West Sussex · Kitchen extract cleaning
Kitchen Extract Cleaning in Colgate
Kitchen extract cleaning in Colgate, surveyed first and signed off with a written report and photos. Call for a fixed quote.
- Cleaning needed before an insurance renewal or survey
- An extract that has never been cleaned to TR19
- Years of baked-on grease in the ducts
FAQs for Colgate
Who is the fire and rescue service for Colgate?
Fire safety enforcement in Colgate is handled by West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service. If a fire safety officer visits a commercial kitchen, they may ask about the fire risk assessment and how the extract is kept clean.
Do you work in villages like Colgate?
Yes. Colgate is within the area we cover across London and the South East. Just mention lanes, gates or anything else about the site when you book.
Do insurers need proof of extract cleaning?
Extract grease is fuel for a kitchen fire, which is why many insurers require TR19 cleaning. Our certificate and photo report give you that evidence.
What paperwork comes with a kitchen extract clean?
A TR19 certificate and a photo report. Certificates are issued through the BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite portal, and the report includes before and after pictures, grease readings and the recommended next clean date.
Is TR19 a legal requirement?
TR19® itself is not law. The law is the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, which makes the responsible person assess and reduce fire risk, and TR19 is the benchmark used to show extract grease is under control.
How do you keep the site clean during the work?
With sheeting and covers, before anything else happens. We keep the work contained and leave the area clean.
Which parts of the extract do you clean?
Everything from canopy to discharge: the canopy, the plenum behind the filters, the filters, horizontal ducts, vertical risers, the fan and the discharge, plus attenuators where fitted. Anything we can’t reach is recorded on the report.
Are you a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member?
We’re a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease. CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001 sit alongside that, and we’re fully insured.
Kitchen extract cleaning for kitchens and businesses in Colgate
A kitchen extract system is far more than the canopy you can see. Behind it sit the plenum and grease filters, then the ductwork, risers, extract fan and discharge, and grease settles in every one of them. Our clean follows the air from canopy to discharge, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease. Common call-outs are for rancid smells from grease in the duct and a kitchen with no current TR19 certificate, across canopies and hoods, extract fans and plenums and filters. If you need a kitchen extract clean in Colgate, one call covers the survey, the clean and the paperwork, wherever you are in West Sussex.
Most kitchens in Colgate fall into one of BESA’s three bands: 3-monthly for heavy use, 6-monthly for moderate use and yearly for light use, with grease readings setting the real interval.
Somewhere as small as Colgate, commercial kitchens are few: perhaps a pub, a school or care home kitchen, or a hall used for events. Every one of them still needs its extract kept clear of grease.
Nothing is signed off by word of mouth: a dated report with pictures of the work, plus a certificate through the BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite portal when the work is a TR19® Grease clean. It shows what was done and what, if anything, couldn’t be reached.
- Where
- Colgate (RH13, RH12)
- Wider area
- West Sussex
- Reporting
- TR19® certificate and photo report
- Quotes
- A fixed price before work begins
- When we work
- Evenings, overnight and weekends; 24/7 emergencies
- Call
- 0345 646 2711
- Reviewed
- 30 October 2026
Kitchen extract cleaning in Colgate: the local picture
In Colgate, food businesses are inspected by environmental health officers from Horsham council. A greasy canopy or dripping filters are the sort of thing an inspection can pick up. Before-and-after photos from each clean are a simple way to show the extract is in hand. At about 30 miles from central London, Colgate sits well inside the area we cover. We work evenings, overnight and at weekends, so the visit fits around the site.
If you look after a school kitchen, at a school such as Colgate Primary School or anywhere near Colgate, the holidays are the usual time for a TR19® clean. If your kitchen is in a listed or historic building, like the houses around Colgate (Tyes Place is about 4.5 miles south-east), fitting access panels needs care. A hall kitchen that only cooks for events, whether near St. Saviour's Church or elsewhere in Colgate, still needs its extract cleaned, just less often.
Colgate is about 3 miles south-west of Crawley, in West Sussex. Sites in Colgate get the same service as everywhere we cover: a survey first, a fixed quote, work timed around your hours and a report with photos. Colgate is one of 371 places in West Sussex we cover for kitchen extract cleaning. Brighton is in our area too, around 18 miles away.
