Oadby · 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 Oadby, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Oadby
Oadby 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 Oadby work out of tight, mixed premises - Sandhurst Street, East Street, Glen Road - 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.
It is not only kitchens: we also clean the dry supply and extract ductwork in Oadby offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-packed laundry runs behind its hotel and care-home dryers. The busiest kitchens - the racecourse hospitality kitchens, college refectories, curry houses and busy town-centre takeaways - coat their hidden ducting in grease quickest, and that is the very path a fire follows.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Oadby 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 Sandhurst Street and Glen Road, wiping the canopy and filters leaves the ductwork - the long concealed sections that gather grease and carry fire - untouched. We open the full Oadby 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 Oadby hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Oadby
We are in Oadby's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
At a refurbished health centre in Oadby the changing-room extract grilles were clogged solid with dust and lint and barely pulling any air. I took the ceiling grilles down and washed them, brushed out the branch ducting and cleaned up the roof extract fan. The staff toilets cleared of stale air and extraction came back to a proper rate, and I left the area clean and ready to use. The on-site salon liked the result enough to ask for a quote of their own.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Oadby kitchen these are the tells.
A canopy dripping onto a Sandhurst Street cookline, cooking smells forced back to the tables, extraction that no longer clears the steam, grease showing at the filter edges, or an Oadby 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 East 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 Oadby 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 Glen Road 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 Oadby fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Oadby 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 an Oadby 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 Sandhurst 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 an Oadby 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 Oadby and Wigston Borough 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 Sandhurst Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime East Street cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Glen Road 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 Sandhurst Street and East Street kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
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 Sandhurst Street and Glen Road where the runs are long and awkward.
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 Glen Road conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Yes - from Sandhurst Street and East Street kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Oadby and the wider Leicestershire.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Oadby offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Leicestershire hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Local knowledge
Framework knitting reached Oadby in the eighteenth century, and for generations whole families worked stocking frames rented from the bag-hosiers, with father, mother and children knitting socks in their own homes. By 1871 eight hosiery manufacturers employed around a hundred and fifty framework knitters and eighty-nine seamstresses, and the town made its name in tuck socks, its workshops thick with cotton and wool lint. 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 the town, then hand over photographic before-and-after evidence of every run.
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