Hastings · 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 Hastings, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Hastings
Hastings rates around 880 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 Hastings work out of tight, mixed premises - Stade, George 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.
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 - East Sussex College, the Conquest Hospital, Priory Meadow and the seafront hotels - lay grease down fast in exactly the concealed sections where a fire travels.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Hastings 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 Stade and High Street, 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 Hastings 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 Hastings hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Hastings
We are in Hastings's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A holiday resort hotel kitchen in Hastings had runny grease pooling in the low points of the extraction run - a live fire and insurance hazard. We set full liquid-containment bunds, worked a heavy-duty alkaline gel degreaser through and hot-pressure-rinsed the vertical discharge chimney, bringing the cooking line back to efficient ventilation. High coastal winds off the Stade meant extra safety lines while working on the roof-mounted cowl, and we noted the Old Town fish-restaurant next door whose flue shared the same discharge run and was due the same treatment.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Hastings kitchen these are the tells.
Smells pushing back into the dining room, a canopy that drips onto a Stade cookline, extraction that no longer clears the steam, visible grease at the filter edges, or a Hastings insurer or fire risk assessment asking for a TR19 certificate you cannot produce. Cleaning frequency tracks use - a hard-frying George Street kitchen needs it far more often than a daytime cafe - and your certificate states the interval, so the next clean is never a guess.
How it runs
Inspect the full Hastings 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 Hastings fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Hastings 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 Hastings 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 Stade 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 Hastings 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. Hastings 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 Stade kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime George Street cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes - from Stade and George Street kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Hastings and the wider East Sussex.
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 Stade and High Street where the runs are long and awkward.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Hastings offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the East Sussex hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Hastings run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a George Street cookline is back in service for the next shift.
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 work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Stade and George Street kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
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