EC Cleaners Network · South Coast
Commercial kitchen extract cleaning support across the South Coast of England.
For restaurants, hotels, pubs, care providers, healthcare, education, food businesses, leisure venues, workplace catering and managed estates across Dorset, Hampshire, Sussex, Kent and the Isle of Wight.
South Coast coverage
Where we can help
If you already know which county you need, use the links below. If you manage several properties across the South Coast, you can send them together and keep each site’s requirements and evidence separately identified.
Dorset
Bournemouth, Poole, Christchurch, Weymouth, Dorchester, Wimborne, Bridport, Swanage, Blandford Forum, Sherborne and surrounding areas.
For hotels, restaurants, pubs, leisure businesses, care, education, food businesses and other commercial kitchens.
East Sussex
Brighton & Hove, Eastbourne, Hastings, Lewes, Bexhill-on-Sea, Seaford, Newhaven, Hailsham, Uckfield, Rye and surrounding locations.
Including restaurants, hotels, pubs, healthcare, education, care, leisure venues and mixed-use commercial property.
Hampshire
Southampton, Portsmouth, Winchester, Basingstoke, Eastleigh, Fareham, Gosport, Havant, Andover, Petersfield, Lymington and surrounding areas.
For hospitality, hotels, healthcare, education, public estates, ports, workplace catering and large managed properties.
Isle of Wight
Newport, Ryde, Cowes, East Cowes, Sandown, Shanklin, Ventnor, Freshwater, Bembridge and commercial properties across the island.
Including hotels, restaurants, pubs, visitor attractions, care, education and public-sector catering.
Kent
Maidstone, Canterbury, Dartford, Ashford, Tunbridge Wells, Sevenoaks, Gravesend, Folkestone, Dover, Margate, Ramsgate and surrounding areas.
For restaurants, hotels, healthcare, care, education, food production, workplace catering and major commercial estates.
West Sussex
Worthing, Chichester, Crawley, Horsham, Bognor Regis, Littlehampton, Shoreham-by-Sea, Haywards Heath, Burgess Hill and surrounding locations.
Including hospitality, hotels, healthcare, education, leisure, care, food businesses and managed commercial properties.
Popular South Coast locations
You do not need to work out which page applies before contacting us. Tell us where the property is and what has prompted the requirement.
Southampton
Southampton City Centre, Shirley, Portswood, Bitterne, Woolston, Millbrook, Swaythling and the wider Southampton area.
Relevant properties include restaurants, hotels, education, healthcare, workplace catering, shopping centres and port-related commercial premises.
Portsmouth
Portsmouth, Southsea, Fratton, Cosham, Hilsea, North End, Port Solent, Fareham, Gosport, Havant and surrounding areas.
For restaurants, hotels, pubs, education, healthcare, public estates and port-related commercial property.
Brighton & Hove
Brighton, Hove, Portslade and surrounding Sussex locations, with a large concentration of restaurants, hotels, pubs, leisure venues, education and mixed-use properties.
Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole
Bournemouth, Boscombe, Southbourne, Westbourne, Winton, Poole, Parkstone, Branksome, Sandbanks, Christchurch, Highcliffe and surrounding areas.
For hotels, restaurants, pubs, leisure, care, education and other commercial kitchens across the BCP area.
Looking for somewhere else along the coast?
Use the county links above for locations including Eastbourne, Hastings, Worthing, Chichester, Weymouth, Winchester, Maidstone, Canterbury, Dover and Newport.
When you need help with a commercial kitchen extract system
Sometimes the requirement is straightforward: the extraction system is due for cleaning and you need an appropriate specialist contractor.
Other enquiries begin with a problem. You may have an existing report showing inaccessible ductwork, a fire-risk action, an insurer or landlord asking for evidence, several different quotations or uncertainty about what a previous visit actually covered.
EC Cleaners Network helps organise the information you already have so the requirement is clearer before an independent specialist contractor is appointed.
You can send an existing report, photographs, certificate, quotation or drawing. You do not need to prepare a new technical specification before contacting us.
Commercial and institutional properties:
this page concerns commercial kitchen extraction and commercial building ventilation. It is not intended for domestic or residential air-duct cleaning.
South Coast properties can be very different from one another
A seafront hotel in Bournemouth, city-centre restaurant in Brighton, catering operation in Southampton and historic pub in Kent may all have kitchen-extraction requirements, but the buildings and access conditions can be completely different.
Hotels & busy hospitality
Long trading hours, occupied bedrooms, guest areas and seasonal demand can restrict when contractors can access the kitchen and roof areas.
Ports & controlled sites
Some Southampton, Portsmouth, Dover and other transport-related properties may involve permits, security procedures or managed access.
Older & mixed-use buildings
Extraction routes can pass through ceilings, risers, neighbouring premises or landlord-controlled parts of the building before reaching the fan.
