TR19 Grease.
Supply and general extract in offices and public buildings, carrying dust and debris that throttles airflow and loads the air-handling unit; cleaned to TR19.
The hidden one. Tumble-dryer ducting packs with lint - highly combustible - in Burgess Hill hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Burgess Hill
We are in Burgess Hill's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A high-street public toilet block in Burgess Hill had its washroom extract all but stopped, the grilles matted with grey dust. We cleared the extract grilles, ran brushes through the flexible branches and cleaned the roof extract fan blades. Airflow came back up to standard and the public washrooms felt fresh again, all with no disruption to the working day. We scheduled it for a Monday when the centre was closed.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Burgess Hill kitchen these are the tells.
A canopy dripping onto a Church Road cookline, cooking smells forced back to the tables, extraction that no longer clears the steam, grease showing at the filter edges, or a Burgess Hill insurer or fire risk assessor wanting a TR19 certificate you have not got. How often it needs doing follows how hard you cook - a fast-frying Church Walk kitchen far more than a daytime cafe - and the certificate names the interval, so the next visit is booked, not guessed.
How it runs
Inspect the full Burgess Hill run, find the access gaps in the concealed sections, agree scope and frequency.
Fit inspection hatches where the run is sealed - common in the older World's End conversions - and protect the kitchen.
Canopy to roof fan, down to bare metal, with before-and-after grease-depth evidence.
TR19 Grease certificate, grease-depth record and next-due date for your Burgess Hill fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Burgess Hill operator to keep ductwork clean, and they reinforce one another.
Fire safety law. Under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, the responsible person for a Burgess Hill premises must assess and manage fire risk. A grease-laden duct is one of the most serious risks in any catering building, because a flare-up on a Church Road cookline can travel the ductwork and spread fire through concealed voids. The Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 and the HSE reinforce the same duty of care.
Insurance. To a Burgess Hill insurer a current TR19 Grease certificate is the proof the extract has been kept up. Let it lapse and a fire claim can be scaled back or declined outright - the kind of gap nobody wants to find with the kitchen already gutted.
Hygiene and environmental health. A food hygiene visit from Mid Sussex District Council weighs the physical state of the premises, ventilation counted within it. A grease-blocked extract can pull down the rating an Environmental Health Officer sets, quite apart from the stale smell and the tired airflow your staff work beneath all shift.
It is set by cooking hours under TR19 Grease - roughly every three months for heavy use of 12 to 16 hours a day, every six for moderate, every twelve for light. A hard-frying Church Road kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Church Walk cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
We fit compliant access panels where the ductwork has none, so every internal section can be reached, cleaned, inspected and certified - common in the older World's End conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Church Road operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Yes - from Church Road and Church Walk kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Burgess Hill and the wider West Sussex.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Church Road and Church Walk kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Burgess Hill run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Church Walk cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Yes. The fan at the top of a World's End or city-centre riser is where grease throws off the blades and the run ends - we degrease it and its housing, because a loaded fan is what finally stops a system pulling.
Local knowledge
The Keymer Brick and Tile Company began firing off Junction Road in 1875, its kilns fed by coal wagons run in on a siding from the Eastbourne line, and its hand-made tiles and terracotta went into buildings as grand as St James's Church, Piccadilly and Manchester Central. Working the clay filled the old kiln sheds with dust and smoke that hung in the air all day. Modern premises hide their grease and debris inside sealed ductwork instead, where it builds unseen until airflow fails or fire finds a path. We clean and inspect ventilation and extract ductwork across the town, then hand over photographic before-and-after evidence of every run.
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