Poulton-le-Fylde · 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 Poulton-le-Fylde, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Poulton-le-Fylde
Poulton-le-Fylde 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.
The city's kitchens sit in tight, mixed stock - Ball Street, Tithebarn Street, Higher Green - with long concealed duct runs up to roof fans. We clean the full run to the TR19 Grease standard, canopy to fan, including the horizontal and vertical sections a canopy-only clean leaves coated.
Kitchens are only half the work - we also strip the dry supply and extract ductwork of Poulton-le-Fylde schools, offices and civic buildings, and the lint-choked dryer runs behind its hotels and care homes. It is the hardest-pressed kitchens - pub and restaurant kitchens, care-home caterers, cafes and the busy town-centre takeaways - that glaze their hidden ducting quickest, and that coating is the road a fire takes.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Poulton-le-Fylde 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 Ball Street and Higher Green, a canopy-and-filter wipe leaves the duct interior - where grease piles up and a fire runs - completely alone. We reach the whole Poulton-le-Fylde 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 Poulton-le-Fylde hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Poulton-le-Fylde
We are in Poulton-le-Fylde's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
Dryer fluff had narrowed the tumble-dryer exhaust to a fraction of its bore at a family-run Poulton-le-Fylde care home, leaving the room warm and humid. We ran brushes and a HEPA vacuum through the flexible ducting and confirmed a clean discharge at the outside louvre. Airflow through the line was restored and the louvre sat fully open again, and the feedback afterwards was excellent. We flagged a worn part to the housekeeper to note in their maintenance records.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Poulton-le-Fylde kitchen these are the tells.
A canopy dripping onto a Ball Street cookline, cooking smells forced back to the tables, extraction that no longer clears the steam, grease showing at the filter edges, or a Poulton-le-Fylde 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 Tithebarn 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 Poulton-le-Fylde 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 Higher Green 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 Poulton-le-Fylde fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Poulton-le-Fylde 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 Poulton-le-Fylde 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 Ball 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 Poulton-le-Fylde 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. Wyre 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 Ball Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Tithebarn Street cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes - from Ball Street and Tithebarn Street kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Poulton-le-Fylde and the wider Lancashire.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Higher Green 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.
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 Higher Green conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Ball Street and Tithebarn Street kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Poulton-le-Fylde run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Tithebarn Street cookline is back in service for the next shift.
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 Ball Street and Higher Green where the runs are long and awkward.
Local knowledge
When Poulton was the metropolis of the Fylde its market drew corn, fish and cattle from across the plain, and cattle were still landed at Fleetwood and driven to a fortnightly market here well into the nineteenth century. Modern premises hide their working air inside sealed ductwork instead, where grease and debris build 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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