Bridgnorth · 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 Bridgnorth, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Bridgnorth
Bridgnorth 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 - High Street, Whitburn Street, St Marys Street - 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 Bridgnorth offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-packed laundry runs behind its hotel and care-home dryers. The busiest kitchens - pub kitchens, chip ranges and the works canteens at the town's manufacturers - coat their hidden ducting in grease quickest, and that is the very path a fire follows.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Bridgnorth 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 High Street and St Marys Street, 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 Bridgnorth 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 Bridgnorth hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Bridgnorth
We are in Bridgnorth's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A privately owned guest house in Bridgnorth had its dryer exhaust ductwork choked with lint, pushing drying times right up. We brushed and vacuumed the vent line end to end and confirmed the outside vent flap was opening fully. The dryers ran hotter and faster and the laundry block lost its damp, warm feel, with a short photo report left for the compliance records.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Bridgnorth kitchen these are the tells.
Smells pushing back into the dining room, a canopy that drips onto a High Street cookline, extraction that no longer clears the steam, visible grease at the filter edges, or a Bridgnorth insurer or fire risk assessment asking for a TR19 certificate you cannot produce. Cleaning frequency tracks use - a hard-frying Whitburn 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 Bridgnorth 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 St Marys Street 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 Bridgnorth fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Bridgnorth 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 Bridgnorth 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 High 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 Bridgnorth 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 Shropshire 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 High Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Whitburn Street cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Bridgnorth offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Shropshire hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
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 High Street and St Marys Street where the runs are long and awkward.
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 St Marys Street conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Yes. The fan at the top of a St Marys Street 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.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Bridgnorth run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Whitburn Street cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the High Street and Whitburn Street kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
Local knowledge
The leaning tower of Bridgnorth Castle - a fragment of Norman keep slighted after the Civil War siege of 1646 - tilts at around 15 degrees, more than four times the lean of Pisa. It has stood askew for centuries because nobody could see the failing foundation until it moved. Ductwork hides its faults the same way: grease and dust line the runs above a kitchen or the trunking off a workshop unseen. We clean ducting back to bare metal and record what was really there.
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