Swansea · 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 Swansea, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Swansea
Swansea rates around 2,400 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 St Helen's Road to Uplands and Wind Street, 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.
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 - the two universities, Morriston and Singleton Hospitals, the Swansea.com Stadium and the city hotels - build grease fastest in the concealed lengths where flame spreads.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Swansea insurers and fire risk assessors expect - measured across the whole extract run, not just the visible mouth of the canopy.
The standard is written in film thickness: once grease reaches a set depth the run has to be cleaned and proven again. In the crowded roof voids off St Helen's Road and Wind Street, a wipe of the canopy and filters never reaches the ductwork behind them, where the grease that carries fire quietly gathers. We work the whole Swansea run through hatches already in place and others we cut, bring it back to bright metal, note grease depths at fixed stations before and after, and certify to TR19 Grease with the closing figures logged.
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 Swansea hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Swansea
We are in Swansea's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A corporate headquarters office block in Swansea had fine grey dust settling on the acoustic lining inside the main supply plenums. We hand-vacuumed the fragile acoustic panels with soft brush attachments so nothing tore, and left the plenums de-dusted so no insulation particles could break loose into the open-plan floors. We ran it over a weekend to keep clear of their weekday trading desks.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Swansea kitchen these are the tells.
The tells are plain: steam that lingers, odours drifting back over the diners, drips off the canopy onto a St Helen's Road line, a rim of grease at the filters, or a Swansea insurer or fire assessment wanting a TR19 certificate you cannot show. Frequency tracks the cooking load - a hard-frying Uplands 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 Swansea 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 Wind Street 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 Swansea fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Swansea 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 Swansea 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 St Helen's 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. A current TR19 Grease certificate is the evidence your Swansea 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 Swansea 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 St Helen's Road kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Uplands cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes - from St Helen's Road and Uplands kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Swansea and the wider South Wales.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Swansea offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the South Wales hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the St Helen's Road and Uplands 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 St Helen's Road and Wind Street 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 Wind Street conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Wind Street 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.
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