Bedford · 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 Bedford, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Bedford
Bedford rates around 1,600 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.
Right across Bedford, from St Cuthberts Street through Mill Street to Embankment, cooklines share tight roof space and vent through concealed ducting few operators ever see inside. We clean that entire path to the TR19 Grease standard, canopy through to fan, taking in the level pulls and the risers where grease settles thickest and a fire would run.
The same crews clean dry ventilation and air-handling ductwork in offices, schools and civic buildings, plus the combustible lint runs behind hotel and care-home dryers. High-turnover sites - the University of Bedfordshire Bedford campus, Bedford Hospital, Goldington Road and the town hotels - build grease fastest in the concealed lengths where flame spreads.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Bedford insurers and fire risk assessors expect - measured across the whole extract run, not just the visible mouth of the canopy.
The standard works in grease-film thickness, fixing the depth at which a run must be cleaned and re-tested. In the shared roof voids around St Cuthberts Street and Embankment, wiping the canopy and filters leaves the ductwork - the long concealed sections that gather grease and carry fire - untouched. We open the full Bedford run through existing and newly cut inspection hatches, strip it to bare metal, log grease-depth readings at fixed points before and after, and issue a TR19 Grease certificate with the post-clean depths recorded.
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 Bedford hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Bedford
We are in Bedford's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A community college in Bedford had environmental dust, lint and loose insulation fibre blocking the classroom supply-air vents. We worked motorised rotary brush gear and a negative-air machine through to dislodge and extract the dust layers, restoring the air circulation ahead of term. We found an old maintenance manual left inside the primary air handling unit filter section and handed it back to the site team.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Bedford kitchen these are the tells.
Smells pushing back into the dining room, a canopy that drips onto a St Cuthberts Street cookline, extraction that no longer clears the steam, visible grease at the filter edges, or a Bedford insurer or fire risk assessment asking for a TR19 certificate you cannot produce. Cleaning frequency tracks use - a hard-frying Mill 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 Bedford 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 Embankment 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 Bedford fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Bedford 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 a Bedford 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 St Cuthberts 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 Bedford 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. When Bedford 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 St Cuthberts Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Mill Street cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the St Cuthberts Street and Mill Street kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Bedford offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Bedfordshire hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Yes. The fan at the top of an Embankment 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.
Yes - from St Cuthberts Street and Mill Street kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Bedford and the wider Bedfordshire.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a St Cuthberts Street operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
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 Embankment conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
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