Glossop · 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 Glossop, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Glossop
Glossop 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 Glossop work out of tight, mixed premises - High Street West, High Street East, Old Glossop - 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.
It is not only kitchens: we also clean the dry supply and extract ductwork in Glossop offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-packed laundry runs behind its hotel and care-home dryers. The busiest kitchens - pub and restaurant kitchens, school and care-home caterers and the busy town-centre takeaways - coat their hidden ducting in grease quickest, and that is the very path a fire follows.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Glossop insurers and fire risk assessors expect - measured across the whole extract run, not just the visible mouth of the canopy.
Because the standard is written around film thickness, it sets the depth that triggers a clean and re-test. In the mixed roof spaces around High Street West and Old Glossop, a canopy-and-filter wipe leaves the duct interior - where grease piles up and a fire runs - completely alone. We reach the whole Glossop run through existing hatches and new ones we cut, clean back to bright metal, take before-and-after grease-depth figures at set points, and certify it to TR19 Grease with those depths on the 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 Glossop hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Glossop
We are in Glossop's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A long-established health centre in Glossop had grey dust blocking the ceiling grilles in its ground-floor washrooms, leaving the air stagnant. We took down the intake grilles for a wash, cleared the ducting and serviced the fan impeller. Ventilation was restored and the staff toilets no longer held that damp, stale air, with the site left spotless. Parking was awkward on the one-way street, so we ran our hoses from the rear yard.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Glossop 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 High Street West line, grease crusting at the filter rims, or a Glossop 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 East 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 Glossop 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 Old Glossop 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 Glossop fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Glossop 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 Glossop 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 High Street West 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 Glossop 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. A food hygiene visit from High Peak Borough 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 High Street West kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime High Street East cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
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 High Street West and Old Glossop where the runs are long and awkward.
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 Old Glossop conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Glossop offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Derbyshire hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Yes - from High Street West and High Street East kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Glossop and the wider Derbyshire.
Yes. The fan at the top of an Old Glossop 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 High Street West operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Local knowledge
Wren Nest Mill rose on High Street West around 1815 for the Duke of Norfolk's agent Matthew Ellison, and at its height employed some 1,400 people working 123,000 spindles, its air thick with cotton lint until spinning stopped in 1955. Modern premises hide their dust inside sealed ductwork instead, where grease and debris build unseen until airflow fails or fire finds a path - a blaze gutted half the old mill in 1996. 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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