Newport · 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 Newport, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Newport
Newport 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.
From Commercial Street to Friars Walk and Caerleon, 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 - the University of South Wales Newport campus, the Royal Gwent Hospital, Rodney Parade and the city hotels - build grease fastest in the concealed lengths where flame spreads.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Newport insurers and fire risk assessors expect - measured across the whole extract run, not just the visible mouth of the canopy.
The standard works in grease-film thickness, fixing the depth at which a run must be cleaned and re-tested. In the shared roof voids around Commercial Street and Caerleon, wiping the canopy and filters leaves the ductwork - the long concealed sections that gather grease and carry fire - untouched. We open the full Newport run through existing and newly cut inspection hatches, strip it to bare metal, log grease-depth readings at fixed points before and after, and issue a TR19 Grease certificate with the post-clean depths recorded.
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 Newport hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Newport
We are in Newport's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
An insurance company office in Newport had thick grey carpet dust and lint blocking the local extract fans in the employee washrooms across several floors, leaving the air stagnant and damp. We took the ceiling grilles down for a deep clean, brushed the internal duct lines out and cleared the inline fan scrolls, getting the extraction back to the building-regulation rate. We also found a branch damper that had drifted shut and reset it.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Newport kitchen these are the tells.
The tells are plain: steam that lingers, odours drifting back over the diners, drips off the canopy onto a Commercial Street line, a rim of grease at the filters, or a Newport insurer or fire assessment wanting a TR19 certificate you cannot show. Frequency tracks the cooking load - a hard-frying Friars Walk 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 Newport 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 Caerleon 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 Newport fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Newport 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 Newport 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 Commercial 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. A live TR19 Grease certificate is what a Newport 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 Newport City 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 Commercial Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Friars Walk cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes - from Commercial Street and Friars Walk kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Newport and the wider South Wales.
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 Commercial Street and Caerleon where the runs are long and awkward.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Caerleon 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 Newport offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the South Wales hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Newport run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Friars Walk cookline is back in service for the next shift.
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 Caerleon conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
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