Manchester · 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 Manchester, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Manchester
Manchester rates around 6,300 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 Manchester work out of tight, mixed premises - Rusholme, Spinningfields, Northern Quarter - 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.
It is not only kitchens: we also clean the dry supply and extract ductwork in Manchester offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-packed laundry runs behind its hotel and care-home dryers. The busiest kitchens - the two universities, the Royal Infirmary, the Etihad and AO Arena and the city hotels - coat their hidden ducting in grease quickest, and that is the very path a fire follows.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Manchester 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 Rusholme and Northern Quarter, 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 Manchester 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 Manchester hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Manchester
We are in Manchester's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A twelve-storey apartment block in Manchester had us in for its refuse chute - years of organic waste had built up down the full height of it and the bin room stank. We ran a rotating high-pressure wash head from the roof down, treated it with a heavy-duty disinfectant and deodoriser, and coordinated with the building concierge to lock off the chute hatches on every floor while we worked. It came back clear to the lining and the smell was gone.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Manchester kitchen these are the tells.
Smells pushing back into the dining room, a canopy that drips onto a Rusholme cookline, extraction that no longer clears the steam, visible grease at the filter edges, or a Manchester insurer or fire risk assessment asking for a TR19 certificate you cannot produce. Cleaning frequency tracks use - a hard-frying Spinningfields 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 Manchester 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 Northern Quarter 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 Manchester fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Manchester 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 Manchester 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 Rusholme 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 Manchester 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. When Manchester 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 Rusholme kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Spinningfields cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes - from Rusholme and Spinningfields kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Manchester and the wider Greater Manchester.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Manchester offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Greater Manchester hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Rusholme operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
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 Northern Quarter conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
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 Rusholme and Northern Quarter where the runs are long and awkward.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Northern Quarter 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.
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