West Sussex · Kitchen extract cleaning
Kitchen extract cleaning in Saint Hill Green, West Sussex
TR19 grease cleaning of complete kitchen extract systems, from canopy to discharge for commercial sites in Saint Hill Green and across West Sussex. CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, and fully insured.
- Cleaning needed before an insurance renewal or survey
- An inspection that picked up a dirty extract
- Rancid smells from grease in the duct
How we handle kitchen extract cleaning in Saint Hill Green
Duct Doctor has been cleaning kitchen extract systems since 2009. As a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, we clean to BESA TR19® Grease, and we’re fully insured, with CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001. If you have a new tenancy or takeover with no cleaning history and poor airflow at the canopy, we can put it right. Most calls from Saint Hill Green come after an insurer, an EHO or a fire officer asks to see the last TR19 certificate. We handle the clean and the paperwork in one visit.
What can be cleaned depends on what can be reached. Sections without access panels are recorded on the report, and new panels can be fitted so they’re cleaned next time.
Somewhere as small as Saint Hill Green, commercial kitchens are few: perhaps a pub, a school or care home kitchen, or a hall used for events. Each still has a canopy and duct that collect grease, whatever the size of the place.
The report is your system’s health record: a dated account with pictures of everything we did. For TR19® Grease cleans, the certificate comes through the BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite portal and sits alongside the report.
- Location
- Saint Hill Green (RH19)
- Wider area
- West Sussex
- Paperwork
- TR19® certificate and photo report
- Quote
- Fixed quote, usually within a working day
- Hours
- Overnight and weekend work, 24/7 emergency callout
- Telephone
- 0345 646 2711
- Page updated
- 30 October 2026
FAQs for Saint Hill Green
Can you work in Saint Hill Green outside opening hours?
Yes, evening, overnight and weekend work is normal for us. Your customers, staff or residents in Saint Hill Green needn’t be disturbed. Let us know the hours you are closed and we will book within them.
Who enforces fire safety at workplaces in Saint Hill Green?
Fire safety enforcement in Saint Hill Green is handled by West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service. Records of extract cleaning are a sensible thing to have ready if a fire safety officer carries out an audit.
Do you look at the system first?
Yes. We always survey first, from your photos and details, or with a visit where necessary. A fixed quote follows.
What does kitchen extract cleaning cost?
It depends on the site, so we quote each one individually. To get one, phone us on 0345 646 2711 or email us and tell us about the site and its opening hours.
How long does it take to clean a kitchen extract system?
Short systems are done in a few hours, while long runs and tall risers take longer and may need more than one visit. We’ll tell you how long when we quote.
Can you quote from photos?
Yes, if we can see what we need. Otherwise, we book a survey at a time that suits the site, and the quote follows that.
What do you do to protect the area?
By covering it before any work starts. We keep the work contained and clean down when we finish.
What do you need from me for a quote?
Some photos and a quick description of the system plus the address and your hours. If we need more, we will ask.
Looking after it afterwards
After the visit, a few habits help the work last:
- Diarise the next clean as soon as you get the certificate
- Clean the grease filters regularly between TR19 cleans
- Keep the extract on whenever the range is lit
- Clean grease off the canopy surfaces regularly
If we couldn’t get into part of the duct, the report says so plainly. A TR19 report should record what wasn’t cleaned as well as what was, and we can fit access panels so it’s reached next time.
Keep the outside of the canopy wiped and any grease cups emptied. It won’t replace a TR19 clean, but it slows what reaches the duct.
Kitchen extracts in Saint Hill Green
The FSA’s food hygiene register shows about 12 restaurants, cafés and canteens in Saint Hill Green and the streets around it, up to about 1.5 miles out. Wherever food is cooked under a canopy, the extract above it gathers grease and needs cleaning on a schedule. Food hygiene inspections in Saint Hill Green are the job of Mid Sussex council’s environmental health team. They look at how clean the premises and equipment are, and the kitchen extract is part of that. A TR19® certificate and photo report after each clean gives you a record to show an inspector. Saint Hill Green sits within the area of West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service. The Fire Safety Order puts the duty on whoever runs a kitchen to control its fire risk, and a greasy duct is fuel.
Term dates shape school work: for a school like The Meads Primary School, an extract clean fits neatly into a half-term or summer break. Volunteers running a hall kitchen near St. Barnabas Church, or anywhere in Saint Hill Green, may not know when the extract was last cleaned, and a grease test settles it.
