Crawley · 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 Crawley, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Crawley
Crawley rates around 940 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 Crawley work out of tight, mixed premises - Queens Square, Boulevard, County Buildings - 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.
Kitchens are only half the work - we also strip the dry supply and extract ductwork of Crawley schools, offices and civic buildings, and the lint-choked dryer runs behind its hotels and care homes. It is the hardest-pressed kitchens - Gatwick Airport, its hotels, Crawley College and Crawley Hospital - that glaze their hidden ducting quickest, and that coating is the road a fire takes.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Crawley 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 Queens Square and County Buildings, wiping the canopy and filters leaves the ductwork - the long concealed sections that gather grease and carry fire - untouched. We open the full Crawley 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 Crawley hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Crawley
We are in Crawley's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
An airport hotel near Crawley had its commercial tumble-dryer exhaust runs packed tight with fluffy textile lint - a serious fire load in the laundry room. We cleared the dryer exhaust plenums, ran flexible push-rod brushes through the line and checked the external flap was opening freely. The ventilation improved enough to shorten the drying cycles and pull the hotel's laundry energy use down. Working next to the terminal boundary meant security screening for all the kit brought on site.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Crawley kitchen these are the tells.
A canopy dripping onto a Queens Square cookline, cooking smells forced back to the tables, extraction that no longer clears the steam, grease showing at the filter edges, or a Crawley 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 Boulevard 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 Crawley 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 County Buildings 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 Crawley fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Crawley 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 Crawley 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 Queens Square 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 Crawley 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. When Crawley Borough Council carries out a food hygiene inspection it judges the physical state of the premises, and ventilation is part of that. A grease-choked extract can pull down the rating an Environmental Health Officer gives, on top of the odour and the weakening airflow your staff put up with.
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 Queens Square kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Boulevard cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Queens Square and Boulevard kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Queens Square operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
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 Queens Square and County Buildings 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 County Buildings conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Crawley run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Boulevard cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Yes - from Queens Square and Boulevard kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Crawley and the wider West Sussex.
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