Folkestone · 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 Folkestone, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Folkestone
Folkestone 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 Old High Street to Tontine Street and Cheriton, 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.
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 - the local college, the Royal Victoria Hospital, the Harbour Arm and the seafront hotels - build grease fastest in the concealed lengths where flame spreads.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Folkestone 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 Old High Street and Cheriton, 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 Folkestone 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 Folkestone hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Folkestone
We are in Folkestone's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A Harbour Arm food unit in Folkestone had salt-laden sea air combining with grease into a corrosive film through the extract runs. We hand-scraped the accessible duct, ran a degreaser through the sealed lengths and treated the interior with a corrosion inhibitor, restoring the extraction and guarding the metal against the coastal tarnishing. It was worked before the harbour opened so no trade was lost.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Folkestone kitchen these are the tells.
A canopy dripping onto an Old High Street cookline, cooking smells forced back to the tables, extraction that no longer clears the steam, grease showing at the filter edges, or a Folkestone 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 Tontine 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 Folkestone 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 Cheriton 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 Folkestone fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Folkestone 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 Folkestone 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 an Old 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. A current TR19 Grease certificate is the evidence your Folkestone 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. Folkestone and Hythe District 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 Old High Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Tontine Street cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Old High Street and Tontine Street kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Folkestone run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Tontine Street 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 Cheriton conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence an Old High Street operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Yes - from Old High Street and Tontine Street kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Folkestone and the wider Kent.
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 Old High Street and Cheriton where the runs are long and awkward.
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