Abergavenny · 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 Abergavenny, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Abergavenny
Abergavenny rates dozens 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.
The city's kitchens sit in tight, mixed stock - Cross Street, High Street, Market Hall - with long concealed duct runs up to roof fans. We clean the full run to the TR19 Grease standard, canopy to fan, including the horizontal and vertical sections a canopy-only clean leaves coated.
It is not only kitchens: we also clean the dry supply and extract ductwork in Abergavenny offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-packed laundry runs behind its hotel and care-home dryers. The busiest kitchens - busy restaurant lines, pub kitchens, cafes and takeaways - coat their hidden ducting in grease quickest, and that is the very path a fire follows.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Abergavenny insurers and fire risk assessors expect - measured across the whole extract run, not just the visible mouth of the canopy.
Because the standard is written around film thickness, it sets the depth that triggers a clean and re-test. In the mixed roof spaces around Cross Street and Market Hall, a canopy-and-filter wipe leaves the duct interior - where grease piles up and a fire runs - completely alone. We reach the whole Abergavenny run through existing hatches and new ones we cut, clean back to bright metal, take before-and-after grease-depth figures at set points, and certify it to TR19 Grease with those depths on the record.
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 Abergavenny hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Abergavenny
We are in Abergavenny's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
An office suite in Abergavenny had a heavy blanket of building dust settled through the dry supply ducting serving the occupied areas. We power-brushed the supply ductwork under HEPA negative pressure and cleared the supply grilles. Indoor air quality improved across the work areas, and the supply runs and grilles were left clean throughout.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Abergavenny kitchen these are the tells.
A canopy dripping onto a Cross Street cookline, cooking smells forced back to the tables, extraction that no longer clears the steam, grease showing at the filter edges, or an Abergavenny insurer or fire risk assessor wanting a TR19 certificate you have not got. How often it needs doing follows how hard you cook - a fast-frying High Street kitchen far more than a daytime cafe - and the certificate names the interval, so the next visit is booked, not guessed.
How it runs
Inspect the full Abergavenny 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 Market Hall 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 Abergavenny fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Abergavenny 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 Abergavenny 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 Cross 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 current TR19 Grease certificate is the evidence your Abergavenny insurer expects. Without it, a fire claim can be reduced or refused outright - an expensive gap to find after the event.
Hygiene and environmental health. A food hygiene visit from Monmouthshire County Council weighs the physical state of the premises, ventilation counted within it. A grease-blocked extract can pull down the rating an Environmental Health Officer sets, quite apart from the stale smell and the tired airflow your staff work beneath all shift.
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 Cross Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime High Street cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Cross Street operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Cross Street and High Street kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Abergavenny run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a High Street cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Abergavenny offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Monmouthshire hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Market Hall 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 Cross Street and Market Hall where the runs are long and awkward.
Local knowledge
At Christmas 1175 William de Braose lured Seisyll ap Dyfnwal and other Welsh leaders to Abergavenny Castle under a flag of reconciliation and had them killed in the great hall, earning himself the name the Ogre of Abergavenny. Betrayal here ran unseen until too late, much like the grease that builds inside a kitchen extract duct. We clean ductwork to TR19 Grease across the town, measuring deposit thickness before and after and photographing every run we open.
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