Wrexham · 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 Wrexham, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Wrexham
Wrexham rates close to 1,000 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 - Hope Street, Regent Street, Eagles Meadow - 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.
Beyond the kitchens, we clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in hotels and care homes. High-output kitchens - Wrexham University, the Wrexham Maelor Hospital, the Racecourse Ground and the city hotels - lay grease down fast in exactly the concealed sections where a fire travels.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Wrexham 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 Hope Street and Eagles Meadow, 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 Wrexham 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 Wrexham hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Wrexham
We are in Wrexham's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A cereal-manufacturing plant in Wrexham had grain and cereal dust settled through the extract trunking above the packing hall. We isolated the runs, brushed the ducting out with anti-static equipment and drew the dust into a HEPA collector, cutting the housekeeping load and the organic-dust ignition risk. The packing lines were sheeted over so no dust could reach the product.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Wrexham kitchen these are the tells.
The tells are plain: steam that lingers, odours drifting back over the diners, drips off the canopy onto a Hope Street line, a rim of grease at the filters, or a Wrexham insurer or fire assessment wanting a TR19 certificate you cannot show. Frequency tracks the cooking load - a hard-frying Regent 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 Wrexham 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 Eagles Meadow 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 Wrexham fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Wrexham 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 Wrexham 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 Hope 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. A live TR19 Grease certificate is what a Wrexham insurer treats as evidence the system is maintained. Miss it and a fire claim may be reduced or refused - an expensive surprise once the damage is done.
Hygiene and environmental health. Wrexham County Borough Council food hygiene inspections assess the physical condition of premises, ventilation included. A grease-clogged system can count against the rating an Environmental Health Officer awards, quite apart from the smell and the falling extract performance your staff have to work in.
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 Hope Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Regent Street cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Wrexham offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the north-east Wales hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Wrexham run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Regent Street cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Hope Street and Regent Street 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 an Eagles Meadow 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 Hope Street and Eagles Meadow where the runs are long and awkward.
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 Eagles Meadow conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
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