Pontypool · 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 Pontypool, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Pontypool
Pontypool 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 Pontypool, from Commercial Street through George Street to New Inn, 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 Pontypool offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-packed laundry runs behind its hotel and care-home dryers. The busiest kitchens - pub and hotel kitchens, school and canteen kitchens, cafes 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 Pontypool insurers and fire risk assessors expect - measured across the whole extract run, not just the visible mouth of the canopy.
Grease is measured by thickness, and the standard sets the depth at which a system must be cleaned and re-tested. Around Commercial Street and New Inn, where the concealed runs thread through mixed roof voids, a canopy-and-filter wipe leaves the ductwork itself - the long hidden sections where grease accumulates and a fire travels - untouched. We access the full Pontypool run through existing and newly fitted inspection hatches, clean to bare metal, record before-and-after grease-depth readings at set points, and issue a TR19 Grease certificate with a post-clean depth 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 Pontypool hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Pontypool
We are in Pontypool's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A privately owned public toilet block in Pontypool had its changing-room intake grilles clogged with matted dust and pulling next to nothing. We cleaned the extract grilles, brushed out the branch runs and checked the roof extract fan was pulling properly. Extraction was restored across the public washrooms and the damp, stale smell went with it, and the client rebooked us there and then. We left the facilities manager a short photo report for their maintenance log.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Pontypool kitchen these are the tells.
A canopy dripping onto a Commercial Street cookline, cooking smells forced back to the tables, extraction that no longer clears the steam, grease showing at the filter edges, or a Pontypool 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 George 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 Pontypool 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 New Inn 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 Pontypool fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Pontypool 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 Pontypool 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 current TR19 Grease certificate is the evidence your Pontypool insurer expects. Without it, a fire claim can be reduced or refused outright - an expensive gap to find after the event.
Hygiene and environmental health. A food hygiene visit from Torfaen County 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 Commercial Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime George Street cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Commercial Street and George 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 Commercial Street and New Inn where the runs are long and awkward.
Yes. The fan at the top of a New Inn 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 Pontypool offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Torfaen hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Pontypool run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a George Street cookline is back in service for the next shift.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Commercial Street operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Local knowledge
British Nylon Spinners opened its vast plant at Mamhilad in 1948, and when it did it boasted the largest factory floor in Europe, with recreation grounds laid out for some five thousand workers before ICI and later DuPont took it on. Modern premises hide their dust and vapour 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. Nothing is signed off until the airflow proves itself.
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