Congleton · 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 Congleton, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Congleton
Congleton 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.
The city's kitchens sit in tight, mixed stock - Lawton Street, Swan Bank, Buglawton - with long concealed duct runs up to roof fans. We clean the full run to the TR19 Grease standard, canopy to fan, including the horizontal and vertical sections a canopy-only clean leaves coated.
Kitchens are only half the work - we also strip the dry supply and extract ductwork of Congleton schools, offices and civic buildings, and the lint-choked dryer runs behind its hotels and care homes. It is the hardest-pressed kitchens - busy pub and hotel kitchens, tandooris, chip shops and the town-centre takeaways - that glaze their hidden ducting quickest, and that coating is the road a fire takes.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Congleton 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 Lawton Street and Buglawton, a canopy-and-filter wipe leaves the duct interior - where grease piles up and a fire runs - completely alone. We reach the whole Congleton 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 Congleton hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Congleton
We are in Congleton's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
Grease had pooled at the low points of the canopy extract duct at a traditional bakery in Congleton, a real fire hazard over the hot plates. We cut in access doors, cleared the ductwork of grease and finished with a degreasing wash. The duct came up to bare metal and the fire risk was cleared, with full documentation for their records. We worked around the weekly delivery so customers weren't disturbed.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Congleton kitchen these are the tells.
A canopy dripping onto a Lawton Street cookline, cooking smells forced back to the tables, extraction that no longer clears the steam, grease showing at the filter edges, or a Congleton 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 Swan Bank 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 Congleton 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 Buglawton 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 Congleton fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Congleton 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 Congleton 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 Lawton 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. A current TR19 Grease certificate is the evidence your Congleton insurer expects. Without it, a fire claim can be reduced or refused outright - an expensive gap to find after the event.
Hygiene and environmental health. Food hygiene inspections by Cheshire East 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 Lawton Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Swan Bank 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 Buglawton conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Congleton offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Cheshire hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Buglawton 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.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Congleton run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Swan Bank cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Yes - from Lawton Street and Swan Bank kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Congleton and the wider Cheshire.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Lawton Street operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Local knowledge
John Clayton and Nathaniel Pattison built the Old Mill for silk throwing in 1753, and by 1819 some twenty-eight silk mills crowded Congleton, their upper rooms thick with airborne fibre. The trade collapsed when the silk tariffs were lifted in the 1860s and the empty mills turned to fustian cutting, but the lesson in airborne dust never left the town. Modern premises hide their dust inside sealed ductwork instead, where grease and debris build 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.
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