Fareham · 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 Fareham, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Fareham
Fareham 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.
The city's kitchens sit in tight, mixed stock - West Street, Market Quay, Whiteley - with long concealed duct runs up to roof fans. We clean the full run to the TR19 Grease standard, canopy to fan, including the horizontal and vertical sections a canopy-only clean leaves coated.
The same crews clean dry ventilation and air-handling ductwork in offices, schools and civic buildings, plus the combustible lint runs behind hotel and care-home dryers. High-turnover sites - Fareham College, the Queen Alexandra Hospital nearby, the Fareham Shopping Centre and the town hotels - build grease fastest in the concealed lengths where flame spreads.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Fareham 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 West Street and Whiteley, wiping the canopy and filters leaves the ductwork - the long concealed sections that gather grease and carry fire - untouched. We open the full Fareham 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 Fareham hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Fareham
We are in Fareham's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A Market Quay restaurant in Fareham had a heavy grease film through the horizontal extract and up the riser above a busy cook line. We fitted new access panels, hand-scraped the accessible lengths and ran an enzyme degreaser through the sealed sections, returning the ductwork to clean metal for the fire and insurance standard. It was worked overnight so the centre trade lost no covers.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Fareham 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 West Street line, grease crusting at the filter rims, or a Fareham 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 Market Quay 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 Fareham 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 Whiteley 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 Fareham fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Fareham 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 Fareham 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 West 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. Your Fareham 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. A food hygiene visit from Fareham Borough 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 West Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Market Quay cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Fareham run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Market Quay cookline is back in service for the next shift.
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 West Street and Whiteley where the runs are long and awkward.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Fareham offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Hampshire hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Whiteley 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.
Yes - from West Street and Market Quay kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Fareham and the wider Hampshire.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the West Street and Market Quay kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
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