Haywards Heath · 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 Haywards Heath, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Haywards Heath
Haywards Heath 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.
Right across Haywards Heath, from The Broadway through South Road to Muster Green, cooklines share tight roof space and vent through concealed ducting few operators ever see inside. We clean that entire path to the TR19 Grease standard, canopy through to fan, taking in the level pulls and the risers where grease settles thickest and a fire would run.
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 kitchens, high-street restaurants, pub and hotel kitchens and the busy town-centre takeaways - build grease fastest in the concealed lengths where flame spreads.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Haywards Heath insurers and fire risk assessors expect - measured across the whole extract run, not just the visible mouth of the canopy.
The standard works in grease-film thickness, fixing the depth at which a run must be cleaned and re-tested. In the shared roof voids around The Broadway and Muster Green, wiping the canopy and filters leaves the ductwork - the long concealed sections that gather grease and carry fire - untouched. We open the full Haywards Heath run through existing and newly cut inspection hatches, strip it to bare metal, log grease-depth readings at fixed points before and after, and issue a TR19 Grease certificate with the post-clean depths recorded.
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 Haywards Heath hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Haywards Heath
We are in Haywards Heath's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A traditional church hall in Haywards Heath had fine grey dust and debris across the supply ductwork and the fan coil unit. We ran rotary brushes and a negative-air machine through the branch runs, then replaced the supply filters. Supply air was brought back to a clean standard, and the feedback afterwards was excellent. We fitted the visit around a changeover so the hall's staff weren't disturbed.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Haywards Heath kitchen these are the tells.
A canopy dripping onto a The Broadway cookline, cooking smells forced back to the tables, extraction that no longer clears the steam, grease showing at the filter edges, or a Haywards Heath 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 South Road 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 Haywards Heath 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 Muster Green 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 Haywards Heath fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Haywards Heath 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 Haywards Heath 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 The Broadway 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 current TR19 Grease certificate is the evidence your Haywards Heath insurer expects. Without it, a fire claim can be reduced or refused outright - an expensive gap to find after the event.
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 The Broadway kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime South Road cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a The Broadway operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the The Broadway and South Road 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 The Broadway and Muster Green where the runs are long and awkward.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Haywards Heath run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a South Road cookline is back in service for the next shift.
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 Muster Green conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Muster Green 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 arrival of the railway at the centre of Sussex made Haywards Heath the obvious site for the Sussex County Lunatic Asylum, which opened in 1859 on a 119-acre estate and became St Francis Hospital under the NHS. It was for generations the town's largest complex of buildings, its heat and air moved through miles of hidden services. Modern premises hide their dust inside sealed ductwork in just the same way, where grease and debris build 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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