Guisborough · 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 Guisborough, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Guisborough
Guisborough 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.
Right across Guisborough, from Westgate through Church Street to Fountain Street, cooklines share tight roof space and vent through concealed ducting few operators ever see inside. We clean that entire path to the TR19 Grease standard, canopy through to fan, taking in the level pulls and the risers where grease settles thickest and a fire would run.
It is not only kitchens: we also clean the dry supply and extract ductwork in Guisborough offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-packed laundry runs behind its hotel and care-home dryers. The busiest kitchens - fish shops, pub kitchens, takeaways and the M and S Foodhall cafe at Cleveland Gate - coat their hidden ducting in grease quickest, and that is the very path a fire follows.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Guisborough 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 Westgate and Fountain Street, a canopy-and-filter wipe leaves the duct interior - where grease piles up and a fire runs - completely alone. We reach the whole Guisborough 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 Guisborough hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Guisborough
We are in Guisborough's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A veterinary practice in Guisborough had fine grey dust built up in the branch ducts feeding its open-plan space, leaving poor air movement. We cleaned the air-supply ductwork with air whips under negative pressure and renewed the supply filters, lifting the indoor air quality across the main floor. We left before-and-after photos and a clean certificate for the maintenance log.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Guisborough kitchen these are the tells.
Smells pushing back into the dining room, a canopy that drips onto a Westgate cookline, extraction that no longer clears the steam, visible grease at the filter edges, or a Guisborough insurer or fire risk assessment asking for a TR19 certificate you cannot produce. Cleaning frequency tracks use - a hard-frying Church Street 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 Guisborough 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 Fountain 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 Guisborough fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Guisborough 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 Guisborough 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 Westgate 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 Guisborough 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. Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council food hygiene inspections assess the physical condition of premises, ventilation included. A grease-clogged system can count against the rating an Environmental Health Officer awards, quite apart from the smell and the falling extract performance your staff have to work in.
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 Westgate kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Church Street 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 Westgate and Fountain Street 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 Fountain Street conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Guisborough offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the North Yorkshire hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Westgate and Church Street kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Guisborough run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Church Street cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Fountain Street 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.
Local knowledge
Around 1600 Sir Thomas Chaloner opened England's first alum works on the hills above Guisborough, launching the mineral trade that grew into Teesside's chemical industry. Alum-making meant furnaces, fumes and years of settled deposit - the original dirty industry. Modern ductwork carries the same hazard on a smaller scale, as grease and dust build unseen inside the runs. We clean extraction ductwork end to end, from canopy to fan, and record before-and-after evidence to the TR19 Grease standard.
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