Tonbridge · 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 Tonbridge, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Tonbridge
Tonbridge 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 Tonbridge, from High Street through Castle Street to Cage Green, 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.
It is not only kitchens: we also clean the dry supply and extract ductwork in Tonbridge offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-packed laundry runs behind its hotel and care-home dryers. The busiest kitchens - school and college refectories, pub and restaurant kitchens and the busy High Street takeaways - coat their hidden ducting in grease quickest, and that is the very path a fire follows.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Tonbridge 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 Cage Green, wiping the canopy and filters leaves the ductwork - the long concealed sections that gather grease and carry fire - untouched. We open the full Tonbridge 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 Tonbridge hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Tonbridge
We are in Tonbridge's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A much-loved takeaway in Tonbridge had heavy grease collected along the extract ductwork above the range, a clear fire risk. We cut in access doors, cleared the run of grease by hand and finished it off with a degreasing wash. The duct came back to bare metal and the fire risk was gone, all recorded in a full photo report and certificate. We worked the early mornings before the diners arrived to keep things moving.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Tonbridge kitchen these are the tells.
The tells are plain: steam that lingers, odours drifting back over the diners, drips off the canopy onto a High Street line, a rim of grease at the filters, or a Tonbridge insurer or fire assessment wanting a TR19 certificate you cannot show. Frequency tracks the cooking load - a hard-frying Castle Street kitchen needs it far more often than a quiet cafe - and your certificate sets the date, so nothing is left to chance.
How it runs
Inspect the full Tonbridge 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 Cage Green 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 Tonbridge fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Tonbridge 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 Tonbridge 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. To a Tonbridge 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. Tonbridge and Malling Borough 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 High Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Castle Street cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes - from High Street and Castle Street kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Tonbridge and the wider Kent.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Tonbridge offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Kent 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 Cage Green conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Tonbridge 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.
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.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the High 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
Tonbridge sits at the head of the Medway navigation, and after the river was made navigable up to the town in the 1740s it became a busy inland river port, its wharves handling timber, gunpowder and produce moving down to Maidstone and the Thames. Modern premises hide their dust inside sealed ductwork instead of open wharves, where grease and debris build 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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