Chelmsford · 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 Chelmsford, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Chelmsford
Chelmsford rates around 1,500 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.
From Moulsham Street to Baddow Road and Bell Mead, the town's cooklines vent through long hidden ducting that climbs to a roof fan. We clean it end to end to the TR19 Grease standard - not just the canopy, but the flat and rising sections where grease really collects.
Kitchens are only half the work - we also strip the dry supply and extract ductwork of Chelmsford schools, offices and civic buildings, and the lint-choked dryer runs behind its hotels and care homes. It is the hardest-pressed kitchens - Anglia Ruskin University, Broomfield Hospital, the High Chelmer centre and the city hotels - that glaze their hidden ducting quickest, and that coating is the road a fire takes.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Chelmsford 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 Moulsham Street and Bell Mead, 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 Chelmsford 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 Chelmsford hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Chelmsford
We are in Chelmsford's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A luxury apartment block in Chelmsford had hardened grease, packaging and food residue stuck to the impact plates at the base of its refuse chute. We scraped the plates clean by hand, worked an industrial degreasing wash through and pressure-rinsed the bottom hopper, getting the refuse dropping cleanly into the bins again. We fitted a new rubber impact curtain at the base to seal the smells out of the lower corridors.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Chelmsford kitchen these are the tells.
Watch for steam that hangs in the room, cooking smells creeping back over the tables, a canopy weeping onto a Moulsham Street line, grease crusting at the filter rims, or a Chelmsford 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 Baddow Road 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 Chelmsford 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 Bell Mead 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 Chelmsford fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Chelmsford 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 Chelmsford 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 Moulsham 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. To a Chelmsford insurer a current TR19 Grease certificate is the proof the extract has been kept up. Let it lapse and a fire claim can be scaled back or declined outright - the kind of gap nobody wants to find with the kitchen already gutted.
Hygiene and environmental health. A food hygiene visit from Chelmsford City 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 Moulsham Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Baddow Road cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Bell Mead 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.
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 Bell Mead conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Chelmsford run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Baddow Road cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Yes - from Moulsham Street and Baddow Road kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Chelmsford and the wider Essex.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Chelmsford offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Essex hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Moulsham Street operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
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