Bedlington · 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 Bedlington, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Bedlington
Bedlington 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.
Right across Bedlington, from Vulcan Place through Glebe Road to Choppington, cooklines share tight roof space and vent through concealed ducting few operators ever see inside. We clean that entire path to the TR19 Grease standard, canopy through to fan, taking in the level pulls and the risers where grease settles thickest and a fire would run.
It is not only kitchens: we also clean the dry supply and extract ductwork in Bedlington offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-packed laundry runs behind its hotel and care-home dryers. The busiest kitchens - pub and restaurant kitchens, takeaways, and the school and care-home kitchens - coat their hidden ducting in grease quickest, and that is the very path a fire follows.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Bedlington 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 Vulcan Place and Choppington, 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 Bedlington 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 Bedlington hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Bedlington
We are in Bedlington's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
Years without a clean had left the air handling unit and dry ventilation ducting laden with atmospheric dust at a Bedlington church hall. I cleaned the branch supply ducts with air whips under negative pressure and renewed the dirty panel filters. Airflow came back up to spec and the system was left visibly clean, and the feedback afterwards was excellent. The receptionist kept us going with tea through the morning.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Bedlington kitchen these are the tells.
Smells pushing back into the dining room, a canopy that drips onto a Vulcan Place cookline, extraction that no longer clears the steam, visible grease at the filter edges, or a Bedlington insurer or fire risk assessment asking for a TR19 certificate you cannot produce. Cleaning frequency tracks use - a hard-frying Glebe Road kitchen needs it far more often than a daytime cafe - and your certificate states the interval, so the next clean is never a guess.
How it runs
Inspect the full Bedlington 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 Choppington 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 Bedlington fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Bedlington 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 a Bedlington 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 a Vulcan Place 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 Bedlington 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. Food hygiene inspections by Northumberland County 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 Vulcan Place kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Glebe Road cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
The full run, canopy through the concealed horizontal and vertical ductwork to the roof fan - the hidden sections a canopy-only clean leaves loaded, which matters in the tight stock around Vulcan Place and Choppington where the runs are long and awkward.
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 Choppington conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Choppington 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.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Bedlington offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Northumberland hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Yes - from Vulcan Place and Glebe Road kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Bedlington and the wider Northumberland.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Vulcan Place operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Local knowledge
Coal made modern Bedlington as surely as iron did: the A Pit opened in 1838 and the Doctor Pit was sunk in 1854 just beyond Front Street, employing well over a thousand men at its peak, while Netherton Colliery worked from the 1820s until 1974. That pit air, thick with coal dust, is a memory now, but modern premises hide their dust and grease inside sealed ductwork instead, where debris builds unseen until airflow fails or fire finds a path. We clean and inspect ventilation and extract ductwork across the town, then hand over photographic before-and-after evidence of every run. The build-up you cannot see is the build-up that closes a kitchen or a workshop.
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