East Grinstead · 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 East Grinstead, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
East Grinstead
East Grinstead 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 - Cantelupe Road, Railway Approach, Imberhorne - 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.
The same crews clean dry ventilation and air-handling ductwork in offices, schools and civic buildings, plus the combustible lint runs behind hotel and care-home dryers. High-turnover sites - hospital and care-home kitchens, hotel and pub kitchens and the busy town-centre takeaways - build grease fastest in the concealed lengths where flame spreads.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark East Grinstead 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 Cantelupe Road and Imberhorne, 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 East Grinstead 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 East Grinstead hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in East Grinstead
We are in East Grinstead's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
Behind the grilles at an established library in East Grinstead, the fresh-air ducting was thick with dust and debris, giving off a dusty smell whenever the system ran through the offices. Working under negative pressure, we cleaned the supply ductwork with air whips and renewed the tired pocket filters. Airflow returned to spec and the system was left visibly clean and ready to use. We handed the receptionist a short photo report for their insurance file.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy East Grinstead kitchen these are the tells.
Watch for steam that hangs in the room, cooking smells creeping back over the tables, a canopy weeping onto a Cantelupe Road line, grease crusting at the filter rims, or an East Grinstead insurer or fire assessor calling for a TR19 certificate you do not hold. How often it needs doing rides on the cooking load - a hard-frying Railway Approach kitchen far more than a quiet daytime cafe - and the certificate fixes that interval, so the next clean is planned, not chanced.
How it runs
Inspect the full East Grinstead 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 Imberhorne 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 East Grinstead fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every East Grinstead 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 an East Grinstead 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 Cantelupe 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. Your East Grinstead insurer expects a current TR19 Grease certificate as proof the duct is clean. Without one, a fire claim can be cut back or turned down altogether - a costly thing to find only after a fire.
Hygiene and environmental health. When Mid Sussex District Council carries out a food hygiene inspection it judges the physical state of the premises, and ventilation is part of that. A grease-choked extract can pull down the rating an Environmental Health Officer gives, on top of the odour and the weakening airflow your staff put up with.
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 Cantelupe Road kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Railway Approach cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Cantelupe Road and Railway Approach 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 Cantelupe Road and Imberhorne where the runs are long and awkward.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Cantelupe Road operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Yes - from Cantelupe Road and Railway Approach kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across East Grinstead and the wider West Sussex.
Yes. The fan at the top of an Imberhorne 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.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in East Grinstead offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the West Sussex hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Local knowledge
East Grinstead's High Street holds one of the longest continuous runs of fourteenth-century timber-framed buildings in England, their jettied fronts and long rear gardens, the Portlands, surviving from the market town's medieval heyday. Behind newer shopfronts along Cantelupe Road and Railway Approach, though, the working parts of a modern kitchen or workshop are hidden inside sealed ductwork instead of open beams. Grease, dust and debris build unseen in those runs 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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