Featherstone · 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 Featherstone, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Featherstone
Featherstone rates dozens 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 - Girnhill Lane, Post Office Road, Ackton - 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.
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 matchday kitchens at Post Office Road, the pub and takeaway kitchens and the busy town-centre chip shops - build grease fastest in the concealed lengths where flame spreads.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Featherstone insurers and fire risk assessors expect - measured across the whole extract run, not just the visible mouth of the canopy.
Grease is measured by thickness, and the standard sets the depth at which a system must be cleaned and re-tested. Around Girnhill Lane and Ackton, where the concealed runs thread through mixed roof voids, a canopy-and-filter wipe leaves the ductwork itself - the long hidden sections where grease accumulates and a fire travels - untouched. We access the full Featherstone run through existing and newly fitted inspection hatches, clean to bare metal, record before-and-after grease-depth readings at set points, and issue a TR19 Grease certificate with a post-clean depth 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 Featherstone hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Featherstone
We are in Featherstone's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
Fine dust had blocked the ceiling grilles in the ground-floor washrooms at a town-centre Featherstone health centre, leaving the air stagnant. I took the grilles down for a wash, cleared the ducting behind them and serviced the roof extract fan. Ventilation was restored and the staff toilets no longer held damp, stale air, with the site left spotless. I passed the facilities manager a few tips on keeping things clear between visits.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Featherstone kitchen these are the tells.
Smells pushing back into the dining room, a canopy that drips onto a Girnhill Lane cookline, extraction that no longer clears the steam, visible grease at the filter edges, or a Featherstone insurer or fire risk assessment asking for a TR19 certificate you cannot produce. Cleaning frequency tracks use - a hard-frying Post Office Road 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 Featherstone 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 Ackton 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 Featherstone fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Featherstone 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 Featherstone 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 Girnhill 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. A live TR19 Grease certificate is what a Featherstone 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. A food hygiene visit from Wakefield 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 Girnhill Lane kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Post Office Road cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Girnhill Lane and Post Office Road kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Featherstone offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the West Yorkshire hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Yes. The fan at the top of an Ackton 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.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Girnhill Lane operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Featherstone run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Post Office Road cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Yes - from Girnhill Lane and Post Office Road kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Featherstone and the wider West Yorkshire.
Local knowledge
When the Wakefield, Pontefract and Goole railway reached Featherstone in 1848, it turned a farming township into a coal town, and the pits that followed lived or died on ventilation - great fans forcing air through miles of underground roadway to keep the workings safe. Modern premises move their air out of sight too, through sealed ductwork where grease and debris gather unseen until airflow fails or fire finds a path. We clean and inspect ventilation and extract ductwork across the town, from the units off Girnhill Lane to the kitchens along Station Lane. Every run is handed over with photographic before-and-after evidence.
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