Esher · 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 Esher, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Esher
Esher 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.
Right across Esher, from Claremont Lane through Portsmouth Road to Sandown, cooklines share tight roof space and vent through concealed ducting few operators ever see inside. We clean that entire path to the TR19 Grease standard, canopy through to fan, taking in the level pulls and the risers where grease settles thickest and a fire would run.
It is not only kitchens: we also clean the dry supply and extract ductwork in Esher offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-packed laundry runs behind its hotel and care-home dryers. The busiest kitchens - racecourse hospitality kitchens, school and hotel kitchens, High Street brasseries and the busy town-centre takeaways - coat their hidden ducting in grease quickest, and that is the very path a fire follows.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Esher 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 Claremont Lane and Sandown, wiping the canopy and filters leaves the ductwork - the long concealed sections that gather grease and carry fire - untouched. We open the full Esher 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 Esher hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Esher
We are in Esher's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A traditional holiday-park laundry block near Esher had lint choking the dryer vent line down to a fraction of its bore, a clear fire risk. I ran brushes and a HEPA vacuum through the line, then confirmed a clean discharge outside. The dryers ran hotter and faster afterwards and the utility room lost its damp, warm feel, with the difference obvious right away. I timed it for the school holidays while the block was quiet.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Esher kitchen these are the tells.
A canopy dripping onto a Claremont Lane cookline, cooking smells forced back to the tables, extraction that no longer clears the steam, grease showing at the filter edges, or an Esher 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 Portsmouth Road 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 Esher 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 Sandown 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 Esher fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Esher 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 Esher 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 Claremont Lane 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. A live TR19 Grease certificate is what an Esher insurer treats as evidence the system is maintained. Miss it and a fire claim may be reduced or refused - an expensive surprise once the damage is done.
Hygiene and environmental health. When Elmbridge 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 Claremont Lane kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Portsmouth Road 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 Claremont Lane and Sandown where the runs are long and awkward.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Claremont Lane operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Claremont Lane and Portsmouth Road kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Esher offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Surrey hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Esher run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Portsmouth Road cookline is back in service for the next shift.
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 Sandown conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Local knowledge
Esher grew up as a staging post on the old Portsmouth Road, where coaching inns such as the Bear watered horses and fed travellers between London and the coast. Those open hearths and chimneys have long given way to sealed extract ductwork, where grease, dust and debris gather unseen until airflow fails or fire finds a path. Modern premises rarely see inside their own systems from one year to the next. 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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