Pontypridd · 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 Pontypridd, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Pontypridd
Pontypridd 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 Pontypridd work out of tight, mixed premises - Taff Street, Market Street, Treforest - 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 - hospital kitchens, university refectories, cafe and pub kitchens and the busy town-centre takeaways - lay grease down fast in exactly the concealed sections where a fire travels.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Pontypridd 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 Taff Street and Treforest, wiping the canopy and filters leaves the ductwork - the long concealed sections that gather grease and carry fire - untouched. We open the full Pontypridd 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 Pontypridd hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Pontypridd
We are in Pontypridd's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A local apartment block in Pontypridd had food-waste residue built into a slime layer down the bin chute, with a foul smell reaching the bin store. We washed the chute from the top with a rotary jet, then disinfected and deodorised the store. The chute was sanitised top to bottom and the communal corridors were pleasant to use again, the difference obvious straight away. We left before-and-after photos and a hygiene certificate for the maintenance log.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Pontypridd kitchen these are the tells.
A canopy dripping onto a Taff Street cookline, cooking smells forced back to the tables, extraction that no longer clears the steam, grease showing at the filter edges, or a Pontypridd 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 Market 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 Pontypridd 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 Treforest 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 Pontypridd fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Pontypridd 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 Pontypridd 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 Taff 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 Pontypridd 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 Rhondda Cynon Taf 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 Taff Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Market Street cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
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 Treforest conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Taff Street operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Pontypridd run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Market Street cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Treforest 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 Taff Street and Market 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 Taff Street and Treforest where the runs are long and awkward.
Local knowledge
From 1816 the Brown Lenox works at Ynysangharad forged anchor chain beside the Glamorganshire Canal, supplying the Royal Navy for a century and making the cable for Brunel's Great Eastern before the works finally closed in 2000. The heavy industry has gone, but modern premises still hide their dust and grease inside sealed ductwork, where it builds 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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