Kitchen Duct Clean

Your Responsibility

The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 requires those responsible for workplaces to carry out a fire risk assessment of their premises, including grease extract systems, and take action to eliminate - or at least to minimise - risks to the safety of the building's occupants.

Your Insurance can ask for evidence to be shown that the new Fire Safety Order is being complied with. As a high fire risk, the grease extract system should be cleaned at least annually, and many policies make this a minimal requirement under the terms of the insurance.

Each kitchen extract system is unique, and each kitchen has a different environment, this means that a survey has to be fulfilled to decide on the best course of action.

The Technicals

Commercial kitchens generate grease, carbon and steam and for this the kitchen design incorporates an extraction system to take away these elements through the grease filters, and then the ducting to the outside of the building.

Even on the best operating extraction systems the internal walls of the ductwork gets laden with grease and carbon deposits, and with time this gradually gets worst the speed of which depends on the types of cooking being carried out ie: fryers, griddle and wok cooking being the worst culprits.

The HVCA is the industry body for Ventilation Systems which also cover Kitchen Grease Extraction System they have a ‘Guide to Good Practice’ Internal Cleanliness of Ventilation Systems commonly know in the industry as the TR/19 document.

The TR/19 specifies the techniques and systems accepted to be competent and reliable enough to reduce or stop the risk of fire, and also recommends the frequency of cleaning dependant on kitchen usage

Our Service

At the first point of contact we will arrange to carry out a detailed survey and report which will explain the health of the system and the type of cleaning schedule it will need to make it fire hazard free.

This will also explain the frequency of visits according to your usage and practices, and will also ascertain the need of any access panels cut into the system to maximise on the cleaning.

After the proposal is confirmed by both parties, a date will be set for one of our professional teams of technicians to commence the works based around your operation.

Once the works are completed we will send out a Post Clean Report which will contain information of how and what was cleaned, together with before and after photographs and a Certificate of Completion.

This certificate can be shown to Insurers as evidence that you have taken appropriate action to eliminate risks to your building and its occupants thereby complying with the Fire Safety Order and the terms of your property insurance