Heywood · 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 Heywood, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Heywood
Heywood 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 Market Street to York Street and Heap Bridge, 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.
It is not only kitchens: we also clean the dry supply and extract ductwork in Heywood offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-packed laundry runs behind its hotel and care-home dryers. The busiest kitchens - takeaway and curry-house kitchens, pub and hotel kitchens and the warehouse staff canteens - coat their hidden ducting in grease quickest, and that is the very path a fire follows.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Heywood 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 Market Street and Heap Bridge, wiping the canopy and filters leaves the ductwork - the long concealed sections that gather grease and carry fire - untouched. We open the full Heywood 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 Heywood hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Heywood
We are in Heywood's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A popular takeaway in Heywood had thick, sticky grease running the full length of the kitchen extract from the cook line. We fitted access panels, scraped the run back and degreased through to bare metal. The ductwork was cleaned to bare metal and passed TR19, with a signed certificate. We set up a recurring three-monthly clean to keep on top of it.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Heywood kitchen these are the tells.
A canopy dripping onto a Market Street cookline, cooking smells forced back to the tables, extraction that no longer clears the steam, grease showing at the filter edges, or a Heywood insurer or fire risk assessor wanting a TR19 certificate you have not got. How often it needs doing follows how hard you cook - a fast-frying York Street kitchen far more than a daytime cafe - and the certificate names the interval, so the next visit is booked, not guessed.
How it runs
Inspect the full Heywood 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 Heap Bridge 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 Heywood fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Heywood 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 Heywood 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 Market 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. A live TR19 Grease certificate is what a Heywood insurer treats as evidence the system is maintained. Miss it and a fire claim may be reduced or refused - an expensive surprise once the damage is done.
Hygiene and environmental health. A food hygiene visit from Rochdale Metropolitan Borough 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 Market Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime York Street cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
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 Heap Bridge conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Heap Bridge 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.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Market Street operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Market Street and York Street kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
Yes - from Market Street and York Street kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Heywood and the wider Greater Manchester.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Heywood offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Greater Manchester hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Local knowledge
At Heap Bridge, the Bridge Hall Mills grew under the Wrigley family into one of the largest paper mills in the world, stretching half a mile along the banks of the River Roch, its air thick with fibre and dust. 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 Heywood, then hand over photographic before-and-after evidence of every run.
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