East Sussex · Kitchen extract cleaning
Kitchen extract cleaning in Three Leg Cross, East Sussex
Our technicians work in Three Leg Cross on kitchen extract cleaning. Out-of-hours visits, a fixed quote and a written report with photos as standard.
- An overdue clean flagged by an EHO or fire officer
- A kitchen with no current TR19 certificate
- Grease drips onto cooking equipment
What affects the cost of kitchen extract cleaning
Every site gets its own quote. These are the things that affect it:
- Where the site is and how we reach it
- Access, including roofs, risers and ceiling voids
- The number of sites or systems
- The times the site is available
Working hours, access and the scale of the site can all change the price. We take each of them into account, and the price is fixed before we start.
Helping us quote
When you contact us, it’s useful to have:
- Your opening hours and when the area is out of use
- Wide pictures of the system and the area around it
- Where the plant sits or the system leaves the building, such as a roof or outside wall
- Any previous report or certificate
Photos are enough for some jobs, while others need a look on site. Big or complicated sites, and systems that are hard to see in photos, get a survey first. Either way, you get a fixed price before work begins.
Kitchen duct cleaning in Three Leg Cross
Across Three Leg Cross, we clean kitchen extract systems to BESA TR19® Grease. We survey first and take grease readings, then clean the canopy, plenum, filters, ducts, fan and discharge. At the finish there’s a TR19 certificate and a before and after photo report. If you are dealing with fat running down the canopy edge and a system with no record of a TR19 clean, we can help, from canopies and hoods, vertical risers and extract fans onwards. Hood cleaning is where most enquiries from Three Leg Cross start: a system that’s clean inside, not just on the surface, and a certificate that proves it.
What can be cleaned depends on what can be reached. Where a duct run has no panels, we say so on the report and can fit new ones.
For a kitchen in or near Three Leg Cross, the visit is planned around opening hours and the journey, and the clean covers the whole system, as it would anywhere: canopy, filters, duct, fan and discharge, with a certificate and photo report at the end.
For insurers and inspectors, the record counts. So every job comes with a written report and photos, plus a TR19® certificate through the BESCA VHE portal where the work is a TR19® Grease clean.
- Place
- Three Leg Cross (TN5)
- Wider area
- East Sussex
- Reporting
- Certificate and photo report
- Price
- A fixed price before we start
- Hours
- Evenings, overnight and weekends; 24/7 emergencies
- Telephone
- 0345 646 2711
- Page updated
- 30 October 2026
Questions from Three Leg Cross
Will you come out to Three Leg Cross?
Yes, Three Leg Cross is part of our area, however small the site. Just mention lanes, gates or anything else about the site when you book.
Which fire and rescue service is responsible for Three Leg Cross?
Fire safety enforcement in Three Leg Cross is handled by East 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.
Is TR19 a legal requirement?
The legal duty sits in the Fire Safety Order 2005 rather than in TR19 itself. TR19 is the industry benchmark for meeting that duty in a kitchen extract, and an insurer may refuse or reduce a claim without it.
Will my insurer ask for a TR19 certificate?
Many policies require TR19 cleaning, and insurers often ask to see the certificate. An insurer may refuse or reduce a claim if there’s no evidence, so it’s worth checking your policy wording.
Will I get a certificate after the clean?
Every clean comes with a TR19 certificate and a photo report. Keep them in the maintenance log with the fire risk assessment so they’re to hand when an insurer asks.
Can you set up regular visits?
Yes. We run scheduled maintenance contracts, set at the interval the system needs. The report from each visit recommends the next date.
What happens to the waste?
It’s contained and taken away. Grease, debris and waste water are collected as the work goes on, so it doesn’t spread.
What accreditations do you hold?
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’re fully insured.
What kitchen extract cleaning cannot fix
We will always give you a straight diagnosis, so here’s what this work cannot put right:
- Blocked drains from a neglected grease trap (a separate service)
- An undersized canopy or fan
- A duct that’s holed or coming apart
If you are not sure, just ring 0345 646 2711 or email us and we’ll give you a straight answer.
What we work on in Three Leg Cross
- Canopies and hoods
- Horizontal duct runs
- Vertical risers
- Plenums and filters
- Discharge points
- Extract fans
Signs you need kitchen extract cleaning in Three Leg Cross
Grease in an extract starts as vapour. Once it cools inside the ductwork, it condenses onto every surface it touches, building a layer that gets thicker with every service. The grease filters stop some, never all of it.
