Kitchen extract cleaning in Brighton

TR19® kitchen extract cleaning in Brighton

Brighton and Hove has a lively food scene: seafront restaurants, cafés in The Lanes and North Laine, busy pubs, hotels along the front, and the kitchens that feed universities, schools and hospitals. Every one of them has an extract system that collects grease and needs cleaning. We clean kitchen extract to BESA’s TR19® Grease specification across the city, from Hove to Kemptown and out to the edges.

Each job starts with a survey, from photos or on site, so we know where the duct goes and how heavy the grease is. You get a fixed quote, usually within one working day. We clean when you’re closed, then send a TR19® certificate and a photo report with before and after pictures. We are a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease. See kitchen extract cleaning for what a full clean covers.

If you have taken over a restaurant or pub and don’t know when the extract was last cleaned, start with a TR19 inspection. Grease readings show what state the system is in and what it needs.

Seafront kitchens, The Lanes and salt air

Brighton’s restaurants are often in old buildings: Regency terraces on the seafront, narrow streets in The Lanes and converted shops in North Laine. Kitchens are squeezed into back rooms and basements, and the extract has to find a way out, often up the back of the building to a fan on the roof. Ducts like that tend to be long, with bends and few access panels. Our survey finds the full route before we quote, and we record any section that can’t be reached.

Being by the sea brings its own problem. Salt air is hard on metal, and roof fans, fan housings, fixings and discharge cowls near the coast can corrode faster than those inland. A fan that is rusting and coated in grease works harder and fails sooner. When we clean the extract fan, we check its condition and tell you if it needs attention, and we can carry out extract fan repair or replacement.

The city is busy at weekends, in summer and during big events, so kitchens often cook long hours at exactly the times we can’t clean. We work overnight, early in the morning and on your quiet days, and plan around the season so the system is clean before the busiest weeks.

Smaller seafront and Lanes kitchens can still produce a lot of grease. Grills, fryers and pizza ovens running all weekend fill filters fast, so a regular grease filter exchange between full cleans helps keep the canopy and plenum under control.

Food Standards Agency records list about 685 restaurants, cafés and canteens, 137 takeaways, 243 pubs and bars and 44 hotels and guest houses within roughly a mile and a half of the centre of Brighton, plus 51 schools and colleges and 64 hospitals, care and childcare premises. Every one that cooks under a canopy has an extract that needs cleaning. Source: FSA food hygiene rating data, October 2026.

Our services in Brighton

• Kitchen extract cleaning: Full TR19® Grease cleaning of your kitchen extract, from the canopy and filters through the ductwork to the fan and discharge, with a certificate and photo report.
• Canopy and hood cleaning: Kitchen canopies and hoods cleaned inside and out, along with the plenum behind the filters and the filters themselves, as part of a full TR19® Grease clean or between cleans.
• Ductwork cleaning: Kitchen extract ductwork cleaned along its full length, horizontal runs and vertical risers, through access panels, with grease readings before and after.
• Extract fan cleaning: Kitchen extract fans and their housings cleaned of grease, so the fan does its job and the last part of the system isn’t left as a fire risk.
• Fire damper testing: Fire dampers drop tested, reset and recorded, and smoke dampers tested through their controls, so you can show each one closes when it should.
• Air handling unit cleaning: Air handling units cleaned inside: filter sections, coils, drain trays, fans and internal surfaces, as part of TR19® Air ventilation hygiene.
• Ventilation duct cleaning: General supply and extract ductwork inspected and cleaned to BESA’s TR19® Air, the hygiene specification for ventilation beyond the kitchen.
• TR19 inspections and grease testing: Grease thickness testing, surveys and TR19® audits that show how much grease is in your kitchen extract and when it needs cleaning.
• Extract fan repair and replacement: Kitchen extract fans diagnosed, repaired or replaced, so smoke, heat and grease are pulled out of the kitchen and the extract system works as it should.
• Grease filter exchange: Dirty canopy grease filters swapped for clean ones on a regular schedule, so the first line of defence in your extract keeps working.
• Commercial kitchen deep cleaning: Commercial kitchens deep cleaned from ceiling to floor, including the places daily cleaning can’t reach: behind, under and inside the cooking equipment.
• Grease trap cleaning: Under-sink and inline grease traps emptied and cleaned on a schedule, so fats, oils and grease stay out of your drains and the sewer.

We also offer smoke damper testing, access panel installation, laundry extract cleaning, LEV testing, odour control maintenance and maintenance contracts.

Around Brighton

From the centre, the nearest railway station is London Road (Brighton) station. Well-known places nearby include Churchill Square (1 mile south-west), Brighton General Hospital (0.7 miles east) and Old Police Cells Museum (1 mile south-west). Around the centre, kitchens we look after include those in schools, pubs, cafés and halls near places such as Fairlight Primary School, Brighton Hove and Sussex Sixth Form College, Academy of Creative Training and St Martin's Church. Green spaces within reach include Whitehawk Hill and Newmarket Hill.