Littlehampton · 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 Littlehampton, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Littlehampton
Littlehampton 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 High Street to Surrey Street and Rope Walk, 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.
It is not only kitchens: we also clean the dry supply and extract ductwork in Littlehampton offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-packed laundry runs behind its hotel and care-home dryers. The busiest kitchens - seafront cafes, hotel and pub kitchens, care-home caterers and the busy town-centre takeaways - coat their hidden ducting in grease quickest, and that is the very path a fire follows.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Littlehampton 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 High Street and Rope Walk, wiping the canopy and filters leaves the ductwork - the long concealed sections that gather grease and carry fire - untouched. We open the full Littlehampton 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 Littlehampton hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Littlehampton
We are in Littlehampton's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A GP surgery in Littlehampton had building dust accumulated in the branch ducts feeding the consulting rooms, leaving dry eyes and stale air. We ran rotary brushes and a negative-air machine through the branch runs, then replaced the AHU panel filters. Supply air was restored to a clean standard, and the client booked us back in there and then. We slotted the work into a quiet Monday to suit the site manager.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Littlehampton kitchen these are the tells.
The tells are plain: steam that lingers, odours drifting back over the diners, drips off the canopy onto a High Street line, a rim of grease at the filters, or a Littlehampton insurer or fire assessment wanting a TR19 certificate you cannot show. Frequency tracks the cooking load - a hard-frying Surrey Street kitchen needs it far more often than a quiet cafe - and your certificate sets the date, so nothing is left to chance.
How it runs
Inspect the full Littlehampton 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 Rope Walk 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 Littlehampton fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Littlehampton 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 Littlehampton 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 High 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. To a Littlehampton insurer a current TR19 Grease certificate is the proof the extract has been kept up. Let it lapse and a fire claim can be scaled back or declined outright - the kind of gap nobody wants to find with the kitchen already gutted.
Hygiene and environmental health. A food hygiene visit from Arun 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 High Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Surrey Street cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Littlehampton offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the West Sussex hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
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 High Street and Rope Walk where the runs are long and awkward.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the High Street and Surrey Street kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Rope Walk 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.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Littlehampton run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Surrey Street cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Yes - from High Street and Surrey Street kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Littlehampton and the wider West Sussex.
Local knowledge
In 1976 Anita Roddick opened the first Body Shop and grew it into a global brand that built its pagoda-roofed headquarters and manufacturing at Watersmead in Littlehampton, finished in 1990 and only demolished for redevelopment in 2025. Premises like these hide their dust and grease inside sealed ductwork, where debris builds 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.
Phoenix Duct Clean · by the numbers
Tell us about your kitchen and your schedule. No-obligation quote, UK-wide.