Kitchen extract cleaning in Portsmouth
Portsmouth is the UK's only island city, and its kitchens are squeezed into a tight urban grid. Gunwharf Quays is the biggest single cluster, with waterfront chain restaurants and hotel dining beneath the Spinnaker Tower; Southsea's Albert Road, Palmerston Road and Osborne Road are the independent heart of the city, with pubs, grills, cafes and takeaways trading late; and Guildhall Walk and Commercial Road feed the student and office population near the University of Portsmouth. The Hard and Old Portsmouth serve dockyard visitors, Fratton and North End have long high streets of takeaways, and Cosham and Drayton on the mainland side add more pubs and restaurants around Queen Alexandra Hospital.
The naval base and the ferry port bring steady hotel and contract catering, and the seafront from Clarence Pier to South Parade Pier is busy through the summer. A Gunwharf restaurant or a Southsea grill running long hours is heavy use under TR19 and needs cleaning every three months; a pub kitchen in Old Portsmouth is often moderate at six; a small cafe in Drayton may be light use at twelve. We arrange TR19 cleans for restaurants, hotels, pubs and takeaways across Portsea Island and the surrounding towns.
Compliance in Portsmouth
Portsmouth City Council's environmental health team inspects food businesses across the city and will ask when the extract system was last cleaned, with Southsea's densely packed Albert Road premises among the most frequently visited. Hampshire and Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service covers Portsmouth from its stations at Southsea and Cosham, and its business safety officers audit hotels, student accommodation and restaurants where ductwork passes through occupied floors. Many of Southsea's Victorian terraces have flats directly above kitchens. Loss adjusters instructed after a Portsmouth kitchen fire will ask for the TR19 certificate immediately, and insurers regularly write cleaning intervals into policy conditions, so an overdue clean can leave a business uninsured at the worst moment.
How it works for a Portsmouth kitchen
Describe your Portsmouth kitchen and its trading hours and we will hand the enquiry to a contractor who covers the city and the Solent coast and can quote inside a working day. Southsea and Gunwharf cleans tend to run late at night; hospital and hotel work is scheduled around service times. You receive a TR19 certificate, grease-thickness readings and photographs of every section, and we keep a diary of your next due date and prompt you before it. Get a Portsmouth quote.
Services we arrange here: Kitchen Extract Cleaning · Canopy Cleaning · Ductwork Cleaning · Extractor Fan Cleaning · Filter Cleaning and Replacement
Also covering the towns around Portsmouth
Bognor Regis · Chichester · Emsworth · Fareham · Gosport · Havant · Hayling Island · Horndean · Lee-on-the-Solent · Newport (Isle of Wight) · Petersfield · Ryde · Sandown · Selsey · Stubbington · Waterlooville
Nearby: Southsea · Cosham · Havant · Fareham · Gosport · Waterlooville · Emsworth · Chichester — all covered from Portsmouth. Other cities in South East England: Brighton · Reading · Oxford · Milton Keynes · Southampton · Maidstone · Guildford · Slough
Frequently asked questions
Is a takeaway on Albert Road too small to need a TR19 clean?
No. TR19 applies to any commercial kitchen extract system regardless of size, and small takeaways with fryers running all evening often carry more grease per metre of duct than a large restaurant. A single-canopy system is quicker and cheaper to clean, and the certificate matters just as much to your insurer and to the EHO.
Can you arrange cleaning at Gunwharf Quays, where the landlord controls access?
Yes. Gunwharf and similar managed developments require contractors to book out-of-hours access, provide insurance details and follow site rules, and the contractors we assign are used to that process. They will liaise with centre management directly so that you only need to confirm the date and open up the kitchen.
We also have a site in Havant and one in Fareham. Can one contractor do all three?
Yes. The specialists covering Portsmouth also work across Havant, Waterlooville, Fareham, Gosport, Emsworth and Chichester, so a small group of sites can be cleaned on the same schedule by the same contractor, with a certificate for each. Aligning the dates makes it easier to show the insurer and the EHO that everything is in order.