Burntwood · 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 Burntwood, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Burntwood
Burntwood 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 Burntwood work out of tight, mixed premises - Chasetown, Chase Terrace, Gorstey Lea - 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.
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 - pub and hotel kitchens, care-home and school kitchens and the busy takeaways along the shopping parades - build grease fastest in the concealed lengths where flame spreads.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Burntwood 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 Chasetown and Gorstey Lea, a canopy-and-filter wipe leaves the duct interior - where grease piles up and a fire runs - completely alone. We reach the whole Burntwood 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 Burntwood hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Burntwood
We are in Burntwood's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
At a privately owned nursery kitchen in Burntwood, grease had pooled at the low points of the canopy extract duct, a genuine fire hazard sitting right over the cook line. We fitted access panels, scraped the run back and degreased it through to bare metal. The ducting was left clean and fire-safe, and the owner had photos, a report and a certificate for the file. We worked through the mid-afternoon lull so customers weren't disturbed.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Burntwood kitchen these are the tells.
Watch for steam that hangs in the room, cooking smells creeping back over the tables, a canopy weeping onto a Chasetown line, grease crusting at the filter rims, or a Burntwood 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 Chase Terrace 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 Burntwood 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 Gorstey Lea 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 Burntwood fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Burntwood 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 Burntwood 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 Chasetown 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 Burntwood 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. Food hygiene inspections by Lichfield District Council take in the condition of the building, ventilation included, so a grease-laden system can cost you on the rating an Environmental Health Officer awards - never mind the smell and the dropping extraction your kitchen team works under.
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 Chasetown kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Chase Terrace cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
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 Chasetown and Gorstey Lea where the runs are long and awkward.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Burntwood offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Staffordshire hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Yes - from Chasetown and Chase Terrace kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Burntwood and the wider Staffordshire.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Burntwood run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Chase Terrace cookline is back in service for the next shift.
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 Gorstey Lea conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Gorstey Lea 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.
Local knowledge
The Cannock Chase pits around Burntwood lived or died on their ventilation, drawing fresh air through miles of underground roadways so that men could work and gas could not gather. That same principle governs the buildings above ground today, except the airflow now runs through sealed ductwork where grease, dust and debris build unseen until a system fails or fire finds a path. Modern kitchens and workshops across Chasetown and Chase Terrace hide their extraction inside ceilings and risers. 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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