Bradford · 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 Bradford, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Bradford
Bradford rates around 4,595 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.
Kitchens across Bradford work out of tight, mixed premises - Leeds Road, North Parade, Little Germany - their extract snaking through concealed voids to roof-mounted fans. We take the whole run to the TR19 Grease standard, hood to fan, reaching the horizontal legs and vertical risers a canopy wipe never touches.
It is not only kitchens: we also clean the dry supply and extract ductwork in Bradford offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-packed laundry runs behind its hotel and care-home dryers. The busiest kitchens - the University of Bradford, the Royal Infirmary and St Luke's, Valley Parade and the district hotels - coat their hidden ducting in grease quickest, and that is the very path a fire follows.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Bradford 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 Leeds Road and Little Germany, 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 Bradford 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 Bradford hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Bradford
We are in Bradford's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A city-centre student accommodation block in Bradford had its eight-storey refuse chute blocked halfway down with oversized bin bags, and a fly infestation with it. We cleared the blockages with weighted breakdown tools, ran a full high-pressure chemical rinse down the chute and applied an insecticidal wash, then checked and wiped every floor-access door seal. We had it clear and sanitised before the freshers moved in.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Bradford kitchen these are the tells.
Smells pushing back into the dining room, a canopy that drips onto a Leeds Road cookline, extraction that no longer clears the steam, visible grease at the filter edges, or a Bradford insurer or fire risk assessment asking for a TR19 certificate you cannot produce. Cleaning frequency tracks use - a hard-frying North Parade 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 Bradford 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 Little Germany 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 Bradford fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Bradford 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 Bradford 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 Leeds Road 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 Bradford 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. A food hygiene visit from City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council weighs the physical state of the premises, ventilation counted within it. A grease-blocked extract can pull down the rating an Environmental Health Officer sets, quite apart from the stale smell and the tired airflow your staff work beneath all shift.
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 Leeds Road kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime North Parade cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Little Germany 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.
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 Leeds Road and Little Germany where the runs are long and awkward.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Leeds Road and North Parade kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
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 Little Germany conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Bradford offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the West Yorkshire 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 a Leeds Road operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
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