Biddulph · 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 Biddulph, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Biddulph
Biddulph 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.
From Well Street to Grange Road and Gillow Heath, the town's cooklines vent through long hidden ducting that climbs to a roof fan. We clean it end to end to the TR19 Grease standard - not just the canopy, but the flat and rising sections where grease really collects.
The same crews clean dry ventilation and air-handling ductwork in offices, schools and civic buildings, plus the combustible lint runs behind hotel and care-home dryers. High-turnover sites - pub and club kitchens, care-home and school kitchens, cafes and the busy town-centre takeaways - build grease fastest in the concealed lengths where flame spreads.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Biddulph insurers and fire risk assessors expect - measured across the whole extract run, not just the visible mouth of the canopy.
The standard works in grease-film thickness, fixing the depth at which a run must be cleaned and re-tested. In the shared roof voids around Well Street and Gillow Heath, wiping the canopy and filters leaves the ductwork - the long concealed sections that gather grease and carry fire - untouched. We open the full Biddulph run through existing and newly cut inspection hatches, strip it to bare metal, log grease-depth readings at fixed points before and after, and issue a TR19 Grease certificate with the post-clean depths recorded.
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 Biddulph hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Biddulph
We are in Biddulph's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
At a Biddulph sheltered-housing scheme, the communal refuse chute was caked with spilled bin liquids, which was pulling flies and a sour smell into the bin store. We sent a high-pressure rotating wash head down the full length of the chute, then disinfected and deodorised the whole run. Top to bottom the chute came out sanitised, and the ground-floor lobby was pleasant to walk through again, with warm feedback from residents. The concierge took a short photographic record for the insurance file.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Biddulph kitchen these are the tells.
A canopy dripping onto a Well Street cookline, cooking smells forced back to the tables, extraction that no longer clears the steam, grease showing at the filter edges, or a Biddulph 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 Grange Road 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 Biddulph 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 Gillow Heath 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 Biddulph fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Biddulph 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 Biddulph 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 Well Street 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 Biddulph 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 Staffordshire Moorlands District 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 Well Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Grange Road cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
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 Gillow Heath conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Biddulph run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Grange Road cookline is back in service for the next shift.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Well Street operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Gillow Heath 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 Biddulph offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Staffordshire hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Well Street and Grange Road kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
Local knowledge
Victoria Colliery worked coal deep beneath Biddulph until the pit finally closed in 1982, and the ground was later opencasted at Brown Lees before Victoria Business Park rose on the site. The heavy industry that filled the valley air with smoke has gone, but modern premises hide their dust and grease inside sealed ductwork instead, where it builds unseen until airflow fails or fire finds a path. We clean and inspect ventilation and extract ductwork across the town, from workshop lines to kitchen canopies. Then we hand over photographic before-and-after evidence of every run.
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