Faversham · 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 Faversham, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Faversham
Faversham 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 Court Street to Abbey Street and Ospringe, 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.
It is not only kitchens: we also clean the dry supply and extract ductwork in Faversham offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-packed laundry runs behind its hotel and care-home dryers. The busiest kitchens - brewery and hotel kitchens, pub and restaurant kitchens, deli cafes 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 Faversham insurers and fire risk assessors expect - measured across the whole extract run, not just the visible mouth of the canopy.
The standard is written in film thickness: once grease reaches a set depth the run has to be cleaned and proven again. In the crowded roof voids off Court Street and Ospringe, a wipe of the canopy and filters never reaches the ductwork behind them, where the grease that carries fire quietly gathers. We work the whole Faversham run through hatches already in place and others we cut, bring it back to bright metal, note grease depths at fixed stations before and after, and certify to TR19 Grease with the closing figures logged.
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 Faversham hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Faversham
We are in Faversham's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
At a privately owned Faversham veterinary practice, fine dust and debris had built up across the branch supply ducts and the fan coil unit. We isolated the zones, brushed out the internal ducting and washed down the AHU. Airflow returned to spec, the system was left visibly clean, and the feedback afterwards was excellent. The site's resident cat supervised us from the doorway the whole time.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Faversham kitchen these are the tells.
A canopy dripping onto a Court Street cookline, cooking smells forced back to the tables, extraction that no longer clears the steam, grease showing at the filter edges, or a Faversham 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 Abbey Street 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 Faversham 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 Ospringe 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 Faversham fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Faversham 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 Faversham 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 Court 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 a Faversham 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 Swale 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 Court Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Abbey Street cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes - from Court Street and Abbey Street kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Faversham and the wider Kent.
Yes. The fan at the top of an Ospringe 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.
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 Court Street and Ospringe where the runs are long and awkward.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Court Street and Abbey Street 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 Faversham offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Kent 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 Ospringe conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Local knowledge
Shepherd Neame has brewed on its site in the heart of Faversham since 1698, making it Britain's oldest brewer, and evidence points to brewing on the ground since at least 1573. Behind the Georgian frontage on Court Street sit coppers, mash tuns and a warren of vapour and steam ducting that carries the heat of every brew away. Modern premises hide their extraction inside sealed ductwork like this, where grease and debris build 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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