Birmingham · 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 Birmingham, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Birmingham
Birmingham rates around 1,977 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 - the converted warehouses and railway arches of Digbeth, the Victorian terraces of the Balti Triangle, the canalside conversions around Brindleyplace - 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.
Beyond the kitchens, we clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in hotels and care homes. High-output kitchens - the two universities, the QE Hospital, the arena and the city hotels - lay grease down fast in exactly the concealed sections where a fire travels.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Birmingham insurers and fire risk assessors expect - measured across the whole extract run, not just the visible mouth of the canopy.
Grease is measured by thickness, and the standard sets the depth at which a system must be cleaned and re-tested. In the Balti Triangle and Digbeth, where the concealed runs thread through Victorian terrace and warehouse roof voids, a canopy-and-filter wipe leaves the ductwork itself - the long hidden sections where grease accumulates and a fire travels - untouched. We access the full Birmingham run through existing and newly fitted inspection hatches, clean to bare metal, record before-and-after grease-depth readings at set points, and issue a TR19 Grease certificate with a post-clean depth 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 Birmingham hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Birmingham
We are in Birmingham's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
An office block in Birmingham had us in for its dry ductwork and air-handling unit - years of dust and grime had built up right through the system. We ran power brushes and a HEPA air mover through the ducts, cleared the ceiling vents and cleaned out the AHU, then sourced the replacement HEPA and multi-pocket filters and left them with the on-site maintenance team to fit.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Birmingham kitchen these are the tells.
Smells pushing back into the dining room, a canopy that drips onto a Ladypool Road cookline, extraction that no longer clears the wok steam, visible grease at the filter edges, or a Birmingham insurer or fire risk assessment asking for a TR19 certificate you cannot produce. Cleaning frequency tracks use - a hard-frying Balti Triangle 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 Birmingham 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 city 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 Birmingham fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Birmingham 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 Birmingham 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 Balti Triangle cookline can travel the ductwork and spread fire through the concealed voids of a terrace. 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 Birmingham 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. Birmingham City Council food hygiene inspections assess the physical condition of premises, ventilation included. A grease-clogged system can count against the rating an Environmental Health Officer awards, quite apart from the smell and the falling extract performance your staff have to work in.
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 Balti Triangle kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Brindleyplace 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 Birmingham insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Birmingham offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the city's hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Digbeth or city-centre riser is where grease throws off the blades and the run ends - we degrease it and its housing as part of the clean, because a loaded fan is what finally stops a system pulling.
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 Digbeth and Jewellery Quarter conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Birmingham run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so the cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Yes - from city-centre and Digbeth kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Birmingham and the wider West Midlands.
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