Fleetwood · 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 Fleetwood, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Fleetwood
Fleetwood 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 Lord Street to Poulton Street and North Albert Street, 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.
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 - seafront cafes, fish and chip shops, pub and hotel kitchens and the busy town-centre takeaways - lay grease down fast in exactly the concealed sections where a fire travels.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Fleetwood 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 Lord Street and North Albert Street, 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 Fleetwood 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 Fleetwood hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Fleetwood
We are in Fleetwood's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
Grey dust had blocked the ceiling grilles in the ground-floor washrooms of a well-known public toilet block in Fleetwood, leaving the air stagnant. We took the extract grilles down for a wash, cleared the ducting and serviced the roof extract fan. Extraction was restored across the washrooms and the damp, stale smell went with it, and the team were glad to have it sorted. The facilities manager kept us going with bacon rolls through the morning.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Fleetwood kitchen these are the tells.
The tells are plain: steam that lingers, odours drifting back over the diners, drips off the canopy onto a Lord Street line, a rim of grease at the filters, or a Fleetwood insurer or fire assessment wanting a TR19 certificate you cannot show. Frequency tracks the cooking load - a hard-frying Poulton Street kitchen needs it far more often than a quiet cafe - and your certificate sets the date, so nothing is left to chance.
How it runs
Inspect the full Fleetwood 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 North Albert Street 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 Fleetwood fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Fleetwood 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 Fleetwood 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 Lord 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 live TR19 Grease certificate is what a Fleetwood 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. When Wyre Council carries out a food hygiene inspection it judges the physical state of the premises, and ventilation is part of that. A grease-choked extract can pull down the rating an Environmental Health Officer gives, on top of the odour and the weakening airflow your staff put up with.
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 Lord Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Poulton Street cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Lord Street and Poulton Street 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 Lord Street operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Yes - from Lord Street and Poulton Street kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Fleetwood and the wider Lancashire.
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 Lord Street and North Albert Street where the runs are long and awkward.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Fleetwood offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Lancashire hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Fleetwood run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Poulton Street cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Local knowledge
James Lofthouse, a Fleetwood pharmacist, mixed liquorice, eucalyptus and menthol into a tincture for deep-sea fishermen in 1865, thickened it into a lozenge, and founded what became Lofthouse of Fleetwood - the firm that still makes billions of Fisherman's Friend lozenges in the town every year. Food and process plants like it move air through sealed ductwork, where grease, sugar dust 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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