Poole · 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 Poole, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Poole
Poole rates around 3,500 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.
The city's kitchens sit in tight, mixed stock - Ashley Cross, Broadstone, Old Town - with long concealed duct runs up to roof fans. We clean the full run to the TR19 Grease standard, canopy to fan, including the horizontal and vertical sections a canopy-only clean leaves coated.
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 - Bournemouth University, Poole Hospital, Poole Stadium and the quayside hotels - build grease fastest in the concealed lengths where flame spreads.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Poole 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 Ashley Cross and Old Town, 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 Poole 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 Poole hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Poole
We are in Poole's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A seafood restaurant in Poole had marine salt-air moisture mixing with cooking oil into a corrosive, sticky grease layer in the roof extract cowl. We cleaned the external louvres by hand, scraped the main duct run back to bare metal and treated the fan housing with a degreaser, getting the design face velocity back at the cooking line. High coastal winds meant safety lines on the roof to work on the discharge stack.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Poole kitchen these are the tells.
Watch for steam that hangs in the room, cooking smells creeping back over the tables, a canopy weeping onto an Ashley Cross line, grease crusting at the filter rims, or a Poole insurer or fire assessor calling for a TR19 certificate you do not hold. How often it needs doing rides on the cooking load - a hard-frying Broadstone kitchen far more than a quiet daytime cafe - and the certificate fixes that interval, so the next clean is planned, not chanced.
How it runs
Inspect the full Poole 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 Old Town 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 Poole fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Poole 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 Poole 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 Ashley Cross 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 Poole 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 Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 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 Ashley Cross kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Broadstone cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Poole offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Dorset hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
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 Old Town conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Yes - from Ashley Cross and Broadstone kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Poole and the wider Dorset.
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 Ashley Cross and Old Town where the runs are long and awkward.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Poole run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Broadstone 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 an Ashley Cross operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
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