Halifax · 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 Halifax, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Halifax
Halifax rates around 1,900 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 Halifax work out of tight, mixed premises - Southgate, Old Cock Yard, Piece Hall - 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 Halifax offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-packed laundry runs behind its hotel and care-home dryers. The busiest kitchens - Calderdale College, Calderdale Royal Hospital, the Shay Stadium and the town hotels - coat their hidden ducting in grease quickest, and that is the very path a fire follows.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Halifax 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 Southgate and Piece Hall, 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 Halifax 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 Halifax hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Halifax
We are in Halifax's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A secondary school in Halifax had severe dust, lint and paper-towel fibre blocking the central extract fan housing and the vertical riser off the toilets. We ran negative-air machines with air whips to knock the compacted dust loose out of the rectangular runs, restoring the building-regulation air-change rates across the washrooms. We also found a branch volume-control damper that had vibrated shut and reset and locked it.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Halifax kitchen these are the tells.
Smells pushing back into the dining room, a canopy that drips onto a Southgate cookline, extraction that no longer clears the steam, visible grease at the filter edges, or a Halifax insurer or fire risk assessment asking for a TR19 certificate you cannot produce. Cleaning frequency tracks use - a hard-frying Old Cock Yard 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 Halifax 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 Piece Hall 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 Halifax fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Halifax 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 Halifax 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 Southgate 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 Halifax 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 Calderdale 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 Southgate kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Old Cock Yard 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 Southgate operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Halifax run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so an Old Cock Yard cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Halifax offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the West Yorkshire hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
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 Southgate and Piece Hall where the runs are long and awkward.
Yes - from Southgate and Old Cock Yard kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Halifax and the wider West Yorkshire.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Southgate and Old Cock Yard kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
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