Penarth · 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 Penarth, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Penarth
Penarth 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 Penarth, from Glebe Street through Stanwell Road to Cogan, 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.
It is not only kitchens: we also clean the dry supply and extract ductwork in Penarth offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-packed laundry runs behind its hotel and care-home dryers. The busiest kitchens - hospital kitchens, seafront cafes, marina restaurants, hotel and pub kitchens and the 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 Penarth 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 Glebe Street and Cogan, a canopy-and-filter wipe leaves the duct interior - where grease piles up and a fire runs - completely alone. We reach the whole Penarth 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 Penarth hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Penarth
We are in Penarth's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
Fine settled dust and debris had built up across the supply ducting and grilles at a refurbished primary school in Penarth. We isolated the zones, brushed out the internal ducting and washed down the air handling unit. Air through the occupied areas felt noticeably fresher, the dust complaints stopped, and the client booked us back in there and then. The office manager kept us going with cups of tea through the morning.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Penarth kitchen these are the tells.
The tells are plain: steam that lingers, odours drifting back over the diners, drips off the canopy onto a Glebe Street line, a rim of grease at the filters, or a Penarth insurer or fire assessment wanting a TR19 certificate you cannot show. Frequency tracks the cooking load - a hard-frying Stanwell 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 Penarth 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 Cogan 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 Penarth fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Penarth 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 Penarth 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 Glebe 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 a Penarth 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. When Vale of Glamorgan 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 Glebe Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Stanwell Road cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Glebe Street and Stanwell Road kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Cogan 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 - from Glebe Street and Stanwell Road kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Penarth and the wider Vale of Glamorgan.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Glebe Street operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
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 Glebe Street and Cogan where the runs are long and awkward.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Penarth offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Vale of Glamorgan hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Local knowledge
Coal exports through Penarth Dock peaked in 1913 at more than four and a half million tons, and the tippers, sidings and staithes filled the dockside air with coal dust before the trade fell away and the dock closed to commerce in 1963. The old dock is a leisure marina now, and 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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