Seaford · 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 Seaford, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Seaford
Seaford 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 Seaford, from Clinton Place through Dane Road to Bishopstone, 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.
Kitchens are only half the work - we also strip the dry supply and extract ductwork of Seaford schools, offices and civic buildings, and the lint-choked dryer runs behind its hotels and care homes. It is the hardest-pressed kitchens - seafront cafes, care-home kitchens, pub and hotel kitchens 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 Seaford 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 Clinton Place and Bishopstone, 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 Seaford 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 Seaford hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Seaford
We are in Seaford's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A privately owned Seaford holiday-park laundry block had fabric fluff narrowing the tumble-dryer exhaust run to a fraction of its bore, leaving the room warm and humid. We vacuumed out the exhaust line, cleaned the lint screens and made sure the discharge louvre swung freely. The system ran cooler and cleaner afterwards, and the feedback was excellent.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Seaford kitchen these are the tells.
The tells are plain: steam that lingers, odours drifting back over the diners, drips off the canopy onto a Clinton Place line, a rim of grease at the filters, or a Seaford insurer or fire assessment wanting a TR19 certificate you cannot show. Frequency tracks the cooking load - a hard-frying Dane Road 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 Seaford 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 Bishopstone 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 Seaford fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Seaford 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 Seaford 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 Clinton Place 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 Seaford 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. Food hygiene inspections by Lewes District Council take in the condition of the building, ventilation included, so a grease-laden system can cost you on the rating an Environmental Health Officer awards - never mind the smell and the dropping extraction your kitchen team works under.
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 Clinton Place kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Dane Road cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Seaford 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 Bishopstone 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 Clinton Place and Bishopstone where the runs are long and awkward.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Seaford run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Dane Road cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Clinton Place and Dane Road kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
Yes - from Clinton Place and Dane Road kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Seaford and the wider East Sussex.
Local knowledge
At the western edge of Seaford stand the ruins of Tide Mills, a tide-powered corn mill first built in the 1760s that grew into a self-contained milling village, its air once thick with flour dust before it was abandoned and cleared in the 1930s. Modern premises hide their dust inside sealed ductwork instead, 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, working the full run rather than the reachable ends. Then we hand over photographic before-and-after evidence of every length.
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