Saffron Walden · 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 Saffron Walden, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Saffron Walden
Saffron Walden rates dozens 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 Saffron Walden work out of tight, mixed premises - King Street, Castle Street, Hill Street - 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.
It is not only kitchens: we also clean the dry supply and extract ductwork in Saffron Walden offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-packed laundry runs behind its hotel and care-home dryers. The busiest kitchens - the pubs, takeaways, cafes and school kitchens working through service - coat their hidden ducting in grease quickest, and that is the very path a fire follows.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Saffron Walden 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 King Street and Hill Street, 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 Saffron Walden 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 Saffron Walden hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Saffron Walden
We are in Saffron Walden's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
An independent bakery in Saffron Walden had thick, sticky grease running the length of the oven extract run from the cook line. We fitted access panels, scraped the extract duct back and degreased through to bare metal. The duct came up to bare metal and the fire risk was cleared, cleaned to the TR19 grease standard with a certificate.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Saffron Walden kitchen these are the tells.
A canopy dripping onto a King Street cookline, cooking smells forced back to the tables, extraction that no longer clears the steam, grease showing at the filter edges, or a Saffron Walden 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 Castle Street 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 Saffron Walden 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 Hill Street 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 Saffron Walden fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Saffron Walden 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 Saffron Walden 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 King 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. A current TR19 Grease certificate is the evidence your Saffron Walden 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. A food hygiene visit from Uttlesford District Council weighs the physical state of the premises, ventilation counted within it. A grease-blocked extract can pull down the rating an Environmental Health Officer sets, quite apart from the stale smell and the tired airflow your staff work beneath all shift.
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 King Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Castle Street cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a King 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 King Street and Hill Street 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 Hill Street conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Saffron Walden run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Castle Street cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Yes - from King Street and Castle Street kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Saffron Walden and the wider Essex.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the King Street and Castle Street kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
Local knowledge
On the common sits the largest surviving ancient turf maze in England, its coiled path running close to a mile through the grass. Grease and dust travel through kitchen and workshop ductwork along routes just as convoluted, collecting where nobody looks. We survey the full run of a duct system, clean it to the reachable extent of every branch, and record access-panel positions, so the hidden path from canopy to fan stays clear instead of quietly loading with fuel.
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