Harrogate · 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 Harrogate, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Harrogate
Harrogate rates thousands 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 Montpellier Quarter to Parliament Street and Victoria Centre, 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.
Kitchens are only half the work - we also strip the dry supply and extract ductwork of Harrogate schools, offices and civic buildings, and the lint-choked dryer runs behind its hotels and care homes. It is the hardest-pressed kitchens - Harrogate College, Harrogate District Hospital, the Harrogate Convention Centre and the spa hotels - that glaze their hidden ducting quickest, and that coating is the road a fire takes.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Harrogate 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 Montpellier Quarter and Victoria Centre, a canopy-and-filter wipe leaves the duct interior - where grease piles up and a fire runs - completely alone. We reach the whole Harrogate 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 Harrogate hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Harrogate
We are in Harrogate's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A spa hotel kitchen in Harrogate had heavy caramelised oil and fat built up behind the multi-burner ranges, a live fire hazard. We worked a high-strength foaming degreaser through to dissolve the heavy oil and hand-scraped the whole run back to bare metal, certifying it to the TR19 standard for the insurance. It was worked overnight to keep the impact off the hotel guests.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Harrogate kitchen these are the tells.
Smells pushing back into the dining room, a canopy that drips onto a Montpellier Quarter cookline, extraction that no longer clears the steam, visible grease at the filter edges, or a Harrogate insurer or fire risk assessment asking for a TR19 certificate you cannot produce. Cleaning frequency tracks use - a hard-frying Parliament 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 Harrogate 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 Victoria Centre 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 Harrogate fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Harrogate 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 Harrogate 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 Montpellier Quarter 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 Harrogate 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. When North Yorkshire Council carries out a food hygiene inspection it judges the physical state of the premises, and ventilation is part of that. A grease-choked extract can pull down the rating an Environmental Health Officer gives, on top of the odour and the weakening airflow your staff put up with.
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 Montpellier Quarter kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Parliament Street cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes - from Montpellier Quarter and Parliament Street kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Harrogate and the wider North Yorkshire.
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 Montpellier Quarter and Victoria Centre 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 Victoria Centre conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Montpellier Quarter and Parliament Street kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Victoria Centre 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 Harrogate offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the North Yorkshire hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
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