Fulwood · 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 Fulwood, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Fulwood
Fulwood 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 Watling Street Road to Black Bull Lane and Sharoe Green, 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.
Kitchens are only half the work - we also strip the dry supply and extract ductwork of Fulwood schools, offices and civic buildings, and the lint-choked dryer runs behind its hotels and care homes. It is the hardest-pressed kitchens - hospital kitchens, barracks cookhouses, pub and hotel kitchens and the busy suburban takeaways - that glaze their hidden ducting quickest, and that coating is the road a fire takes.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Fulwood insurers and fire risk assessors expect - measured across the whole extract run, not just the visible mouth of the canopy.
The standard works in grease-film thickness, fixing the depth at which a run must be cleaned and re-tested. In the shared roof voids around Watling Street Road and Sharoe Green, wiping the canopy and filters leaves the ductwork - the long concealed sections that gather grease and carry fire - untouched. We open the full Fulwood run through existing and newly cut inspection hatches, strip it to bare metal, log grease-depth readings at fixed points before and after, and issue a TR19 Grease certificate with the post-clean depths recorded.
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 Fulwood hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Fulwood
We are in Fulwood's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
Building dust had gathered in the branch ducts feeding the occupied areas of a Fulwood community centre, leaving a dusty smell whenever the system ran. We power-brushed the main supply runs under HEPA negative pressure and cleared the ceiling diffusers. Indoor air quality lifted right across the building, and the client was really pleased with the result. The receptionist booked a regular quarterly visit on the spot.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Fulwood kitchen these are the tells.
A canopy dripping onto a Watling Street Road cookline, cooking smells forced back to the tables, extraction that no longer clears the steam, grease showing at the filter edges, or a Fulwood 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 Black Bull Lane 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 Fulwood 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 Sharoe Green 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 Fulwood fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Fulwood 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 Fulwood 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 Watling Street 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. A current TR19 Grease certificate is the evidence your Fulwood 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 Preston City 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 Watling Street Road kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Black Bull Lane 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 Sharoe Green conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Fulwood run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Black Bull Lane cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Fulwood offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Lancashire hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Yes - from Watling Street Road and Black Bull Lane kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Fulwood 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 Watling Street Road and Sharoe Green where the runs are long and awkward.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Watling Street Road operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Local knowledge
John Horrocks opened Preston's first successful cotton mill in 1792, and within a generation the town's spinning trade had made it one of Lancashire's great cotton centres - it was to the new villas of Fulwood that many of the mill owners and managers moved as their fortunes grew. Those mills ran on air thick with cotton lint; 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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