West Sussex · Kitchen extract cleaning
TR19 kitchen extract cleaning in Heath Common
Specialist kitchen extract cleaning for Heath Common: a survey, a fixed price, careful work and proper paperwork. Ask us for a fixed quote.
- Extraction mentioned at an environmental health visit
- Poor airflow at the canopy
- Grease drips onto cooking equipment
Kitchen extract cleaning in Heath Common, done properly
A closed kitchen isn’t earning, so the timing of a clean matters. Cleans are booked for evenings, overnight or weekends, or between services where the kitchen has a gap. With the equipment off and cool and the area sheeted, we clean and hand the kitchen back ready for the next service. If you have heavy grease build-up inside the duct runs and cleaning needed before an insurance renewal or survey, we can put it right, from canopies and hoods, extract fans and vertical risers onwards. Some call it canopy cleaning, others extract cleaning or duct cleaning, but in Heath Common, as everywhere, the insurer wants the full system cleaned, not just the hood.
Before we clean, we look at where the grease is: wet film or deposit thickness readings show which parts of the duct need the most attention, and readings afterwards go into your report.
For a kitchen in or near Heath Common, the visit is planned around opening hours and the journey, and the clean itself is the same full TR19® job as in any town: canopy to discharge, then a TR19® certificate and a photo report.
Each visit ends with a written report and pictures, so there’s a dated record of the work. Kitchen extract cleaning to TR19® Grease is certificated through the BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite portal.
- Location
- Heath Common (RH20)
- Wider area
- West Sussex
- Paperwork
- Certificate plus before-and-after photos
- Quote
- Fixed quote, normally within a working day
- Hours
- After hours by arrangement; emergencies any time
- Telephone
- 0345 646 2711
- Last updated
- 30 October 2026
Your questions about kitchen extract cleaning in Heath Common
Which fire service covers Heath Common?
Heath Common is in the area of West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service. TR19® is not law, but it’s the benchmark many fire officers and insurers look to when they ask how often the extract is cleaned.
Do you work overnight in Heath Common?
Yes. We work evenings, overnight and at weekends. The work in Heath Common can fit around your hours. Tell us your opening hours when you ask for a quote.
What happens if you can’t reach some of it?
They’re marked on the report. In ductwork, new access panels are often the answer, which we can install.
Are you accredited for kitchen extract cleaning?
As a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease, our work sits within an independently audited scheme. We hold CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001 too, and we are fully insured.
What do you do to protect the area?
Floors and surfaces near the work are sheeted before we start, and anything we remove is contained. Before we leave, we tidy up and clean down.
What information do you need?
A short description and a few pictures, with the address and opening hours. We will ask for anything else we need.
What does a TR19 kitchen extract clean include?
All of it, from the canopy through to the discharge. Sections with no access are listed on the report, and extra panels can be fitted.
What’s TR19?
BESA’s ventilation hygiene specification, with two parts that matter most here: TR19® Grease for kitchen extracts and TR19® Air for supply and extract systems. It isn’t legislation, but it’s the standard people check against.
How we price kitchen extract cleaning
Some jobs are bigger than they look, and some smaller. What affects the quote:
- Site requirements such as sign-in and permits
- What state the system is in
- Whether it’s a one-off visit or part of a schedule
- The size of the system
When the work has to happen, how we reach it and how big the site is can all change the price. We take each of them into account and give you a fixed price before work begins.
Asking for a quote
Many jobs can be priced from pictures and some basics. Useful things to send:
- Your last certificate, test record or report
- Any access panels or hatches you can see
- The roof, plant room or outside wall the system runs to
- The site address and the type of premises
We do not publish a price list, because every site is different. We look at your system first, from pictures or on a visit, and then give you a fixed quote. To get going, phone us on 0345 646 2711 or send us an email.
Kitchen extracts in Heath Common
Look up Heath Common on the FSA’s food hygiene register and you’ll find about 12 cafés, restaurants and staff canteens and about 5 takeaways and sandwich shops within 1.5 miles or so of the middle of Heath Common. Every kitchen in that count with a canopy has a full extract system, canopy to discharge, to keep clear of grease. It’s Horsham council that sends environmental health officers to food businesses in Heath Common. 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. Heath Common sits within the area of West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service. Grease in a kitchen extract is a recognised fire risk, and the fire authority enforces the law on managing it in most commercial premises.
