West Sussex · Ductwork cleaning
Lancing ductwork cleaning
Professional ductwork cleaning in and around Lancing, booked around your opening hours and signed off in writing with pictures.
- Stale grease odours from the duct
- Years of grease along the duct floor
- Proof of duct cleaning for the insurer
About our ductwork cleaning in Lancing
Once air leaves the canopy, it travels through ductwork that most people never see. Grease settles along every metre of it, and that’s where a kitchen fire can travel. We clean it from the inside, through access panels, to BESA TR19® Grease. If you are dealing with thick crusts of old grease along the duct and grease leaking from duct joints, we can put it right, from horizontal duct runs, vertical risers and multi-storey ducts onwards.
Size does not change the work: a kitchen in a place like Lancing gets the whole system cleaned, canopy to discharge. The visit is booked around your opening hours, and the journey is planned ahead.
A written report with photos follows every visit, so there’s a dated record of the work. Kitchen extract cleaning to TR19® Grease is certificated through the BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite portal.
- Where
- Lancing (BN15)
- Region
- West Sussex
- Records
- TR19® certificate and photo report
- Price
- A fixed quote up front
- Hours
- Evenings, overnight and weekends; 24/7 emergencies
- Telephone
- 0345 646 2711
- Last updated
- 30 October 2026
Common problems we fix in Lancing
Slow air leaves the most grease behind. Long horizontal runs, bends, changes in size and the foot of a riser all collect more, and those are the points we pay most attention to.
It’s time to book a visit if you see:
- Readings above 200 microns from a grease thickness test
- Hardened, baked-on grease in long horizontal runs
- Stale grease odours from the duct
- Grease leaking from duct joints
If you run a church or community hall kitchen, near St. Michael & All Angels or elsewhere in Lancing, its extract still collects grease from every lunch and event.
What to look for in a quote
- What happens if part of the system cannot be accessed
- Whether the figure could change on the day
- How VAT is shown on the quote
- If they look at the system before pricing
What affects the quote in Lancing
A fixed price needs a few facts first. We look at:
- Working hours and out-of-hours timing
- The condition we find in the survey
- How easy every part is to reach
- Whether several sites go on one quote
Working hours, access and the scale of the site all affect the cost. Each of those is built into the quote and give you a fixed price before we start.
What to send for a quote
Photos and a few facts are often enough to price the work. Useful things to send:
- Any previous report or certificate
- Problems your staff have spotted
- Photos showing the whole system and its surroundings
- Your opening hours and when the area is out of use
Want a quote for ductwork cleaning? Please call 0345 646 2711, or email photos with a few details about the site. We will talk you through the work and give you a fixed quote before you commit to anything.
Lancing: your questions answered
Do you cover smaller places like Lancing?
Yes, we work in villages as well as towns, and Lancing is covered. Photos of the system and directions to the site help us plan the visit.
Who enforces fire safety at workplaces in Lancing?
West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service is the fire and rescue service for Lancing. If a fire safety officer visits a commercial kitchen, they may ask about the fire risk assessment and how the extract is kept clean.
What’s TR19?
TR19® is BESA’s specification for ventilation hygiene. TR19® Grease, a standalone specification since 2019, covers grease in kitchen extract systems, and TR19® Air covers general supply and extract systems.
What if part of the duct can’t be reached?
Every reachable section is cleaned and the rest recorded. Extra panels can be installed, and we can do that for you.
How do you know if the ductwork needs cleaning?
We measure it. Readings are taken by Wet Film Thickness Test (WFTT) or Deposit Thickness Test (DTT). BESA guidance says the mean shouldn’t exceed 200 microns, and 500 or more anywhere needs immediate spot cleaning.
Do you offer emergency callouts?
Yes, day and night, every day of the year. Our office is open from 8am to 6pm on weekdays, with the emergency line covering every other hour.
Do you look at the system first?
Yes. We always survey first, from your pictures and details, or with a visit where necessary. Then you get a fixed quote.
Do I get a certificate for ductwork cleaning?
Readings, photos and, for a full clean, a TR19 certificate. It also gives a recommended next clean date.
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What else we do in Lancing
What happens on the day
The visit has three parts: getting the area ready, doing the work and signing it off. Getting ready means protecting surfaces and switching off what needs to be off, and the sign-off is a written report with pictures. The middle part takes longest, which takes from a few hours to more than one visit, depending on duct length and access. We plan the journey to Lancing and bring what the job is likely to need.
