Prudhoe · 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 Prudhoe, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Prudhoe
Prudhoe 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 - Castle Road, Highfield Lane, Mickley - 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.
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 - works canteens, pub and hotel kitchens, care-home kitchens and the busy Front Street takeaways - lay grease down fast in exactly the concealed sections where a fire travels.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Prudhoe 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 Castle Road and Mickley, 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 Prudhoe 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 Prudhoe hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Prudhoe
We are in Prudhoe's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
The horizontal duct run at a well-known Prudhoe cafe was lined with grease and carbon, cutting the pull over the griddle. I fitted access panels, scraped the ductwork clean and degreased through to bare metal. The run was left to a TR19 standard along its length, with photos and paperwork for the records. The head chef booked a regular six-monthly visit on the spot.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Prudhoe kitchen these are the tells.
The tells are plain: steam that lingers, odours drifting back over the diners, drips off the canopy onto a Castle Road line, a rim of grease at the filters, or a Prudhoe insurer or fire assessment wanting a TR19 certificate you cannot show. Frequency tracks the cooking load - a hard-frying Highfield Lane 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 Prudhoe 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 Mickley 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 Prudhoe fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Prudhoe 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 Prudhoe 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 Castle Road 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 Prudhoe 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 Northumberland County 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 Castle Road kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Highfield Lane cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes - from Castle Road and Highfield Lane kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Prudhoe and the wider Northumberland.
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 Mickley conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Castle Road and Highfield Lane kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Castle Road operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Prudhoe run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Highfield Lane cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Prudhoe offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Northumberland hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Local knowledge
After ICI closed its wartime fertiliser works at Low Prudhoe, Kimberly-Clark opened a tissue mill on the site in 1969, and its machines became the fastest of their kind in the world, spinning out paper at a mile a minute before the plant passed to SCA and then Essity as its largest UK site. A mill on that scale hides miles of ductwork, where fibre dust, 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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