Hythe · 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 Hythe, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Hythe
Hythe 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 Prospect Road to Twiss Road and Palmarsh, 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.
Kitchens are only half the work - we also strip the dry supply and extract ductwork of Hythe schools, offices and civic buildings, and the lint-choked dryer runs behind its hotels and care homes. It is the hardest-pressed kitchens - seafront hotel kitchens, canal-side pubs, High Street restaurants and the busy town-centre takeaways - that glaze their hidden ducting quickest, and that coating is the road a fire takes.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Hythe 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 Prospect Road and Palmarsh, wiping the canopy and filters leaves the ductwork - the long concealed sections that gather grease and carry fire - untouched. We open the full Hythe 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 Hythe hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Hythe
We are in Hythe's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
Carbonised grease had built up along the oven extract run at an established Hythe bakery, from the canopy through to the first bend. We scheduled it for a Sunday when the place was closed, fitted inspection hatches along the run, hand-scraped the carbon off and degreased through to the fan. The duct came up to clean metal and the fire risk was gone. We left the full documentation behind for their records.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Hythe kitchen these are the tells.
A canopy dripping onto a Prospect Road cookline, cooking smells forced back to the tables, extraction that no longer clears the steam, grease showing at the filter edges, or a Hythe 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 Twiss 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 Hythe 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 Palmarsh 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 Hythe fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Hythe 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 Hythe 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 Prospect 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. A current TR19 Grease certificate is the evidence your Hythe 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 Folkestone and Hythe District 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 Prospect Road kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Twiss Road cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Hythe offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Kent hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Prospect Road and Twiss Road kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
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 Palmarsh 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 Prospect Road and Palmarsh where the runs are long and awkward.
Yes - from Prospect Road and Twiss Road kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Hythe and the wider Kent.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Prospect Road operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Local knowledge
The Royal Military Canal was cut by hand between 1804 and 1809, a defensible barrier nearly thirty miles long dug along the old cliff line to stop Napoleon's army using Romney Marsh as a bridgehead, and it still runs straight through the middle of Hythe. It was a hidden line of defence in plain sight, much like the ductwork in a modern building, where grease and debris build unseen inside sealed runs until airflow fails or fire finds a path. We clean and inspect ventilation and extract ductwork across the town, working the full length of each run rather than just the reachable ends. Then we hand over photographic before-and-after evidence of every section.
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