Normanton · 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 Normanton, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Normanton
Normanton 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.
From Altofts to Woodhouse and Snydale, 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.
Kitchens are only half the work - we also strip the dry supply and extract ductwork of Normanton schools, offices and civic buildings, and the lint-choked dryer runs behind its hotels and care homes. It is the hardest-pressed kitchens - warehouse and distribution-centre canteens, pub and takeaway kitchens, school and care-home kitchens and the busy town-centre cafes - that glaze their hidden ducting quickest, and that coating is the road a fire takes.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Normanton 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 Altofts and Snydale, 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 Normanton 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 Normanton hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Normanton
We are in Normanton's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
Airflow through the public washrooms at a Normanton toilet block had dropped right off, the intake grilles thick with dust and lint. Working a single overnight shift, I cleared the grilles, ran brushes through the flexible branches and cleaned the blades on the roof extract fan. The airflow came back up to standard, the ground-floor washrooms felt fresh again, and everything was back to normal by opening. A tidy result with no daytime disruption.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Normanton kitchen these are the tells.
Watch for steam that hangs in the room, cooking smells creeping back over the tables, a canopy weeping onto an Altofts line, grease crusting at the filter rims, or a Normanton insurer or fire assessor calling for a TR19 certificate you do not hold. How often it needs doing rides on the cooking load - a hard-frying Woodhouse kitchen far more than a quiet daytime cafe - and the certificate fixes that interval, so the next clean is planned, not chanced.
How it runs
Inspect the full Normanton 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 Snydale 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 Normanton fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Normanton 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 Normanton 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 Altofts 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 Normanton 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 Wakefield 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 Altofts kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Woodhouse 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 Snydale 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 an Altofts operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Altofts and Woodhouse 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 Normanton run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Woodhouse cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Normanton offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the West Yorkshire hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Yes - from Altofts and Woodhouse kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Normanton and the wider West Yorkshire.
Local knowledge
William Locke of Newland Hall sank St John's Colliery at Normanton in 1870, and at their peak the pits around the town employed over ten thousand men, filling the air above the shafts with coal dust until the seams were worked out by the mid-1970s. 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 Normanton, from the older districts of Woodhouse and Altofts to the newest sheds. Every job ends with photographic before-and-after evidence of each run.
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