Altrincham · 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 Altrincham, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Altrincham
Altrincham rates hundreds of 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 - Altrincham Market, Goose Green, Ashley Road - 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.
Kitchens are only half the work - we also strip the dry supply and extract ductwork of Altrincham schools, offices and civic buildings, and the lint-choked dryer runs behind its hotels and care homes. It is the hardest-pressed kitchens - Trafford College, Wythenshawe Hospital nearby, the Stamford Quarter and the town hotels - that glaze their hidden ducting quickest, and that coating is the road a fire takes.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Altrincham insurers and fire risk assessors expect - measured across the whole extract run, not just the visible mouth of the canopy.
The standard is written in film thickness: once grease reaches a set depth the run has to be cleaned and proven again. In the crowded roof voids off Altrincham Market and Ashley Road, a wipe of the canopy and filters never reaches the ductwork behind them, where the grease that carries fire quietly gathers. We work the whole Altrincham run through hatches already in place and others we cut, bring it back to bright metal, note grease depths at fixed stations before and after, and certify to TR19 Grease with the closing figures logged.
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 Altrincham hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Altrincham
We are in Altrincham's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A market-hall food-hall kitchen in Altrincham had a greasy build along the horizontal extract and up the roof riser above a busy servery. We fitted new access panels, hand-scraped the accessible lengths and ran an enzyme degreaser through the sealed sections, returning the ductwork to clean metal for the fire and hygiene standard. The clean was worked before the food hall opened so the traders lost no service.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Altrincham kitchen these are the tells.
A canopy dripping onto an Altrincham Market cookline, cooking smells forced back to the tables, extraction that no longer clears the steam, grease showing at the filter edges, or an Altrincham insurer or fire risk assessor wanting a TR19 certificate you have not got. How often it needs doing follows how hard you cook - a fast-frying Goose Green kitchen far more than a daytime cafe - and the certificate names the interval, so the next visit is booked, not guessed.
How it runs
Inspect the full Altrincham 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 Ashley Road 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 Altrincham fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Altrincham 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 an Altrincham 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 an Altrincham Market 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. To an Altrincham insurer a current TR19 Grease certificate is the proof the extract has been kept up. Let it lapse and a fire claim can be scaled back or declined outright - the kind of gap nobody wants to find with the kitchen already gutted.
Hygiene and environmental health. Food hygiene inspections by Trafford Council take in the condition of the building, ventilation included, so a grease-laden system can cost you on the rating an Environmental Health Officer awards - never mind the smell and the dropping extraction your kitchen team works under.
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 Altrincham Market kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Goose Green cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Altrincham offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Greater Manchester hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Yes. The fan at the top of an Ashley Road 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.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Altrincham run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Goose Green cookline is back in service for the next shift.
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 Ashley Road conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Altrincham Market and Goose Green kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
Yes - from Altrincham Market and Goose Green kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Altrincham and the wider Greater Manchester.
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