Duct Cleaning · London
London runs more concealed grease ductwork than anywhere in the country - the West End kitchens, the City towers and the Shoreditch and Brick Lane lines all pushing hot, grease-laden air up hidden runs to the roof. We clean and certify the whole system to TR19 Grease, canopy to fan.
Answer a few quick questions about your London canopy, filters and ducting for a guide price on stripping and degreasing the extract system - no measuring, no site visit.
Try the cost calculatorLondon cooks on a scale nothing else in the country approaches. The restaurants of Soho, Chinatown and Covent Garden, the City and Canary Wharf tower kitchens, the curry houses of Brick Lane, the food halls of the South Bank and the endless high streets of the boroughs all run extract ductwork that climbs, hidden, from the canopy to the roof - through basements, risers and long horizontal runs that a nightly wipe never reaches.
Across the capital's tens of thousands of rated kitchens, the concealed run is where the fire risk sits, and in a dense city of tall and connected buildings the stakes are higher still. Grease in a boxed-in riser or a basement duct is out of sight until a fire risk assessor or an insurer asks for evidence, or until a flame finds it. We clean and certify commercial grease, dry and laundry ductwork across London to TR19 Grease, fit access panels where a run is sealed, and leave the photographs and certificate your file needs - and we cover every borough, each with its own page.
Insurers and fire risk assessors work to TR19 Grease because it measures the whole extract system rather than the visible canopy. It grades grease by depth and fixes the point at which a run has to be cleaned again - so the interval is a measurement, not a guess.
Across London we work to that one standard, whether the run climbs out of a busy restaurant kitchen or a care-home laundry.
The extract off a cookline lines itself with combustible grease the whole way to the fan, and it is the concealed length, not the canopy, a fire assessment turns on. We clean it end to end and record the readings.
Dry supply and extract ductwork silts up with dust and debris until it moves far less air than it should. We clean and inspect it so the ventilation actually performs.
Lint packs a laundry or dryer duct faster than anyone expects, and few build-ups catch as readily. We clear and check the run before it turns into an ignition source.
Real jobs, described by sector and area - never by a client's name.
At a Soho restaurant, a concealed riser climbed from a basement kitchen through several floors to a roof fan, packed with grease and never documented. We cut compliant access panels up the run, cleaned it from canopy to outlet, and handed over a certificate the insurer accepted.
A City tower restaurant vented through a long concealed duct to a shared roof plant. We surveyed the run, cleaned the accessible sections and fitted panels where it was boxed in, and set a next-due date matched to its heavy 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.
Brick Lane has fed London its curries for generations, a run of kitchens worked into old East End buildings where ductwork threads wherever it will fit - and where grease hides in every hidden metre. Those historic runs are exactly the fire risk that a survey and clean removes. We clean and certify the whole system so a Brick Lane kitchen stays fire-safe as well as busy.
Yes. We work throughout London and the wider Greater London, including the West End and the City, Soho and Chinatown, Shoreditch and Brick Lane, the South Bank and Canary Wharf, and out across all the London boroughs. 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 Greater London 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 Greater London.
