Ashton-under-Lyne · 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 Ashton-under-Lyne, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Ashton-under-Lyne
Ashton-under-Lyne 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 - Ashton Market, Old Street, Arcades - 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.
Beyond the kitchens, we clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in hotels and care homes. High-output kitchens - Tameside College, Tameside General Hospital, the Arcades centre and the town hotels - lay grease down fast in exactly the concealed sections where a fire travels.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Ashton-under-Lyne insurers and fire risk assessors expect - measured across the whole extract run, not just the visible mouth of the canopy.
Because the standard is written around film thickness, it sets the depth that triggers a clean and re-test. In the mixed roof spaces around Ashton Market and Arcades, a canopy-and-filter wipe leaves the duct interior - where grease piles up and a fire runs - completely alone. We reach the whole Ashton-under-Lyne run through existing hatches and new ones we cut, clean back to bright metal, take before-and-after grease-depth figures at set points, and certify it to TR19 Grease with those depths on the record.
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 Ashton-under-Lyne hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Ashton-under-Lyne
We are in Ashton-under-Lyne's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A market-hall cafe in Ashton-under-Lyne had grease along the extract runs and general market dust drawn into the supply grilles from the hall. We scraped the extract lengths back to metal, ran a degreaser through the sealed sections and washed the grilles down, restoring both the extraction and the incoming air. The clean was fitted around the market's trading days so the stalls kept working.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Ashton-under-Lyne kitchen these are the tells.
Watch for steam that hangs in the room, cooking smells creeping back over the tables, a canopy weeping onto an Ashton Market line, grease crusting at the filter rims, or an Ashton-under-Lyne insurer or fire assessor calling for a TR19 certificate you do not hold. How often it needs doing rides on the cooking load - a hard-frying Old Street kitchen far more than a quiet daytime cafe - and the certificate fixes that interval, so the next clean is planned, not chanced.
How it runs
Inspect the full Ashton-under-Lyne 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 Arcades 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 Ashton-under-Lyne fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Ashton-under-Lyne 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 Ashton-under-Lyne 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 Ashton 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. Your Ashton-under-Lyne insurer expects a current TR19 Grease certificate as proof the duct is clean. Without one, a fire claim can be cut back or turned down altogether - a costly thing to find only after a fire.
Hygiene and environmental health. When Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council carries out a food hygiene inspection it judges the physical state of the premises, and ventilation is part of that. A grease-choked extract can pull down the rating an Environmental Health Officer gives, on top of the odour and the weakening airflow your staff put up with.
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 Ashton Market kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Old Street cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes - from Ashton Market and Old Street kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Ashton-under-Lyne and the wider Greater Manchester.
Yes. The fan at the top of an Arcades 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 Ashton-under-Lyne run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so an Old Street 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 Arcades conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Ashton-under-Lyne offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Greater Manchester hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence an Ashton Market operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
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