Newcastle upon Tyne · 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 upon Tyne, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Newcastle upon Tyne
Newcastle upon Tyne rates over 2,600 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 Newcastle upon Tyne work out of tight, mixed premises - Stowell Street, Grey Street, Ouseburn - 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 Newcastle upon Tyne 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 RVI and the Freeman, St James' Park and the Utilita 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 Newcastle upon Tyne 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 Stowell Street and Ouseburn, 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 upon Tyne 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 upon Tyne hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Newcastle upon Tyne
We are in Newcastle upon Tyne's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A university lecture-hall building in Newcastle had fine construction dust and acoustic-insulation fibre settling in the supply air ducting after an auditorium refit. We closed off the supply diffusers, ran a high-volume HEPA vacuum collector and used soft-bristle rotary brushes to protect the inner duct coatings. It cleared the complaints of dry eyes and dusty surfaces in the main theatre - done on a night shift so no lectures or exams were touched.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Newcastle upon Tyne kitchen these are the tells.
A canopy dripping onto a Stowell Street cookline, cooking smells forced back to the tables, extraction that no longer clears the steam, grease showing at the filter edges, or a Newcastle upon Tyne 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 Grey 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 Newcastle upon Tyne 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 Ouseburn 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 upon Tyne fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Newcastle upon Tyne 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 upon Tyne 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 Stowell 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. To a Newcastle upon Tyne insurer a current TR19 Grease certificate is the proof the extract has been kept up. Let it lapse and a fire claim can be scaled back or declined outright - the kind of gap nobody wants to find with the kitchen already gutted.
Hygiene and environmental health. When Newcastle 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 Stowell Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Grey Street cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Stowell Street and Grey Street kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Newcastle upon Tyne offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Tyne and Wear hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Yes - from Stowell Street and Grey Street kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Newcastle upon Tyne and the wider Tyne and Wear.
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 Ouseburn conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Newcastle upon Tyne run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Grey Street cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Yes. The fan at the top of an Ouseburn 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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