Royal Tunbridge Wells · 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 Royal Tunbridge Wells, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Royal Tunbridge Wells
Royal Tunbridge Wells 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 Royal Tunbridge Wells, from Mount Pleasant Road through Calverley Road to Pantiles, 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.
Beyond the kitchens, we clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in hotels and care homes. High-output kitchens - West Kent College, the Tunbridge Wells Hospital at Pembury, the Royal Victoria Place centre and the town hotels - lay grease down fast in exactly the concealed sections where a fire travels.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Royal Tunbridge Wells 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 Mount Pleasant Road and Pantiles, wiping the canopy and filters leaves the ductwork - the long concealed sections that gather grease and carry fire - untouched. We open the full Royal Tunbridge Wells 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 Royal Tunbridge Wells hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Royal Tunbridge Wells
We are in Royal Tunbridge Wells's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A Pantiles restaurant in Tunbridge Wells had a heavy grease film through the horizontal extract and up the riser above a busy cook line. We fitted new access panels, hand-scraped the accessible lengths and ran an enzyme degreaser through the sealed sections, returning the ductwork to clean metal for the fire and insurance standard. It was worked overnight so the colonnade trade lost no covers.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Royal Tunbridge Wells kitchen these are the tells.
The tells are plain: steam that lingers, odours drifting back over the diners, drips off the canopy onto a Mount Pleasant Road line, a rim of grease at the filters, or a Royal Tunbridge Wells insurer or fire assessment wanting a TR19 certificate you cannot show. Frequency tracks the cooking load - a hard-frying Calverley Road 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 Royal Tunbridge Wells 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 Pantiles 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 Royal Tunbridge Wells fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Royal Tunbridge Wells 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 Royal Tunbridge Wells 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 Mount Pleasant 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 Royal Tunbridge Wells 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 Tunbridge Wells Borough 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 Mount Pleasant Road kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Calverley Road cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Royal Tunbridge Wells run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Calverley Road cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Yes - from Mount Pleasant Road and Calverley Road kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Royal Tunbridge Wells and the wider Kent.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Mount Pleasant Road operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Pantiles 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.
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 Mount Pleasant Road and Pantiles 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 Pantiles conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
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