Chichester · 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 Chichester, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Chichester
Chichester 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.
The city's kitchens sit in tight, mixed stock - North Street, East Street, Whyke - with long concealed duct runs up to roof fans. We clean the full run to the TR19 Grease standard, canopy to fan, including the horizontal and vertical sections a canopy-only clean leaves coated.
It is not only kitchens: we also clean the dry supply and extract ductwork in Chichester offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-packed laundry runs behind its hotel and care-home dryers. The busiest kitchens - hospital kitchens, college refectories, hotel and pub kitchens and the busy city-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 Chichester 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 North Street and Whyke, 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 Chichester 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 Chichester hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Chichester
We are in Chichester's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
The tumble-dryer exhaust run at a guest house in Chichester was choked with lint, to the point the dryers kept tripping their overheat cut-outs. We vacuumed the exhaust line out, cleaned the lint screens and made sure the external wall flap swung freely again. That cleared the fire risk and the utility room felt cooler and drier straight away, with no disruption to the working day. We timed it for the Christmas shutdown while the laundry room was quiet.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Chichester kitchen these are the tells.
Smells pushing back into the dining room, a canopy that drips onto a North Street cookline, extraction that no longer clears the steam, visible grease at the filter edges, or a Chichester insurer or fire risk assessment asking for a TR19 certificate you cannot produce. Cleaning frequency tracks use - a hard-frying East Street kitchen needs it far more often than a daytime cafe - and your certificate states the interval, so the next clean is never a guess.
How it runs
Inspect the full Chichester 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 Whyke 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 Chichester fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Chichester 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 Chichester 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 North Street 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. A live TR19 Grease certificate is what a Chichester insurer treats as evidence the system is maintained. Miss it and a fire claim may be reduced or refused - an expensive surprise once the damage is done.
Hygiene and environmental health. Food hygiene inspections by Chichester District Council take in the condition of the building, ventilation included, so a grease-laden system can cost you on the rating an Environmental Health Officer awards - never mind the smell and the dropping extraction your kitchen team works under.
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 North Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime East Street 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 Whyke 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 North Street operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Chichester offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the West Sussex hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the North Street and East Street kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
The full run, canopy through the concealed horizontal and vertical ductwork to the roof fan - the hidden sections a canopy-only clean leaves loaded, which matters in the tight stock around North Street and Whyke where the runs are long and awkward.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Chichester run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so an East Street cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Local knowledge
Charles Shippam opened a grocery at West Gate in 1786, and by the early twentieth century Shippam's meat and fish pastes were made in a purpose-built factory on East Walls, complete with its own laboratory and, from 1948, a Royal Warrant. Production moved out to Terminus Road in 2002 and the old factory was demolished, but the food trade it built still runs on hidden ductwork where grease and debris gather unseen until airflow fails or fire finds a path. We clean and inspect ventilation and extract ductwork across the city, then hand over photographic before-and-after evidence of every run.
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