Duct Cleaning · Hatfield
Hatfield's kitchens - the town-centre restaurants, the Galleria food court and the university canteens - run grease up concealed ductwork. We clean and certify the whole system to TR19 Grease.
Answer a few quick questions about your Hatfield canopy, filters and ducting for a guide price on stripping and degreasing the extract system - no measuring, no site visit.
Try the cost calculatorHatfield built de Havilland aircraft on its aerodrome and now runs a university and a business park on the same ground. The restaurants of the town centre, the food court at the Galleria and the campus canteens of the University of Hertfordshire all vent through extract ductwork that lifts hot, grease-laden air from the canopy to a hidden roof outlet.
Across a Welwyn Hatfield food economy of 762 rated premises, the risk lives in the concealed length of that duct - the run above a ceiling, the riser inside a wall - unseen until an insurer or fire risk assessor calls for evidence. We clean and certify commercial grease, ventilation and laundry ductwork across Hatfield to TR19 Grease, opening access panels where a run is sealed and leaving the certificate and photographs for your file.
TR19 Grease is the benchmark insurers and fire risk assessors expect for kitchen extract systems. It covers the whole system, measured, not just the parts you can see. Grease is assessed by thickness, and the standard sets the level at which a system must be cleaned and re-tested.
Across Hatfield we work to that one standard, whether the run climbs out of a busy restaurant kitchen or a care-home laundry.
The greasy extract from a cookline is the run that carries real fire risk. We clean it canopy to fan, down to bare metal, and log grease-depth readings at set points.
Dry ventilation ductwork chokes on dust and debris, so it works harder and moves less air. We clean and inspect it so airflow and air quality come back.
Lint-packed dryer and laundry ducting is among the most flammable build-ups on any site. We clear it and check it, before it becomes the ignition source.
Real jobs, described by sector and area - never by a client's name.
A University of Hertfordshire canteen ran a long concealed duct feeding a full lunchtime sitting. We surveyed it, fitted access panels and cleaned it end to end around the timetable, documenting the run for the campus.
A food unit at the Galleria outlet ran a duct shared through the building to a roof fan. We cleaned the accessible length, fitted panels where it was boxed in, and set the interval to its hours.
We trace the whole run, locate the sealed and concealed sections and set the scope and a cleaning interval to your cooking hours.
Compliant inspection hatches go in wherever the ductwork is boxed in, and the kitchen or plant area is sheeted and protected.
The full run is cleaned to bare metal from canopy to fan, with grease-depth readings taken at set points as we work.
You receive a dated certificate, the readings, photographs and a next-due date for the fire logbook.
The building. The Fire Safety Order puts the duty on the responsible person to control fire risk, and concealed grease is where a kitchen fire spreads fastest and least visibly.
The claim. Insurers expect a current certificate; a fire claim on a neglected system can be cut or refused - a costly surprise after a loss.
The day-to-day. A clean run pulls better, smells better and stands up when the environmental health officer visits.
The Galleria, built beneath the A1(M) on the edge of the old aerodrome, gathers a food court of outlets cooking flat out through the retail day. Kitchens set into a large enclosed building run long shared ducts, so we survey and clean the whole system to keep a Galleria kitchen fire-safe as well as busy.
Yes. We work throughout Hatfield and the wider Hertfordshire, including the town centre and the Galleria, the University of Hertfordshire campuses, Old Hatfield, and the Business Park on the old aerodrome. Call 07961 915018 or use the contact form and we will confirm and quote.
The whole run - from the canopy through the concealed horizontal and vertical ductwork to the roof fan. The hidden sections are exactly where the grease and the fire risk sit.
We fit compliant access panels where the run is sealed or boxed in, so every internal section can be reached, cleaned, inspected and certified.
It depends on use. TR19 Grease sets kitchen extract frequency by daily cooking hours - roughly every three months for heavy use, six for moderate and twelve for light - and we set your interval and next-due date on the survey.
Yes. Dry supply and extract ductwork clogs with dust and can spread contamination, and laundry and dryer ducting packs with highly flammable lint. We clean and certify all three.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings, weekends and closing days to keep your kitchen or site running.
We have cleaned and certified commercial ductwork since 2001, the length of the Hertfordshire coast and across the UK. Whatever the run - a grease riser, a dry office system or a care-home laundry duct - the work ends the same way: bare metal, a photo record and a certificate that stands up to a fire risk assessment.
Send us your site details and cooking hours and we will survey, quote and certify - across Hertfordshire.
