Colne · 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 Colne, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Colne
Colne 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.
Kitchens across Colne work out of tight, mixed premises - Albert Road, Colne Lane, Waterside - 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.
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 - college refectories, retail-park diners, pub and takeaway kitchens and the busy town-centre curry houses - lay grease down fast in exactly the concealed sections where a fire travels.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Colne 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 Albert Road and Waterside, a canopy-and-filter wipe leaves the duct interior - where grease piles up and a fire runs - completely alone. We reach the whole Colne 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 Colne hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Colne
We are in Colne's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A Colne community centre had fine grey dust settling through the branch ducts that fed its offices, leaving the rooms stuffy and stale. We drove rotary brushes and a negative-air machine along each branch run and swapped out the clogged panel filters. The air came back noticeably fresher, the dust complaints stopped, and the rooms were handed back clean and ready. We took the Sunday slot while the building was shut.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Colne kitchen these are the tells.
A canopy dripping onto an Albert Road cookline, cooking smells forced back to the tables, extraction that no longer clears the steam, grease showing at the filter edges, or a Colne 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 Colne Lane 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 Colne 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 Waterside 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 Colne fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Colne 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 Colne 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 Albert 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. A live TR19 Grease certificate is what a Colne 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. Pendle Borough Council food hygiene inspections assess the physical condition of premises, ventilation included. A grease-clogged system can count against the rating an Environmental Health Officer awards, quite apart from the smell and the falling extract performance your staff have to work in.
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 Albert Road kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Colne Lane cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Colne offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Lancashire hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Waterside 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 - from Albert Road and Colne Lane kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Colne and the wider Lancashire.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Albert Road and Colne Lane kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
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 Albert Road and Waterside where the runs are long and awkward.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence an Albert Road operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Local knowledge
By 1891 there were thirty cotton mills listed in Colne, the largest running some two thousand four hundred looms, their weaving sheds thick with the lint and dust of the trade. Most of those mills are gone now, cleared for retail parks and housing, but the modern premises that replaced them seal that dust inside their ductwork instead, where grease and lint gather unseen above the cook line until the pull drops off or fire finds the run. We survey, brush and vacuum the extract ductwork behind Colne's kitchens and ceiling voids, logging every metre with dated images taken from either side of the work. What the weaving sheds carried in open air, today's buildings carry out of sight. Colne gave the Titanic its bandmaster, Wallace Hartley, born on Greenfield Road in 1878, and the town he left behind kept its weaving until the last sheds closed; the extract runs above its kitchens now hold the grease those mills once blew into the valley air.
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