Hailsham · 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 Hailsham, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Hailsham
Hailsham 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 Hailsham work out of tight, mixed premises - George Street, Vicarage Field, Diplocks Way - 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.
Kitchens are only half the work - we also strip the dry supply and extract ductwork of Hailsham schools, offices and civic buildings, and the lint-choked dryer runs behind its hotels and care homes. It is the hardest-pressed kitchens - pub and hotel kitchens, care-home caterers, cafes and the busy town-centre takeaways - that glaze their hidden ducting quickest, and that coating is the road a fire takes.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Hailsham insurers and fire risk assessors expect - measured across the whole extract run, not just the visible mouth of the canopy.
Because the standard is written around film thickness, it sets the depth that triggers a clean and re-test. In the mixed roof spaces around George Street and Diplocks Way, a canopy-and-filter wipe leaves the duct interior - where grease piles up and a fire runs - completely alone. We reach the whole Hailsham run through existing hatches and new ones we cut, clean back to bright metal, take before-and-after grease-depth figures at set points, and certify it to TR19 Grease with those depths on the 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 Hailsham hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Hailsham
We are in Hailsham's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
Behind the grilles at a traditional Hailsham dental practice, the main supply runs were thick with building dust that was pushing stale, warm air through the treatment rooms. We cleaned the ducting out with air whips under negative pressure and renewed the dirty panel filters. The rooms felt fresher and the musty smell had gone by the time we finished, with everything left tidy. A single overnight shift meant reception could open as normal.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Hailsham kitchen these are the tells.
A canopy dripping onto a George Street cookline, cooking smells forced back to the tables, extraction that no longer clears the steam, grease showing at the filter edges, or a Hailsham 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 Vicarage Field 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 Hailsham 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 Diplocks Way 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 Hailsham fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Hailsham 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 Hailsham 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 George 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. Your Hailsham 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. Wealden District Council food hygiene inspections assess the physical condition of premises, ventilation included. A grease-clogged system can count against the rating an Environmental Health Officer awards, quite apart from the smell and the falling extract performance your staff have to work in.
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 George Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Vicarage Field cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Hailsham run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Vicarage Field cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the George Street and Vicarage Field kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Hailsham offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the East Sussex hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Diplocks Way 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.
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 George Street and Diplocks Way where the runs are long and awkward.
Yes - from George Street and Vicarage Field kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Hailsham and the wider East Sussex.
Local knowledge
The rope walks were long, narrow sheds where men walked backwards paying out hemp and flax, and the Green Brothers works off Summerheath Road hung heavy with fibre dust for the best part of a century. The trade is gone, but Hailsham's workshops and kitchens still throw off dust and grease, and modern premises hide it inside sealed ductwork where it builds unseen until airflow fails or fire finds a path. We clean and inspect ventilation and extract ductwork across the town, from the Diplocks estate units to the town-centre kitchens. Every run is handed over with photographic before-and-after evidence.
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