Every address in RH13 and RH12 is covered for kitchen extract cleaning, from the main roads to the quietest streets. Streets in the area include Forest Road, Vicarage Close and Blackhouse Road, and we cover them all for kitchen extract cleaning. We also cover the places around Colgate: Kilnwood Vale (1 mile north), Faygate (1 mile north-west), Broadfield (2 miles north-east), Roffey (2 miles west) and Handcross (3 miles south-east). Further out, we also cover Crawley (3 miles north-east), Horsham (4 miles west), Haywards Heath (9 miles south-east), Burgess Hill (10 miles south-east), East Grinstead (11 miles east) and Storrington (14 miles south-west).
What’s near Colgate
Around Colgate, our work takes us to kitchens and buildings near The Dragon pub, Target Hill Park and Cottesmore School. Colgate’s nearest station is Faygate station, about 1.3 miles north-west. A little further out are Crawley Museum (3.4 miles north-east) and County Mall (3.4 miles north-east). For a walk, there’s Tilgate Lake and Warnham LNR.
Landlords, agents and facilities managers
We work for landlords, managing agents and facilities managers as well as the people running the site. Where a system serves more than one tenant, such as a shared riser, it helps to agree who arranges the work, and we are happy to quote for all of it.
We also work for facilities teams across offices, schools and healthcare in Colgate and across West Sussex. Larger estates can be phased building by building to keep disruption down.
Looking after it afterwards
Results last longer with the right care. We suggest:
- Flag any change in how the extract sounds or works
- Keep the TR19 certificate and photo report in the maintenance log
- Never cook with filters missing or out of place
- Wash or exchange the filters often
When the clean is finished, grease readings are taken again at the same points, giving you before and after readings alongside the photos. Your TR19 certificate is then issued through the BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite portal.
Tell whoever looks after the system when something changes. Grease dripping from the canopy, a burning smell or a fan that sounds rough are all signs of build-up, and a grease thickness test can confirm it.
Towns and villages near Colgate
What else we do in Colgate
What happens if it’s left?
There’s no law that names TR19, but the Fire Safety Order 2005 still applies. It puts a duty on the responsible person to assess and reduce fire risk, and in a kitchen that means keeping extract grease under control. TR19 is the benchmark insurers, fire officers and EHOs look to. Somewhere as small as Colgate, losing a kitchen or building to a fault is felt by everyone who uses it.
What you pay reflects the actual work. That’s why every job is surveyed first, and why the quote is fixed before we start.
What you get with us
- Member of BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease
- Trading since 2009
- Survey first, then a fixed quote
- Evenings, overnight and weekends, plus 24/7 emergency callout
See our cost guide and how to check a contractor.
In-house cleaning or a specialist?
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.
Your own staff can handle the daily basics: wiping down canopy surfaces, cleaning filters and keeping a simple log. What they can’t safely do is clean inside the ductwork, the fan or the risers, and that’s where we come in.
How it works
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 photos. The middle part takes longest, which takes a few hours for a small kitchen, longer for a large system. We agree a date with you, plan the drive to Colgate and turn up when the site is quiet.
- First the diagnosis: a survey of the whole system and its access points.
- We record grease levels at set points, then fix the price.
- After the kitchen closes, we sheet the area and set up to contain grease and water.
- Heavy deposits are scraped by hand and the system degreased to TR19® Grease.
- Then the clean bill of health: readings, a TR19 certificate and a photo report with the next date.
Preparing for the visit
- Dig out any earlier paperwork for the system
- Clear loose items from the work area
- Plan for cooking equipment or plant to be off before we arrive
Getting a quote
To help us quote: where the site is, what it is and its opening hours, photos of the system and any previous report or certificate. Once you have those, call us on 0345 646 2711 or drop us a line.
Related advice
Part by part
Restaurant and pub kitchens
Grills, fryers and woks send a lot of fat into the extract, so grease readings help set the right interval.
Ductwork and risers
Vertical risers carry the air up through the building, and grease often collects at the bottom of them. Access panels along the riser let us clean it in sections.
What affects the cost of kitchen extract cleaning
Sites vary more than people expect. What affects the quote:
- Site rules, permits and inductions
- What state the system is in
- Where the site is and how we reach it
- Whether it’s a one-off visit or part of a schedule
The cost depends on the size of the system, what state it’s in and access to every part of it. You get a fixed price before work begins, so there are no surprises.
Asking for a quote
When you contact us, it’s useful to have:
- When the site is open and when it’s quiet
- Any symptoms, from odd noises to smells or leaks
- A few general shots of the system
- Any previous report or certificate
To get a fixed quote, call 0345 646 2711 or drop us a line and tell us the type of site, your opening hours and roughly what the system looks like. Photos and the last report, if you have one, make the quote quicker. You will normally have a quote within one working day.