New Milton · 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 New Milton, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
New Milton
New Milton 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 New Milton, from Old Milton Road through Whitefield Road to Osborne Road, 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.
The same crews clean dry ventilation and air-handling ductwork in offices, schools and civic buildings, plus the combustible lint runs behind hotel and care-home dryers. High-turnover sites - hotel and pub kitchens, care-home and school kitchens and the busy town-centre takeaways - build grease fastest in the concealed lengths where flame spreads.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark New Milton insurers and fire risk assessors expect - measured across the whole extract run, not just the visible mouth of the canopy.
The standard is written in film thickness: once grease reaches a set depth the run has to be cleaned and proven again. In the crowded roof voids off Old Milton Road and Osborne Road, a wipe of the canopy and filters never reaches the ductwork behind them, where the grease that carries fire quietly gathers. We work the whole New Milton run through hatches already in place and others we cut, bring it back to bright metal, note grease depths at fixed stations before and after, and certify to TR19 Grease with the closing figures logged.
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 New Milton hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in New Milton
We are in New Milton's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
An independent health centre in New Milton had matted dust blocking the ceiling grilles in the ground-floor washrooms, leaving the air stagnant. We cleaned the extract grilles, brushed out the branch runs and checked the fan impeller was pulling properly. Airflow came back up to standard, the washrooms felt fresh again and we left a tidy hand-over at the end. We timed the work for the Christmas shutdown while the facility was quiet.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy New Milton kitchen these are the tells.
A canopy dripping onto an Old Milton Road cookline, cooking smells forced back to the tables, extraction that no longer clears the steam, grease showing at the filter edges, or a New Milton 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 Whitefield 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 New Milton 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 Osborne 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 New Milton fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every New Milton 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 New Milton 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 Milton 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 a New Milton 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. Food hygiene inspections by New Forest District Council take in the condition of the building, ventilation included, so a grease-laden system can cost you on the rating an Environmental Health Officer awards - never mind the smell and the dropping extraction your kitchen team works under.
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 Milton Road kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Whitefield Road cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
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 Old Milton Road and Osborne Road where the runs are long and awkward.
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 Osborne Road conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the New Milton run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Whitefield Road cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Yes - from Old Milton Road and Whitefield Road kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across New Milton and the wider Hampshire.
Yes. The fan at the top of an Osborne Road 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 clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in New Milton offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Hampshire hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Local knowledge
In 1900 the West Hampshire Water Company crowned the growing town with its most famous landmark, a castellated red-brick water tower in mock-Tudor dress that rose more than eighty feet and held two hundred thousand gallons for the streets below. The town has always moved what it needs through hidden networks, and modern kitchens and workshops are no different, carrying grease and dust inside sealed ductwork where it builds unseen until airflow fails or fire finds a path. Left uninspected, a duct hides its own risk as surely as the tower hid its tank. We clean and inspect ventilation and extract ductwork across New Milton, then hand over photographic before-and-after evidence of every run.
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