Look out for any of the following:
- An extract that no longer clears the smoke
- Stale cooking odours from the system
- A kitchen taken over without any extract records
- An overdue clean flagged by an EHO or fire officer
A hall kitchen that only cooks for events, whether near St Mary's Church or elsewhere in Three Leg Cross, still needs its extract cleaned, just less often.
What your quote should include
- What paperwork you get at the end
- What’s included in the scope, part by part
- Whether a survey comes first
- Whether VAT is included
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. Cleaning inside ducts and units is specialist work.
When your team notices a problem between visits, such as dripping grease, a noisy fan, a smell or a filter that won’t come clean, it’s best reported rather than tackled in-house. We can diagnose it and quote.
Between visits
Aftercare is simple, and it makes the next visit easier:
- Keep grease collection points emptied
- Never cook with filters missing or out of place
- Switch the fan on before cooking starts
- Wipe the canopy down at the end of each day
We hand the kitchen back clean, with the sheeting removed and waste taken away. Waste grease and water are contained and removed, so you can start cooking as normal.
Book the next clean before the last one runs out. If the kitchen starts cooking longer hours, the interval should be looked at again, and grease readings will show it.
Places near Three Leg Cross
What else we do in Three Leg Cross
Grease, kitchens and Three Leg Cross
Look up Three Leg Cross on the FSA’s food hygiene register and you’ll find about 4 cafés, restaurants and staff canteens in Three Leg Cross and the streets around it, up to about 1.5 miles out. Each one that cooks under a canopy has an extract system that collects grease and needs regular cleaning. Food hygiene inspections in Three Leg Cross are the job of Rother council’s environmental health team. The cleanliness of the kitchen and its equipment, extraction included, is part of what they check. Keeping each certificate and photo report on file helps show the extract is looked after. The fire and rescue service for Three Leg Cross is East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service. Its fire safety officers can audit commercial kitchens, and grease in the extract is part of a kitchen’s fire risk.
Kitchens that cook twelve hours or more a day, as some healthcare kitchens do, fall into BESA’s three-monthly minimum; Ticehurst House Hospital is the nearest hospital to Three Leg Cross, about 0.5 miles south-west. Historic houses near Three Leg Cross, such as Scotney Castle about 2.6 miles north, are a reminder that older buildings with event kitchens can have long, awkward duct routes.
Three Leg Cross is about 8 miles south-east of Royal Tunbridge Wells, in East Sussex. For kitchen extract cleaning in and around Three Leg Cross, please ring 0345 646 2711 or email us for a fixed quote. Our area covers London and the South East, Three Leg Cross included. 289 places in East Sussex are on our list, large and small. There’s also a page for Maidstone, about 16 miles away.
Kitchen extract cleaning in TN5 follows the same survey, fixed quote and written report as everywhere else we cover. Nearby, we also carry out kitchen extract cleaning in Ticehurst (1 mile south-east), Stonecrouch (1 mile north-east), Flimwell (2 miles east), Kilndown (2 miles north) and Bedgebury Cross (3 miles north-east). Within a short drive, we also cover Hastings (15 miles south-east), Bexhill-on-Sea (15 miles south), Hailsham (15 miles south-west), Crowborough (10 miles west), St Leonards (15 miles south-east) and Uckfield (14 miles south-west).
Landmarks near Three Leg Cross
We work in commercial kitchens and buildings around The Bull Inn Public House. The closest station to Three Leg Cross is Stonegate station, roughly 3 miles south-west. Nearby you will also find Old Scotney Castle (2.5 miles north) and Finchcocks Musical Museum (3.4 miles north). For a walk, there’s Bewl Water.
Managing agents and facilities teams in Three Leg Cross
Landlords, managing agents and facilities managers book us, not only the businesses that use the systems. 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.
Under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, the responsible person must assess and reduce fire risk, which may be the employer, owner, landlord, FM or managing agent. Where responsibility is shared, records matter even more.
What we do, step by step
Everything the job needs comes with us, including protection sheets, the right tools and access kit. You only need to give us clear access and switch off what needs to be off. The visit takes anything from a few hours to a full night, depending on the size of the system. Photos of the system and how to reach it help us plan a visit to Three Leg Cross.
- 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.
- The kitchen is closed, the equipment cooled and everything nearby protected.
- We work through the system from the canopy to the fan and discharge.
- Readings are repeated, photos taken, and your TR19 certificate and photo report issued.
How to prepare
- Plan for cooking equipment or plant to be off before we arrive
- Clear the space around the work
- Tell us where we can park and unload
Get a fixed quote
Want a quote for kitchen extract cleaning? Please give us a ring on 0345 646 2711, or email photos and tell us about the site. We’ll explain what we’d do and send a fixed quote before you commit to anything.