Lancing · 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 Lancing, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Lancing
Lancing 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.
From Penhill Road to Grinstead Lane and Crabtree Lane, 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.
Kitchens are only half the work - we also strip the dry supply and extract ductwork of Lancing schools, offices and civic buildings, and the lint-choked dryer runs behind its hotels and care homes. It is the hardest-pressed kitchens - college refectories, seafront cafes, hotel and pub kitchens and the busy village takeaways - that glaze their hidden ducting quickest, and that coating is the road a fire takes.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Lancing insurers and fire risk assessors expect - measured across the whole extract run, not just the visible mouth of the canopy.
The standard is written in film thickness: once grease reaches a set depth the run has to be cleaned and proven again. In the crowded roof voids off Penhill Road and Crabtree Lane, a wipe of the canopy and filters never reaches the ductwork behind them, where the grease that carries fire quietly gathers. We work the whole Lancing run through hatches already in place and others we cut, bring it back to bright metal, note grease depths at fixed stations before and after, and certify to TR19 Grease with the closing figures logged.
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 Lancing hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Lancing
We are in Lancing's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
The exhaust ductwork at a busy Lancing gym and spa laundry was choked with matted fluff, and the energy bills had been creeping up with it. We cleared the tumble-dryer exhaust run of fine textile lint, checked the run for damage and tested airflow at the roof discharge. Airflow was restored and the external wall flap sat fully open again, leaving the client really pleased with the turnaround. The site's golden retriever supervised the whole thing from a bench by the door.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Lancing kitchen these are the tells.
A canopy dripping onto a Penhill Road cookline, cooking smells forced back to the tables, extraction that no longer clears the steam, grease showing at the filter edges, or a Lancing 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 Grinstead Lane 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 Lancing 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 Crabtree Lane 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 Lancing fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Lancing 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 Lancing 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 Penhill 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 live TR19 Grease certificate is what a Lancing 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. When Adur 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 Penhill Road kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Grinstead Lane cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
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 Penhill Road and Crabtree Lane where the runs are long and awkward.
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 Crabtree Lane 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 Penhill Road operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Lancing run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Grinstead Lane cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Lancing offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the West Sussex hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Yes - from Penhill Road and Grinstead Lane kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Lancing and the wider West Sussex.
Local knowledge
The old carriage works ran acres of erecting shops, paint shops and sawmills under one roof, and the modern estate that replaced it carries on that heavy trade behind roller-shutter doors along Commerce Way and Marlborough Road. Where those sheds once vented their smoke and dust openly to the sky, today's premises hide their exhaust inside sealed ductwork instead. There 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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