Walsall · 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 Walsall, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Walsall
Walsall rates around 2,100 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 Caldmore to Park Street and Ablewell 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.
It is not only kitchens: we also clean the dry supply and extract ductwork in Walsall offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-packed laundry runs behind its hotel and care-home dryers. The busiest kitchens - the Walsall university campus, Walsall Manor Hospital, Bescot Stadium and the borough hotels - coat their hidden ducting in grease quickest, and that is the very path a fire follows.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Walsall insurers and fire risk assessors expect - measured across the whole extract run, not just the visible mouth of the canopy.
Grease is measured by thickness, and the standard sets the depth at which a system must be cleaned and re-tested. Around Caldmore and Ablewell Street, where the concealed runs thread through mixed roof voids, a canopy-and-filter wipe leaves the ductwork itself - the long hidden sections where grease accumulates and a fire travels - untouched. We access the full Walsall run through existing and newly fitted inspection hatches, clean to bare metal, record before-and-after grease-depth readings at set points, and issue a TR19 Grease certificate with a post-clean depth 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 Walsall hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Walsall
We are in Walsall's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A regional medical centre in Walsall had fine fabric dust and skin-squame residue clogging the low-pressure extract vents in the patient-waiting toilets. We damp-wiped the grilles with a hospital-grade biocide and ran soft-bristle continuous rods through the branches, bringing the air-change rates back to regulation and keeping the clinical space fresh. Every piece of kit was alcohol-sanitised before it went into the clinical site.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Walsall kitchen these are the tells.
The tells are plain: steam that lingers, odours drifting back over the diners, drips off the canopy onto a Caldmore line, a rim of grease at the filters, or a Walsall insurer or fire assessment wanting a TR19 certificate you cannot show. Frequency tracks the cooking load - a hard-frying Park Street 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 Walsall 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 Ablewell 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 Walsall fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Walsall 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 Walsall 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 Caldmore 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 Walsall 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. Food hygiene inspections by Walsall 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 Caldmore kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Park Street cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Caldmore and Park Street kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Caldmore operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
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 Caldmore and Ablewell Street where the runs are long and awkward.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Walsall offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the West Midlands hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Walsall run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Park Street cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Yes. The fan at the top of an Ablewell 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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