Hove · 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 Hove, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Hove
Hove rates around 2,960 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.
From Church Road to George Street and Kingsway, the town's cooklines vent through long hidden ducting that climbs to a roof fan. We clean it end to end to the TR19 Grease standard - not just the canopy, but the flat and rising sections where grease really collects.
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 - the city colleges, the Royal Sussex County Hospital, the county cricket ground and the seafront hotels - build grease fastest in the concealed lengths where flame spreads.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Hove 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 Kingsway, 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 Hove 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 Hove hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Hove
We are in Hove's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A seafront Italian restaurant in Hove had sticky grease and sea-salt moisture forming a corrosive oil coating inside the rooftop extract cowl. We cleaned the external louvres by hand, scraped the main exhaust run back to bare metal and degreased the fan motor casing, restoring the design face velocity at the cooking line. High coastal winds meant safety lines on the flat roof to work on the discharge stack.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Hove 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 Hove 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 George Street 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 Hove 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 Kingsway 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 Hove fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Hove 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 Hove 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. A current TR19 Grease certificate is the evidence your Hove 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. When Brighton and Hove City 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 Church Road kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime George Street cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Church Road and George Street kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
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 Kingsway conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Hove offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the East Sussex hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
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. The fan at the top of a Kingsway 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 - from Church Road and George Street kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Hove and the wider East Sussex.
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