Cwmbran · 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 Cwmbran, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Cwmbran
Cwmbran 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.
The city's kitchens sit in tight, mixed stock - Town Centre, Croesyceiliog, Pontnewydd - 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 Cwmbran offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-packed laundry runs behind its hotel and care-home dryers. The busiest kitchens - busy pub kitchens, shopping-centre food courts, care-home and hospital catering and high-turnover takeaways - coat their hidden ducting in grease quickest, and that is the very path a fire follows.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Cwmbran 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 Town Centre and Pontnewydd, 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 Cwmbran 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 Cwmbran hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Cwmbran
We are in Cwmbran's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A primary school classroom in Cwmbran had fresh-air supply ducting that, behind the grilles, was thick with settled dust, giving poor air movement through the rooms. We isolated the zones, brushed out the internal ducting and washed the fan coil unit. Airflow came back up to spec and the supply system was left visibly clean throughout.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Cwmbran 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 Town Centre line, grease crusting at the filter rims, or a Cwmbran 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 Croesyceiliog 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 Cwmbran 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 Pontnewydd 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 Cwmbran fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Cwmbran 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 Cwmbran 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 Town Centre 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. Your Cwmbran insurer expects a current TR19 Grease certificate as proof the duct is clean. Without one, a fire claim can be cut back or turned down altogether - a costly thing to find only after a fire.
Hygiene and environmental health. Torfaen County Borough 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 Town Centre kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Croesyceiliog cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Town Centre and Croesyceiliog kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
Yes - from Town Centre and Croesyceiliog kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Cwmbran and the wider Torfaen.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Town Centre operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Pontnewydd 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.
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 Town Centre and Pontnewydd where the runs are long and awkward.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Cwmbran run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Croesyceiliog cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Local knowledge
Between 1967 and 1972 the Tower and Monmouth House rose over a brand-new pedestrian precinct, now the second-largest shopping centre in Wales. Behind its food courts and unit kitchens sit long runs of ductwork carrying grease-laden air to roof level. Left unswept, that lining is a fire load. We clean extract ductwork end to end, from canopy to fan, and record grease-depth readings to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer looks for.
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