North Shields · 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 North Shields, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
North Shields
North Shields 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 - Fish Quay, Bedford Street, Royal Quays - 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.
It is not only kitchens: we also clean the dry supply and extract ductwork in North Shields offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-packed laundry runs behind its hotel and care-home dryers. The busiest kitchens - the local college, the North Tyneside General Hospital, the Fish Quay and the town hotels - coat their hidden ducting in grease quickest, and that is the very path a fire follows.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark North Shields insurers and fire risk assessors expect - measured across the whole extract run, not just the visible mouth of the canopy.
Grease is measured by thickness, and the standard sets the depth at which a system must be cleaned and re-tested. Around Fish Quay and Royal Quays, where the concealed runs thread through mixed roof voids, a canopy-and-filter wipe leaves the ductwork itself - the long hidden sections where grease accumulates and a fire travels - untouched. We access the full North Shields run through existing and newly fitted inspection hatches, clean to bare metal, record before-and-after grease-depth readings at set points, and issue a TR19 Grease certificate with a post-clean depth 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 North Shields hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in North Shields
We are in North Shields's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A Fish Quay seafood restaurant in North Shields had salt-laden river air combining with fryer grease into a heavy, corrosive film through the extract runs. We hand-scraped the accessible duct, ran a degreaser through the sealed lengths and treated the interior with a corrosion inhibitor, restoring the extraction and guarding the metal against the coastal tarnishing. It was worked before the quay opened so no trade was lost.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy North Shields kitchen these are the tells.
The tells are plain: steam that lingers, odours drifting back over the diners, drips off the canopy onto a Fish Quay line, a rim of grease at the filters, or a North Shields insurer or fire assessment wanting a TR19 certificate you cannot show. Frequency tracks the cooking load - a hard-frying Bedford 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 North Shields 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 Royal Quays 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 North Shields fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every North Shields 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 North Shields 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 Fish Quay 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 North Shields 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. Food hygiene inspections by North Tyneside 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 Fish Quay kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Bedford Street cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Fish Quay and Bedford Street kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Fish Quay operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Yes - from Fish Quay and Bedford Street kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across North Shields and the wider Tyne and Wear.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the North Shields run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Bedford Street cookline is back in service for the next shift.
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 Royal Quays conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
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 Fish Quay and Royal Quays where the runs are long and awkward.
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