Saint Hill Green is about 2 miles south of East Grinstead, in West Sussex. Across the RH19 area, we can carry out kitchen extract cleaning at your premises. Saint Hill Green is one of 371 towns, villages and districts in West Sussex we cover for commercial clients. Our Brighton page covers sites nearby, about 19 miles away.
Work in RH19 is surveyed, quoted and booked the same way as anywhere else. We cover sites on Saint Hill Road and West Hoathly Road and nearby roads. If your site is just outside Saint Hill Green, we cover East Grinstead (2 miles north), Ashurst Wood (2 miles east), Crawley Down (3 miles north-west), Turners Hill (3 miles west) and Felbridge (3 miles north-west). Larger places within reach include Crawley (7 miles west), Horsham (13 miles west), Haywards Heath (8 miles south-west), Burgess Hill (11 miles south-west), Broadfield (8 miles west) and Bewbush (8 miles west).
Around Saint Hill Green
We work in commercial kitchens and buildings around Sackville School. For rail, the closest station is East Grinstead station, roughly 1.5 miles north of the centre. Nearby you’ll also find Queen Victoria Hospital (2.4 miles north-east) and East Grinstead Museum (1.6 miles north-east). The countryside around Saint Hill Green includes Hedgecourt Lake.
What happens on the day
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 pictures. The middle part takes longest, and that takes a few hours for a small kitchen, longer for a large system. Visits to a village like Saint Hill Green are booked in advance, at a time that suits whoever runs the site.
- First the diagnosis: a survey of the whole system and its access points.
- Grease readings set the baseline, and a fixed quote follows.
- After the kitchen closes, we sheet the area and set up to contain grease and water.
- The treatment: heavy grease scraped out, then every part degreased to TR19® Grease.
- Then the clean bill of health: readings, a TR19 certificate and a photo report with the next date.
How to prepare
- Arrange a key holder or contact on site
- Let us know when the site is closed or quiet
- Tell us about access, such as roof hatches, plant rooms, ceilings or locked areas
Getting a quote
Getting a quote does not take long. Send a few details and photos, and we normally reply with a fixed quote within one working day. Where a survey is needed, we arrange a time that suits the site.
Related advice
Multi-site and managed buildings
Records are where multi-site compliance often slips. Each visit produces a dated report with pictures, ready to show insurers, fire officers or EHOs.
Under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, the responsible person must assess and reduce fire risk, and that can be the employer, the owner, a landlord, a facilities manager or a managing agent. Where responsibility is shared, records matter even more.
Part by part
Extract fan and discharge
Grease that reaches the fan coats the blades and the housing. It’s isolated, opened and cleaned as part of the TR19 clean.
Canopy and plenum
Grease meets the system first at the canopy and the plenum behind the filters. Both are scraped and degreased inside and out, with the filter housing cleaned too.
Leave it or put it right?
There’s no law that names TR19, but the Fire Safety Order 2005 still applies. The responsible person must assess and reduce fire risk, which in a kitchen includes the grease in the extract. TR19 is the benchmark insurers, fire officers and EHOs look to. If the system at a site near Saint Hill Green fails, there may be nowhere nearby to move to.
Whatever the type of site, the quote works the same way: how much there is, how we reach it, what state it’s in and when we can work. Ask for a fixed quote and we will explain each part.
What you get with us
- A fixed price before any work starts
- BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease
- One contact for all your sites in London and the South East
- Full insurance on every job
Take a look at what affects the cost and our accreditations.
Signs you need kitchen extract cleaning in Saint Hill Green
Grease in the extract matters because it burns. Flames from a pan or grill can be pulled into the canopy by the fan, and once grease in the duct catches, fire can spread through the building’s ductwork. For a kitchen in Saint Hill Green, keeping that fuel under control is part of the fire risk assessment.
Look out for these warning signs:
- A new tenancy or takeover with no cleaning history
- Poor airflow at the canopy
- Extraction mentioned at an environmental health visit
- An extract that has never been cleaned to TR19
A hospital like Queen Victoria Hospital, about 2.4 miles north-east, is the kind of site where a kitchen may cook for patients, staff and visitors all day.
What your quote should include
- How VAT is shown on the quote
- When the next visit should be, and why
- What hours they’ll be on site
- Whether a written report and pictures are included
What staff can safely do
Staff cleaning and specialist work are not the same thing. Wiping filters daily and washing them weekly keeps the visible parts in order, but grease that has passed the filters is out of reach. Reaching it takes a specialist with the right equipment.
Some jobs should never be done in-house: opening up ductwork, cleaning fans, drop testing fire dampers and measuring grease need training, the right equipment and safe access. That’s our job.