Oldham · 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 Oldham, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Oldham
Oldham rates around 1,900 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.
Right across Oldham, from Yorkshire Street through Union Street to Failsworth, cooklines share tight roof space and vent through concealed ducting few operators ever see inside. We clean that entire path to the TR19 Grease standard, canopy through to fan, taking in the level pulls and the risers where grease settles thickest and a fire would run.
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 - Oldham College, the Royal Oldham Hospital, Boundary Park and the town hotels - build grease fastest in the concealed lengths where flame spreads.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Oldham 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 Yorkshire Street and Failsworth, 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 Oldham 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 Oldham hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Oldham
We are in Oldham's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A mid-rise residential block in Oldham had cardboard boxes and refuse bags jammed between floors in its waste chute, a full blockage breeding a foul smell. We cleared the obstruction with flexible breakdown poles and ran a full hot-water sanitising flush, getting the refuse moving to the ground-floor compactor and clearing the odour. We swapped a torn rubber draft curtain at the base to seal the bin-store smell out.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Oldham kitchen these are the tells.
A canopy dripping onto a Yorkshire Street cookline, cooking smells forced back to the tables, extraction that no longer clears the steam, grease showing at the filter edges, or an Oldham 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 Union 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 Oldham 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 Failsworth 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 Oldham fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Oldham 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 an Oldham 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 Yorkshire 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. Your Oldham 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. Food hygiene inspections by Oldham 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 Yorkshire Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Union Street cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Yorkshire Street and Union Street 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 Failsworth conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Oldham run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Union Street cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Yes - from Yorkshire Street and Union Street kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Oldham and the wider Greater Manchester.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Oldham offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Greater Manchester hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Failsworth 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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