Solihull · 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 Solihull, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Solihull
Solihull rates around 1,500 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.
From Touchwood to Mell Square and Olton, the town's cooklines vent through long hidden ducting that climbs to a roof fan. We clean it end to end to the TR19 Grease standard - not just the canopy, but the flat and rising sections where grease really collects.
Kitchens are only half the work - we also strip the dry supply and extract ductwork of Solihull schools, offices and civic buildings, and the lint-choked dryer runs behind its hotels and care homes. It is the hardest-pressed kitchens - the NEC, Solihull College, Solihull Hospital and the borough hotels - that glaze their hidden ducting quickest, and that coating is the road a fire takes.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Solihull 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 Touchwood and Olton, wiping the canopy and filters leaves the ductwork - the long concealed sections that gather grease and carry fire - untouched. We open the full Solihull 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 Solihull hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Solihull
We are in Solihull's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A secondary school in Solihull had fine grey dust blanketing the internal acoustic linings inside the classroom supply plenums. We hand-vacuumed the fragile acoustic panels with soft brush attachments to avoid tearing the media, and de-dusted the plenums through so the insulation particulate could not break loose into the classrooms. The work was scheduled around the school's exam timetable to keep the noise off.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Solihull kitchen these are the tells.
Watch for steam that hangs in the room, cooking smells creeping back over the tables, a canopy weeping onto a Touchwood line, grease crusting at the filter rims, or a Solihull 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 Mell Square 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 Solihull 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 Olton 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 Solihull fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Solihull 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 Solihull 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 Touchwood 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 Solihull 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. Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council food hygiene inspections assess the physical condition of premises, ventilation included. A grease-clogged system can count against the rating an Environmental Health Officer awards, quite apart from the smell and the falling extract performance your staff have to work in.
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 Touchwood kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Mell Square 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 Olton conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Solihull offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the West Midlands hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Touchwood operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Solihull run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Mell Square cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Touchwood and Mell Square kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
Yes - from Touchwood and Mell Square kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Solihull and the wider West Midlands.
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