Hinckley · 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 Hinckley, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Hinckley
Hinckley rates around 900 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 Hinckley work out of tight, mixed premises - Castle Street, Regent Street, Britannia Centre - 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.
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 - the local college, the town's community hospital, the Britannia Centre and the town hotels - lay grease down fast in exactly the concealed sections where a fire travels.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Hinckley 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 Castle Street and Britannia Centre, a canopy-and-filter wipe leaves the duct interior - where grease piles up and a fire runs - completely alone. We reach the whole Hinckley 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 Hinckley hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Hinckley
We are in Hinckley's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A golden-triangle distribution-shed canteen in Hinckley had grease along the extract runs and warehouse dust drawn into the supply grilles. We scraped the extract lengths back to metal, ran a degreaser through the sealed sections and washed the supply grilles down, restoring the extraction and the incoming air. The clean was worked around the canteen's shift meal breaks so the crews kept their service.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Hinckley kitchen these are the tells.
A canopy dripping onto a Castle Street cookline, cooking smells forced back to the tables, extraction that no longer clears the steam, grease showing at the filter edges, or a Hinckley 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 Regent Street 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 Hinckley 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 Britannia Centre 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 Hinckley fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Hinckley 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 Hinckley 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 Castle 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. Your Hinckley 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. A food hygiene visit from Hinckley and Bosworth Borough 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 Castle Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Regent Street cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Hinckley offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Leicestershire hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Castle Street operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
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 Castle Street and Britannia Centre 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 Britannia Centre conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Hinckley run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Regent Street cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Yes - from Castle Street and Regent Street kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Hinckley and the wider Leicestershire.
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