Ledbury · 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 Ledbury, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Ledbury
Ledbury rates dozens 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.
Right across Ledbury, from High Street through Homend to Southend, cooklines share tight roof space and vent through concealed ducting few operators ever see inside. We clean that entire path to the TR19 Grease standard, canopy through to fan, taking in the level pulls and the risers where grease settles thickest and a fire would run.
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 - John Masefield High School, the Ledbury Community Health and Care Centre, the town-centre hotels and the industrial-estate messes - lay grease down fast in exactly the concealed sections where a fire travels.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Ledbury 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 High Street and Southend, a canopy-and-filter wipe leaves the duct interior - where grease piles up and a fire runs - completely alone. We reach the whole Ledbury 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 Ledbury hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Ledbury
We are in Ledbury's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A popular apartment block in Ledbury had a greasy film of rotting refuse coating the inside of the waste chute from top to bottom. We power-washed the chute, cleared the hopper doors and applied an antibacterial treatment. The bin chute was sanitised top to bottom and the stairwell was pleasant to use again, with the site left spotless.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Ledbury kitchen these are the tells.
The tells are plain: steam that lingers, odours drifting back over the diners, drips off the canopy onto a High Street line, a rim of grease at the filters, or a Ledbury insurer or fire assessment wanting a TR19 certificate you cannot show. Frequency tracks the cooking load - a hard-frying Homend kitchen needs it far more often than a quiet cafe - and your certificate sets the date, so nothing is left to chance.
How it runs
Inspect the full Ledbury 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 Southend 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 Ledbury fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Ledbury 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 Ledbury 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 High 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. A live TR19 Grease certificate is what a Ledbury insurer treats as evidence the system is maintained. Miss it and a fire claim may be reduced or refused - an expensive surprise once the damage is done.
Hygiene and environmental health. When Herefordshire Council carries out a food hygiene inspection it judges the physical state of the premises, and ventilation is part of that. A grease-choked extract can pull down the rating an Environmental Health Officer gives, on top of the odour and the weakening airflow your staff put up with.
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 High Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Homend 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 High Street and Southend where the runs are long and awkward.
Yes - from High Street and Homend kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Ledbury and the wider Herefordshire.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a High Street operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Southend 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.
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 Southend conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Ledbury offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Herefordshire hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Local knowledge
St Michael and All Angels is unusual among English parish churches for its detached bell tower, a separate stone campanile whose spire was added in the eighteenth century, standing apart from the nave. Keeping the two structures sound has always meant looking inside the hidden stonework. Ductwork asks the same: grease and dust settle unseen inside the runs above a Ledbury kitchen or workshop, and only opening, brushing and access-hatching the full length to the TR19 standard shows what has really built up out of sight.
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