For schools such as Thakeham Primary School, kitchen extract cleaning is typically booked for the holidays, when the canteen is closed. Where a hall near Church of the Holy Sepulchre, or anywhere in Heath Common, hosts lunch clubs or events, its extract gathers grease just as a café’s does.
Heath Common is about 1 mile east of Storrington, in West Sussex. For kitchen extract cleaning in and around Heath Common, it’s easy to get a fixed quote: please phone us on 0345 646 2711 or email us. We work across South East England and London, including Heath Common. Our area takes in 371 places across West Sussex, from busy centres to quieter spots. For sites nearby, see our Brighton page, about 14 miles away.
Every address in RH20 is within our area for kitchen extract cleaning, from busy streets to back roads. Whether your site is on Rock Road, Hampers Lane and Bracken Lane or a nearby road, we can help. We also cover Abingworth (1 mile north-west), Rock (1 mile south-east), Warminghurst (1 mile north-east), Storrington (1 mile west) and Sullington (1 mile south-west). We also work in nearby towns such as Horsham (11 miles north-east), Worthing (7 miles south), Bognor Regis (15 miles south-west), Haywards Heath (15 miles east), Burgess Hill (13 miles east) and Littlehampton (9 miles south-west).
What’s near Heath Common
We work in commercial kitchens and buildings around Rydon Community College and the streets around them. Heath Common’s nearest station is Pulborough station, roughly 4.7 miles north-west. Nearby you will also find The Storrington And District Museum (1.2 miles south-west). Open spaces near Heath Common include Chanctonbury Hill and Amberley Wildbrooks RSPB Reserve.
Multi-site and managed buildings
Keeping records across a portfolio is half the battle. Each visit ends with a dated report and pictures, ready to show insurers, fire officers or EHOs.
Multi-site operators often want one contractor and one number. We work across London and the South East, so a run of sites can go into one programme and kept on a regular cycle.
What we do, step by step
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, while signing off means the written report and photos. Most of the time goes on the work itself, which takes a few hours for a small kitchen, longer for a large system. If you can send pictures, we can arrive in Heath Common knowing what to expect.
- We survey the system, from your photos or on site, canopy to discharge.
- We take grease readings at set points and give you a fixed quote.
- On the night, the equipment is off and cool and the kitchen is sheeted.
- Filters, canopy and plenum are cleaned, then the ducts, risers, fan and discharge.
- Readings are repeated, pictures taken, and your TR19 certificate and photo report issued.
Getting ready for the visit
- Tell us about site rules, permits or sign-in
- Find the previous report, if there is one
- Make sure someone can let us in and lock up afterwards
How to get a quote
To get a fixed quote, give us a ring on 0345 646 2711, or email photos 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’ll normally have a quote within one working day.
Related advice
Signs you need kitchen extract cleaning in Heath Common
Grease in an extract starts as vapour. As the air cools on its way through the duct, the fat condenses and sticks, and the layer grows a little with every meal cooked. Filters catch some of it, but never all.
Clients typically contact us after spotting one of these:
- Stale cooking odours from the system
- Cleaning needed before an insurance renewal or survey
- Grease dripping from the canopy or filters
- Extraction mentioned at an environmental health visit
If you run catering at a historic house or estate in the area (Parham House is about 3.1 miles west), event kitchens in older buildings often have awkward duct runs that need planning.
What your quote should include
- What’s included in the scope, part by part
- Whether they recommend a next date
- What happens if part of the system can’t be accessed
- When they can work, and whether that is outside your opening hours
How the job changes from site to site
Ductwork and risers
Risers take the extract up through floors to roof level, and grease runs down their walls and pools at the base. They’re cleaned through access points along their height.
Extract fan and discharge
At the end of the system is the discharge, which can collect grease and stain the surface around it. It’s cleaned as far as safe access allows, and any limits are recorded.
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Between visits
To keep the system working properly between visits:
- Report grease drips, smells or fan noise right away
- Never cook with filters missing or out of place
- Diarise the next clean as soon as you get the certificate
- Clean grease off the canopy surfaces regularly
The kitchen is left clean and ready for the next service. Grease and dirty water are collected and taken off site, so you can start cooking as normal.
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.
In-house cleaning or a specialist?
For ventilation and air handling systems, in-house care is mostly about checks: keeping grilles clear, noting unusual noise or smells and logging filter changes. The inside of ducts and units needs a specialist.
A few tasks are always specialist work: opening up ductwork, cleaning fans, drop testing fire dampers and measuring grease need training, the right equipment and safe access. Leave those to us.