Maesteg · 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 Maesteg, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Maesteg
Maesteg 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.
Kitchens across Maesteg work out of tight, mixed premises - Talbot Street, Bethania Street, Llwynderw - 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.
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 - club and pub kitchens, school and care-home kitchens, cafes and the busy valley takeaways - build grease fastest in the concealed lengths where flame spreads.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Maesteg 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 Talbot Street and Llwynderw, 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 Maesteg 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 Maesteg hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Maesteg
We are in Maesteg's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
Years without a clean had left the supply grilles and main runs at a long-established Maesteg veterinary practice caked in fine grey dust. Working under HEPA negative pressure, we power-brushed the supply ductwork and cleared out the fan coil unit so the system was moving clean air again. Indoor air quality lifted across the offices and everything was back to normal by opening. The receptionist kept the coffee coming through the morning, which helped no end.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Maesteg kitchen these are the tells.
A canopy dripping onto a Talbot Street cookline, cooking smells forced back to the tables, extraction that no longer clears the steam, grease showing at the filter edges, or a Maesteg 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 Bethania 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 Maesteg 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 Llwynderw 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 Maesteg fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Maesteg 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 Maesteg 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 Talbot 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 Maesteg 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. Food hygiene inspections by Bridgend County Borough Council take in the condition of the building, ventilation included, so a grease-laden system can cost you on the rating an Environmental Health Officer awards - never mind the smell and the dropping extraction your kitchen team works under.
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 Talbot Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Bethania Street cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
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 Llwynderw conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Maesteg run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Bethania Street cookline is back in service for the next shift.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Talbot Street operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Llwynderw 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 Maesteg offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Bridgend hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Yes - from Talbot Street and Bethania Street kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Maesteg and the wider Bridgend.
Local knowledge
North's Navigation Collieries sank deep pits at Caerau and St John's in the 1890s, and by 1921 the coal trade had pushed the local population towards thirty thousand, the valley air thick with dust and smoke. Modern premises hide their dust inside sealed ductwork instead, where grease and debris build unseen until airflow fails or fire finds a path. We clean and inspect ventilation and extract ductwork across Maesteg and the Llynfi Valley, then hand over photographic before-and-after evidence of every run. What once hung in the valley air now gathers out of sight, and out of sight is exactly where it becomes dangerous.
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