Radcliffe · 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 Radcliffe, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Radcliffe
Radcliffe 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.
Right across Radcliffe, from Blackburn Street through Water Street to Coney Green, cooklines share tight roof space and vent through concealed ducting few operators ever see inside. We clean that entire path to the TR19 Grease standard, canopy through to fan, taking in the level pulls and the risers where grease settles thickest and a fire would run.
Kitchens are only half the work - we also strip the dry supply and extract ductwork of Radcliffe schools, offices and civic buildings, and the lint-choked dryer runs behind its hotels and care homes. It is the hardest-pressed kitchens - takeaways, chip shops, pub kitchens and the market-hall food stalls - that glaze their hidden ducting quickest, and that coating is the road a fire takes.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Radcliffe 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 Blackburn Street and Coney Green, a canopy-and-filter wipe leaves the duct interior - where grease piles up and a fire runs - completely alone. We reach the whole Radcliffe 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 Radcliffe hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Radcliffe
We are in Radcliffe's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
The much-loved community centre hall in Radcliffe had a heavy blanket of fine grey dust settled through the dry ventilation ducting feeding its rooms. We worked the fresh-air ducting with air whips under negative pressure and renewed the tired pocket filters. Supply air was brought back to a clean standard and the client rebooked us there and then, and we timed the whole job for half-term while the office was quiet.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Radcliffe kitchen these are the tells.
Smells pushing back into the dining room, a canopy that drips onto a Blackburn Street cookline, extraction that no longer clears the steam, visible grease at the filter edges, or a Radcliffe insurer or fire risk assessment asking for a TR19 certificate you cannot produce. Cleaning frequency tracks use - a hard-frying Water Street kitchen needs it far more often than a daytime cafe - and your certificate states the interval, so the next clean is never a guess.
How it runs
Inspect the full Radcliffe 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 Coney 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 Radcliffe fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Radcliffe 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 Radcliffe 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 Blackburn 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. To a Radcliffe 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. When Bury Metropolitan Borough Council carries out a food hygiene inspection it judges the physical state of the premises, and ventilation is part of that. A grease-choked extract can pull down the rating an Environmental Health Officer gives, on top of the odour and the weakening airflow your staff put up with.
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 Blackburn Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Water Street cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Blackburn Street operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
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 Coney Green conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Blackburn Street and Water Street kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
Yes - from Blackburn Street and Water Street kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Radcliffe and the wider Greater Manchester.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Radcliffe run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Water 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 Blackburn Street and Coney Green where the runs are long and awkward.
Local knowledge
Robert Peel built the town's first factory a few hundred yards above Radcliffe Bridge in 1780, harnessing a weir and goit on the Irwell to drive throstle spinning, and at its peak Radcliffe held some sixty textile mills, fifteen spinning mills and eighteen bleachworks. Mill air once hung thick with cotton lint; modern premises hide their dust 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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