Great Yarmouth · 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 Great Yarmouth, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Great Yarmouth
Great Yarmouth rates around 1,100 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 - Marine Parade, Regent Road, Gorleston - 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 Great Yarmouth schools, offices and civic buildings, and the lint-choked dryer runs behind its hotels and care homes. It is the hardest-pressed kitchens - East Coast College, the James Paget University Hospital, the Pleasure Beach and the seafront hotels - that glaze their hidden ducting quickest, and that coating is the road a fire takes.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Great Yarmouth 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 Marine Parade and Gorleston, wiping the canopy and filters leaves the ductwork - the long concealed sections that gather grease and carry fire - untouched. We open the full Great Yarmouth 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 Great Yarmouth hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Great Yarmouth
We are in Great Yarmouth's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A seafront amusement-arcade cafe in Great Yarmouth had salt-laden sea air combining with fryer grease into a heavy, 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 sea-air tarnishing. It was worked before the Golden Mile opened so no trade was lost.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Great Yarmouth 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 Marine Parade line, grease crusting at the filter rims, or a Great Yarmouth 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 Regent Road 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 Great Yarmouth 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 Gorleston 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 Great Yarmouth fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Great Yarmouth 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 Great Yarmouth 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 Marine Parade 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 Great Yarmouth 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. Great Yarmouth Borough 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 Marine Parade kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Regent Road cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Marine Parade and Regent Road 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 Great Yarmouth run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Regent Road 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 Gorleston conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Yes - from Marine Parade and Regent Road kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Great Yarmouth and the wider Norfolk.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Great Yarmouth offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Norfolk hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
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 Marine Parade and Gorleston where the runs are long and awkward.
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