East Sussex · Ductwork cleaning
Duct cleaning in Maynard's Green
Ductwork cleaning across Maynard's Green and nearby, timed so the site keeps working and signed off in writing with pictures.
- Thick deposits at the bottom of a vertical duct
- Smells of old cooking grease from the ductwork
- Ductwork that has never been cleaned
Ductwork cleaning in Maynard's Green
Between the canopy and the fan runs the ductwork, hidden above ceilings and inside walls. Grease settles along every metre of it, and that’s where a kitchen fire can travel. Our ductwork cleaning reaches inside the runs and risers through access panels, to BESA TR19® Grease. If you are dealing with readings above 200 microns from a grease thickness test and years of grease along the duct floor, we can help.
In a small place like Maynard's Green, kitchens are often in older or extended buildings, with long single-storey duct runs, where grease settles in the flat sections. Access, parking and timings are agreed before the day.
We are CHAS and SafeContractor accredited, we hold ISO 9001 and we’re fully insured. We’re also a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease, and we’ve been trading since 2009.
- Where
- Maynard's Green (TN21)
- Wider area
- East Sussex
- Paperwork
- TR19® certificate and photo report
- Quote
- A fixed quote up front
- Hours
- When your site is closed, plus a 24/7 line
- Telephone
- 0345 646 2711
- Page updated
- 30 October 2026
Ductwork cleaning around Maynard's Green
The FSA’s food hygiene register shows about 5 cafés, restaurants and staff canteens within roughly a mile and a half of the centre of Maynard's Green. Wherever those kitchens cook under a canopy, the horizontal runs and risers need cleaning as well as the hood. In Maynard's Green, food businesses are inspected by environmental health officers from Wealden council. Extraction counts as kitchen equipment, so its condition can come up on the day. Before-and-after photos from each clean are a simple way to show the extract is in hand. The fire and rescue service for Maynard's Green is East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service. The Fire Safety Order puts the duty on whoever runs a kitchen to control its fire risk, and a greasy duct is fuel.
Term dates shape school work: for a school like Maynards Green Community Primary School, an extract clean fits neatly into a half-term or summer break. If you run catering at a historic house or estate in the area (Horselunges Manor is about 4.2 miles south), event kitchens in older buildings often have awkward duct runs that need planning.
Maynard's Green is about 6 miles north of Hailsham, in East Sussex. We carry out ductwork cleaning for businesses, landlords and public buildings in Maynard's Green and the rest of East Sussex. Maynard's Green is one of 289 towns, villages and districts in East Sussex where we work for ductwork cleaning. Our Brighton page covers sites nearby (18 miles or so).
All of TN21 is within our area for ductwork cleaning, from the main roads to the quietest streets. Ductwork cleaning is available to premises on West Street Lane, Tubwell Lane and Sicklehatch Lane and the roads around them. Maynard's Green is on the B2203, which makes it straightforward for our technicians to reach for out-of-hours visits. Other places close to Maynard's Green include Sandy Cross (1 mile north), Horam (1 mile south), Vines Cross (1 mile south-east), Heathfield (1 mile north) and Warbleton (1 mile east). Larger places within reach include Eastbourne (11 miles south), Hastings (15 miles east), Bexhill-on-Sea (12 miles south-east), Seaford (13 miles south-west), Lewes (12 miles south-west) and Hailsham (6 miles south).
Landmarks near Maynard's Green
Around Maynard's Green, our work takes us to kitchens and buildings near Heathfield Community College and Runt-in-Tun pub and the streets around them. Other landmarks nearby include Old Castle (4.5 miles east) and Sussex Farm Museum (1 mile south). The countryside around Maynard's Green includes Selwyns Wood.
What a clean won’t put right
We’d rather tell you now than book work that will not help, so these are the things it will not cover:
- Duct sealed behind fixed ceilings or walls
- Ductwork that was poorly designed
- A damper stuck open in the duct
If you are not sure, just ring 0345 646 2711 or email us and we will give you a straight answer.
What the work covers
- Attenuators
- Access panels
- Multi-storey ducts
- Bends and junctions
- Horizontal duct runs
- Vertical risers
Between visits
To keep the system working properly between visits:
- Keep your cleaning records together
- Do not switch the extract off early
- Make sure filters are seated properly
- Ask us about extra access panels where sections can’t be reached
Every panel we open is refitted when we finish, and the surrounding area is left clean. Grease and dirty water are contained and removed.
