Mexborough · 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 Mexborough, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Mexborough
Mexborough 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 Mexborough work out of tight, mixed premises - Adwick Road, Pastures Road, Denaby - 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.
Beyond the kitchens, we clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in hotels and care homes. High-output kitchens - hospital kitchens, school canteens, pub and restaurant kitchens and the busy town-centre takeaways - lay grease down fast in exactly the concealed sections where a fire travels.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Mexborough insurers and fire risk assessors expect - measured across the whole extract run, not just the visible mouth of the canopy.
The standard is written in film thickness: once grease reaches a set depth the run has to be cleaned and proven again. In the crowded roof voids off Adwick Road and Denaby, a wipe of the canopy and filters never reaches the ductwork behind them, where the grease that carries fire quietly gathers. We work the whole Mexborough run through hatches already in place and others we cut, bring it back to bright metal, note grease depths at fixed stations before and after, and certify to TR19 Grease with the closing figures logged.
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 Mexborough hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Mexborough
We are in Mexborough's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A season's worth of fine textile lint had built through the laundry exhaust run at a refurbished Mexborough care home, pushing drying times right up. I brushed and vacuumed the flexible dryer ducting end to end and checked the external wall flap was opening fully. The dryers ran hotter and quicker afterwards, the laundry room lost its damp, warm feel, and the site was left spotless. The office cat supervised the whole thing from the top of the stairs.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Mexborough kitchen these are the tells.
A canopy dripping onto an Adwick Road cookline, cooking smells forced back to the tables, extraction that no longer clears the steam, grease showing at the filter edges, or a Mexborough 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 Pastures Road 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 Mexborough 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 Denaby 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 Mexborough fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Mexborough 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 Mexborough 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 Adwick 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. A live TR19 Grease certificate is what a Mexborough 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. City of Doncaster 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 Adwick Road kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Pastures Road cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Mexborough run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Pastures Road cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Mexborough offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the South Yorkshire hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
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 Adwick Road and Denaby where the runs are long and awkward.
Yes - from Adwick Road and Pastures Road kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Mexborough and the wider South Yorkshire.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Adwick Road and Pastures Road kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Denaby 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.
Local knowledge
By the 1830s Mexborough was already a pottery town, and the Rock Pottery, the Don Valley Pottery, the Phoenix Glass Works and the New Don Glass Works of 1891 filled the low ground by the river with kiln smoke and furnace heat. 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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