Broadstairs · 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 Broadstairs, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Broadstairs
Broadstairs rates hundreds of 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.
Kitchens across Broadstairs work out of tight, mixed premises - Albion Street, Charlotte Street, St Peter's - their extract snaking through concealed voids to roof-mounted fans. We take the whole run to the TR19 Grease standard, hood to fan, reaching the horizontal legs and vertical risers a canopy wipe never touches.
The same crews clean dry ventilation and air-handling ductwork in offices, schools and civic buildings, plus the combustible lint runs behind hotel and care-home dryers. High-turnover sites - seafront cafe kitchens, hotel and pub kitchens, care-home kitchens and the busy harbour-side takeaways - build grease fastest in the concealed lengths where flame spreads.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Broadstairs insurers and fire risk assessors expect - measured across the whole extract run, not just the visible mouth of the canopy.
Because the standard is written around film thickness, it sets the depth that triggers a clean and re-test. In the mixed roof spaces around Albion Street and St Peter's, a canopy-and-filter wipe leaves the duct interior - where grease piles up and a fire runs - completely alone. We reach the whole Broadstairs run through existing hatches and new ones we cut, clean back to bright metal, take before-and-after grease-depth figures at set points, and certify it to TR19 Grease with those depths on the record.
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 Broadstairs hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Broadstairs
We are in Broadstairs's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A veterinary practice in Broadstairs had fine grey dust and debris built up through its dry ventilation ducting and the ceiling diffusers. We ran rotary brushes and a negative-air machine along the branch runs, then replaced the tired panel filters. The air through the building felt noticeably fresher, the dust complaints stopped and the team were glad it was sorted. We left the site manager a few tips on keeping things clear between visits.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Broadstairs kitchen these are the tells.
Watch for steam that hangs in the room, cooking smells creeping back over the tables, a canopy weeping onto an Albion Street line, grease crusting at the filter rims, or a Broadstairs insurer or fire assessor calling for a TR19 certificate you do not hold. How often it needs doing rides on the cooking load - a hard-frying Charlotte Street kitchen far more than a quiet daytime cafe - and the certificate fixes that interval, so the next clean is planned, not chanced.
How it runs
Inspect the full Broadstairs 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 St Peter's 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 Broadstairs fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Broadstairs 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 Broadstairs 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 an Albion Street 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 current TR19 Grease certificate is the evidence your Broadstairs insurer expects. Without it, a fire claim can be reduced or refused outright - an expensive gap to find after the event.
Hygiene and environmental health. A food hygiene visit from Thanet District Council weighs the physical state of the premises, ventilation counted within it. A grease-blocked extract can pull down the rating an Environmental Health Officer sets, quite apart from the stale smell and the tired airflow your staff work beneath all shift.
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 Albion Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Charlotte Street cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Broadstairs offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Kent hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Yes - from Albion Street and Charlotte Street kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Broadstairs and the wider Kent.
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 Albion Street and St Peter's where the runs are long and awkward.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Broadstairs run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Charlotte Street cookline is back in service for the next shift.
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 St Peter's conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Albion Street and Charlotte Street kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
Local knowledge
Charles Dickens first came to Broadstairs in 1837 and returned for more than twenty summers, renting the clifftop Fort House - now called Bleak House - where he revised David Copperfield with Viking Bay laid out below his window. The grand seafront houses and hotels he knew have been reworked and extended many times since, and modern premises hide their air inside sealed ductwork where grease and debris build unseen until airflow fails or fire finds a path. We clean and inspect ventilation and extract ductwork across the town, then hand over photographic before-and-after evidence of every run. Nothing is signed off on trust; the camera shows the state of each length.
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