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TR19 kitchen extract cleaning in South Chailey
Kitchen extract cleaning across South Chailey and nearby, booked around your opening hours and finished with a written report and pictures.
- Extraction mentioned at an environmental health visit
- Cleaning needed before an insurance renewal or survey
- A kitchen with no current TR19 certificate
Your questions about kitchen extract cleaning in South Chailey
Which environmental health team covers South Chailey?
In South Chailey, it’s Lewes council that carries out food hygiene inspections. An officer may look up into the canopy, so clean filters on the day and a recent certificate on file both help.
Can you work in South Chailey outside opening hours?
Yes, we can come after you close and finish before you open. It means the site in South Chailey keeps running as normal. Your opening times are the first thing we ask for.
Do you look at the system first?
Yes. We always survey first, either from photos and details you send or on a site visit. Then you get a fixed quote.
What does TR19 mean?
A BESA 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 long does a kitchen extract clean take?
Allow one visit for most kitchens, while large or complex systems may need more than one. We’ll confirm the time when we quote.
Which sectors do you work in?
We work for restaurants, pubs, hotels, schools, colleges, hospitals, care homes, offices and shops, plus food production and leisure sites.
Do you clean the whole extract system or just the canopy?
We clean every part the grease travels through. That means canopy, plenum, filters, ducts, risers, fan and discharge, reached through access panels where needed.
Do you offer emergency callouts?
Yes. For anything urgent, such as a fan failure or damage after a fire, ring the 24/7 line, and we will advise on what to do next.
How we handle kitchen extract cleaning in South Chailey
Insurers often want evidence of regular TR19 cleaning, and a claim can be refused or reduced without it. The certificate and photo report from each clean in South Chailey give you that record, ready for the fire risk assessment file. The work covers vertical risers, extract fans and plenums and filters, and common reasons people get in touch are a system with no record of a TR19 clean and an overdue clean flagged by an EHO or fire officer. Need a TR19 duct cleaning contractor for South Chailey? We’ve been cleaning kitchen extracts across the South East since 2009, as a BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite member.
Kitchens that fry and grill hardest need the most frequent cleans, so we look at the menu as well as the opening hours when we suggest the next date.
Work in a small place like South Chailey starts with a call to agree access and timings, and the clean itself is the same full TR19® job as in any town: canopy, filters, duct, fan and discharge, with a certificate and photo report at the end.
Good records are part of the job. You get a written report with pictures after every visit, listing what was done, anything we couldn’t reach and when the next visit is due. Keep it with your fire safety records so it’s ready for an insurer, fire officer or EHO.
- Location
- South Chailey (BN8)
- Region
- East Sussex
- Records
- TR19® certificate and photo report
- Quote
- A fixed quote up front
- When we work
- After hours by arrangement; emergencies any time
- Telephone
- 0345 646 2711
- Checked
- 30 October 2026
Managing agents and facilities teams in South Chailey
Where a tenant occupies the premises but the landlord owns the building, the lease normally sets out who maintains what. We can quote either party and send the paperwork to whoever needs it.
The Fire Safety Order 2005 puts the duty to manage fire risk on the responsible person, 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.
What we do, step by step
Your staff don’t need to do much on the day. A contact on site lets us in at the agreed time and points us to the system, and the rest is down to us. Before we leave, the area is tidied and the paperwork follows. Rural roads and tight entrances are worth telling us about before a visit to South Chailey.
- Diagnosis comes first, with a survey of the system and how it’s reached.
- 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.
- 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.
Before we arrive
- Let us know about permits to work or site inductions
- Agree a time when the area can be out of use
- Name a contact who can let us in at the agreed time
How to get a quote
Need a price for kitchen extract cleaning? Please call us on 0345 646 2711 or drop us a line and tell us about the site. We’ll talk you through the work and give you a fixed quote before anything is booked.
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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, and in a kitchen that means keeping extract grease under control. Cleaning to TR19 is the recognised way to show you’ve done it. It’s worth booking a check, because nobody sees inside a duct day to day.
Working hours, access and the scale of the site all affect the cost. Each of those is built into the quote and give you a fixed price before we start.
