Gillingham · 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 Gillingham, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Gillingham
Gillingham 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.
Kitchens across Gillingham work out of tight, mixed premises - Canterbury Street, Watling Street, High Street - their extract snaking through concealed voids to roof-mounted fans. We take the whole run to the TR19 Grease standard, hood to fan, reaching the horizontal legs and vertical risers a canopy wipe never touches.
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 Universities at Medway, the Medway Maritime Hospital, MEMS Priestfield and the town hotels - build grease fastest in the concealed lengths where flame spreads.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Gillingham insurers and fire risk assessors expect - measured across the whole extract run, not just the visible mouth of the canopy.
Because the standard is written around film thickness, it sets the depth that triggers a clean and re-test. In the mixed roof spaces around Canterbury Street and High Street, a canopy-and-filter wipe leaves the duct interior - where grease piles up and a fire runs - completely alone. We reach the whole Gillingham run through existing hatches and new ones we cut, clean back to bright metal, take before-and-after grease-depth figures at set points, and certify it to TR19 Grease with those depths on the 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 Gillingham hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Gillingham
We are in Gillingham's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A Gillingham restaurant in a Victorian parade shared one original extract riser with the unit next door - two cooklines feeding a single stack that neither leaseholder had ever cleaned, because on paper neither owned it. The grease met in the middle and had nowhere to go. We traced the common run, got both tenants to agree access and a shared cost, and split the clean between their separate closed periods so neither lost a service. The stack was rodded and brushed from a cherry picker at the roof terminal, the two horizontal branches scraped back through cut hatches, and the whole shared route swab-tested to bare metal before we re-certified it as one system. The ownership gap was the real hazard here - a fire in that riser would have taken both units - so we left a single certificate naming both kitchens and a joint re-clean date.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Gillingham 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 Canterbury Street line, grease crusting at the filter rims, or a Gillingham 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 Watling Street 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 Gillingham 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 High Street 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 Gillingham fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Gillingham 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 Gillingham 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 Canterbury 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 Gillingham 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. When Medway 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 Canterbury Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Watling Street cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes - from Canterbury Street and Watling Street kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Gillingham and the wider Kent.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Canterbury Street and Watling Street kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Canterbury Street operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
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 High Street conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Yes. The fan at the top of a High Street 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. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Gillingham offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Kent hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
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