Penrith · 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 Penrith, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Penrith
Penrith rates dozens 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 Middlegate to Devonshire Street and Burrowgate, 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 Penrith schools, offices and civic buildings, and the lint-choked dryer runs behind its hotels and care homes. It is the hardest-pressed kitchens - the fast-food counters, pub carveries and hotel kitchens that feed Lake District visitors - that glaze their hidden ducting quickest, and that coating is the road a fire takes.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Penrith 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 Middlegate and Burrowgate, 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 Penrith 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 Penrith hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Penrith
We are in Penrith's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A holiday park in Penrith had fabric fluff built up through the flexible dryer ducting of its laundry block, narrowing the bore and raising a clear fire risk. We brushed and vacuumed the exhaust run end to end and confirmed the external wall flap was opening fully, clearing the risk and leaving the utility room cooler and drier. The full run was checked for damage while we were in.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Penrith kitchen these are the tells.
The tells are plain: steam that lingers, odours drifting back over the diners, drips off the canopy onto a Middlegate line, a rim of grease at the filters, or a Penrith insurer or fire assessment wanting a TR19 certificate you cannot show. Frequency tracks the cooking load - a hard-frying Devonshire 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 Penrith 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 Burrowgate 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 Penrith fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Penrith 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 Penrith 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 Middlegate 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 Penrith 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. Food hygiene inspections by Westmorland and Furness 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 Middlegate kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Devonshire Street cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Penrith run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Devonshire Street cookline is back in service for the next shift.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Middlegate operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Burrowgate 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 Penrith offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Cumbria hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
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 Burrowgate conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Middlegate and Devonshire Street kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
Local knowledge
Beacon Hill north of the town carried a warning fire last lit in 1804 against the threat of Napoleon, one link in a chain that could raise the alarm across the north in minutes. Grease-laden ductwork spreads a hazard just as fast above a busy range. We strip canopy, riser and plenum back to bare metal, photograph every access hatch and certify each clean to the TR19 Grease standard that insurers now expect.
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