Why organisations contact us
The system is due for cleaning
You need to arrange the next visit and want the intended parts of the extraction system to be clear before contractors assess the job.
A report has raised a problem
Previous documentation identifies grease build-up, inaccessible ductwork, missing access or another action that still needs attention.
Someone has asked for evidence
An insurer, landlord, fire-risk adviser, facilities team or other professional has requested action or supporting documentation.
What sort of requirement do you have?
Kitchen Extract Cleaning
For grease-contaminated commercial kitchen extraction systems, including the canopy, ductwork, risers, fan and discharge where these form part of the agreed contractor scope.
Ventilation Hygiene
For general supply, return and extract ventilation systems outside the grease-contaminated kitchen extraction route.
Access Problems
For ductwork recorded as inaccessible, areas repeatedly excluded from cleaning or systems where additional access provision may be needed.
Existing Reports & Evidence
If you already have a report, certificate, photographs or quotation and need greater clarity about what has been recorded and what remains unresolved.
Choosing a Contractor
For organisations wanting greater clarity around who is quoting, what is included, what assumptions have been made and what evidence will be returned afterwards.
Send Us the Requirement
Tell us where the property is, what has prompted the enquiry and what information you already have.
A kitchen extract system is more than the canopy
One of the most common sources of confusion is assuming that the visible hood and filters represent the complete extraction system.
Depending on the property, grease-laden air may travel from the canopy through horizontal ductwork, vertical risers and concealed sections before reaching the extract fan and final discharge.
The contractor quotation should make it clear which parts of that route have been included.
Canopy & plenum
The kitchen-facing part of the system where grease-laden air is collected before entering the ductwork.
Ductwork & risers
Horizontal and vertical sections that can pass through ceilings, service areas, shafts and other parts of the property.
Fan & discharge
The fan and downstream discharge should not be assumed to be included unless the contractor’s scope makes this clear.
Read: What Is Included in a Commercial Kitchen Extract System? →
What if some of the ductwork cannot be reached?
This can be particularly important in hotels, older pubs, historic buildings, shopping environments and mixed-use properties where the extract route passes through several areas before reaching the fan.
If an existing report says that part of the system was inaccessible, tell the next contractor before the visit.
Otherwise the same section may simply be excluded again.
Already have a report showing inaccessible ductwork?
Send it with the enquiry. It may help identify whether further access provision, enabling work or specialist assessment is required.
Read: What To Do About Inaccessible Kitchen Extract Ductwork →
Kitchen extraction and general ventilation are not the same thing
Hotels, hospitals, colleges, offices and other larger properties may contain several different ventilation systems.
TR19® Grease relates specifically to grease-contaminated commercial kitchen extraction and the management of grease-related fire risk.
TR19® Air is a separate BESA specification dealing with cleanliness and hygiene within general ventilation systems.
If a property has both, they should be identified separately rather than being treated as one vague “duct cleaning” requirement.
A lower quotation may simply include less work
Commercial kitchen extraction systems vary considerably, so it is worth comparing what each contractor is actually proposing rather than looking only at the total.
One contractor may have priced the canopy and easily reached ductwork. Another may have included a riser, roof fan, specialist access, restricted working hours or more detailed completion reporting.
What is included?
Canopy, plenum, ductwork, risers, fan and discharge should be clearly identified where relevant.
How will it be reached?
Look for assumptions around roof access, access panels, high-level equipment, permits or enabling work.
What will you receive afterwards?
Understand what photographs, reporting, measurements, exclusions and outstanding actions will be recorded.
If the requirement came from fire safety, insurance or a landlord
Keep the original recommendation or request and send it with the contractor enquiry.
A detailed instruction should not be reduced to simply “get a TR19 certificate”. The contractor needs to understand which system has been identified, what problem or action has been raised and what evidence is expected after the work.
TR19® Grease is a BESA industry specification rather than legislation in itself. Separate fire-safety duties apply to commercial premises.
Insurance and landlord requirements also vary, so the relevant policy, lease requirement or written request should be checked rather than assumed.
Who we can help
Commercial kitchen extraction is relevant to far more than standalone restaurants.
Hospitality & leisure
Restaurants, pubs, hotels, resorts, holiday parks, visitor attractions, clubs and entertainment venues.
Care, healthcare & education
Care homes, hospitals, schools, colleges, universities and other institutional catering environments.
Estates & multi-site operators
Facilities managers, restaurant groups, public bodies, workplace catering, shopping environments and multi-property operators.
After the work, you should be able to understand what actually happened
A useful completion record should identify the relevant kitchen and extraction system, explain what the contractor says was completed and make any exclusions or outstanding problems clear.
The correct system
Make sure the evidence can be connected to the right property, kitchen and extraction route.
