Failsworth · 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 Failsworth, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Failsworth
Failsworth 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 Failsworth work out of tight, mixed premises - Pole Lane, Wrigley Head, Brierley Avenue - 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.
Kitchens are only half the work - we also strip the dry supply and extract ductwork of Failsworth schools, offices and civic buildings, and the lint-choked dryer runs behind its hotels and care homes. It is the hardest-pressed kitchens - pub and hotel kitchens, care-home and school caterers, and the busy takeaways along the main roads - that glaze their hidden ducting quickest, and that coating is the road a fire takes.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Failsworth 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 Pole Lane and Brierley Avenue, 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 Failsworth 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 Failsworth hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Failsworth
We are in Failsworth's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
At a small Failsworth office suite, fine grey dust had gathered in the branch ducts feeding the main rooms, leaving people with dry eyes and stale air. We drove rotary brushes and a negative-air machine through the branch runs, then fitted fresh pocket filters in place of the tired ones. Airflow returned to spec, the system was left visibly clean, and everything was back to normal by opening. We arranged the visit around the weekly delivery so staff weren't disturbed.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Failsworth kitchen these are the tells.
A canopy dripping onto a Pole Lane cookline, cooking smells forced back to the tables, extraction that no longer clears the steam, grease showing at the filter edges, or a Failsworth 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 Wrigley Head 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 Failsworth 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 Brierley Avenue 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 Failsworth fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Failsworth 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 Failsworth 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 Pole Lane 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. To a Failsworth insurer a current TR19 Grease certificate is the proof the extract has been kept up. Let it lapse and a fire claim can be scaled back or declined outright - the kind of gap nobody wants to find with the kitchen already gutted.
Hygiene and environmental health. Food hygiene inspections by Oldham Metropolitan Borough 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 Pole Lane kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Wrigley Head 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 Brierley Avenue conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Pole Lane and Wrigley Head kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Pole Lane operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Yes - from Pole Lane and Wrigley Head kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Failsworth and the wider Greater Manchester.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Failsworth offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Greater Manchester hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Brierley Avenue 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.
Local knowledge
Failsworth grew as a Lancashire mill town on the Manchester-to-Oldham road, its redbrick cotton mills and the vast hat works on Claremont Street - once reckoned among the largest in Europe - filling the air with lint, silk and felt dust. Many of those buildings still stand as business centres and industrial units, but modern premises hide their dust inside sealed ductwork instead, where grease and debris gather unseen until airflow fails or fire finds a path. We clean and inspect ventilation and extract ductwork across Pole Lane, Wrigley Head and the trading estates, then hand over photographic before-and-after evidence of every run. Nothing is signed off until the ducting is clear end to end.
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