Kitchen extract cleaning in Brighton
Brighton and Hove has one of the highest concentrations of independent restaurants of any city in England. The Lanes and North Laine are wall-to-wall cafes, bistros and bars between the seafront and the station, Preston Street is a run of small restaurants covering a dozen cuisines, and Kemptown, St James's Street and the seafront arches below Madeira Drive trade late into the night through the summer. Hove has its own strip along Church Road and Western Road, Brighton Marina houses a cluster of chain restaurants, and the Seven Dials and London Road areas serve a large student population from the two universities.
Seasonality is the big variable. A seafront fish-and-chip kitchen might be cooking flat out from Easter to October and quietly through the winter, which complicates the TR19 calculation: frequency is set by hours of use, so a kitchen that is heavy use in summer may justify a three-month clean then and a six-month interval in the quieter half of the year. Conference hotels along King's Road and the Royal Sussex County Hospital run steady, year-round operations. We arrange kitchen extract cleaning across the city through contractors who understand how Brighton's calendar works.
Compliance in Brighton
Brighton & Hove City Council's environmental health team inspects the city's food businesses and has a particular eye on the seafront, where cramped arch kitchens and shared extract systems are common. East Sussex Fire & Rescue Service is the fire authority, and its business safety officers have dealt with enough kitchen duct fires in the city's older buildings to ask pointed questions about cleaning records during an audit. Brighton's many Regency and Victorian premises have long, concealed duct runs through upper floors that are often flats. Insurers know this too, and loss adjusters handling a Brighton kitchen fire claim will want the TR19 certificate and grease readings before anything else is discussed.
How it works for a Brighton kitchen
Tell us about your Brighton kitchen, including whether it trades seasonally, and we will put you in touch with a contractor based in Sussex who can quote within a working day and plan the clean around your quiet period. Work is often done overnight or on a Monday when many Lanes restaurants close. The contractor issues a TR19 certificate with before-and-after photographs and records the next due date, and we send a reminder so it does not slip. Ask for a Brighton quote.
Services we arrange here: Kitchen Extract Cleaning · Canopy Cleaning · Ductwork Cleaning · Extractor Fan Cleaning · Filter Cleaning and Replacement
Also covering the towns around Brighton
Bexhill-on-Sea · Burgess Hill · Crawley · Crowborough · East Grinstead · Eastbourne · Hailsham · Hastings · Haywards Heath · Hove · Hurstpierpoint · Lancing · Lewes · Littlehampton · Newhaven · Peacehaven · Portslade · Rustington · Saltdean · Seaford · Shoreham-by-Sea · Southwick · Uckfield · Worthing
Nearby: Hove · Worthing · Shoreham-by-Sea · Lewes · Newhaven · Burgess Hill · Haywards Heath · Eastbourne — all covered from Brighton. Other cities in South East England: Reading · Oxford · Milton Keynes · Southampton · Portsmouth · Maidstone · Guildford · Slough
Frequently asked questions
Our seafront kitchen is only busy from Easter to October. How often should the extract be cleaned?
Base it on hours cooked, not months open. If the kitchen runs twelve or more hours a day through the season, book a clean before Easter and another in July or August to stay within the heavy-use interval, then a further clean after the season ends. Over the winter, with shorter hours, the interval can stretch. The contractor will note the pattern on the certificate.
Do the contractors cover Hove, Shoreham, Lewes and Worthing as well as Brighton itself?
Yes. The specialists we work with in Sussex travel along the coast from Worthing and Shoreham-by-Sea through Hove and Brighton to Newhaven and Seaford, and inland to Lewes, Burgess Hill and Haywards Heath. Travel is included in the quote. If you run more than one site along the coast, the same contractor can take on all of them.
Our restaurant is in a listed building in The Lanes with ductwork we cannot see. Can it still be certified?
It can, but the contractor will need to trace the run and fit access panels at intervals so the duct interior can be cleaned and photographed. Listed status may affect where external panels can go, though internal panels rarely need consent. Any section that still cannot be reached is recorded on the report with a reason, which is what TR19 requires.