Newcastle-under-Lyme · 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 Newcastle-under-Lyme, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Newcastle-under-Lyme
Newcastle-under-Lyme rates around 900 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.
From Ironmarket to High Street and Roebuck, the town's cooklines vent through long hidden ducting that climbs to a roof fan. We clean it end to end to the TR19 Grease standard - not just the canopy, but the flat and rising sections where grease really collects.
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 - Keele University, the Newcastle and Stafford Colleges Group, the New Vic Theatre and the town hotels - build grease fastest in the concealed lengths where flame spreads.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Newcastle-under-Lyme 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 Ironmarket and Roebuck, 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 Newcastle-under-Lyme 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 Newcastle-under-Lyme hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Newcastle-under-Lyme
We are in Newcastle-under-Lyme's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A technical college training kitchen in Newcastle-under-Lyme had a thick layer of sticky grease and carbonised fat through the cooking canopy and the short vertical roof stack. We fitted two new fire-rated access panels, hand-scraped the heavy grease off and treated the system with an enzyme degreaser, certifying it to TR19 for a safe training environment. It was done over the summer shutdown with the kitchens inactive.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Newcastle-under-Lyme kitchen these are the tells.
The tells are plain: steam that lingers, odours drifting back over the diners, drips off the canopy onto an Ironmarket line, a rim of grease at the filters, or a Newcastle-under-Lyme insurer or fire assessment wanting a TR19 certificate you cannot show. Frequency tracks the cooking load - a hard-frying High Street kitchen needs it far more often than a quiet cafe - and your certificate sets the date, so nothing is left to chance.
How it runs
Inspect the full Newcastle-under-Lyme 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 Roebuck 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 Newcastle-under-Lyme fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Newcastle-under-Lyme 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 Newcastle-under-Lyme 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 Ironmarket 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 current TR19 Grease certificate is the evidence your Newcastle-under-Lyme insurer expects. Without it, a fire claim can be reduced or refused outright - an expensive gap to find after the event.
Hygiene and environmental health. Food hygiene inspections by Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council take in the condition of the building, ventilation included, so a grease-laden system can cost you on the rating an Environmental Health Officer awards - never mind the smell and the dropping extraction your kitchen team works under.
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 Ironmarket kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime High Street cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence an Ironmarket operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Roebuck 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 Ironmarket and Roebuck where the runs are long and awkward.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Newcastle-under-Lyme run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a High Street cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Ironmarket and High Street kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
Yes - from Ironmarket and High Street kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Newcastle-under-Lyme and the wider Staffordshire.
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