Ilford · 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 Ilford, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Ilford
Ilford rates around 1,950 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.
Right across Ilford, from Cranbrook Road through High Road to Exchange, cooklines share tight roof space and vent through concealed ducting few operators ever see inside. We clean that entire path to the TR19 Grease standard, canopy through to fan, taking in the level pulls and the risers where grease settles thickest and a fire would run.
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 - King George Hospital, Valentines Park, the Exchange Ilford and the local hotels - lay grease down fast in exactly the concealed sections where a fire travels.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Ilford 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 Cranbrook Road and Exchange, a canopy-and-filter wipe leaves the duct interior - where grease piles up and a fire runs - completely alone. We reach the whole Ilford 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 Ilford hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Ilford
We are in Ilford's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A fried-chicken takeaway on an Ilford high street had thick, sticky cooking fat and carbonised oil coating the canopy plenum and the extract fan blades. We worked an industrial foaming degreaser through to break the heavy oil down and hand-scraped the whole horizontal run back to bare metal, bringing it to the TR19 fire-safety standard. It was done on a late-night shift so the busy weekend trade was not disrupted.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Ilford kitchen these are the tells.
A canopy dripping onto a Cranbrook Road cookline, cooking smells forced back to the tables, extraction that no longer clears the steam, grease showing at the filter edges, or an Ilford 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 High 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 Ilford 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 Exchange 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 Ilford fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Ilford 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 an Ilford 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 Cranbrook 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. To an Ilford insurer a current TR19 Grease certificate is the proof the extract has been kept up. Let it lapse and a fire claim can be scaled back or declined outright - the kind of gap nobody wants to find with the kitchen already gutted.
Hygiene and environmental health. A food hygiene visit from Redbridge Council weighs the physical state of the premises, ventilation counted within it. A grease-blocked extract can pull down the rating an Environmental Health Officer sets, quite apart from the stale smell and the tired airflow your staff work beneath all shift.
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 Cranbrook Road kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime High Road cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Cranbrook Road operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Yes. The fan at the top of an Exchange 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 Cranbrook Road and High 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 Ilford run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a High Road cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Yes - from Cranbrook Road and High Road kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Ilford and the wider Greater London.
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 Cranbrook Road and Exchange where the runs are long and awkward.
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