Llandudno · 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 Llandudno, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Llandudno
Llandudno 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.
From Mostyn Street to Gloddaeth Street and Church Walks, 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.
The same crews clean dry ventilation and air-handling ductwork in offices, schools and civic buildings, plus the combustible lint runs behind hotel and care-home dryers. High-turnover sites - hotel kitchens, seafront chip shops, busy takeaways and the town-centre restaurant and pub kitchens - build grease fastest in the concealed lengths where flame spreads.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Llandudno 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 Mostyn Street and Church Walks, 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 Llandudno 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 Llandudno hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Llandudno
We are in Llandudno's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
Settled dust had built up in the branch ducts feeding the work areas of a family-run Llandudno veterinary practice, leaving the air barely moving. We worked through the branch supply ducts with brushes and HEPA extraction, then cleaned and refitted the fan coil unit. The rooms felt fresher and the musty smell had gone, and the client booked us back in there and then. The site manager took a short set of job photos for their health and safety folder.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Llandudno kitchen these are the tells.
Smells pushing back into the dining room, a canopy that drips onto a Mostyn Street cookline, extraction that no longer clears the steam, visible grease at the filter edges, or a Llandudno insurer or fire risk assessment asking for a TR19 certificate you cannot produce. Cleaning frequency tracks use - a hard-frying Gloddaeth Street kitchen needs it far more often than a daytime cafe - and your certificate states the interval, so the next clean is never a guess.
How it runs
Inspect the full Llandudno 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 Church Walks 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 Llandudno fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Llandudno 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 Llandudno 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 Mostyn 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. To a Llandudno 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. When Conwy County Borough 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 Mostyn Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Gloddaeth Street cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Mostyn Street operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Yes - from Mostyn Street and Gloddaeth Street kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Llandudno and the wider Conwy.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Mostyn Street and Gloddaeth Street kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Church Walks 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. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Llandudno offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Conwy hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Llandudno run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Gloddaeth Street cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Local knowledge
When the Mostyn family laid out Llandudno as a resort from the 1850s, they raised a wall of grand hotels along the North Shore promenade, and every one was built with kitchens, laundries and boiler rooms threaded through with extract ductwork. Modern premises still hide their dust and grease inside sealed ducting, where it builds unseen until airflow fails or fire finds a path. Across the town's hotels, restaurants and industrial units, those runs are out of sight and easy to forget. We clean and inspect ventilation and extract ductwork throughout Llandudno, then hand over photographic before-and-after evidence of every run.
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