Reading · 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 Reading, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Reading
Reading rates around 1,450 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.
The city's kitchens sit in tight, mixed stock - Oxford Road, Broad Street, Kings Road - with long concealed duct runs up to roof fans. We clean the full run to the TR19 Grease standard, canopy to fan, including the horizontal and vertical sections a canopy-only clean leaves coated.
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 - the University of Reading, the Royal Berkshire Hospital, the Select Car Leasing Stadium and the town hotels - lay grease down fast in exactly the concealed sections where a fire travels.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Reading 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 Oxford Road and Kings Road, wiping the canopy and filters leaves the ductwork - the long concealed sections that gather grease and carry fire - untouched. We open the full Reading 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 Reading hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Reading
We are in Reading's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A primary school in Reading had fine atmospheric dust settled right through the classroom supply-air ducts. We ran mechanical power brushes and a high-efficiency negative-air unit through the lines to pull all the loose debris out, and got the fresh, pollen-free air moving again before the autumn term - with a full before-and-after photo report left with the site supervisor for their records.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Reading kitchen these are the tells.
Watch for steam that hangs in the room, cooking smells creeping back over the tables, a canopy weeping onto an Oxford Road line, grease crusting at the filter rims, or a Reading 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 Broad 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 Reading 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 Kings 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 Reading fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Reading 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 Reading 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 an Oxford Road 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 Reading 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. Food hygiene inspections by Reading Borough Council take in the condition of the building, ventilation included, so a grease-laden system can cost you on the rating an Environmental Health Officer awards - never mind the smell and the dropping extraction your kitchen team works under.
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 Oxford Road kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Broad Street cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes - from Oxford Road and Broad Street kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Reading and the wider Berkshire.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Oxford Road and Broad Street kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
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 Kings Road conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Reading run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Broad Street cookline is back in service for the next shift.
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 Oxford Road and Kings Road where the runs are long and awkward.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Reading offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Berkshire hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
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