Wellington · 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 Wellington, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Wellington
Wellington 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.
The city's kitchens sit in tight, mixed stock - Mantle Street, South Street, Tonedale - with long concealed duct runs up to roof fans. We clean the full run to the TR19 Grease standard, canopy to fan, including the horizontal and vertical sections a canopy-only clean leaves coated.
It is not only kitchens: we also clean the dry supply and extract ductwork in Wellington offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-packed laundry runs behind its hotel and care-home dryers. The busiest kitchens - canteen kitchens, pub and hotel kitchens, cafes 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 Wellington 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 Mantle Street and Tonedale, 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 Wellington 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 Wellington hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Wellington
We are in Wellington's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
At a Wellington care home, lint build-up had narrowed the dryer vent line to a fraction of its bore and the energy bills were climbing. We ran brushes and a HEPA vacuum through the line, then confirmed a clean discharge outside. The system ran cooler and cleaner with faster drying, all left tidy behind us. We scheduled it for a Monday when the laundry was closed.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Wellington kitchen these are the tells.
Smells pushing back into the dining room, a canopy that drips onto a Mantle Street cookline, extraction that no longer clears the steam, visible grease at the filter edges, or a Wellington insurer or fire risk assessment asking for a TR19 certificate you cannot produce. Cleaning frequency tracks use - a hard-frying South 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 Wellington 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 Tonedale 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 Wellington fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Wellington 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 Wellington 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 Mantle 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. To a Wellington 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. A food hygiene visit from Somerset 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 Mantle Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime South Street cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Tonedale 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.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Mantle Street operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Wellington offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Somerset hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Mantle Street and South Street kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
Yes - from Mantle Street and South Street kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Wellington and the wider Somerset.
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 Mantle Street and Tonedale where the runs are long and awkward.
Local knowledge
Thomas Fox joined the family cloth trade in 1768, and by its peak the Tonedale and Tone Works complex was the largest woollen mill in South West England, employing some 3,600 people and weaving the Taunton serge, khaki cloth and puttees that clothed the British Army. The mill air once hung thick with wool fibre; modern premises hide their 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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