Epsom · 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 Epsom, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Epsom
Epsom 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.
From High Street to South Street and Ewell, 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 Epsom schools, offices and civic buildings, and the lint-choked dryer runs behind its hotels and care homes. It is the hardest-pressed kitchens - hospital kitchens, college and university refectories, racecourse hospitality kitchens and the busy town-centre takeaways - that glaze their hidden ducting quickest, and that coating is the road a fire takes.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Epsom insurers and fire risk assessors expect - measured across the whole extract run, not just the visible mouth of the canopy.
Grease is measured by thickness, and the standard sets the depth at which a system must be cleaned and re-tested. Around High Street and Ewell, where the concealed runs thread through mixed roof voids, a canopy-and-filter wipe leaves the ductwork itself - the long hidden sections where grease accumulates and a fire travels - untouched. We access the full Epsom run through existing and newly fitted inspection hatches, clean to bare metal, record before-and-after grease-depth readings at set points, and issue a TR19 Grease certificate with a post-clean depth 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 Epsom hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Epsom
We are in Epsom's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A refurbished apartment block in Epsom had a communal refuse chute lined with sticky waste residue that was pushing a strong odour out into the corridors. We washed the chute from the top with a rotary jet, then disinfected and deodorised the ground-floor lobby. The chute came up clean and sanitised, the stairwell smell cleared, and none of it disturbed the working day. We flagged a worn part to the building manager for their maintenance records.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Epsom 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 High Street line, grease crusting at the filter rims, or an Epsom 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 South 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 Epsom 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 Ewell 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 Epsom fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Epsom 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 Epsom 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 High 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 an Epsom 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. Epsom and Ewell Borough Council food hygiene inspections assess the physical condition of premises, ventilation included. A grease-clogged system can count against the rating an Environmental Health Officer awards, quite apart from the smell and the falling extract performance your staff have to work in.
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 High Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime South Street cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
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 High Street and Ewell where the runs are long and awkward.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Epsom offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Surrey hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
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 Ewell conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Epsom run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a South Street cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Yes - from High Street and South Street kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Epsom and the wider Surrey.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Ewell 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.
Local knowledge
On the land west of the town the London County Council built the Epsom Cluster - Horton, Long Grove, West Park, St Ebba's and the Manor - five vast psychiatric hospitals raised between 1902 and 1921 that together formed the largest such facility in the world by 1925, each with its own kitchens, laundries and miles of service ductwork. Most of that estate is housing now, but the lesson holds: modern premises hide their dust and grease inside sealed ductwork, where it builds 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.
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