The completed work
Reporting and photographs should make the contractor’s completed physical scope understandable.
Anything still outstanding
Inaccessible or incomplete areas should remain visible rather than disappearing once the attendance is finished.
Managing several South Coast properties?
Hotel groups, restaurant operators, care providers, healthcare organisations, education estates, public bodies and facilities-management companies may need to manage several properties at the same time.
We can help keep the information organised without treating every property as though it contains the same extraction system.
Keep each site clear
Property, kitchen, system, contractor and evidence should remain separately identifiable.
Keep local differences visible
Duct routes, roof access, operating hours, security arrangements and landlord requirements can vary considerably between sites.
Keep unresolved actions open
Missing evidence, inaccessible sections and further work should not become lost inside a larger maintenance programme.
Looking for another area?
What happens when you contact EC?
- Tell us about the property.
Give us the location and a short explanation of what has prompted the enquiry. - Send anything you already have.
Reports, photographs, certificates, quotations and drawings can all be useful. - We help organise the requirement.
We make the commercial scope and any obvious unanswered questions easier to see. - Appropriate specialist capability can be considered.
The independent contractor remains responsible for its own technical assessment and quotation. - Compare what is being proposed.
Look at what is included, what access is assumed and what evidence will be supplied afterwards. - Keep the completion record.
Completed work, exclusions and further actions should remain understandable after the visit.
Our role
EC Cleaners Network is designed to make it easier for organisations to move from a requirement, report or problem towards an appropriately scoped contractor appointment and useful evidence afterwards.
We can organise customer-supplied information, help make the requirement clearer, highlight obvious differences between quotations and support introductions to potentially appropriate independent specialists.
We do not inspect or clean the extraction system ourselves and we do not decide whether a system is technically compliant.
The appointed specialist remains responsible for the technical work.
That includes assessment, quotation, safe working, access method, physical delivery, measurements, reporting, certification and professional conclusions within its appointed scope.
South Coast kitchen extract cleaning: common questions
Which areas can I submit a requirement from?
Requirements can be submitted from Dorset, East Sussex, Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Kent and West Sussex, including Southampton, Portsmouth, Brighton & Hove, Bournemouth, Poole, Eastbourne, Hastings, Worthing, Chichester, Winchester, Maidstone, Canterbury and surrounding areas.
Can I send an existing TR19 report?
Yes. Existing reports, photographs, certificates and quotations can provide useful information about what was previously completed, what could not be reached and what may still require attention.
Does kitchen extract cleaning include the fan and ductwork?
It can, depending on the system and the contractor’s agreed scope. The quotation should clearly identify which sections of the extraction route are included, excluded or inaccessible.
What if some of the ductwork is inaccessible?
The access problem should remain visible. Additional access provision, enabling work or further specialist assessment may be required before that part of the system can be addressed.
Is kitchen extract cleaning the same as general ventilation cleaning?
No. Commercial kitchen grease extraction and general building ventilation are different systems. TR19® Grease relates to commercial kitchen extraction, while TR19® Air concerns cleanliness and hygiene within general ventilation systems.
Is TR19® Grease a legal requirement?
TR19® Grease is a BESA industry specification rather than legislation in itself. Separate statutory fire-safety responsibilities apply to non-domestic premises.
How much does commercial kitchen extract cleaning cost?
Independent contractor pricing depends on the extraction system, duct length and configuration, grease loading, fan position, access arrangements, working hours and evidence required. EC Cleaners Network does not set contractor prices.
Can I submit several properties together?
Yes. Multi-site requirements can be submitted together while keeping each property’s extraction system, access position, contractor scope and completion evidence separately identifiable.
Does EC Cleaners Network carry out the cleaning?
No. EC Cleaners Network is operated by Search and Submit Ltd. Independent appointed contractors remain responsible for technical assessment, safe working, physical delivery, reporting and certification within their appointed scope.
Useful technical references
Need help with a kitchen extraction requirement on the South Coast?
Tell us where the property is, what has prompted the enquiry and what information you already have.
You can send an existing report, quotation, photographs or certificate. You do not need to prepare a new technical specification before contacting us.
Responsibility statement:
EC Cleaners Network is operated by Search and Submit Ltd. Search and Submit Ltd does not inspect, clean, test, survey, design, remediate, certify or technically approve kitchen extraction or ventilation systems.
Independent appointed contractors and competent professionals remain responsible for technical assessment, quotations, safe working, physical delivery, reporting, certification, applicable notifications and professional conclusions within their appointed scope.
TR19® Grease and TR19® Air are BESA specifications. References are descriptive and no BESA endorsement of or affiliation with EC Cleaners Network is claimed.
Fire-safety, insurance, landlord and regulatory requirements depend on the individual premises and circumstances.
Page reviewed: 14 September 2026.