Market Harborough · 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 Market Harborough, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Market Harborough
Market Harborough 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 Market Harborough, from Adam and Eve Street through St Mary's Road to Union Wharf, 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 - pub and hotel kitchens, canalside restaurants, school and care-home kitchens and the busy town-centre takeaways - build grease fastest in the concealed lengths where flame spreads.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Market Harborough 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 Adam and Eve Street and Union Wharf, 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 Market Harborough 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 Market Harborough hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Market Harborough
We are in Market Harborough's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A long-established office suite in Market Harborough had let atmospheric dust settle in the branch ducts feeding the desks, and the air was turning stuffy as a result. Working zone by zone, we isolated each area, ran brushes through the internal ducting and washed down the fan coil unit. Airflow climbed back to spec and the runs were left visibly clean, with genuinely warm feedback from the staff afterwards. For their audit file we handed over paired images showing the state of the ducts either side of the clean along with a compliance certificate.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Market Harborough kitchen these are the tells.
Smells pushing back into the dining room, a canopy that drips onto an Adam and Eve Street cookline, extraction that no longer clears the steam, visible grease at the filter edges, or a Market Harborough insurer or fire risk assessment asking for a TR19 certificate you cannot produce. Cleaning frequency tracks use - a hard-frying St Mary's Road 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 Market Harborough 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 Union Wharf 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 Market Harborough fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Market Harborough 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 Market Harborough 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 an Adam and Eve 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 Market Harborough 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. Harborough District Council food hygiene inspections assess the physical condition of premises, ventilation included. A grease-clogged system can count against the rating an Environmental Health Officer awards, quite apart from the smell and the falling extract performance your staff have to work in.
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 Adam and Eve Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime St Mary's Road cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Market Harborough run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a St Mary's Road cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Yes - from Adam and Eve Street and St Mary's Road kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Market Harborough and the wider Leicestershire.
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 Adam and Eve Street and Union Wharf 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 Union Wharf conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Union Wharf 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.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Adam and Eve Street and St Mary's Road kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
Local knowledge
R and W H Symington built their new corset factory opposite Church Square in 1884, its floors once thick with the lint and fabric dust of ready-to-wear corsetry before the building became the Symington Building of council offices, library and museum in 2013. 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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