Kettering · 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 Kettering, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Kettering
Kettering 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.
Kitchens across Kettering work out of tight, mixed premises - Gold Street, Newlands, Rockingham Road - 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.
Kitchens are only half the work - we also strip the dry supply and extract ductwork of Kettering schools, offices and civic buildings, and the lint-choked dryer runs behind its hotels and care homes. It is the hardest-pressed kitchens - Tresham College, Kettering General Hospital, Wicksteed Park and the town hotels - that glaze their hidden ducting quickest, and that coating is the road a fire takes.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Kettering 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 Gold Street and Rockingham Road, wiping the canopy and filters leaves the ductwork - the long concealed sections that gather grease and carry fire - untouched. We open the full Kettering 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 Kettering hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Kettering
We are in Kettering's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A golden-triangle distribution-park canteen in Kettering had grease along the extract runs and warehouse dust drawn into the supply grilles. We scraped the extract lengths back to metal, ran a degreaser through the sealed sections and washed the supply grilles down, restoring the extraction and the incoming air. The clean was worked around the canteen's shift meal breaks so the warehouse crews kept their service.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Kettering kitchen these are the tells.
Smells pushing back into the dining room, a canopy that drips onto a Gold Street cookline, extraction that no longer clears the steam, visible grease at the filter edges, or a Kettering insurer or fire risk assessment asking for a TR19 certificate you cannot produce. Cleaning frequency tracks use - a hard-frying Newlands 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 Kettering 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 Rockingham 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 Kettering fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Kettering 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 Kettering 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 Gold 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 Kettering 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. North Northamptonshire 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 Gold Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Newlands cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Gold Street and Newlands 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 Kettering run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Newlands cookline is back in service for the next shift.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Gold 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 Rockingham Road conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Kettering offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Northamptonshire hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Yes - from Gold Street and Newlands kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Kettering and the wider Northamptonshire.
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