Malvern · 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 Malvern, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Malvern
Malvern 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.
The city's kitchens sit in tight, mixed stock - Belle Vue Terrace, Church Street, Great Malvern - with long concealed duct runs up to roof fans. We clean the full run to the TR19 Grease standard, canopy to fan, including the horizontal and vertical sections a canopy-only clean leaves coated.
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 - hotel and pub kitchens, theatre and college canteens and the busy town-centre takeaways - lay grease down fast in exactly the concealed sections where a fire travels.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Malvern 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 Belle Vue Terrace and Great Malvern, a canopy-and-filter wipe leaves the duct interior - where grease piles up and a fire runs - completely alone. We reach the whole Malvern 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 Malvern hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Malvern
We are in Malvern's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A family-run fish and chip shop in Malvern had thick, sticky grease running the whole length of the canopy extract duct off the griddle. We scraped and degreased the ductwork back to bare metal and cleaned the range while we were on site. It was all brought up to a TR19 standard, recorded with before-and-after images and a certificate. We squeezed the work into their weekly closed day to suit the proprietor.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Malvern kitchen these are the tells.
The tells are plain: steam that lingers, odours drifting back over the diners, drips off the canopy onto a Belle Vue Terrace line, a rim of grease at the filters, or a Malvern insurer or fire assessment wanting a TR19 certificate you cannot show. Frequency tracks the cooking load - a hard-frying Church 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 Malvern 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 Great Malvern 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 Malvern fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Malvern 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 Malvern 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 Belle Vue Terrace 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 Malvern 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. A food hygiene visit from Malvern Hills District Council weighs the physical state of the premises, ventilation counted within it. A grease-blocked extract can pull down the rating an Environmental Health Officer sets, quite apart from the stale smell and the tired airflow your staff work beneath all shift.
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 Belle Vue Terrace kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Church Street 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 Belle Vue Terrace and Great Malvern where the runs are long and awkward.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Malvern run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Church 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 Belle Vue Terrace operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Belle Vue Terrace and Church Street kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Malvern offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Worcestershire hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Yes - from Belle Vue Terrace and Church Street kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Malvern and the wider Worcestershire.
Local knowledge
H.F.S. Morgan built his first car in 1909 and moved production to Pickersleigh Road in Malvern Link, where the Morgan Motor Company still hand-builds sports cars over ash frames on the same site more than a century later. The paint, timber and coolant work a plant like that depends on all pushes its waste into ducting the eye never sees. Modern premises hide their dust inside sealed extract runs, where grease and debris build unseen until airflow fails or fire finds a path. We clean and inspect ventilation and extract ductwork across the town, then hand over photographic before-and-after evidence of every run.
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