Willenhall · 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 Willenhall, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Willenhall
Willenhall 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 - Market Place, Stafford Street, Short Heath - 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.
Kitchens are only half the work - we also strip the dry supply and extract ductwork of Willenhall schools, offices and civic buildings, and the lint-choked dryer runs behind its hotels and care homes. It is the hardest-pressed kitchens - takeaways, cafes, pub kitchens, school canteens and works messes - that glaze their hidden ducting quickest, and that coating is the road a fire takes.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Willenhall insurers and fire risk assessors expect - measured across the whole extract run, not just the visible mouth of the canopy.
The standard is written in film thickness: once grease reaches a set depth the run has to be cleaned and proven again. In the crowded roof voids off Market Place and Short Heath, a wipe of the canopy and filters never reaches the ductwork behind them, where the grease that carries fire quietly gathers. We work the whole Willenhall run through hatches already in place and others we cut, bring it back to bright metal, note grease depths at fixed stations before and after, and certify to TR19 Grease with the closing figures logged.
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 Willenhall hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Willenhall
We are in Willenhall's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A traditional library in Willenhall had fine building dust and debris built up across the dry supply ducting and the air handling unit in its reading room. We worked through the ducting with brushes and HEPA extraction, then cleaned and refitted the AHU. Airflow came back up to spec and the system was left visibly clean, the whole site spotless at the end. The office manager booked a regular quarterly visit on the spot.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Willenhall kitchen these are the tells.
A canopy dripping onto a Market Place cookline, cooking smells forced back to the tables, extraction that no longer clears the steam, grease showing at the filter edges, or a Willenhall 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 Stafford 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 Willenhall 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 Short Heath 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 Willenhall fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Willenhall 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 Willenhall 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 Market Place 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 Willenhall 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. A food hygiene visit from Walsall 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 Market Place kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Stafford Street cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Market Place operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Willenhall offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the West Midlands hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Market Place and Stafford Street kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
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 Market Place and Short Heath where the runs are long and awkward.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Short Heath 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.
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 Short Heath conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Local knowledge
Willenhall grew from hundreds of tiny backyard workshops and forges, the air of its smithies and lock shops thick with metal dust, coal smoke and the fumes of the Black Country iron trade. Modern premises hide that grime 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, from the industrial units to the kitchens behind the Market Place. Every clean is handed over with photographic before-and-after evidence of each run.
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