Newark-on-Trent · 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 Newark-on-Trent, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Newark-on-Trent
Newark-on-Trent 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.
The city's kitchens sit in tight, mixed stock - Market Place, Stodman Street, Carter Gate - with long concealed duct runs up to roof fans. We clean the full run to the TR19 Grease standard, canopy to fan, including the horizontal and vertical sections a canopy-only clean leaves coated.
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 - Newark College, Newark Hospital, the Market Place and the town hotels - build grease fastest in the concealed lengths where flame spreads.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Newark-on-Trent insurers and fire risk assessors expect - measured across the whole extract run, not just the visible mouth of the canopy.
Because the standard is written around film thickness, it sets the depth that triggers a clean and re-test. In the mixed roof spaces around Market Place and Carter Gate, a canopy-and-filter wipe leaves the duct interior - where grease piles up and a fire runs - completely alone. We reach the whole Newark-on-Trent run through existing hatches and new ones we cut, clean back to bright metal, take before-and-after grease-depth figures at set points, and certify it to TR19 Grease with those depths on the 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 Newark-on-Trent hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Newark-on-Trent
We are in Newark-on-Trent's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A Stodman Street restaurant in Newark had a heavy grease film through the horizontal extract and up the riser above a busy cook line. We fitted new access panels, hand-scraped the accessible lengths and ran an enzyme degreaser through the sealed sections, returning the ductwork to clean metal for the fire and insurance standard. It was worked overnight so the market-town trade lost no covers.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Newark-on-Trent kitchen these are the tells.
A canopy dripping onto a Market Place cookline, cooking smells forced back to the tables, extraction that no longer clears the steam, grease showing at the filter edges, or a Newark-on-Trent 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 Stodman Street 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 Newark-on-Trent 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 Carter Gate 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 Newark-on-Trent fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Newark-on-Trent 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 Newark-on-Trent 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 Market Place 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 Newark-on-Trent 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. A food hygiene visit from Newark and Sherwood District 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 Market Place kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Stodman Street cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
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 Carter Gate 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 Market Place operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Market Place and Stodman Street kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Newark-on-Trent run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Stodman Street cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Carter Gate 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.
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 Market Place and Carter Gate where the runs are long and awkward.
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