Jarrow · 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 Jarrow, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Jarrow
Jarrow 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.
Right across Jarrow, from Grange Road through Ellison Street to Bede, cooklines share tight roof space and vent through concealed ducting few operators ever see inside. We clean that entire path to the TR19 Grease standard, canopy through to fan, taking in the level pulls and the risers where grease settles thickest and a fire would run.
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 - college refectories, care-home kitchens, pub and hotel kitchens and the busy town-centre takeaways - build grease fastest in the concealed lengths where flame spreads.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Jarrow 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 Grange Road and Bede, 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 Jarrow 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 Jarrow hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Jarrow
We are in Jarrow's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A season's worth of matted fluff had packed the flexible dryer ducting at a refurbished holiday-park laundry block in Jarrow, tripping the dryers' overheat cut-outs. We brushed and vacuumed the vent line end to end and confirmed the outside flap was opening fully. Drying times dropped noticeably, the fire risk was gone and the site was left spotless. We squeezed the job into a quiet Sunday to suit the owner.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Jarrow kitchen these are the tells.
Smells pushing back into the dining room, a canopy that drips onto a Grange Road cookline, extraction that no longer clears the steam, visible grease at the filter edges, or a Jarrow insurer or fire risk assessment asking for a TR19 certificate you cannot produce. Cleaning frequency tracks use - a hard-frying Ellison 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 Jarrow 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 Bede 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 Jarrow fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Jarrow 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 Jarrow 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 Grange Road 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 Jarrow 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 South Tyneside 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 Grange Road kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Ellison Street cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
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 Grange Road and Bede 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 Bede conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Grange Road operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Yes - from Grange Road and Ellison Street kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Jarrow and the wider Tyne and Wear.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Jarrow offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Tyne and Wear hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Jarrow run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so an Ellison Street cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Local knowledge
Palmers was not only a shipyard but an integrated ironworks, with its own blast furnaces, rolling mills and foundries lining the Jarrow riverside, and their air hung thick with smoke and iron 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 the town, then hand over photographic before-and-after evidence of every run.
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