West Sussex · Kitchen extract cleaning
Tinsley Green kitchen extract cleaning
Professional kitchen extract cleaning in and around Tinsley Green, booked around your opening hours and finished with a written report and pictures.
- Extraction mentioned at an environmental health visit
- Fat running down the canopy edge
- An extract that no longer clears the smoke
Multi-site and managed buildings
Records are where multi-site compliance often slips. Every visit ends with a dated report and pictures, so you can show an insurer or inspector what was done at each site.
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’re happy to quote for all of it.
TR19 kitchen extract cleaning in Tinsley Green
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 Tinsley Green give you that record for the maintenance log. Typical jobs include a kitchen with no current TR19 certificate and ductwork thick with old, hardened grease, on discharge points, canopies and hoods and plenums and filters. Most calls from Tinsley Green come after an insurer, an EHO or a fire officer asks to see the last TR19 certificate. Either way, the answer is the same: a proper clean and the paperwork to match.
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.
Somewhere as small as Tinsley Green, 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, whatever the size of the place.
It’s worth checking any contractor’s accreditations. Ours are BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite membership, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease, plus CHAS, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, and we’re fully insured.
- Place
- Tinsley Green (RH10)
- Wider area
- West Sussex
- Paperwork
- Certificate plus before-and-after photos
- Quotes
- Fixed quote, normally within a working day
- Working hours
- When your site is closed, plus a 24/7 line
- Call
- 0345 646 2711
- Updated
- 30 October 2026
Staff cleaning versus specialist work
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.
For ventilation and air handling systems, in-house care is mostly about checks: clear grilles, a log of filter changes and reporting anything odd. Cleaning inside ducts and units is specialist work.
What the work involves, part by part
Canopy and plenum
Whether it’s one hood or a long island canopy, every section is cleaned and recorded in the photo report before and after.
Grease filters
We clean the grease filters as part of the job, and put back so they seat correctly. We will tell you if any need replacing.
Kitchen extract cleaning around Tinsley Green
The FSA’s food hygiene register includes about 9 pubs and bars and about 8 hotels, B&Bs and guest houses in Tinsley Green and the streets around it, up to about 1.5 miles out. Breakfasts, bar meals and functions all put grease into the extract wherever they’re cooked. In Tinsley Green, food businesses are inspected by environmental health officers from Crawley council. They look at how clean the premises and equipment are, and the kitchen extract is part of that. Our report lists what was cleaned and when, which is useful to have ready. The fire and rescue service for Tinsley Green is 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.
If you look after a school kitchen, at a school such as Forge Wood Primary School or anywhere near Tinsley Green, the holidays are the usual time for a TR19® clean. Where a hall near St Michael and All Angels Church, or anywhere in Tinsley Green, hosts lunch clubs or events, its extract gathers grease just as a café’s does.
Tinsley Green is about 3 miles south of Horley, in West Sussex. Every kind of commercial site in Tinsley Green, we can take on kitchen extract cleaning. Visits can be booked for evenings, overnight or weekends so trading is not interrupted. Tinsley Green is one of 371 places in West Sussex where we work for kitchen extract cleaning. Our Guildford page covers sites nearby, about 20 miles away.
Postcode districts we cover here for kitchen extract cleaning: RH10. Whether your site is on Radford Road and Steers Lane or anywhere close by, we can help. Close by, we work in Forge Wood (1 mile south), Shipley Bridge (1 mile north-east), Fernhill (1 mile north-east), Copthorne (1 mile east) and Burstow (1 mile north-east). Within a short drive, we also cover Crawley (3 miles south-west), Horsham (9 miles south-west), Haywards Heath (10 miles south), Burgess Hill (13 miles south), East Grinstead (6 miles east) and Broadfield (4 miles south-west).
Landmarks near Tinsley Green
In Tinsley Green, that means kitchens and buildings near The Gatwick School, Worth Park Gardens and Hazelwick School. The nearest railway station is Gatwick Airport station, about 1 mile north. Nearby you will also find Langley Green Hospital (1.8 miles south-west) and County Mall (2.4 miles south-west). Not far away are Tilgate Lake.
Common questions in Tinsley Green
Do you clean school canteen extracts around Tinsley Green out of term?
