Cannock · 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 Cannock, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Cannock
Cannock rates around 823 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 - Designer Outlet, Hednesford, Market Hall - 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.
Kitchens are only half the work - we also strip the dry supply and extract ductwork of Cannock schools, offices and civic buildings, and the lint-choked dryer runs behind its hotels and care homes. It is the hardest-pressed kitchens - the South Staffordshire College Cannock campus, Cannock Chase Hospital, the McArthurGlen Designer Outlet and the town hotels - that glaze their hidden ducting quickest, and that coating is the road a fire takes.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Cannock insurers and fire risk assessors expect - measured across the whole extract run, not just the visible mouth of the canopy.
The standard is written in film thickness: once grease reaches a set depth the run has to be cleaned and proven again. In the crowded roof voids off Designer Outlet and Market Hall, a wipe of the canopy and filters never reaches the ductwork behind them, where the grease that carries fire quietly gathers. We work the whole Cannock run through hatches already in place and others we cut, bring it back to bright metal, note grease depths at fixed stations before and after, and certify to TR19 Grease with the closing figures logged.
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 Cannock hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Cannock
We are in Cannock's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A public office building in Cannock had heavy grey carpet dust and lint built up in the fresh-air supply plenums of its air handling unit. We isolated the individual office networks, worked powerful pneumatic brushing gear through and vacuumed the dust remnants out, lifting the indoor air quality across the workspace floors. All the loud pneumatic brushing was done overnight to keep the noise and dust off business hours.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Cannock kitchen these are the tells.
A canopy dripping onto a Designer Outlet cookline, cooking smells forced back to the tables, extraction that no longer clears the steam, grease showing at the filter edges, or a Cannock insurer or fire risk assessor wanting a TR19 certificate you have not got. How often it needs doing follows how hard you cook - a fast-frying Hednesford kitchen far more than a daytime cafe - and the certificate names the interval, so the next visit is booked, not guessed.
How it runs
Inspect the full Cannock 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 Market Hall 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 Cannock fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Cannock 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 Cannock 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 Designer Outlet 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. To a Cannock insurer a current TR19 Grease certificate is the proof the extract has been kept up. Let it lapse and a fire claim can be scaled back or declined outright - the kind of gap nobody wants to find with the kitchen already gutted.
Hygiene and environmental health. Cannock Chase District 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 Designer Outlet kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Hednesford cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Cannock run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Hednesford cookline is back in service for the next shift.
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 Designer Outlet and Market Hall 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 a Designer Outlet operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Designer Outlet and Hednesford 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 Market Hall 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 Designer Outlet and Hednesford kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Cannock and the wider Staffordshire.
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