Margate · 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 Margate, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Margate
Margate 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.
Right across Margate, from Old Town through Marine Terrace to Westwood Cross, 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.
Kitchens are only half the work - we also strip the dry supply and extract ductwork of Margate schools, offices and civic buildings, and the lint-choked dryer runs behind its hotels and care homes. It is the hardest-pressed kitchens - the local college, the QEQM Hospital, Dreamland and the seafront hotels - that glaze their hidden ducting quickest, and that coating is the road a fire takes.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Margate 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 Old Town and Westwood Cross, wiping the canopy and filters leaves the ductwork - the long concealed sections that gather grease and carry fire - untouched. We open the full Margate 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 Margate hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Margate
We are in Margate's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A seafront amusement cafe in Margate had salt-laden sea air combining with fryer grease into a corrosive film through the extract runs. We hand-scraped the accessible duct, ran a degreaser through the sealed lengths and treated the interior with a corrosion inhibitor, restoring the extraction and guarding the metal against the sea-air tarnishing. It was worked before the seafront opened so no trade was lost.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Margate kitchen these are the tells.
A canopy dripping onto an Old Town cookline, cooking smells forced back to the tables, extraction that no longer clears the steam, grease showing at the filter edges, or a Margate 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 Marine Terrace 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 Margate 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 Westwood Cross 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 Margate fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Margate 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 Margate 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 an Old Town 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 a Margate 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. Thanet District 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 Old Town kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Marine Terrace cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes - from Old Town and Marine Terrace kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Margate 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 an Old Town operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Margate run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Marine Terrace cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Westwood Cross 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.
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 Westwood Cross conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Old Town and Marine Terrace kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
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