Hartlepool · 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 Hartlepool, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Hartlepool
Hartlepool rates around 780 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.
The city's kitchens sit in tight, mixed stock - Church Street, York Road, Middleton Grange - with long concealed duct runs up to roof fans. We clean the full run to the TR19 Grease standard, canopy to fan, including the horizontal and vertical sections a canopy-only clean leaves coated.
It is not only kitchens: we also clean the dry supply and extract ductwork in Hartlepool offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-packed laundry runs behind its hotel and care-home dryers. The busiest kitchens - Hartlepool College, the University Hospital of Hartlepool, Victoria Park and the Marina hotels - coat their hidden ducting in grease quickest, and that is the very path a fire follows.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Hartlepool 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 Church Street and Middleton Grange, wiping the canopy and filters leaves the ductwork - the long concealed sections that gather grease and carry fire - untouched. We open the full Hartlepool 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 Hartlepool hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Hartlepool
We are in Hartlepool's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
An eight-storey residential block in Hartlepool had decomposing organic waste, stagnant liquid and a strong foul smell lining the inner faces of its refuse chute. We lowered a high-pressure hot-water wash with a chemical spinning nozzle from the top down and treated it with an industrial deodoriser, leaving the chute clean and stopping the smell reaching the lobbies. We worked with the estate team to keep the hopper access doors locked during the wash.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Hartlepool 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 Church Street line, grease crusting at the filter rims, or a Hartlepool 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 York Road 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 Hartlepool 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 Middleton Grange 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 Hartlepool fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Hartlepool 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 Hartlepool 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 Church Street 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 Hartlepool 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 Hartlepool Borough 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 Church Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime York Road cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Church Street and York Road kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Church Street operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Hartlepool offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the County Durham hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
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 Middleton Grange conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Middleton Grange 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.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Hartlepool run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a York Road cookline is back in service for the next shift.
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