Nuneaton · 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 Nuneaton, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Nuneaton
Nuneaton rates around 900 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 Nuneaton work out of tight, mixed premises - Abbey Street, Queens Road, Ropewalk - 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.
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 - the North Warwickshire and South Leicestershire College, George Eliot Hospital, Liberty Way and the town hotels - lay grease down fast in exactly the concealed sections where a fire travels.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Nuneaton 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 Abbey Street and Ropewalk, 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 Nuneaton 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 Nuneaton hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Nuneaton
We are in Nuneaton's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A pub and restaurant kitchen in Nuneaton had a thick layer of sticky, oxidised grease behind the main fryer canopy and up the vertical discharge stack. We hand-scraped the carbonised layers off, worked a heavy-duty gel through and pressure-rinsed the vertical chimney, bringing it back to clean bare metal for the environmental-health standard. The historic layout ran an extra-long horizontal duct, so we fitted two new access doors to reach it.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Nuneaton kitchen these are the tells.
The tells are plain: steam that lingers, odours drifting back over the diners, drips off the canopy onto an Abbey Street line, a rim of grease at the filters, or a Nuneaton insurer or fire assessment wanting a TR19 certificate you cannot show. Frequency tracks the cooking load - a hard-frying Queens Road 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 Nuneaton 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 Ropewalk 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 Nuneaton fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Nuneaton 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 Nuneaton 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 an Abbey 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. Your Nuneaton insurer expects a current TR19 Grease certificate as proof the duct is clean. Without one, a fire claim can be cut back or turned down altogether - a costly thing to find only after a fire.
Hygiene and environmental health. When Nuneaton and Bedworth 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 Abbey Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Queens Road 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 Abbey Street and Ropewalk where the runs are long and awkward.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Nuneaton offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Warwickshire hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Ropewalk 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.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Nuneaton run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Queens Road 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 Ropewalk conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Yes - from Abbey Street and Queens Road kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Nuneaton and the wider Warwickshire.
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