Edgware · 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 Edgware, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Edgware
Edgware rates around 2,600 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 Station Road to High Street and Broadwalk, 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 Edgware schools, offices and civic buildings, and the lint-choked dryer runs behind its hotels and care homes. It is the hardest-pressed kitchens - the Middlesex University Hendon campus, Edgware Community Hospital, the Broadwalk Centre and the local hotels - that glaze their hidden ducting quickest, and that coating is the road a fire takes.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Edgware 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 Station Road and Broadwalk, wiping the canopy and filters leaves the ductwork - the long concealed sections that gather grease and carry fire - untouched. We open the full Edgware 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 Edgware hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Edgware
We are in Edgware's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A private medical clinic in Edgware had fine environmental dust and microscopic particulate coating the internal faces of its air handling unit plenums. We carefully hand-vacuumed the internal acoustic linings with soft brush attachments to avoid tearing the media, lifting the indoor air quality for the patients. Every tool was sanitised with isopropyl wipes before entering the sterile clinic.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Edgware kitchen these are the tells.
Smells pushing back into the dining room, a canopy that drips onto a Station Road cookline, extraction that no longer clears the steam, visible grease at the filter edges, or an Edgware insurer or fire risk assessment asking for a TR19 certificate you cannot produce. Cleaning frequency tracks use - a hard-frying High Street kitchen needs it far more often than a daytime cafe - and your certificate states the interval, so the next clean is never a guess.
How it runs
Inspect the full Edgware 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 Broadwalk 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 Edgware fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Edgware 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 an Edgware 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 Station Road 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 Edgware 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. When Barnet 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 Station Road kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime High Street cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Edgware offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Greater London hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Yes - from Station Road and High Street kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Edgware and the wider Greater London.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Broadwalk 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 Broadwalk conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
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 Station Road and Broadwalk where the runs are long and awkward.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Edgware run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a High Street cookline is back in service for the next shift.
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