Aberdare · 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 Aberdare, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Aberdare
Aberdare 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.
From Canon Street to Commercial Street and Trecynon, the town's cooklines vent through long hidden ducting that climbs to a roof fan. We clean it end to end to the TR19 Grease standard - not just the canopy, but the flat and rising sections where grease really collects.
It is not only kitchens: we also clean the dry supply and extract ductwork in Aberdare offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-packed laundry runs behind its hotel and care-home dryers. The busiest kitchens - college refectories, pub and hotel kitchens, valley cafes and the busy town-centre takeaways - coat their hidden ducting in grease quickest, and that is the very path a fire follows.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Aberdare insurers and fire risk assessors expect - measured across the whole extract run, not just the visible mouth of the canopy.
The standard is written in film thickness: once grease reaches a set depth the run has to be cleaned and proven again. In the crowded roof voids off Canon Street and Trecynon, a wipe of the canopy and filters never reaches the ductwork behind them, where the grease that carries fire quietly gathers. We work the whole Aberdare run through hatches already in place and others we cut, bring it back to bright metal, note grease depths at fixed stations before and after, and certify to TR19 Grease with the closing figures logged.
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 Aberdare hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Aberdare
We are in Aberdare's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A family-run church hall in Aberdare had its air supply ducting coated in settled dust, and staff had been complaining of poor air movement. We worked through the branch supply ducts with brushes and HEPA extraction, then cleaned and refitted the supply grilles. The occupied areas felt fresher and the stale, dusty smell had gone, and the feedback afterwards was excellent. A little terrier kept a close eye on us from a sunny windowsill throughout.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Aberdare kitchen these are the tells.
Smells pushing back into the dining room, a canopy that drips onto a Canon Street cookline, extraction that no longer clears the steam, visible grease at the filter edges, or an Aberdare insurer or fire risk assessment asking for a TR19 certificate you cannot produce. Cleaning frequency tracks use - a hard-frying Commercial Street kitchen needs it far more often than a daytime cafe - and your certificate states the interval, so the next clean is never a guess.
How it runs
Inspect the full Aberdare 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 Trecynon 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 Aberdare fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Aberdare 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 an Aberdare 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 Canon 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. A live TR19 Grease certificate is what an Aberdare insurer treats as evidence the system is maintained. Miss it and a fire claim may be reduced or refused - an expensive surprise once the damage is done.
Hygiene and environmental health. When Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council carries out a food hygiene inspection it judges the physical state of the premises, and ventilation is part of that. A grease-choked extract can pull down the rating an Environmental Health Officer gives, on top of the odour and the weakening airflow your staff put up with.
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 Canon Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Commercial Street cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
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 Trecynon conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Aberdare run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Commercial Street cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Canon Street and Commercial Street kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Trecynon 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.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Canon Street operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Yes - from Canon Street and Commercial Street kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Aberdare and the wider Rhondda Cynon Taf.
Local knowledge
From 1837, when Thomas Wayne sank the first deep mine in the Cynon Valley at Cwmbach, Aberdare pits fed steam coal to the navies of the world, and firms like Nixon's Navigation and Powell Duffryn made the lower valley one of the busiest coalfields in Britain. The Middle Duffryn explosion of 1852 cost sixty-four lives and marked how much air and ventilation those workings turned on. Modern premises hide their dust inside sealed ductwork instead, 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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