Bloxwich · 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 Bloxwich, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Bloxwich
Bloxwich 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.
Kitchens across Bloxwich work out of tight, mixed premises - Elmore Green Road, Blakenall Heath, Park Road - their extract snaking through concealed voids to roof-mounted fans. We take the whole run to the TR19 Grease standard, hood to fan, reaching the horizontal legs and vertical risers a canopy wipe never touches.
It is not only kitchens: we also clean the dry supply and extract ductwork in Bloxwich offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-packed laundry runs behind its hotel and care-home dryers. The busiest kitchens - hospital and care-home kitchens, pub and hotel kitchens 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 Bloxwich 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. Around Elmore Green Road and Park Road, where the concealed runs thread through mixed 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 Bloxwich 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 Bloxwich hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Bloxwich
We are in Bloxwich's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
Years without a clean had left the supply grilles and ductwork at an independent library in Bloxwich laden with atmospheric dust. We power-brushed the branch supply ducts under HEPA negative pressure and cleared the fan coil unit. Indoor air quality improved right across the open-plan space, and the area was left clean and ready to use. We timed the job for the Christmas shutdown while the building was quiet.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Bloxwich kitchen these are the tells.
Watch for steam that hangs in the room, cooking smells creeping back over the tables, a canopy weeping onto an Elmore Green Road line, grease crusting at the filter rims, or a Bloxwich insurer or fire assessor calling for a TR19 certificate you do not hold. How often it needs doing rides on the cooking load - a hard-frying Blakenall Heath kitchen far more than a quiet daytime cafe - and the certificate fixes that interval, so the next clean is planned, not chanced.
How it runs
Inspect the full Bloxwich 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 Park Road 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 Bloxwich fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Bloxwich 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 Bloxwich 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 an Elmore Green Road 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 Bloxwich 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 Walsall Metropolitan 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 Elmore Green Road kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Blakenall Heath cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Elmore Green Road and Blakenall Heath 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 Park Road 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. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Bloxwich offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the West Midlands hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Yes - from Elmore Green Road and Blakenall Heath kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Bloxwich and the wider West Midlands.
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 Elmore Green Road and Park Road where the runs are long and awkward.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence an Elmore Green Road operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Local knowledge
Coal and iron made the other half of Bloxwich: the Wyrley and Essington Canal was cut to carry coal from the pits around Wyrley, Essington and New Invention, and its Wyrley Branch climbed through five locks at Sneyd Junction to feed the surrounding collieries and the ironworks at Goscote. The mines and forges are long gone, but the heavy-industry appetite for extraction lives on inside modern factory walls. There the grease and debris that once smoked in the open now build unseen inside sealed ductwork 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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