Ormskirk · 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 Ormskirk, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Ormskirk
Ormskirk 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 Aughton Street to Burscough Street and Wigan Road, 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.
Beyond the kitchens, we clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in hotels and care homes. High-output kitchens - university refectories, hospital kitchens, pub and market-cafe kitchens and the busy town-centre takeaways - lay grease down fast in exactly the concealed sections where a fire travels.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Ormskirk insurers and fire risk assessors expect - measured across the whole extract run, not just the visible mouth of the canopy.
The standard works in grease-film thickness, fixing the depth at which a run must be cleaned and re-tested. In the shared roof voids around Aughton Street and Wigan Road, wiping the canopy and filters leaves the ductwork - the long concealed sections that gather grease and carry fire - untouched. We open the full Ormskirk run through existing and newly cut inspection hatches, strip it to bare metal, log grease-depth readings at fixed points before and after, and issue a TR19 Grease certificate with the post-clean depths recorded.
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 Ormskirk hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Ormskirk
We are in Ormskirk's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
The air handling unit and supply ducting at a local Ormskirk veterinary practice were laden with fine grey dust after years without a clean. We isolated the zones, brushed out the internal ductwork and washed down the ceiling diffusers. Air through the building felt noticeably fresher and the dust complaints stopped, all with no disruption to the working day. We fitted the visit around morning appointments so the patients weren't disturbed.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Ormskirk kitchen these are the tells.
A canopy dripping onto an Aughton Street cookline, cooking smells forced back to the tables, extraction that no longer clears the steam, grease showing at the filter edges, or an Ormskirk 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 Burscough 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 Ormskirk 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 Wigan Road 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 Ormskirk fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Ormskirk 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 Ormskirk 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 Aughton 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. A current TR19 Grease certificate is the evidence your Ormskirk insurer expects. Without it, a fire claim can be reduced or refused outright - an expensive gap to find after the event.
Hygiene and environmental health. West Lancashire Borough Council food hygiene inspections assess the physical condition of premises, ventilation included. A grease-clogged system can count against the rating an Environmental Health Officer awards, quite apart from the smell and the falling extract performance your staff have to work in.
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 Aughton Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Burscough Street 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 Wigan Road conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Aughton Street and Burscough Street kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
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 Aughton Street and Wigan Road where the runs are long and awkward.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Ormskirk run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Burscough Street cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Wigan Road 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.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Ormskirk offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Lancashire hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Local knowledge
Ormskirk became a railway junction in 1849, where the line up from Liverpool met the route to Preston and gave the market town its goods yards, warehouses and trade sheds. Those Victorian buildings and their modern successors on Old Boundary Way and the Burscough estates hide their dust and grease inside sealed ductwork, where debris builds unseen until airflow fails or fire finds a path. Left uninspected, a single blocked run can carry flame from one unit to the next. We clean and inspect ventilation and extract ductwork across the town, then hand over photographic before-and-after evidence of every run.
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