Frome · 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 Frome, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Frome
Frome 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 Cheap Street to Catherine Hill and Keyford, 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 Frome offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-packed laundry runs behind its hotel and care-home dryers. The busiest kitchens - restaurant and cafe kitchens, hospital and college kitchens, pub kitchens 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 Frome 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 Cheap Street and Keyford, wiping the canopy and filters leaves the ductwork - the long concealed sections that gather grease and carry fire - untouched. We open the full Frome 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 Frome hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Frome
We are in Frome's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
An independent apartment block in Frome had a greasy film of sticky waste residue coating the inside of its waste chute from top to bottom. We ran a high-pressure rotating wash head down the refuse chute, then disinfected and deodorised the full run. Odour and build-up were cleared and the chute left clean and disinfected, and the client rebooked us there and then. We fitted the work to the weekly closed day when the bin store was shut.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Frome kitchen these are the tells.
A canopy dripping onto a Cheap Street cookline, cooking smells forced back to the tables, extraction that no longer clears the steam, grease showing at the filter edges, or a Frome 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 Catherine Hill 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 Frome 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 Keyford 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 Frome fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Frome 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 Frome 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 Cheap 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 Frome 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 Somerset 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 Cheap Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Catherine Hill 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 Cheap Street and Keyford where the runs are long and awkward.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Frome offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Somerset hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Yes - from Cheap Street and Catherine Hill kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Frome and the wider Somerset.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Frome run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Catherine Hill cookline is back in service for the next shift.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Cheap Street operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Keyford 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.
Local knowledge
In 1845 a Bath Street chemist named William Langford started a small printing business, and after Joseph Tanner joined the partnership in 1863 the firm of Butler and Tanner grew into one of Britain's finest book printers, its great works dominating Selwood Road and turning out fine coloured books for publishers the world over. Machinery on that scale filled the air with paper dust and ink solvent. Modern premises hide their dust inside sealed ductwork instead, 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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