Tipton · 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 Tipton, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Tipton
Tipton 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.
Right across Tipton, from Owen Street through High Street to Princes End, cooklines share tight roof space and vent through concealed ducting few operators ever see inside. We clean that entire path to the TR19 Grease standard, canopy through to fan, taking in the level pulls and the risers where grease settles thickest and a fire would run.
It is not only kitchens: we also clean the dry supply and extract ductwork in Tipton offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-packed laundry runs behind its hotel and care-home dryers. The busiest kitchens - pub and hotel kitchens, canal-side cafes, college refectories and the busy town-centre takeaways - coat their hidden ducting in grease quickest, and that is the very path a fire follows.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Tipton 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 Owen Street and Princes End, wiping the canopy and filters leaves the ductwork - the long concealed sections that gather grease and carry fire - untouched. We open the full Tipton 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 Tipton hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Tipton
We are in Tipton's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A much-loved gym and spa in Tipton had lint build-up narrowing its laundry exhaust ductwork to a fraction of its bore, raising a clear fire risk. We cleared the packed lint by hand, renewed a crushed section of flexible ducting and cleaned the outside vent flap. The fire risk was cleared and the laundry room felt cooler and drier straight away, and the client rebooked us there and then. We slotted the work into a quiet Sunday to suit the housekeeper.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Tipton kitchen these are the tells.
Smells pushing back into the dining room, a canopy that drips onto an Owen Street cookline, extraction that no longer clears the steam, visible grease at the filter edges, or a Tipton insurer or fire risk assessment asking for a TR19 certificate you cannot produce. Cleaning frequency tracks use - a hard-frying High Street kitchen needs it far more often than a daytime cafe - and your certificate states the interval, so the next clean is never a guess.
How it runs
Inspect the full Tipton 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 Princes End 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 Tipton fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Tipton 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 Tipton 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 an Owen 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 Tipton 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. A food hygiene visit from Sandwell Metropolitan Borough 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 Owen Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime High 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 Owen Street and Princes End 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 Princes End conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Princes End 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.
Yes - from Owen Street and High Street kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Tipton and the wider West Midlands.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence an Owen Street operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Owen Street and High Street kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
Local knowledge
Aaron Manby's Horseley Ironworks at Tipton launched the Aaron Manby, the world's first iron steamship, in 1821, and went on to cast the canal and railway bridges - the Engine Arm Aqueduct and Galton Bridge among them - that still carry the Black Country's traffic. The works were a steam-engine and boiler manufactory, their air heavy with the smoke and grime that gave the region its name. Modern premises hide that dust inside sealed ductwork instead, where grease and debris build unseen until airflow fails or fire finds a path. We clean and inspect ventilation and extract ductwork across the town, then hand over photographic before-and-after evidence of every run.
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