Duct Cleaning · Ludlow
From the the Castle Square restaurants to the Broad Street inns and the care homes, Ludlow runs on ductwork you never see - grease extract, dry ventilation and laundry runs where the dirt, and the fire risk, sit concealed above the ceiling.
Answer a few quick questions about your Ludlow canopy, filters and ducting for a guide price on stripping and degreasing the extract system - no measuring, no site visit.
Try the cost calculatorThere is far more ductwork behind Ludlow than the street shows. Grease-laden air climbs out of the pub, cafe and restaurant kitchens and the care homes; the offices, the castle buildings and the Ludlow Business Park food and trade units rely on dry supply and extract air-handling; and the hotels and launderettes run laundry ducting that fills with flammable lint.
Above most of those kitchens runs an extract a surface wipe never reaches. Ludlow sits under Shropshire Council and its 3,080 rated premises - and a grease duct is a fire risk as much as a hygiene one. The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 puts it on the responsible person to keep that run clean to a provable standard.
We clean and certify the whole system - grease, dry and laundry - right across Ludlow: Castle Square and Broad Street, the Buttercross and the market, out to the Ludlow Business Park at Weeping Cross Lane. We survey the full route, fit compliant access where a sealed run has none, and clean every internal metre back to bare metal.
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 Ludlow 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.
Typical jobs we handle, by sector and area - representative of the work we do, not named clients.
At a food unit on the Ludlow Business Park at Weeping Cross Lane, the extract crossed a long ceiling void to a rooftop fan, reachable only at the canopy. We fitted access at the bends and cleaned the whole route through, leaving the responsible person a certificate and the readings.
At a hotel in Ludlow, the kitchen keeps its extract on a planned clean so it never becomes the problem. We stripped and cleaned the canopy and baffles and cleared the internal run to clean metal, with the grease-depth log and a dated certificate.
We trace the whole run, locate the sealed and concealed sections and set the scope and a cleaning interval to your cooking hours.
Compliant inspection hatches go in wherever the ductwork is boxed in, and the kitchen or plant area is sheeted and protected.
The full run is cleaned to bare metal from canopy to fan, with grease-depth readings taken at set points as we work.
You receive a dated certificate, the readings, photographs and a next-due date for the fire logbook.
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.
Ludlow made its name as a food town around its castle and the medieval streets below, where Castle Square markets, Broad Street restaurants and the Ludlow Business Park food producers keep the Marches fed. The kitchens that feed the town cook hard, and the grease their extract carries banks unseen in the concealed run. We work around service so a Ludlow kitchen is cleaned, certified and back in action without losing covers.
Yes. We work throughout Ludlow and the wider Shropshire, including Castle Square and Broad Street, the Buttercross and the market, out to the Ludlow Business Park at Weeping Cross Lane. 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 Shropshire 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 Shropshire.
