West Sussex · Ductwork cleaning
Ductwork cleaning in Selsey, West Sussex
Professional ductwork cleaning in and around Selsey, booked around your opening hours and signed off in writing with pictures.
- Grease leaking from duct joints
- Readings above 200 microns from a grease thickness test
- Duct runs that can’t be reached
Ductwork cleaning for kitchens and businesses in Selsey
No two duct runs are the same, in Selsey or anywhere else. A few metres to an outside wall, or a riser up through the building to a roof fan. The survey traces the route, so we know where to get in and how long it will take. Typical jobs include an insurer asking for TR19 evidence and stale grease odours from the duct, across access panels, vertical risers and multi-storey ducts.
Many kitchens in a town like Selsey were fitted into buildings built for something else, so duct runs can be awkward, with bends, long horizontal sections and too few access panels. Where the duct can’t be reached, new panels can be fitted, and anything left uncleaned is recorded on the report.
Our accreditations include CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, and we are fully insured. On top of that, we’re a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease, trading since 2009.
- Place
- Selsey (PO20)
- Region
- West Sussex
- Reporting
- Certificate plus before-and-after photos
- Quotes
- A fixed quote up front
- Working hours
- Nights, weekends or holidays to suit you
- Call
- 0345 646 2711
- Checked
- 30 October 2026
FAQs for Selsey
Do you do school kitchen extract cleaning in Selsey in the summer holidays?
Yes. The holidays are the usual time for school work. Food Standards Agency records list about 2 schools, colleges and universities with registered kitchens within about a mile and a half of Selsey. Booking early in the term gives the best choice of holiday dates.
Who carries out food hygiene inspections in Selsey?
The local authority for Selsey is Chichester council, and its environmental health team does the inspecting. An officer may look up into the canopy, so clean filters on the day and a recent certificate on file both help.
Do you offer emergency callouts?
Yes, day and night, every day of the year. Office hours are Monday to Friday, 8am to 6pm, with the emergency line covering every other hour.
What do you do with what you remove?
We take it away at the end of the visit. During the work, it’s contained so the area stays clean.
What is TR19?
It’s the industry benchmark for cleaning ventilation and kitchen extract systems, written by BESA. It sets out inspection, cleaning and record keeping, and it takes a risk-based approach.
How far ahead should we book?
Earlier is better, particularly for night and weekend visits. Quotes normally come back within one working day, and emergencies are covered by our 24/7 line.
Is Selsey in your area?
Yes. Selsey is part of the area we cover, as part of our area across London and the South East.
How is kitchen extract ductwork cleaned?
We survey the route, test the grease, then open the access panels. Each run and riser is scraped and degreased, and test again when we’re done.
For landlords and multi-site operators
Whether it’s one building or many, you get the same standard: a survey first, a fixed quote, the work timed around the site and a report with photos.
We work for landlords, managing agents and facilities managers as well as the people running the site. Shared systems, like a riser serving several units, need a clear agreement on who books the work, and we’re happy to quote for all of it.
How we price ductwork cleaning
Every site gets its own quote. These are the things that affect it:
- Parking and loading at the site
- Access, including roofs, risers and ceiling voids
- The scale of the work
- Site requirements such as sign-in and permits
Every site is different, so each one gets its own fixed quote. Size, access, the condition of the system and when we can work all play a part.
What we need to know
Before you ask for a quote, gather:
- The postcode and the type of business
- A few general shots of the system
- Your opening hours and when the area is out of use
- How we’d reach plant on a roof or in a plant room
To get a fixed quote, ring 0345 646 2711, or send details by email and tell us the type of site, your opening hours and roughly what the system looks like. A few pictures and your last certificate or report help a lot. We usually come back within one working day.
The process
When we arrive, we check the system against the survey or the photos you sent. Anything unexpected is raised with you before we go further. After that, the work takes a few hours for a short run, longer for long runs and tall risers. Three things shape a visit in Selsey: when you are closed, where we can park and how we get to the system.
- We trace the duct and find every way in.
- We take grease readings along the route.
- Out of hours, the area is protected and the access panels opened.
