West Sussex · Grease filter exchange
Toddington grease filter exchange
A scheduled grease filter exchange, swapping dirty canopy filters for clean ones for businesses, landlords and public buildings in Toddington. BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease.
- A greasy plenum behind the filters
- A canopy that drips grease
- Gaps where filters have been removed
About our grease filter exchange in Toddington
In Toddington, our filter exchange runs on a schedule set by how much the kitchen cooks. Busy kitchens need changes more often while a lighter kitchen can go longer. The interval is agreed before the first visit. Common call-outs are for grease dripping from the canopy and bent or damaged filters that don’t sit properly, across school and hospital kitchens, island canopies and mesh filters.
Size doesn’t change the work: a kitchen in a place like Toddington gets the whole system cleaned, canopy to discharge. The visit is booked around your opening hours, and the journey is planned ahead.
Our accreditations include CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, and we’re fully insured. On top of that, we are a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease, and we’ve been trading since 2009.
- Where
- Toddington (BN17)
- Wider area
- West Sussex
- Records
- Photo report after each visit
- Quote
- Fixed quote, typically within a working day
- When we work
- Nights, weekends or holidays to suit you
- Call
- 0345 646 2711
- Checked
- 30 October 2026
Part by part
Canopy filter housings
The trough or channel under the filters fills with grease. If it needs attention, we’ll tell you.
School, care home and staff kitchens
Kitchens that cook for set mealtimes still load their filters, though often more slowly.
How we price grease filter exchange
Before we fix a price, we need to know a few things. We check:
- One-off work versus a regular cycle
- How many systems or sites are involved
- Site rules, permits and inductions
- The condition of the system
Leaving it longer rarely makes the work cheaper. Problems in a system tend to grow, and a neglected system can mean more work. If you are not sure what’s needed, call us on 0345 646 2711 or drop us a line and we’ll give you an honest view and a fixed quote.
Helping us quote
What to send for a quote:
- A few general shots of the system
- The site address and the type of premises
- Detail shots of panels, filters and grilles
- The roof, plant room or outside wall the system runs to
Quotes are quick. Call or email with a few details and you will usually have a fixed price within one working day. If we need to see the system first, we book a survey around your hours.
Questions from Toddington
Who is the fire and rescue service for Toddington?
Toddington is in the area of West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service. It’s worth keeping your fire risk assessment, TR19® certificates and photo reports together, ready to show.
Can school kitchens in Toddington be cleaned in the holidays?
Yes, holiday work suits schools best. There are about 18 schools, colleges and universities on the FSA’s food hygiene register within about 1.5 miles of Toddington. Send us your term dates when you call us on 0345 646 2711 or use the quote form, and we will fit the work in.
Do you offer emergency callouts?
Yes. There’s a 24/7 emergency line for anything that can’t wait until a planned visit. Call us any time and explain what’s happened.
What should go in our maintenance log?
Anything that proves the system is maintained: reports, certificates, photos and your own cleaning or check logs. One maintenance log per site keeps it simple.
What does TR19 mean?
TR19® is the BESA specification for keeping ventilation systems clean. TR19® Grease, a standalone specification since 2019, covers grease in kitchen extract systems, and TR19® Air covers general supply and extract systems.
Will I get paperwork for my records?
Yes. Each visit ends with a written report and photos, covering the work, any areas we couldn’t access and the recommended next date. Kitchen extract cleans to TR19® Grease also get a certificate through the BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite portal.
Which kinds of sites do you work on?
We work for restaurants, pubs, hotels, schools, colleges, hospitals, care homes, offices and shops, as well as food production and leisure sites.
Can you set up regular visits?
Yes. Scheduled maintenance plans are part of what we do, with visits at the interval your system needs. Each report recommends when the next visit should be.
Grease filter exchange around Toddington
The coast is only about 2 miles from Toddington. Metal on the roof weathers faster close to the coast, and the extract fan and cowl are no exception. The FSA’s food hygiene register shows about 59 cafés, restaurants and staff canteens and about 34 sandwich bars and takeaways in and around Toddington, up to about a mile and a half out. Any of those kitchens with a canopy relies on its filters to catch grease before it reaches the duct. In Toddington, food businesses are inspected by environmental health officers from Arun council. A greasy canopy or dripping filters are the sort of thing an inspection can pick up. Our report lists what was cleaned and when, which is useful to have ready.
