Rugby · 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 Rugby, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Rugby
Rugby rates around 980 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 Rugby work out of tight, mixed premises - Sheep Street, Regent Street, Rugby Central - 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.
The same crews clean dry ventilation and air-handling ductwork in offices, schools and civic buildings, plus the combustible lint runs behind hotel and care-home dryers. High-turnover sites - Rugby College, the Hospital of St Cross, Rugby School and the town hotels - build grease fastest in the concealed lengths where flame spreads.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Rugby 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 Sheep Street and Rugby Central, a canopy-and-filter wipe leaves the duct interior - where grease piles up and a fire runs - completely alone. We reach the whole Rugby 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 Rugby hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Rugby
We are in Rugby's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A hotel kitchen in Rugby had a sticky amber grease film spreading down the vertical discharge stack and around the internal fan-motor casing. We hand-scraped the accessible duct lengths, treated the lines with an enzyme degreaser and deep-cleaned the impeller blades, bringing it back to clean bare metal for the environmental-health and fire codes. It was worked overnight so the hotel guests were undisturbed.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Rugby kitchen these are the tells.
The tells are plain: steam that lingers, odours drifting back over the diners, drips off the canopy onto a Sheep Street line, a rim of grease at the filters, or a Rugby insurer or fire assessment wanting a TR19 certificate you cannot show. Frequency tracks the cooking load - a hard-frying Regent Street 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 Rugby 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 Rugby Central 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 Rugby fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Rugby 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 Rugby 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 Sheep 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 Rugby 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 Rugby 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 Sheep Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Regent Street cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
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 Sheep Street and Rugby Central where the runs are long and awkward.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Sheep Street operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Rugby run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Regent Street cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Sheep Street and Regent Street kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Rugby offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Warwickshire hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Yes - from Sheep Street and Regent Street kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Rugby and the wider Warwickshire.
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