Dudley · 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 Dudley, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Dudley
Dudley rates around 2,600 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.
From Stourbridge to Halesowen and Wollaston, the town's cooklines vent through long hidden ducting that climbs to a roof fan. We clean it end to end to the TR19 Grease standard - not just the canopy, but the flat and rising sections where grease really collects.
Beyond the kitchens, we clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in hotels and care homes. High-output kitchens - Dudley College, Russells Hall Hospital, the Merry Hill centre and the borough hotels - lay grease down fast in exactly the concealed sections where a fire travels.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Dudley 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 Stourbridge and Wollaston, a canopy-and-filter wipe leaves the duct interior - where grease piles up and a fire runs - completely alone. We reach the whole Dudley 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 Dudley hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Dudley
We are in Dudley's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A social-housing block in Dudley had grease and decaying food waste coating the lower hopper deflector plates of its refuse chute, and the smell was bad. We scraped the metal impact plates by hand, worked a heavy-duty degreasing scrub through and pressure-washed the bin-store assembly, getting the refuse moving to the compactors again. We fitted a new heavy-duty rubber seal to the discharge flap to stop the odour migrating back into the flats.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Dudley 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 Stourbridge line, grease crusting at the filter rims, or a Dudley 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 Halesowen 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 Dudley 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 Wollaston 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 Dudley fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Dudley 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 Dudley 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 Stourbridge 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 Dudley 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. Food hygiene inspections by Dudley Metropolitan Borough 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 Stourbridge kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Halesowen cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Dudley 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 Stourbridge and Halesowen kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Dudley and the wider West Midlands.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Stourbridge operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Dudley run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Halesowen 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 Wollaston conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
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 Stourbridge and Wollaston where the runs are long and awkward.
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