Nottingham · 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 Nottingham, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Nottingham
Nottingham rates around 3,000 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 Nottingham work out of tight, mixed premises - Hockley, Beeston, Lace Market - 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.
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 - the two universities, the Queen's Medical Centre and City Hospital, the Motorpoint Arena and the city hotels - build grease fastest in the concealed lengths where flame spreads.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Nottingham 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 Hockley and Lace Market, a canopy-and-filter wipe leaves the duct interior - where grease piles up and a fire runs - completely alone. We reach the whole Nottingham 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 Nottingham hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Nottingham
We are in Nottingham's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A town-centre launderette in Nottingham had its main collection manifold packed with wet, dense lint sludge - condensation was getting into the exhaust line and turning the lint to paste. We shovelled the damp lint out of the main chamber by hand, cleared the exhaust stack and checked the backpressure readings. It dropped back to safe levels, which takes years of wear off the tumble dryers - and we advised them to fit an inline condensation trap to stop it packing wet again.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Nottingham kitchen these are the tells.
The tells are plain: steam that lingers, odours drifting back over the diners, drips off the canopy onto a Hockley line, a rim of grease at the filters, or a Nottingham insurer or fire assessment wanting a TR19 certificate you cannot show. Frequency tracks the cooking load - a hard-frying Beeston 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 Nottingham 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 Lace Market 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 Nottingham fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Nottingham 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 Nottingham 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 Hockley 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 Nottingham 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. When Nottingham 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 Hockley kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Beeston cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Nottingham run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Beeston cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Hockley and Beeston kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
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 Lace Market conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Nottingham offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the East Midlands hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Yes - from Hockley and Beeston kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Nottingham and the wider East Midlands.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Lace Market 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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