Leominster · 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 Leominster, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Leominster
Leominster 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.
Kitchens across Leominster work out of tight, mixed premises - Corn Square, Broad Street, West Street - 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.
Kitchens are only half the work - we also strip the dry supply and extract ductwork of Leominster schools, offices and civic buildings, and the lint-choked dryer runs behind its hotels and care homes. It is the hardest-pressed kitchens - the fish bars, pub kitchens and busy takeaways - that glaze their hidden ducting quickest, and that coating is the road a fire takes.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Leominster 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 Corn Square and West Street, 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 Leominster 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 Leominster hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Leominster
We are in Leominster's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A guest house laundry in Leominster had a thick mat of fabric fluff packed into the tumble-dryer exhaust run, raising a clear fire risk. We stripped and vacuumed the full vent line, cleared the discharge louvre and checked airflow. The system ran cooler and cleaner and the fire risk was cleared, with the block left tidy.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Leominster kitchen these are the tells.
The tells are plain: steam that lingers, odours drifting back over the diners, drips off the canopy onto a Corn Square line, a rim of grease at the filters, or a Leominster insurer or fire assessment wanting a TR19 certificate you cannot show. Frequency tracks the cooking load - a hard-frying Broad Street 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 Leominster 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 West Street 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 Leominster fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Leominster 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 Leominster 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 Corn Square 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 Leominster 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. Herefordshire 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 Corn Square kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Broad Street cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Leominster offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Herefordshire hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Yes. The fan at the top of a West Street 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 Corn Square and Broad Street kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Leominster 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 Corn Square operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Leominster run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Broad Street cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Corn Square and Broad Street kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
Local knowledge
Leominster Priory was founded in 1121 on the site of an earlier Saxon monastery, and its west doorway carries some of the finest work of the Herefordshire School of Romanesque carving. Nine centuries of soot and dust have passed through the town since. Modern buildings hide their own concealed passages - the ductwork above kitchens and workshops - and, like the Priory's stonework, they need periodic attention: a duct left uncleaned gathers grease and dust until it becomes a fire risk.
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