Duct Cleaning · Birmingham
Birmingham runs grease ductwork the length of the city - the Balti houses of Ladypool Road, the Broad Street kitchens and the Digbeth food halls all pushing hot, grease-laden air up concealed runs to the roof. We clean and certify the whole system to TR19 Grease, canopy to fan.
Answer a few quick questions about your Birmingham canopy, filters and ducting for a guide price on stripping and degreasing the extract system - no measuring, no site visit.
Try the cost calculatorBirmingham cooks on a scale no other city outside London matches. The Balti Triangle around Ladypool Road, Stoney Lane and Stratford Road, the restaurants and clubs along Broad Street and Brindleyplace, the food halls of Digbeth and the high-street takeaways of Kings Heath and Alum Rock all run extract ductwork that climbs, hidden, from the canopy to the roof - and every metre of it lines with grease.
Inside a Birmingham food economy of 10,037 rated premises, the concealed run is where the fire risk sits. Grease in a boxed-in riser or a long horizontal duct is out of sight until a fire risk assessor or an insurer asks for evidence, or until a flame finds it. We clean and certify commercial grease, dry and laundry ductwork across Birmingham to TR19 Grease, fit access panels where the run is sealed, and leave the photographs and certificate your file needs.
TR19 Grease is the benchmark insurers and fire risk assessors expect for kitchen extract systems. It covers the whole system, measured, not just the parts you can see. Grease is assessed by thickness, and the standard sets the level at which a system must be cleaned and re-tested.
Across Birmingham we work to that one standard, whether the run climbs out of a busy restaurant kitchen or a care-home laundry.
The extract off a cookline lines itself with combustible grease the whole way to the fan, and it is the concealed length, not the canopy, a fire assessment turns on. We clean it end to end and record the readings.
Dry supply and extract ductwork silts up with dust and debris until it moves far less air than it should. We clean and inspect it so the ventilation actually performs.
Lint packs a laundry or dryer duct faster than anyone expects, and few build-ups catch as readily. We clear and check the run before it turns into an ignition source.
Real jobs, described by sector and area - never by a client's name.
At a long-established Balti house off Ladypool Road, years of high-tempo frying had packed the concealed vertical riser behind the kitchen. We cut compliant access panels where the run was boxed in, cleaned it from canopy to roof fan, and left it back to bare metal with a photo record and a certificate the insurer accepted.
A Broad Street venue kitchen feeding a late crowd had a long concealed duct to a roof fan that had never been documented. We surveyed the run, cleaned the accessible sections and fitted panels where it was sealed, and set a next-due date matched to its heavy hours.
We inspect the full run, find the access gaps in the concealed sections and agree scope and a cleaning frequency for your usage.
We fit compliant inspection hatches where the ductwork is sealed, and protect the kitchen or plant area.
Canopy to fan, down to bare metal, with before-and-after evidence at set measuring points.
You get a dated certificate, grease-depth record, photographs and your next-due date.
The building. The Fire Safety Order puts the duty on the responsible person to control fire risk, and concealed grease is where a kitchen fire spreads fastest and least visibly.
The claim. Insurers expect a current certificate; a fire claim on a neglected system can be cut or refused - a costly surprise after a loss.
The day-to-day. A clean run pulls better, smells better and stands up when the environmental health officer visits.
Digbeth has turned its old industrial units into food halls and street-food yards, and the Custard Factory and the Dining Club fill most nights - kitchens improvised into railway arches and warehouses, with ductwork threaded wherever it would fit. Those hidden runs are exactly where grease collects unseen. We survey, clean and certify the whole system so a Digbeth kitchen stays fire-safe as well as busy.
Yes. We work throughout Birmingham and the wider West Midlands, including the city centre and Broad Street, the Bull Ring markets and Digbeth, the Balti Triangle around Ladypool Road, the Jewellery Quarter and Chinatown, and out to Kings Heath, Moseley, Selly Oak, Erdington and the Washwood Heath units. Call 07961 915018 or use the contact form and we will confirm and quote.
The whole run - from the canopy through the concealed horizontal and vertical ductwork to the roof fan. The hidden sections are exactly where the grease and the fire risk sit.
We fit compliant access panels where the run is sealed or boxed in, so every internal section can be reached, cleaned, inspected and certified.
It depends on use. TR19 Grease sets kitchen extract frequency by daily cooking hours - roughly every three months for heavy use, six for moderate and twelve for light - and we set your interval and next-due date on the survey.
Yes. Dry supply and extract ductwork clogs with dust and can spread contamination, and laundry and dryer ducting packs with highly flammable lint. We clean and certify all three.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings, weekends and closing days to keep your kitchen or site running.
We have cleaned and certified commercial ductwork since 2001, the length of the West Midlands coast and across the UK. Whatever the run - a grease riser, a dry office system or a care-home laundry duct - the work ends the same way: bare metal, a photo record and a certificate that stands up to a fire risk assessment.
Send us your site details and cooking hours and we will survey, quote and certify - across West Midlands.
