Swindon · 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 Swindon, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Swindon
Swindon rates more than 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.
Kitchens across Swindon work out of tight, mixed premises - Wood Street, Victoria Road, Designer Outlet - 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.
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 - New College Swindon, the Great Western Hospital, the County Ground and the town hotels - lay grease down fast in exactly the concealed sections where a fire travels.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Swindon 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 Wood Street and Designer Outlet, a canopy-and-filter wipe leaves the duct interior - where grease piles up and a fire runs - completely alone. We reach the whole Swindon 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 Swindon hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Swindon
We are in Swindon's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A high-street launderette in Swindon had wet lint sludge and dense textile fibre compacted inside the main horizontal collection manifold, where condensation had turned the lint to paste. We shovelled the wet deposits out by hand, cleared the external discharge louvres and checked the air-handling backpressures, getting the airflow back so the tumble-dryer elements stopped overheating and tripping. We advised the owner on fitting an automated condensate drain trap to keep the collecting lint dry.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Swindon kitchen these are the tells.
A canopy dripping onto a Wood Street cookline, cooking smells forced back to the tables, extraction that no longer clears the steam, grease showing at the filter edges, or a Swindon insurer or fire risk assessor wanting a TR19 certificate you have not got. How often it needs doing follows how hard you cook - a fast-frying Victoria Road kitchen far more than a daytime cafe - and the certificate names the interval, so the next visit is booked, not guessed.
How it runs
Inspect the full Swindon 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 Designer Outlet 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 Swindon fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Swindon 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 Swindon 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 Wood 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. A current TR19 Grease certificate is the evidence your Swindon 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. Food hygiene inspections by Swindon 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 Wood Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Victoria Road cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Swindon run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Victoria Road 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 Wood Street and Designer Outlet 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 Designer Outlet conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Swindon offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Wiltshire hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Yes - from Wood Street and Victoria Road kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Swindon and the wider Wiltshire.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Wood Street and Victoria Road kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
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