Horsforth · 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 Horsforth, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Horsforth
Horsforth 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.
Kitchens across Horsforth work out of tight, mixed premises - Town Street, Fink Hill, Newlaithes - 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.
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 - gastropub and bistro kitchens, university refectories, curry houses and the busy Town Street cafes and takeaways - build grease fastest in the concealed lengths where flame spreads.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Horsforth 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 Town Street and Newlaithes, wiping the canopy and filters leaves the ductwork - the long concealed sections that gather grease and carry fire - untouched. We open the full Horsforth 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 Horsforth hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Horsforth
We are in Horsforth's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
The waste chute in a traditional Horsforth apartment block had taken years of spilled bin liquids, and the stairwell had become genuinely unpleasant to use. I power-washed the refuse chute from top to bottom, cleared each of the hopper doors and finished with an antibacterial treatment. The chute came out clean and sanitised, the smell in the refuse room lifted, and none of it disturbed the working day. Before leaving I pointed out a worn part to the caretaker for their maintenance records.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Horsforth 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 Town Street line, grease crusting at the filter rims, or a Horsforth 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 Fink Hill 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 Horsforth 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 Newlaithes 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 Horsforth fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Horsforth 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 Horsforth 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 Town 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 Horsforth 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. When Leeds City 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 Town Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Fink Hill cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Newlaithes 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.
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 Newlaithes conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Horsforth offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the West Yorkshire hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Town Street and Fink Hill kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
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 Town Street and Newlaithes where the runs are long and awkward.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Town Street operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Local knowledge
Horsforth built its wealth in stone, cutting high-quality sandstone from Golden Bank, Woodside and Cragg Hill quarries and sending it as far as Egypt and the Scarborough seafront, its yards thick with grit and rock dust. Modern premises hide their dust and grease inside sealed ductwork instead, where it builds 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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