Pudsey · 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 Pudsey, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Pudsey
Pudsey 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 Pudsey work out of tight, mixed premises - Church Lane, Robin Lane, Fulneck - 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.
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 - school and care-home kitchens, pub and restaurant 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 Pudsey 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 Church Lane and Fulneck, 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 Pudsey 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 Pudsey hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Pudsey
We are in Pudsey's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A much-loved bakery in Pudsey had its horizontal oven extract run lined with grease and carbon, choking the pull over the hot plates. We opened up the run, took the grease off by hand and pressure-degreased through to the fan. The run came up clean and met TR19, with before-and-after images and a certificate to match. We flagged a worn part to the landlord for their maintenance records.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Pudsey kitchen these are the tells.
A canopy dripping onto a Church Lane cookline, cooking smells forced back to the tables, extraction that no longer clears the steam, grease showing at the filter edges, or a Pudsey 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 Robin Lane 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 Pudsey 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 Fulneck 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 Pudsey fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Pudsey 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 Pudsey 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 Church Lane 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 Pudsey 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. A food hygiene visit from Leeds City Council weighs the physical state of the premises, ventilation counted within it. A grease-blocked extract can pull down the rating an Environmental Health Officer sets, quite apart from the stale smell and the tired airflow your staff work beneath all shift.
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 Church Lane kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Robin Lane cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes - from Church Lane and Robin Lane kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Pudsey and the wider West Yorkshire.
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 Church Lane and Fulneck where the runs are long and awkward.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Church Lane and Robin Lane kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Pudsey 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 Church Lane operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Fulneck 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.
Local knowledge
The wool trade made Pudsey; of the fifteen townships feeding the cloth markets of Leeds, Bradford and Halifax it was reckoned the biggest manufacturer, and mills around Owlcotes and Lowtown once filled the valley air with wool dust and lanolin fume. The chimneys are mostly gone now, but modern premises hide their dust inside sealed ductwork instead, where grease and debris gather 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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