- Thick grease is scraped out, then the runs and risers are degreased.
- We close up, re-test, photograph and record anything out of reach.
Getting ready for the visit
- Move anything stored near the system
- Tell us the best time to work, such as after service or at a weekend
- Let us know about permits to work or site inductions
Ask for a quote
Some systems can be priced from photos; others need a survey. Larger sites, and anything hidden behind walls, ceilings or floors, are normally surveyed first. Either way, the quote is fixed before any work is booked.
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Different parts, different methods
Bends and transitions
A bend can hold far more grease than a straight run of the same length. It’s scraped out and degreased, and test it before and after.
Multi-storey and shared buildings
Ducts in taller or shared buildings often run past other occupiers. Access is planned with the building’s managers, so the clean is done safely and quietly.
Selsey kitchens: local notes
Selsey is within about 1 mile of the coast. Salt in the air is hard on rooftop fans, discharge cowls and fixings, so we check them for corrosion as well as grease. Look up Selsey on the FSA’s food hygiene register and you will find about 22 restaurants, cafés and canteens and about 13 sandwich bars and takeaways in and around Selsey, up to about a mile and a half out. Each kitchen that cooks under a canopy sends grease-laden air into a duct, where it cools and settles. Food hygiene inspections in Selsey are the job of Chichester council’s environmental health team. The cleanliness of the kitchen and its equipment, extraction included, is part of what they check. A TR19® certificate and photo report after each clean gives you a record to show an inspector.
School kitchens, at schools like Seal Primary Academy for example, are typically cleaned in the holidays so no lunches are lost.
Selsey is about 6 miles south-west of Bognor Regis, in West Sussex. Across the PO20 area, we cover ductwork cleaning for commercial sites. Selsey is one of 371 towns, villages and districts in West Sussex we cover for commercial clients. Our Portsmouth page covers sites nearby, about 14 miles away.
Postcode districts we cover here for ductwork cleaning: PO20. Ductwork cleaning is available to premises on Church Road, High Street and Ellis Square and the roads around them. With the B2145 close by, Selsey is simple for us to get to at any hour. Other places close to Selsey include Church Norton (1 mile north-east), Keynor Estate (2 miles north), Sidlesham (3 miles north), Pagham (3 miles north-east) and Street End (4 miles north). We also work in nearby towns such as Bognor Regis (6 miles north-east), Chichester (7 miles north), Littlehampton (12 miles north-east), Emsworth (10 miles north-west), Rustington (13 miles north-east) and Angmering (15 miles north-east). Selsey is one of the larger places we cover in West Sussex for ductwork cleaning.
What’s near Selsey
Around Selsey, our work takes us to kitchens and buildings near The Academy, The Fisherman's Joy Public House and The Academy and the streets around them. Well-known places in the area include Selsey Lifeboat Museum (0.5 miles south-east).
What staff can safely do
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, alongside our reports.
For ventilation and air handling systems, in-house care is mostly about checks: clear grilles, a log of filter changes and reporting anything odd. The inside of ducts and units needs a specialist.
Keeping the system healthy
Good habits slow the build-up between visits. A few tips:
- Consider fitting panels where the report shows gaps
- Have the grease measured if cooking hours go up
- Store the certificate with the fire risk assessment
- Make sure filters are seated properly
When the duct is cleaned as part of a full TR19® Grease clean, a TR19 certificate is issued through the BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite portal. It records the date, the location and the technician.
The less grease gets past the canopy, the cleaner the duct stays. Clean, properly seated filters are the duct’s best protection.
When to call us in Selsey
Air cools as it moves away from the canopy. As it cools, the grease it carries condenses onto the duct walls, which is why ducts go on gathering grease well beyond the filters.
Most sites get in touch when they notice something like this:
- Hardened, baked-on grease in long horizontal runs
- A grease test showing the duct is overdue
- A duct nobody has opened in years
- Grease seeping out of the duct seams
A hall kitchen that only cooks for events, whether near St Peter's Church or elsewhere in Selsey, still needs its extract cleaned, just less often.
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