Wokingham · Ductwork cleaning
Ductwork Cleaning in Ruscombe
Looking for ductwork cleaning in Ruscombe? We diagnose first, fix the price and book the work around your hours, then sign off with a report and photos.
- Years of grease along the duct floor
- An insurer asking for TR19 evidence
- A duct nobody has opened in years
Ruscombe: your questions answered
Can the work in Ruscombe be done at night or at weekends?
Yes, evening, overnight and weekend work is normal for us. It means the site in Ruscombe keeps running as normal. When you call 0345 646 2711, or send details by email, mention when the site is quiet.
Which environmental health team covers Ruscombe?
Kitchens in Ruscombe are inspected by Wokingham council’s environmental health officers. Have your latest TR19® certificate and photo report to hand, as an officer may ask how the extract is maintained.
Does the law say we must follow TR19?
No. TR19® itself isn’t law; it’s a BESA specification. The legal duty comes from the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005: the responsible person must assess and reduce fire risk, and cleaning to TR19® is the recognised way to show grease is under control.
Which sectors do you work in?
Any commercial site with kitchens or ventilation, from a single café to a large school. We work with hotels, schools, care homes, offices, retail and leisure sites.
How do you clean inside the ductwork?
Through access panels along the duct. Heavy grease is scraped out by hand, then the surfaces are degreased with a method that suits the deposit, such as degreasers, hot water or steam.
What information do you need?
The site address, the type of premises and your opening hours, plus pictures of the system and your last certificate or report if you have one.
Who is the responsible person?
That depends on who controls the premises. Under the Fire Safety Order 2005, it’s the responsible person, which may be the employer, owner, landlord, facilities manager or managing agent.
Will we have to shut during the visit?
Not typically. We need the work area to ourselves while we’re on site, so the visit goes in a quiet slot.
Ductwork cleaning in Ruscombe, done properly
Once air leaves the canopy, it travels through ductwork that most people never see. Grease settles along every metre of it, and that is where a kitchen fire can travel. Our ductwork cleaning reaches inside the runs and risers through access panels, to BESA TR19® Grease. The work covers vertical risers, attenuators and horizontal duct runs, and people most often call us about grease seeping out of the duct seams and years of grease along the duct floor.
In a small place like Ruscombe, kitchens are often in older or extended buildings, with long single-storey duct runs, where grease settles in the flat sections. Access, parking and timings are agreed before the day.
Insurers, fire officers and environmental health officers all look at records. So every job comes with a written report and pictures, plus a TR19® certificate through the BESCA VHE portal where the work is a TR19® Grease clean.
- Where
- Ruscombe (RG10)
- Region
- Wokingham
- Reporting
- TR19® certificate and photo report
- Quote
- Fixed quote, usually within a working day
- Working hours
- Overnight and weekend work, 24/7 emergency callout
- Phone
- 0345 646 2711
- Updated
- 30 October 2026
What happens on the day
Each visit runs to the same pattern: protect the area, make the system safe, carry out the ductwork cleaning, clear away and hand over the paperwork. The visit itself takes anything from a few hours to several visits, depending on the length of duct. Pictures of the system and its access let us plan the work in Ruscombe before we set off.
- First we diagnose: the route, the access and the grease levels.
- A fixed quote follows, based on what we found.
- Each section is cleaned in turn through its access panel.
- We take extra care at bends and at the foot of risers.
- Readings, pictures and a recommended next clean date complete the job.
Before we arrive
- Find the previous report, if there is one
- Tell us where we can park and unload
- Allow time for equipment near the work to be turned off and cool down
Getting a quote
Quoting starts with a diagnosis, either from pictures and details you send or from a site visit. After that, you get a fixed price for the work, before work begins.
Advice
For landlords and multi-site operators
When the building owner and the occupier are different, it’s worth checking the lease for who maintains the systems. We are happy to deal with either side, and the report can go to both.
We regularly work with managing agents. Send the address, what’s needed and how access works, and we’ll send a fixed quote.
Why deal with it now?
Grease narrows the duct and slows the air. The fan works harder, the kitchen gets hotter and smoke lingers at the canopy and grease can drip from duct joints. Equipment tucked in a roof space or outbuilding near Ruscombe rarely gets looked at unless someone books it.
Putting the work off seldom saves money. Build-up, wear and faults tend to get worse, not better, which can make the next visit longer. If you are unsure, give us a ring on 0345 646 2711 or drop us a line and we’ll give you an honest view and a fixed quote.
