Woodley · 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 Woodley, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Woodley
Woodley 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 Hurricane Way to Butts Hill Road and Colemansmoor Road, 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 Woodley schools, offices and civic buildings, and the lint-choked dryer runs behind its hotels and care homes. It is the hardest-pressed kitchens - care-home kitchens, school canteens, pub and restaurant kitchens and the busy precinct takeaways - that glaze their hidden ducting quickest, and that coating is the road a fire takes.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Woodley 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 Hurricane Way and Colemansmoor Road, wiping the canopy and filters leaves the ductwork - the long concealed sections that gather grease and carry fire - untouched. We open the full Woodley 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 Woodley hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Woodley
We are in Woodley's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A care home laundry in Woodley had its dryer vent line choked with fluff, a clear fire risk. We stripped and vacuumed the full flexible dryer ducting, cleared the external wall flap and checked the airflow. The dryers ran hotter and faster and the room lost its damp, warm fug, everything left clean and ready to use. We fitted the visit around the lunch rush so residents weren't disturbed.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Woodley kitchen these are the tells.
Smells pushing back into the dining room, a canopy that drips onto a Hurricane Way cookline, extraction that no longer clears the steam, visible grease at the filter edges, or a Woodley insurer or fire risk assessment asking for a TR19 certificate you cannot produce. Cleaning frequency tracks use - a hard-frying Butts Hill Road 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 Woodley 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 Colemansmoor Road 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 Woodley fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Woodley 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 Woodley 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 Hurricane Way 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 Woodley 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 Wokingham 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 Hurricane Way kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Butts Hill Road cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes - from Hurricane Way and Butts Hill Road kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Woodley and the wider Berkshire.
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 Colemansmoor Road conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Hurricane Way 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 Hurricane Way and Colemansmoor Road where the runs are long and awkward.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Woodley run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Butts Hill Road cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Hurricane Way and Butts Hill Road kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
Local knowledge
The great Miles factory sheds beside the airfield once held Britain's first moving aircraft track, their air thick with the dust and fumes of the six thousand aeroplanes built and flown at Woodley between 1933 and 1962. The last of those sheds off Headley Road East stood for more than ninety years before it was demolished in 2024 to make way for new industrial units. 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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