Uxbridge · 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 Uxbridge, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Uxbridge
Uxbridge 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.
From High Street to Windsor Street and Cowley, 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 Uxbridge schools, offices and civic buildings, and the lint-choked dryer runs behind its hotels and care homes. It is the hardest-pressed kitchens - hospital and university kitchens, hotel and pub kitchens and the busy town-centre takeaways - that glaze their hidden ducting quickest, and that coating is the road a fire takes.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Uxbridge 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 High Street and Cowley, a canopy-and-filter wipe leaves the duct interior - where grease piles up and a fire runs - completely alone. We reach the whole Uxbridge 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 Uxbridge hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Uxbridge
We are in Uxbridge's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A holiday-park laundry block in Uxbridge had fibre lint narrowing the dryer vent line to a fraction of its bore, raising a clear fire risk. We brushed and vacuumed the flexible dryer ducting end to end and confirmed the outside vent flap was opening fully. The line ran cooler and cleaner afterwards, clearing its loads far more freely, with the area left clean and ready to use. We gave the manager a few tips on keeping things clear between visits.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Uxbridge kitchen these are the tells.
A canopy dripping onto a High Street cookline, cooking smells forced back to the tables, extraction that no longer clears the steam, grease showing at the filter edges, or an Uxbridge 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 Windsor Street 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 Uxbridge 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 Cowley 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 Uxbridge fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Uxbridge 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 an Uxbridge 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 High 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 Uxbridge 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 London Borough of Hillingdon 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 High Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Windsor Street cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Cowley 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. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Uxbridge offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Greater London hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Uxbridge run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Windsor Street cookline is back in service for the next shift.
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 Cowley conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
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 High Street and Cowley where the runs are long and awkward.
Yes - from High Street and Windsor Street kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Uxbridge and the wider Greater London.
Local knowledge
For centuries Uxbridge lived on grain, working as the major corn market for west Middlesex and south Buckinghamshire, with around thirteen water mills grinding flour along the Colne and Frays before it went down the canal to London. That mill air hung thick with flour dust, the kind that chokes lungs and feeds fire. Modern premises hide their dust and grease inside sealed ductwork instead, where it builds 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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