Yes. The holidays are the usual time for school work. The FSA’s register shows about 5 schools and colleges with food registrations within roughly a mile and a half of Tinsley Green. Booking early in the term gives the best choice of holiday dates.
Can you come to Tinsley Green after we close?
Yes, evening, overnight and weekend work is normal for us. The site is handed back ready to open. Your opening times are the first thing we ask for.
What about areas you can’t get to?
They’re marked on the report. In ductwork, new access panels are often the answer, and we can fit those.
What is TR19?
TR19® is BESA’s specification for ventilation hygiene. TR19® Grease, a standalone specification since 2019, covers grease in kitchen extract systems, while TR19® Air covers other supply and extract ductwork.
What types of premises do you cover?
Any commercial site with kitchens or ventilation, from a small pub to a hospital. Hotels, schools, care homes, offices, shops and leisure sites are all part of our work.
Which parts of the extract do you clean?
A TR19 Grease clean covers the full extract route, not just the canopy. That means canopy, plenum, filters, ducts, risers, fan and discharge, reached through access panels where necessary.
Do you have a 24/7 line?
Yes. Our emergency line runs 24/7 for anything that cannot wait until a planned visit. Call us any time and explain what’s happened.
What should I send you?
Where the site is, what it is and when it’s open, plus photos of the system and your last certificate or report if you have one.
Honest limits
Not every problem is solved by kitchen extract cleaning, and we’ll tell you before any work starts. It does not solve:
- A canopy that’s too small or a system that was badly designed
- A fan motor or bearings that have failed (that needs a fan repair or replacement)
- A damper that sticks or has a damaged link
Not sure which it is? You can phone us on 0345 646 2711 or send us an email and we will tell you honestly.
Parts of the system we cover
- Plenums and filters
- Horizontal duct runs
- Canopies and hoods
- Extract fans
- Discharge points
- Vertical risers
Signs you need kitchen extract cleaning in Tinsley Green
We often find duct sections that haven’t been cleaned since they were installed. Most of the time it’s because there were never enough access panels, so nobody could get to them. Grease in those sections keeps building out of sight.
These are the problems we see most often:
- Cleaning needed before an insurance renewal or survey
- Rancid smells from grease in the duct
- A kitchen taken over without any extract records
- Extraction mentioned at an environmental health visit
Healthcare kitchens can’t easily close, so their extracts are cleaned overnight or between meal services; the nearest hospital to Tinsley Green is Langley Green Hospital, about 1.8 miles south-west.
Comparing quotes
- Proof of accreditation you can verify
- What happens if part of the system cannot be accessed
- Whether the price is fixed
- Whether a survey comes first
What happens on the day
There are three stages on the day: getting the area ready, doing the work and signing it off. Set-up means sheeting and making equipment safe, while signing off means the written report and pictures. Most of the time goes on the work itself, and that takes a few hours for a small kitchen, longer for a large system. In a small place like Tinsley Green, the journey is planned ahead and the visit arranged around the site’s hours.
- We survey the system first, from your photos and details or on a site visit.
- Set points are tested for grease thickness and the quote is fixed before any work starts.
- On the day, cooking equipment is switched off and left to cool, and everything nearby is sheeted.
- Canopy, plenum, filters, duct runs, risers, fan and discharge are all cleaned to TR19® Grease.
- Readings and pictures are taken again, and you receive a TR19 certificate and photo report.
Before we arrive
- Let us know about permits to work or site inductions
- Agree a time when the area can be out of use
- Have your last certificate or report to hand
Getting a quote
To get a fixed quote, give us a ring on 0345 646 2711, or send details by email with the site type, your trading hours and a short description of the system. A few photos and your last certificate or report help a lot. You’ll typically have a quote within one working day.
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Aftercare tips
Simple habits between visits make a real difference. Our advice:
- Keep the baffle filters clean
- Keep grease collection points emptied
- Tell us when the extract starts to drip or smell
- Keep the TR19 certificate and photo report in the maintenance log
We hand the kitchen back clean, with the sheeting removed and waste taken away. Grease and dirty water are collected and taken off site, and equipment can be switched back on once we have gone.
Clean the grease filters often, not just on clean day. A filter that is clean and seated properly stops more grease getting into the plenum, so the ductwork stays cleaner for longer.