Care Homes — Kitchen Extract Cleaning in the Midlands

A care home kitchen cooks for residents every day of the year, usually three meals plus drinks and snacks, and the people it feeds may need help to leave the building in an emergency. That makes the extract system a fire risk worth managing closely. We arrange TR19 extract cleaning quotes for care homes across Birmingham, the Black Country, Solihull, Warwickshire, Nottingham, Derby and Leicester. An independent specialist provider does the work and issues the certificate.

Care homes in England are regulated by the Care Quality Commission, the independent regulator of health and adult social care, which registers care providers and monitors, inspects and rates their services. A clear record of kitchen extract cleaning sits alongside the rest of your premises and safety paperwork.

Which TR19 frequency band care homes fall into

TR19 Grease sets minimum intervals by daily cooking hours: every three months for 12 to 16 hours, every six months for 6 to 12 hours and every twelve months for 2 to 6 hours. A care home kitchen cooking breakfast, lunch and tea is usually moderate use, which means a clean at least every six months. Larger homes cooking from early morning into the evening can move into the quarterly band. The provider's grease readings confirm the right interval, and the TR19 compliance guide explains the bands.

Fire risk assessment, sleeping residents and insurance

The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, enforced by your local fire and rescue service, requires the responsible person to assess and reduce fire risk, and grease in the duct should appear in the home's fire risk assessment. Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service places premises where people sleep in a higher risk category, because a fire may be discovered later and escape can take longer. Building age matters too. Birmingham City Council's 2025 market position statement for older adult care homes notes that much of the city's residential care stock is old, often converted from ordinary housing, and that changes in fire safety regulations are requiring homes to adapt and retrofit improvements. BESA warns that grease in a duct can carry fire into other parts of a building, and that insurers may refuse a claim traced to poor maintenance.

What a full clean covers

The provider cleans the canopy and filters, the full ductwork run to the discharge and the extract fan, with access panels fitted where needed. In a converted house the duct may pass through a loft, a cupboard or a ceiling void, so the route is worth knowing before the day. Grease depth is measured before and after, and the certificate comes with before-and-after photographs from matching positions. Keep it with your fire risk assessment so it is to hand whenever anyone reviews premises safety.

Planning the clean around mealtimes

The clean can be booked between meal services or overnight, so residents' meals carry on as normal. Tell us your mealtimes, how the roof or fan is reached and any areas where visitors must be escorted, and the provider will plan around your routine. Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service lists residential care premises among the places where laundry can self-heat, so it is a good moment to check that oily tea towels and kitchen cloths are cooled before they are stored. If nobody knows the duct route, an inspection report will map it.

Care groups with several homes

Birmingham City Council's 2025 statement counted 109 residential homes and 68 nursing homes for older adults in the city, run by a mix of single-home owners and larger groups, with most homes in the north and south of the city. If your group runs homes across the region, the fire and rescue service changes with the address: West Midlands Fire Service in Birmingham, Solihull and the Black Country, Warwickshire Fire and Rescue Service in Kenilworth, and the Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Leicestershire services further east. We can still arrange one quote covering every home, with a certificate for each. The cost guide shows what affects the price.

Care homes we arrange quotes for

In north Birmingham we arrange quotes for care homes in Sutton Coldfield, Erdington and Great Barr, and in the south of the city in Selly Oak and Kings Heath. We also cover Solihull, Halesowen and Kenilworth, and in the East Midlands West Bridgford, Oadby and Wigston and Belper.

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