Grays Thurrock · 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 Grays Thurrock, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Grays Thurrock
Grays Thurrock 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 Clarence Road to Orsett Road and Chadwell St Mary, 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.
Beyond the kitchens, we clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in hotels and care homes. High-output kitchens - hotel and pub kitchens, the retail food courts out at Lakeside, and the busy town-centre takeaways - lay grease down fast in exactly the concealed sections where a fire travels.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Grays Thurrock 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 Clarence Road and Chadwell St Mary, 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 Grays Thurrock 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 Grays Thurrock hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Grays Thurrock
We are in Grays Thurrock's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A high-street community centre in Grays Thurrock had its dry hall ventilation ducting coated in building dust, and staff had been complaining of a dusty smell whenever the system ran. We ran rotary brushes and a negative-air machine through the branch runs, then replaced the tired pocket filters. The supply air was restored to a clean standard and the team were glad to have it sorted. We scheduled the work for a quiet spell while the centre was slow.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Grays Thurrock kitchen these are the tells.
A canopy dripping onto a Clarence Road cookline, cooking smells forced back to the tables, extraction that no longer clears the steam, grease showing at the filter edges, or a Grays Thurrock 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 Orsett 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 Grays Thurrock 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 Chadwell St Mary 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 Grays Thurrock fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Grays Thurrock 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 Grays Thurrock 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 Clarence Road 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. Your Grays Thurrock insurer expects a current TR19 Grease certificate as proof the duct is clean. Without one, a fire claim can be cut back or turned down altogether - a costly thing to find only after a fire.
Hygiene and environmental health. Food hygiene inspections by Thurrock Council take in the condition of the building, ventilation included, so a grease-laden system can cost you on the rating an Environmental Health Officer awards - never mind the smell and the dropping extraction your kitchen team works under.
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 Clarence Road kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Orsett Road cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Chadwell St Mary 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 Clarence Road and Chadwell St Mary where the runs are long and awkward.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Grays Thurrock run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so an Orsett Road cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Clarence Road and Orsett Road 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 Grays Thurrock offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Essex hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Clarence Road operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Local knowledge
Procter and Gamble raised its riverside detergent and soap works at West Thurrock in the late 1930s, a plant so large its buildings rose more than a hundred feet above the Thames marshes. Grays grew up on heavy processing like that, its air once thick with chalk dust and cement. 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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