Luton · 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 Luton, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Luton
Luton rates around 1,300 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 Luton work out of tight, mixed premises - Bury Park, George Street, High Town - 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 Luton schools, offices and civic buildings, and the lint-choked dryer runs behind its hotels and care homes. It is the hardest-pressed kitchens - the University of Bedfordshire, the Luton and Dunstable Hospital, Kenilworth Road and the airport hotels - that glaze their hidden ducting quickest, and that coating is the road a fire takes.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Luton 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 Bury Park and High Town, a canopy-and-filter wipe leaves the duct interior - where grease piles up and a fire runs - completely alone. We reach the whole Luton 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 Luton hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Luton
We are in Luton's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A care home in Luton had highly flammable textile lint blocking the main vertical dryer-exhaust riser in its laundry. We vacuumed out the collection plenums, ran continuous flexible rods with soft brushes up the riser and cleared the rooftop discharge cowl. The dry cycles came down noticeably and a real fire hazard was gone - the duty nurse pointed us to the maintenance door behind the linen store.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Luton kitchen these are the tells.
The tells are plain: steam that lingers, odours drifting back over the diners, drips off the canopy onto a Bury Park line, a rim of grease at the filters, or a Luton insurer or fire assessment wanting a TR19 certificate you cannot show. Frequency tracks the cooking load - a hard-frying George 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 Luton 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 High Town 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 Luton fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Luton 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 Luton 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 Bury Park 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 Luton 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 Luton 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 Bury Park kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime George Street cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Luton offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Bedfordshire hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Yes - from Bury Park and George Street kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Luton and the wider Bedfordshire.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Bury Park operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
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 High Town conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Yes. The fan at the top of a High Town 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 work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Bury Park and George Street kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
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