Hornchurch · 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 Hornchurch, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Hornchurch
Hornchurch 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.
The city's kitchens sit in tight, mixed stock - High Street, Station Lane, Butts Green Road - 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.
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 - the local college, Queen's Hospital in nearby Romford, the Queen's Theatre and the town hotels - lay grease down fast in exactly the concealed sections where a fire travels.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Hornchurch 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 High Street and Butts Green Road, a canopy-and-filter wipe leaves the duct interior - where grease piles up and a fire runs - completely alone. We reach the whole Hornchurch 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 Hornchurch hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Hornchurch
We are in Hornchurch's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A Billet Lane restaurant in Hornchurch, one of the pre-theatre kitchens that turns its tables twice before a Queen's Theatre curtain, had a brown weep staining the ceiling tiles two rooms back from the stoves. A shallow-graded extract duct had pooled liquefied fat at a low point and begun to seep through a lap joint. We ran a borescope over the whole route first, mapped three dead legs the original fit-out had boxed into the void with no way in, and marked cutting points for the operator's builder to open up. Working off that map we scraped and washed the pooled section back to bare wall, cleared the dead legs a canopy wipe would never have found, and flagged the flat run for regrading so it drains instead of collecting. We left a route drawing and a photo set of every newly opened section. Because the room seats before curtain and empties in one wave, we staged the messy cutting for the dark afternoon between the matinee and the evening house, sheeting the banquettes and lifting the carpet runner so no fat was tracked into the dining room. The staining was the symptom; the level run was the cause, and the kitchen plated its first pre-show orders again that same night.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Hornchurch 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 High Street line, grease crusting at the filter rims, or a Hornchurch 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 Station Lane 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 Hornchurch 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 Butts Green Road 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 Hornchurch fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Hornchurch 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 Hornchurch 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 High 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. Your Hornchurch 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. London Borough of Havering 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 High Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Station Lane cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Hornchurch run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Station Lane cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the High Street and Station Lane 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 Hornchurch offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the east London 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 High 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 Butts Green Road conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
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 High Street and Butts Green Road where the runs are long and awkward.
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