Ellesmere Port · 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 Ellesmere Port, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Ellesmere Port
Ellesmere Port 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 Whitby Road to Marina Walk and Coliseum, 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 - the local college, Ellesmere Port Hospital, the Cheshire Oaks designer outlet and the town hotels - build grease fastest in the concealed lengths where flame spreads.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Ellesmere Port 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 Whitby Road and Coliseum, 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 Ellesmere Port 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 Ellesmere Port hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Ellesmere Port
We are in Ellesmere Port's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A refinery-side contractors' canteen in Ellesmere Port had grease along the extract runs and heavy dust drawn in off the industrial site coating the supply grilles. We scraped the extract lengths back to metal, ran a degreaser through the sealed sections and washed the supply grilles down, restoring both the extraction and the incoming air quality. Site permit-to-work rules were followed and the crew inducted onto the chemical-plant boundary.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Ellesmere Port kitchen these are the tells.
A canopy dripping onto a Whitby Road cookline, cooking smells forced back to the tables, extraction that no longer clears the steam, grease showing at the filter edges, or an Ellesmere Port 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 Marina Walk 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 Ellesmere Port 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 Coliseum 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 Ellesmere Port fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Ellesmere Port 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 an Ellesmere Port 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 Whitby 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 Ellesmere Port 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 Cheshire West and Chester 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 Whitby Road kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Marina Walk 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 Coliseum conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Yes - from Whitby Road and Marina Walk kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Ellesmere Port 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 Whitby Road operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Coliseum 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 work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Whitby Road and Marina Walk 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 Whitby Road and Coliseum where the runs are long and awkward.
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