If your kitchen is in a listed or historic building, like the houses around Toddington (Ecclesden Manor is about 2.8 miles east), fitting access panels needs care. Term dates shape school work: for a school like Lyminster Primary School, an extract clean fits neatly into a half-term or summer break.
Toddington is about 1 mile north of Littlehampton, in West Sussex. Sites in Toddington get the same service as everywhere we cover: diagnosis first, a fixed price, out-of-hours working where necessary and a written report with photos. Our West Sussex coverage runs to 371 places, and Toddington is one of them. For sites nearby, see our Brighton page (18 miles or so).
All of BN17 is within our area for grease filter exchange, from the main roads to the quietest streets. We cover sites on Toddington Lane, Hide Close and Hollist Chase and nearby roads. We also cover the places around Toddington: Lyminster (1 mile north-west), Wick (1 mile west), Littlehampton (1 mile south), Poling (1 mile north-east) and Rustington (1 mile south-east). Further out, we also cover Worthing (6 miles east), Bognor Regis (7 miles west), Chichester (11 miles west), Selsey (13 miles south-west), Shoreham-by-Sea (12 miles east) and Lancing (9 miles east).
Around Toddington
Locally, jobs take us to businesses close to Littlehampton College, Mewsbrook Park and Locomotive Public House. The nearest railway station is Littlehampton station, about 1.1 miles south-west. Nearby you will also find Zachary Merton Hospital (1.8 miles south-east) and Rustington Museum (1.6 miles south-east). The countryside around Toddington includes WWT Arundel and Highdown Hill.
How it works
Night work is normal for us. Evenings, nights and weekends are when much of our work happens, so the site can open as normal afterwards. The visit itself takes less than an hour in most kitchens. For a site near Toddington, the work is booked around your opening hours, evenings and weekends included.
- We record the number, size and type of your filters.
- We set the interval with you.
- On each visit, we remove the greasy filters.
- A clean set is fitted and checked for gaps.
- The dirty filters leave with us and the next visit is booked.
Before we arrive
- Tell us where we can park and unload
- Let us know about permits to work or site inductions
- Clear loose items from the work area
Get a fixed quote
The quickest way to a quote is to send photos: the system from a couple of angles, plus any access panels or hatches. Tell us what kind of site it is and when it’s open, and we can price many jobs without a visit.
Advice
Honest limits
Before you book, it helps to know what’s not included:
- Extraction problems caused by the fan rather than the filters
- A canopy that doesn’t capture the vapour properly
- A heavily greased plenum or canopy, which needs cleaning to TR19
If you’re not sure, just ring 0345 646 2711 or drop us a line and we will give you a straight answer before booking.
What the work covers
- Baffle filters
- Island canopies
- Restaurants and pubs
- School and hospital kitchens
- Mesh filters
- Wall canopies
For landlords and multi-site operators
Keeping records across a portfolio is half the battle. Each visit ends with a dated report and pictures, so you can show an insurer or inspector what was done at each site.
We regularly work with managing agents. Send the address, what’s needed and how access works, and we will send a fixed quote.
What we’re called out for in Toddington
Washing filters by hand does not always get them clean. Grease lodges deep in baffles and mesh and a sink wash rarely reaches it.
Look out for these warning signs:
- Poor airflow through the filters
- Staff short of time to wash filters
- Grease collecting in the filter channels
- Damaged filters letting grease past
Church and community hall kitchens, near All Saints or anywhere around Toddington, are easy to forget, but their extracts collect grease like any other.
What to look for in a quote
- Whether VAT is included
- Whether inaccessible sections are listed on the report
- When they can work, and whether that is outside your opening hours
- Whether they recommend a next date
Staff cleaning versus specialist work
Logging matters as much as cleaning. A simple log of filter washes, wipe-downs and checks shows an inspector that the system is looked after between visits, alongside our reports.
Away from the kitchen, the in-house job is mainly checking: clear grilles, a log of filter changes and reporting anything odd. Cleaning inside ducts and units is specialist work.