Blackpool · 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 Blackpool, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Blackpool
Blackpool rates around 1,670 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 Blackpool, from Promenade through Clifton Street to Cedar Square, 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.
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 - Blackpool and The Fylde College, Blackpool Victoria Hospital, Bloomfield Road and the Promenade hotels - lay grease down fast in exactly the concealed sections where a fire travels.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Blackpool 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 Promenade and Cedar Square, 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 Blackpool 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 Blackpool hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Blackpool
We are in Blackpool's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A seafront hotel in Blackpool had a heavy, runny grease film pooling in the low points of the extraction duct - the pipe had been laid with a poor pitch. We set up full liquid-containment bunds, sprayed a high-strength foaming degreaser through the lines and squeegeed the horizontal ducts clean, leaving the system dry and compliant. High coastal winds meant safety harnesses to inspect the roof-mounted discharge cowl.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Blackpool kitchen these are the tells.
The tells are plain: steam that lingers, odours drifting back over the diners, drips off the canopy onto a Promenade line, a rim of grease at the filters, or a Blackpool insurer or fire assessment wanting a TR19 certificate you cannot show. Frequency tracks the cooking load - a hard-frying Clifton Street kitchen needs it far more often than a quiet cafe - and your certificate sets the date, so nothing is left to chance.
How it runs
Inspect the full Blackpool 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 Cedar Square 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 Blackpool fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Blackpool 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 Blackpool 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 Promenade 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. A live TR19 Grease certificate is what a Blackpool insurer treats as evidence the system is maintained. Miss it and a fire claim may be reduced or refused - an expensive surprise once the damage is done.
Hygiene and environmental health. Food hygiene inspections by Blackpool 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 Promenade kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Clifton Street cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Blackpool offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Lancashire hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Blackpool run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Clifton Street cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Promenade and Clifton Street kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Cedar Square 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.
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 Cedar Square conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
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 Promenade and Cedar Square where the runs are long and awkward.
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