Rayleigh · 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 Rayleigh, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Rayleigh
Rayleigh 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 Rayleigh work out of tight, mixed premises - High Street, Websters Way, Crown Hill - 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 Rayleigh schools, offices and civic buildings, and the lint-choked dryer runs behind its hotels and care homes. It is the hardest-pressed kitchens - restaurant and pub kitchens, the busy town-centre takeaways and the school and care-home kitchens - that glaze their hidden ducting quickest, and that coating is the road a fire takes.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Rayleigh 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 High Street and Crown Hill, wiping the canopy and filters leaves the ductwork - the long concealed sections that gather grease and carry fire - untouched. We open the full Rayleigh 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 Rayleigh hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Rayleigh
We are in Rayleigh's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A local dental practice in Rayleigh had its supply ductwork thick with building dust behind the grilles, leaving staff with dry eyes and stale air through the offices. We ran rotary brushes and a negative-air machine through the branch runs, then replaced the dirty panel filters. The work areas felt fresher and the stale, dusty smell had lifted, and the feedback afterwards was excellent. We left before-and-after photos and a test report for the maintenance log.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Rayleigh kitchen these are the tells.
A canopy dripping onto a High Street cookline, cooking smells forced back to the tables, extraction that no longer clears the steam, grease showing at the filter edges, or a Rayleigh 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 Websters Way 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 Rayleigh 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 Crown Hill 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 Rayleigh fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Rayleigh 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 Rayleigh 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 High 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 Rayleigh 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. Food hygiene inspections by Rochford 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 High Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Websters Way cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
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 Crown Hill conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Rayleigh offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Essex hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a High Street operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
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 High Street and Crown Hill where the runs are long and awkward.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Rayleigh run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Websters Way cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Yes - from High Street and Websters Way kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Rayleigh and the wider Essex.
Local knowledge
Rayleigh Windmill was built in 1809, a tower mill grinding the corn of the surrounding Essex farmland, its air once thick with drifting flour dust. Modern premises hide their dust and grease inside sealed ductwork instead, where debris builds unseen until airflow fails or fire finds a path. We clean and inspect ventilation and extract ductwork across the town, then hand over photographic before-and-after evidence of every run.
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