Bournemouth · TR19 Grease
We clean the full commercial duct run - grease, dry and laundry ductwork, canopy to roof fan - for kitchens, offices and industrial sites across Bournemouth, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Bournemouth
Bournemouth rates around 3,500 food premises, and behind a large share sits an extract duct a canopy clean never reaches - plus the dry ductwork and air-handling that keep its offices and public buildings running.
Right across Bournemouth, from Charminster through Westbourne to Triangle, cooklines share tight roof space and vent through concealed ducting few operators ever see inside. We clean that entire path to the TR19 Grease standard, canopy through to fan, taking in the level pulls and the risers where grease settles thickest and a fire would run.
It is not only kitchens: we also clean the dry supply and extract ductwork in Bournemouth offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-packed laundry runs behind its hotel and care-home dryers. The busiest kitchens - the two universities, the Royal Bournemouth Hospital, the Vitality Stadium and the seafront hotels - coat their hidden ducting in grease quickest, and that is the very path a fire follows.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Bournemouth insurers and fire risk assessors expect - measured across the whole extract run, not just the visible mouth of the canopy.
The standard works in grease-film thickness, fixing the depth at which a run must be cleaned and re-tested. In the shared roof voids around Charminster and Triangle, wiping the canopy and filters leaves the ductwork - the long concealed sections that gather grease and carry fire - untouched. We open the full Bournemouth run through existing and newly cut inspection hatches, strip it to bare metal, log grease-depth readings at fixed points before and after, and issue a TR19 Grease certificate with the post-clean depths recorded.
By system
The fire risk. Fried-food extract coats duct walls in combustible grease; cleaned canopy to fan and certified to TR19 Grease.
Supply and general extract in offices and public buildings, carrying dust and debris that throttles airflow and loads the air-handling unit; cleaned to TR19.
The hidden one. Tumble-dryer ducting packs with lint - highly combustible - in Bournemouth hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Bournemouth
We are in Bournemouth's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A beachfront hotel in Bournemouth had a sticky amber grease film spreading down the vertical discharge stack and around the extraction fan motor. We hand-scraped the accessible lengths, treated the system with an enzyme degreaser and deep-cleaned the impeller blades, restoring the extraction. We set up external bunds first so no cleaning run-off reached the promenade below.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Bournemouth kitchen these are the tells.
A canopy dripping onto a Charminster cookline, cooking smells forced back to the tables, extraction that no longer clears the steam, grease showing at the filter edges, or a Bournemouth insurer or fire risk assessor wanting a TR19 certificate you have not got. How often it needs doing follows how hard you cook - a fast-frying Westbourne kitchen far more than a daytime cafe - and the certificate names the interval, so the next visit is booked, not guessed.
How it runs
Inspect the full Bournemouth run, find the access gaps in the concealed sections, agree scope and frequency.
Fit inspection hatches where the run is sealed - common in the older Triangle conversions - and protect the kitchen.
Canopy to roof fan, down to bare metal, with before-and-after grease-depth evidence.
TR19 Grease certificate, grease-depth record and next-due date for your Bournemouth fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Bournemouth operator to keep ductwork clean, and they reinforce one another.
Fire safety law. Under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, the responsible person for a Bournemouth premises must assess and manage fire risk. A grease-laden duct is one of the most serious risks in any catering building, because a flare-up on a Charminster cookline can travel the ductwork and spread fire through concealed voids. The Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 and the HSE reinforce the same duty of care.
Insurance. A live TR19 Grease certificate is what a Bournemouth insurer treats as evidence the system is maintained. Miss it and a fire claim may be reduced or refused - an expensive surprise once the damage is done.
Hygiene and environmental health. Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council food hygiene inspections assess the physical condition of premises, ventilation included. A grease-clogged system can count against the rating an Environmental Health Officer awards, quite apart from the smell and the falling extract performance your staff have to work in.
It is set by cooking hours under TR19 Grease - roughly every three months for heavy use of 12 to 16 hours a day, every six for moderate, every twelve for light. A hard-frying Charminster kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Westbourne cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes - from Charminster and Westbourne kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Bournemouth and the wider Dorset.
The full run, canopy through the concealed horizontal and vertical ductwork to the roof fan - the hidden sections a canopy-only clean leaves loaded, which matters in the tight stock around Charminster and Triangle where the runs are long and awkward.
We fit compliant access panels where the ductwork has none, so every internal section can be reached, cleaned, inspected and certified - common in the older Triangle conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Triangle or city-centre riser is where grease throws off the blades and the run ends - we degrease it and its housing, because a loaded fan is what finally stops a system pulling.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Charminster and Westbourne kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Bournemouth run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Westbourne cookline is back in service for the next shift.
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