Have access panels fitted where sections can’t be reached. Grease you can reach is grease that gets removed.
Multi-site and managed buildings
Keeping records across a portfolio is half the battle. Each visit produces a dated report with pictures, ready to show insurers, fire officers or EHOs.
Under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, the responsible person must assess and reduce fire risk, and that can be the employer, the owner, a landlord, a facilities manager or a managing agent. Where responsibility is shared, records matter even more.
What your team can do, and what needs us
A few tasks are always specialist work: entering ducts, working on fans, testing dampers and taking grease readings call for the right kit, training and safe access. That is our job.
Staff cleaning doesn’t replace a specialist visit; it supports it. Clean filters and tidy surfaces slow the build-up, but the parts you can’t see still need a specialist at the right interval.
How the visit works
Night work is normal for us. A lot of visits happen overnight or at weekends, so a kitchen or building can carry on as usual the next day. On site, the work takes anything from a few hours to several visits, depending on the length of duct. Visits to a village like Maynard's Green are booked in advance, at a time that suits whoever runs the site.
- We trace the duct and find every way in.
- Grease thickness is measured at set points.
- Once the kitchen has closed, we protect the area and open the panels.
- Thick grease is scraped out, then the runs and risers are degreased.
- Panels are closed, readings and pictures repeated, and unreachable sections recorded.
Preparing for the visit
- Mention any locked doors, roof access or ceiling voids
- Find the previous report, if there is one
- Agree a time when the area can be out of use
Getting a quote
Need a price for ductwork cleaning? Please call us on 0345 646 2711 or send us an email and tell us about the site. We’ll explain what we’d do and send a fixed quote before anything is booked.
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Part by part
Attenuators and discharge
At the end of the duct is the discharge. It can gather grease and mark the wall or roof around it, so it’s cleaned as far as safe access allows.
Horizontal duct runs
A long flat run cannot be cleaned from one end. Any stretch out of reach is noted and can fit extra panels.
Maynard's Green: your questions answered
Who carries out food hygiene inspections in Maynard's Green?
The local authority for Maynard's Green is Wealden council, and its environmental health team does the inspecting. How often a business is inspected depends on the risk rating the council gives it, so it’s worth staying ready all year.
Which fire service covers Maynard's Green?
Maynard's Green is in the area of East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service. Records of extract cleaning are a sensible thing to have ready if a fire safety officer carries out an audit.
How is kitchen extract ductwork cleaned?
We survey the route, test the grease, then open the access panels. We clean the runs and risers section by section, then the readings are repeated.
What shows that the ducts need a clean?
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.
How often should kitchen ducts be cleaned?
The minimum depends on how long the kitchen cooks each day: every 3 months for 12 to 16 hours, 6 months for 6 to 12 hours and 12 months for 2 to 6 hours. Grease readings may show it needs doing sooner.
What happens if there aren’t enough access panels?
We clean everything we can reach and record what we cannot. Extra panels can be installed, and we can do that for you.
How much does ductwork cleaning cost?
The cost depends on the size of the system, its condition, access and timing. Call for a fixed quote, normally ready within one working day.
Will the duct clean disrupt the kitchen?
Only while we’re working, and we work around you. Most kitchens book overnight or weekend cleans, so no service is lost.
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Common problems we fix in Maynard's Green
Wherever the kitchen is, in Maynard's Green or elsewhere, the duct fills in the same way: hours of cooking, the type of food and how well the filters are kept. Under BESA guidance, the minimum interval is 3, 6 or 12 months, by daily cooking hours.
Any of these means the system needs a check-up:
- Heavy grease at the base of a riser
- Fat dripping from the ductwork
- A rancid smell from the extract duct
- Ductwork that has never been cleaned
Volunteers running a hall kitchen near Christ Church, or anywhere in Maynard's Green, may not know when the extract was last cleaned, and a grease test settles it.
What your quote should include
- How they set the interval to the next visit
- Exactly which parts of the system are covered
- How areas they can’t reach will be recorded
- What hours they’ll be on site