Rugeley · 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 Rugeley, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Rugeley
Rugeley 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.
The city's kitchens sit in tight, mixed stock - Horsefair, Elmore Lane, Brereton - 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 - takeaways, pub and hotel kitchens, cafes and the care-home kitchens across the town - lay grease down fast in exactly the concealed sections where a fire travels.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Rugeley 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 Horsefair and Brereton, 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 Rugeley 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 Rugeley hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Rugeley
We are in Rugeley's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
At a gym and spa in Rugeley the flexible dryer ducting in the laundry had choked down to a fraction of its bore with fluff, leaving the room warm and clammy. I ran brushes and a HEPA vacuum through the whole exhaust route, then went outside to confirm the discharge was clear and moving properly. The fire risk was gone and the back room felt cooler and drier almost at once, and I left the space clean and ready to use. The housekeeper booked in a yearly return on the spot.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Rugeley kitchen these are the tells.
The tells are plain: steam that lingers, odours drifting back over the diners, drips off the canopy onto a Horsefair line, a rim of grease at the filters, or a Rugeley insurer or fire assessment wanting a TR19 certificate you cannot show. Frequency tracks the cooking load - a hard-frying Elmore Lane 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 Rugeley 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 Brereton 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 Rugeley fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Rugeley 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 Rugeley 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 Horsefair 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 Rugeley 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. A food hygiene visit from Cannock Chase District 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 Horsefair kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Elmore Lane 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 Horsefair and Brereton where the runs are long and awkward.
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 Brereton conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Yes - from Horsefair and Elmore Lane kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Rugeley and the wider Staffordshire.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Brereton 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.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Rugeley run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so an Elmore Lane 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 Horsefair operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Local knowledge
Rugeley's skyline was defined for half a century by the four 117-metre cooling towers of Rugeley B Power Station, coal-fired giants that finally fell in a controlled demolition in June 2021 to clear the way for the Rugeley Power regeneration. A coal plant lived or died on moving air cleanly through vast ducts and flues, and the same principle holds in every modern kitchen and workshop in the town. There, grease and debris build unseen inside sealed ductwork until airflow fails or fire finds a path. We clean and inspect ventilation and extract ductwork across Rugeley, then hand over photographic before-and-after evidence of every run.
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