Bury St Edmunds · 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 Bury St Edmunds, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Bury St Edmunds
Bury St Edmunds 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.
The city's kitchens sit in tight, mixed stock - Cornhill, Buttermarket, St Andrews Street - with long concealed duct runs up to roof fans. We clean the full run to the TR19 Grease standard, canopy to fan, including the horizontal and vertical sections a canopy-only clean leaves coated.
Kitchens are only half the work - we also strip the dry supply and extract ductwork of Bury St Edmunds schools, offices and civic buildings, and the lint-choked dryer runs behind its hotels and care homes. It is the hardest-pressed kitchens - West Suffolk College, the West Suffolk Hospital, the arc shopping centre and the town hotels - that glaze their hidden ducting quickest, and that coating is the road a fire takes.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Bury St Edmunds insurers and fire risk assessors expect - measured across the whole extract run, not just the visible mouth of the canopy.
The standard is written in film thickness: once grease reaches a set depth the run has to be cleaned and proven again. In the crowded roof voids off Cornhill and St Andrews Street, a wipe of the canopy and filters never reaches the ductwork behind them, where the grease that carries fire quietly gathers. We work the whole Bury St Edmunds run through hatches already in place and others we cut, bring it back to bright metal, note grease depths at fixed stations before and after, and certify to TR19 Grease with the closing figures logged.
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 Bury St Edmunds hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Bury St Edmunds
We are in Bury St Edmunds's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A Cornhill restaurant in Bury St Edmunds had a heavy grease film through the horizontal extract and up the riser above a busy cook line. We fitted new access panels, hand-scraped the accessible lengths and ran an enzyme degreaser through the sealed sections, returning the ductwork to clean metal for the fire and insurance standard. It was worked overnight so the town-centre trade lost no covers.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Bury St Edmunds kitchen these are the tells.
A canopy dripping onto a Cornhill cookline, cooking smells forced back to the tables, extraction that no longer clears the steam, grease showing at the filter edges, or a Bury St Edmunds 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 Buttermarket 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 Bury St Edmunds 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 Andrews Street 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 Bury St Edmunds fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Bury St Edmunds 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 Bury St Edmunds 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 Cornhill 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. Your Bury St Edmunds insurer expects a current TR19 Grease certificate as proof the duct is clean. Without one, a fire claim can be cut back or turned down altogether - a costly thing to find only after a fire.
Hygiene and environmental health. Food hygiene inspections by West Suffolk Council take in the condition of the building, ventilation included, so a grease-laden system can cost you on the rating an Environmental Health Officer awards - never mind the smell and the dropping extraction your kitchen team works under.
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 Cornhill kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Buttermarket cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Cornhill and Buttermarket kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
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 Andrews Street conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Bury St Edmunds offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Suffolk hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
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 Cornhill and St Andrews Street where the runs are long and awkward.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Bury St Edmunds run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Buttermarket cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Yes - from Cornhill and Buttermarket kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Bury St Edmunds and the wider Suffolk.
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