- Diagnosis: a survey of the duct’s route, size and access.
- You get a fixed price before work starts.
- We clean section by section, working from panel to panel.
- We take extra care at bends and at the foot of risers.
- Readings, photos and a recommended next clean date complete the job.
Before we arrive
- Make sure someone can let us in and lock up afterwards
- Agree a time when the area can be out of use
- Mention any locked doors, roof access or ceiling voids
Getting a quote
The quickest way to a quote is to send photos: the system from a couple of angles, plus any access panels or hatches. Add the site type and your opening hours, and many jobs can be priced from that alone.
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Part by part
Bends and transitions
A bend can hold far more grease than a straight run of the same length. We clean it back by hand and with degreaser, and test it before and after.
Access panels
Every section of duct is cleaned through an access panel. Without them, parts of the duct can’t be reached and the report has to say so.
Leave it or put it right?
Under BESA guidance, the mean grease level should stay at or below 200 microns between cleans. Anywhere that reaches 500 microns or more needs immediate spot cleaning. Putting off the clean only pushes readings higher. When a site near Lancing shuts unexpectedly, the people who rely on it notice at once.
The price reflects the work, not guesswork. That’s why we survey first, from photos or on site, and the price is agreed before we start.
What you get with us
- Survey first, then a fixed quote
- Trading since 2009
- Accredited under CHAS and SafeContractor, with ISO 9001
- A written report with photos after every visit
Read what affects the cost or our accreditations and certificates.
What staff can safely do
Day-to-day cleaning is something your team can do: wiping down canopy surfaces, cleaning filters and keeping a simple log. Inside the ducts, risers and fan is specialist work, and that’s where we come in.
Keep a record of what your team does. A dated log of in-house cleaning and checks helps show that the system is managed between specialist visits, next to our reports.
Grease, kitchens and Lancing
Lancing lies within about 1 mile of the sea. Corrosion on the fan housing and cowl is worth a look at every clean, alongside the grease. Food Standards Agency records list about 21 restaurants, cafés and works canteens and about 35 takeaways and sandwich shops across Lancing and its immediate surroundings (about a mile and a half). Where they cook under a canopy, grease doesn’t stop at the filters: it settles along the duct and up the riser. West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service covers Lancing. Fire and rescue authorities enforce the Fire Safety Order in most non-domestic premises, and in a kitchen that fire risk includes the grease in the extract.
Kitchens that cook twelve hours or more a day, as some healthcare kitchens do, fall into BESA’s three-monthly minimum; Worthing Hospital is the nearest hospital to Lancing, about 2 miles south-west. If you run a café or takeaway near Lancing station, early starts and late finishes leave little time to clean, so overnight extract cleaning suits.
Lancing is about 3 miles east of Worthing, in West Sussex. Wherever you are in the BN15 postcode area, we cover ductwork cleaning for commercial sites. We cover 371 places across West Sussex, large and small. We also work in Brighton, around 8 miles away.
Postcode districts we cover here for ductwork cleaning: BN15. We cover sites on North Road, North Farm Road and Addison Close and nearby roads. Being close to the A2025, Lancing is easy for our technicians to reach at any hour. Other places close to Lancing include Sompting (1 mile west), East Worthing (2 miles south-west), Broadwater (2 miles west), Offington (3 miles west) and Botolphs (3 miles north). Further out, we also cover Worthing (3 miles west), Haywards Heath (15 miles north-east), Burgess Hill (12 miles north-east), Littlehampton (9 miles west), Rustington (8 miles west) and Storrington (8 miles north-west).
Landmarks near Lancing
We work in commercial kitchens and buildings around Brooklands Park, Sompting Abbotts Preparatory School and The Railway pub, among other places. Lancing has its own railway station: Lancing station. A little further out are Worthing Hospital (2 miles south-west) and Old Castle (3.1 miles west). For a walk, there’s Lancing Ring and Widewater Lagoon.
Managing agents and facilities teams in Lancing
Running several sites is easier with one contractor. We work across London and the South East, so a run of sites can go into one programme and kept on a regular cycle.
For anyone managing more than one site, we can plan visits across the whole estate and price them together. Each site gets its own report and pictures, so each one has its own record.