Why book with us
- Work around your opening hours, with 24/7 emergency cover
- Member of BESCA Vent Hygiene Elite, cleaning to BESA TR19® Grease
- A fixed price before any work starts
- CHAS and SafeContractor accredited, with ISO 9001
Take a look at our cost guide or our accreditations.
Aftercare tips
No system stays clean for ever, but care slows the build-up. A few tips:
- File each certificate and photo report in the maintenance log
- Diarise the next duct clean
- Keep grease filters clean and fitted whenever you cook
- Have the grease measured if cooking hours go up
You’ll have a recommended date for the next clean, based on the readings and your daily cooking hours, in line with BESA guidance.
Run the extract the whole time the kitchen is cooking. When the air stops, grease settles in the duct, so switching off early adds to the build-up.
What a clean will not put right
It’s worth knowing the limits before booking:
- Duct sections that need replacing
- A worn-out fan that needs replacing
- A duct that’s too small or badly routed for the kitchen (a design issue)
If in doubt, call us on 0345 646 2711 or drop us a line and we’ll say what we think before booking.
What we work on in Ruscombe
- Horizontal duct runs
- Multi-storey ducts
- Access panels
- Vertical risers
- Attenuators
- Bends and junctions
Different parts, different methods
Access panels
Every section of duct is cleaned through an access panel. Where there are none, those sections cannot be cleaned and the report has to say so.
Bends and transitions
Grease tends to pile up at elbows. It’s scraped out and degreased, and test it before and after.
What ductwork cleaning looks like in Ruscombe
According to Food Standards Agency records, there are about 10 pubs, bars and clubs across Ruscombe and its immediate surroundings (about a mile and a half). Any of them serving cooked food has an extract to keep clean, from canopy to discharge. Ruscombe is covered by Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service. The Fire Safety Order puts the duty on whoever runs a kitchen to control its fire risk, and a greasy duct is fuel. Kitchens in Ruscombe get their food hygiene inspections from Wokingham council. The cleanliness of the kitchen and its equipment, extraction included, is part of what they check. Our report lists what was cleaned and when, which is useful to have ready.
School kitchens, at schools like Polehampton Church of England Junior School for example, are usually cleaned in the holidays so no lunches are lost. If you run a café or takeaway near Twyford station, early starts and late finishes leave little time to clean, so overnight extract cleaning suits.
Ruscombe is about 3 miles north-east of Woodley, in Wokingham. Every kind of commercial site in Ruscombe, we can take on ductwork cleaning. Visits can be booked for evenings, overnight or weekends so the site keeps running. Our Wokingham coverage runs to 35 places, and Ruscombe is one of them. For sites nearby, see our Reading page (6 miles or so).
Here we cover the RG10 postcode area for ductwork cleaning. Local streets include London Road, Milton Way and Highgrove Place, all of which we cover for ductwork cleaning. Ruscombe sits on or near the A3032, which makes travel easy for ductwork cleaning. Close by, we work in Twyford (1 mile south-west), Hare Hatch (1 mile north-east), Charvil (1 mile west), Whistley Green (1 mile south) and The Holt (2 miles north-east). We also work in nearby towns such as Reading (6 miles south-west), Wokingham (5 miles south), Woodley (3 miles south-west), Earley (5 miles south-west), Crowthorne (8 miles south) and Lower Earley (5 miles south-west).
Near you in Ruscombe
Typical jobs here are in premises near The Golden Cross pub, Blessed Hugh Faringdon Catholic School and The Piggott School. The closest station to Ruscombe is Twyford station, roughly 0.5 miles south-west. Well-known places in the area include Royal Berkshire Hospital (4.9 miles south-west) and Frazer Nash Archives (3.7 miles north-west). Green spaces nearby include Alder Moors and Weycock Hill.
Common problems we fix in Ruscombe
A vertical riser can run up several floors. Grease collects on the riser walls and gathers at the bottom, where it can pool. Panels along the riser make proper cleaning possible.
If you notice any of these, it’s worth a diagnosis:
- Thick deposits at the bottom of a vertical duct
- Readings above 200 microns from a grease thickness test
- A duct clean needed for an insurer
- Stale grease odours from the duct
Volunteers running a hall kitchen near Church of St James, or anywhere in Ruscombe, may not know when the extract was last cleaned, and a grease test settles it.
What to look for in a quote
- Whether a written report and pictures are included
- What’s included in the scope, part by part
- When the next visit should be, and why
- Which accreditations they hold, and whether you can check them