Wolverhampton · 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 Wolverhampton, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Wolverhampton
Wolverhampton 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.
Right across Wolverhampton, from Cleveland Street through Queen Square to Dudley Street, 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.
Kitchens are only half the work - we also strip the dry supply and extract ductwork of Wolverhampton schools, offices and civic buildings, and the lint-choked dryer runs behind its hotels and care homes. It is the hardest-pressed kitchens - the University of Wolverhampton, New Cross Hospital, Molineux and the city hotels - that glaze their hidden ducting quickest, and that coating is the road a fire takes.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Wolverhampton 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 Cleveland Street and Dudley Street, wiping the canopy and filters leaves the ductwork - the long concealed sections that gather grease and carry fire - untouched. We open the full Wolverhampton 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 Wolverhampton hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Wolverhampton
We are in Wolverhampton's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A city leisure centre and gym in Wolverhampton had a damp, muddy layer building up inside the locker-room extract ductwork - high humidity meeting airborne dust. We ran mechanical power brushes through to strip the damp dust out and treated the duct interior with an anti-microbial biocide, keeping localised air scrubbers running while sections were offline. It cleared the musty mildew smell that had been hanging around the changing rooms and showers.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Wolverhampton kitchen these are the tells.
Watch for steam that hangs in the room, cooking smells creeping back over the tables, a canopy weeping onto a Cleveland Street line, grease crusting at the filter rims, or a Wolverhampton insurer or fire assessor calling for a TR19 certificate you do not hold. How often it needs doing rides on the cooking load - a hard-frying Queen Square kitchen far more than a quiet daytime cafe - and the certificate fixes that interval, so the next clean is planned, not chanced.
How it runs
Inspect the full Wolverhampton 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 Dudley 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 Wolverhampton fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Wolverhampton 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 Wolverhampton 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 Cleveland 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 Wolverhampton 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. When City of Wolverhampton Council carries out a food hygiene inspection it judges the physical state of the premises, and ventilation is part of that. A grease-choked extract can pull down the rating an Environmental Health Officer gives, on top of the odour and the weakening airflow your staff put up with.
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 Cleveland Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Queen Square cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Wolverhampton run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Queen Square cookline is back in service for the next shift.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Cleveland Street operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Cleveland Street and Queen Square kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Dudley 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.
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 Cleveland Street and Dudley Street where the runs are long and awkward.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Wolverhampton offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Black Country hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
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