Pontefract · 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 Pontefract, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Pontefract
Pontefract 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.
Kitchens across Pontefract work out of tight, mixed premises - Market Place, Beastfair, Monkhill - 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.
It is not only kitchens: we also clean the dry supply and extract ductwork in Pontefract offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-packed laundry runs behind its hotel and care-home dryers. The busiest kitchens - hospital kitchens, college refectories, pub and hotel kitchens and the busy town-centre takeaways - coat their hidden ducting in grease quickest, and that is the very path a fire follows.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Pontefract 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 Market Place and Monkhill, 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 Pontefract 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 Pontefract hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Pontefract
We are in Pontefract's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A town-centre takeaway in Pontefract had its extract run lined with grease and carbon, which was choking the pull over the hot plates. We scraped and degreased the run back to bare metal and cleaned the canopy while we were in there. The whole thing was brought up to a TR19 standard, backed by a report and photos for their file. We handed the chef a short photo report for their audit file on the way out.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Pontefract kitchen these are the tells.
Watch for steam that hangs in the room, cooking smells creeping back over the tables, a canopy weeping onto a Market Place line, grease crusting at the filter rims, or a Pontefract insurer or fire assessor calling for a TR19 certificate you do not hold. How often it needs doing rides on the cooking load - a hard-frying Beastfair kitchen far more than a quiet daytime cafe - and the certificate fixes that interval, so the next clean is planned, not chanced.
How it runs
Inspect the full Pontefract 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 Monkhill 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 Pontefract fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Pontefract 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 Pontefract 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 Market Place 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 Pontefract 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 City of Wakefield Metropolitan District 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 Market Place kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Beastfair cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Monkhill 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.
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 Market Place and Monkhill where the runs are long and awkward.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Pontefract offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the West Yorkshire hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Market Place operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Yes - from Market Place and Beastfair kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Pontefract and the wider West Yorkshire.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Market Place and Beastfair kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
Local knowledge
By 1900 Pontefract had at least a dozen liquorice factories employing around 9,000 workers, most of them women, and the last local liquorice harvest was not gathered until 1966. The air of those works hung thick with sugar and starch dust as the 'cakers' stamped Pontefract cakes by hand at up to 30,000 a day. Modern premises hide their dust and grease inside sealed ductwork instead, where it builds unseen until airflow fails or fire finds a path. 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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