Oldbury · 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 Oldbury, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Oldbury
Oldbury 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.
Right across Oldbury, from Halesowen Street through Birmingham Street to Langley Green, cooklines share tight roof space and vent through concealed ducting few operators ever see inside. We clean that entire path to the TR19 Grease standard, canopy through to fan, taking in the level pulls and the risers where grease settles thickest and a fire would run.
Kitchens are only half the work - we also strip the dry supply and extract ductwork of Oldbury schools, offices and civic buildings, and the lint-choked dryer runs behind its hotels and care homes. It is the hardest-pressed kitchens - hotel and pub kitchens, care-home and factory caterers and the busy town-centre takeaways - that glaze their hidden ducting quickest, and that coating is the road a fire takes.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Oldbury 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 Halesowen Street and Langley Green, 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 Oldbury 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 Oldbury hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Oldbury
We are in Oldbury's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
An established health centre in Oldbury had its washroom extract all but stopped, with fine dust matting the ceiling grilles. We cleaned the extract grilles, brushed through the branch runs and checked the roof extract fan was pulling as it should. The changing rooms cleared of stale air with extraction back to a proper rate, and the difference was obvious straight away. We left before-and-after photos and a compliance certificate for their records.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Oldbury kitchen these are the tells.
Watch for steam that hangs in the room, cooking smells creeping back over the tables, a canopy weeping onto a Halesowen Street line, grease crusting at the filter rims, or an Oldbury insurer or fire assessor calling for a TR19 certificate you do not hold. How often it needs doing rides on the cooking load - a hard-frying Birmingham Street kitchen far more than a quiet daytime cafe - and the certificate fixes that interval, so the next clean is planned, not chanced.
How it runs
Inspect the full Oldbury 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 Langley Green 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 Oldbury fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Oldbury 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 Oldbury 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 Halesowen 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 Oldbury 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. Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council food hygiene inspections assess the physical condition of premises, ventilation included. A grease-clogged system can count against the rating an Environmental Health Officer awards, quite apart from the smell and the falling extract performance your staff have to work in.
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 Halesowen Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Birmingham Street cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Halesowen Street operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Oldbury run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Birmingham Street 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 Langley Green conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Langley Green 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 Oldbury offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the West Midlands hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
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 Halesowen Street and Langley Green where the runs are long and awkward.
Local knowledge
Accles and Pollock built its Paddock Works at Rounds Green from 1909, and by 1910 the firm had helped build the Mayfly, the world's first all-metal aircraft, from Oldbury tube. Those old drawing shops and the chemical halls beside them filled the air with oil mist, acid fume and metal dust, carried off through ducts overhead. Modern premises hide that same 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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