Gateshead · 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 Gateshead, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Gateshead
Gateshead rates around 1,650 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 - Jackson Street, High Street, MetroCentre - 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 - Gateshead College, the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead International Stadium and the MetroCentre - build grease fastest in the concealed lengths where flame spreads.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Gateshead 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 Jackson Street and MetroCentre, 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 Gateshead 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 Gateshead hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Gateshead
We are in Gateshead's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A residential care home in Gateshead had fine fabric dust and skin-scale residue clogging the low-pressure extract vents across the communal wings, leaving the air stagnant. We took the intake grilles off for a sanitise and ran soft-bristle continuous rods through the branch lines to a HEPA vacuum, bringing the extraction back to the regulatory rate. Every tool was sanitised with isopropyl wipes before and after entering the home.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Gateshead kitchen these are the tells.
Watch for steam that hangs in the room, cooking smells creeping back over the tables, a canopy weeping onto a Jackson Street line, grease crusting at the filter rims, or a Gateshead insurer or fire assessor calling for a TR19 certificate you do not hold. How often it needs doing rides on the cooking load - a hard-frying High Street kitchen far more than a quiet daytime cafe - and the certificate fixes that interval, so the next clean is planned, not chanced.
How it runs
Inspect the full Gateshead 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 MetroCentre 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 Gateshead fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Gateshead 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 Gateshead 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 Jackson 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 current TR19 Grease certificate is the evidence your Gateshead 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 Gateshead 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 Jackson Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime High Street cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes. The fan at the top of a MetroCentre 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 clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Gateshead offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Tyne and Wear hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Gateshead run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a High Street cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Yes - from Jackson Street and High Street kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Gateshead and the wider Tyne and Wear.
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 Jackson Street and MetroCentre 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 Jackson Street operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
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