Guiseley · 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 Guiseley, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Guiseley
Guiseley 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 Towngate to Netherfield Road and Hawksworth, 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.
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 - the fish-and-chip kitchens, takeaways, pub and cafe kitchens and school and care-home caterers - build grease fastest in the concealed lengths where flame spreads.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Guiseley 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 Towngate and Hawksworth, wiping the canopy and filters leaves the ductwork - the long concealed sections that gather grease and carry fire - untouched. We open the full Guiseley 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 Guiseley hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Guiseley
We are in Guiseley's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A thick mat of dryer fluff had packed into the laundry exhaust run of a busy care home in Guiseley, pushing the energy bills up. We brushed and vacuumed the flexible dryer ducting from end to end and made sure the external wall flap was opening fully. Drying times dropped noticeably and the fire risk was gone, with the site left spotless behind us. The manager booked a standing quarterly visit while we were there.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Guiseley kitchen these are the tells.
The tells are plain: steam that lingers, odours drifting back over the diners, drips off the canopy onto a Towngate line, a rim of grease at the filters, or a Guiseley insurer or fire assessment wanting a TR19 certificate you cannot show. Frequency tracks the cooking load - a hard-frying Netherfield Road 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 Guiseley 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 Hawksworth 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 Guiseley fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Guiseley 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 Guiseley 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 Towngate 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. Your Guiseley insurer expects a current TR19 Grease certificate as proof the duct is clean. Without one, a fire claim can be cut back or turned down altogether - a costly thing to find only after a fire.
Hygiene and environmental health. Food hygiene inspections by Leeds 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 Towngate kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Netherfield Road cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Towngate operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
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 Towngate and Hawksworth where the runs are long and awkward.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Towngate and Netherfield Road kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Guiseley offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the West Yorkshire hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Yes - from Towngate and Netherfield Road kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Guiseley and the wider West Yorkshire.
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 Hawksworth conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Local knowledge
Guiseley industrialised on wool, and by the 1860s mills lined the valley - Netherfield Mill went up in 1868, joining Springhead, Green Bottom and the older Guiseley Mill of 1791, their air thick with wool lint and dust. Abraham Moon and Sons still weaves at Netherfield Mills today, one of the last vertical woollen mills in England. 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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