Why book with us
- In business since 2009
- One number for every site across the South East and London
- Photo reports with every job
- Survey first, then a fixed quote
Read our cost guide and our accreditations and certificates.
Between visits
How long the results last depends on use and care. We suggest:
- Don’t let the canopy gutters overflow
- Tell us when the extract starts to drip or smell
- Make sure every filter is fitted before cooking
- File each certificate with the fire risk assessment
If we couldn’t get into part of the duct, the report says so plainly. That’s part of an honest TR19 clean, not a failing, and we can fit access panels so it’s reached next time.
Keep the fan on throughout service. Cooking with the extract off lets grease and heat settle in the canopy, and the next clean has more to do.
Common problems we fix in South Chailey
In South Chailey, as anywhere, grease gathers where the air slows down: in long flat runs, at bends and changes of direction, and in the fan housing. Cooler sections of duct collect the most.
These are the problems we see most often:
- An extract that no longer clears the smoke
- Grease smells coming from the extract
- An extract that has never been cleaned to TR19
- Extraction mentioned at an environmental health visit
School kitchens, at schools like Chailey School for example, are typically cleaned in the holidays so no lunches are lost.
Questions to ask before booking
- Whether the quote is based on a survey or photos
- Whether the work can be done while the site is closed
- What’s included in the scope, part by part
- Whether a written report and pictures are included
When it’s something else
It’s worth knowing the limits before booking:
- Ductwork that’s corroded, split or leaking (that’s for a ductwork contractor)
- A fan motor that has burnt out
- A canopy that’s too small or a system that was badly designed
If in doubt, ring 0345 646 2711, or send details by email and we will say what we think before you book.
What we work on in South Chailey
- Canopies and hoods
- Extract fans
- Discharge points
- Plenums and filters
- Horizontal duct runs
- Vertical risers
Places near South Chailey
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Grease, kitchens and South Chailey
At about 39 miles from central London, South Chailey sits well inside the area we cover. Evening, overnight and weekend visits are all possible. It’s Lewes council that sends environmental health officers to food businesses in South Chailey. Extraction counts as kitchen equipment, so its condition can come up on the day. A dated certificate in the maintenance file answers the question before it’s asked.
Older buildings often hide long, awkward duct runs, and if you run a kitchen at a historic venue in the area (Anne of Cleves House is about 5 miles south), access may need planning. If you run catering at a healthcare site, such as a hospital like Lewes Victoria Hospital about 4.5 miles south, the extract may need cleaning more often than a part-time kitchen.
South Chailey is about 4 miles north of Lewes, in East Sussex. We provide kitchen extract cleaning for commercial premises of every kind in South Chailey and the rest of East Sussex. Our East Sussex coverage runs to 289 places, and South Chailey is one of them. For sites nearby, see our Brighton page, about 9 miles away.
Every address in BN8 is covered for kitchen extract cleaning, from the main roads to the quietest streets. You’ll find streets such as Mill Brooks, Whitegates Close and Brickyard Lane, all of which we cover for kitchen extract cleaning. We also cover the places around South Chailey: South Street (1 mile north), Chiltington (1 mile south), Chailey (2 miles north-east), East Chiltington (2 miles south-west) and Plumpton Green (2 miles west). Within a short drive, we also cover Seaford (13 miles south-east), Lewes (4 miles south), Hailsham (13 miles south-east), Crowborough (11 miles north-east), Uckfield (6 miles east) and Newhaven (11 miles south).
What’s near South Chailey
Around South Chailey, our work takes us to kitchens and buildings near Swan Public House. The closest station to South Chailey is Plumpton station, about 1.7 miles south-west. A little further out are Lewes Castle (4.8 miles south) and Lewes Victoria Hospital (4.5 miles south). The countryside around South Chailey includes Blackcap and Malling Down.
How the job changes from site to site
Schools, hospitals and care homes
Some healthcare kitchens never fully close. Cleans are planned between meals or overnight, so residents and patients aren’t disturbed.
Extract fan and discharge
Attenuators, where fitted, can soak up grease and need attention. We clean what can be reached and note anything that cannot.