Ferndown · 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 Ferndown, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Ferndown
Ferndown 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 - Penny's Walk, Ringwood Road, Cobham Road - 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.
Kitchens are only half the work - we also strip the dry supply and extract ductwork of Ferndown schools, offices and civic buildings, and the lint-choked dryer runs behind its hotels and care homes. It is the hardest-pressed kitchens - pub and hotel kitchens, care-home catering kitchens, golf clubhouse 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 Ferndown 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 Penny's Walk and Cobham Road, 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 Ferndown 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 Ferndown hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Ferndown
We are in Ferndown's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
The dryer extract line at a high-street gym and spa in Ferndown was choked with matted fluff, enough to keep tripping the dryers' overheat cut-outs. We stripped and vacuumed the full vent line, cleared the outside vent flap and checked the airflow through it. Airflow was restored, the external wall flap sat fully open again and the team were glad to have it dealt with. We left before-and-after photos and a test report for their health and safety folder.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Ferndown kitchen these are the tells.
A canopy dripping onto a Penny's Walk cookline, cooking smells forced back to the tables, extraction that no longer clears the steam, grease showing at the filter edges, or a Ferndown 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 Ringwood 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 Ferndown 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 Cobham Road 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 Ferndown fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Ferndown 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 Ferndown 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 Penny's Walk 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 current TR19 Grease certificate is the evidence your Ferndown insurer expects. Without it, a fire claim can be reduced or refused outright - an expensive gap to find after the event.
Hygiene and environmental health. Dorset 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 Penny's Walk kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Ringwood Road cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Penny's Walk and Ringwood Road kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
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 Cobham Road conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Yes - from Penny's Walk and Ringwood Road kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Ferndown and the wider Dorset.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Ferndown offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Dorset hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Cobham Road 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.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Ferndown run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Ringwood Road cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Local knowledge
Ferndown began as open heathland and common that stretched unbroken across this corner of Dorset until the early 1900s, and the industrial estate that now runs along Cobham Road was built on ground that was heath within living memory. The precision shops, electronics firms and food producers filling those units draw their extraction through sealed ductwork, where grease and debris build unseen until airflow fails or fire finds a path. What the eye cannot see, the airflow figures still report. 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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