Rawtenstall · 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 Rawtenstall, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Rawtenstall
Rawtenstall 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 Rawtenstall, from Cloughfold through Newchurch Road to Waterfoot, 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 Rawtenstall schools, offices and civic buildings, and the lint-choked dryer runs behind its hotels and care homes. It is the hardest-pressed kitchens - cafe and bistro kitchens, pub and hotel kitchens, care-home caterers and the busy valley takeaways - that glaze their hidden ducting quickest, and that coating is the road a fire takes.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Rawtenstall insurers and fire risk assessors expect - measured across the whole extract run, not just the visible mouth of the canopy.
The standard works in grease-film thickness, fixing the depth at which a run must be cleaned and re-tested. In the shared roof voids around Cloughfold and Waterfoot, wiping the canopy and filters leaves the ductwork - the long concealed sections that gather grease and carry fire - untouched. We open the full Rawtenstall run through existing and newly cut inspection hatches, strip it to bare metal, log grease-depth readings at fixed points before and after, and issue a TR19 Grease certificate with the post-clean depths recorded.
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 Rawtenstall hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Rawtenstall
We are in Rawtenstall's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
Thick, sticky grease ran the full length of the horizontal duct from the range at a town-centre nursery in Rawtenstall. We opened the run up, lifted the grease out by hand and pressure-degreased through to the fan. The run finished clean and fire-safe, with the paperwork emailed across that afternoon. The manager booked a standing annual visit on the spot.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Rawtenstall kitchen these are the tells.
Smells pushing back into the dining room, a canopy that drips onto a Cloughfold cookline, extraction that no longer clears the steam, visible grease at the filter edges, or a Rawtenstall insurer or fire risk assessment asking for a TR19 certificate you cannot produce. Cleaning frequency tracks use - a hard-frying Newchurch Road 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 Rawtenstall 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 Waterfoot 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 Rawtenstall fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Rawtenstall 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 Rawtenstall 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 Cloughfold 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 Rawtenstall 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 Rossendale Borough 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 Cloughfold kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Newchurch Road cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
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 Waterfoot conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Cloughfold and Newchurch Road kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
Yes - from Cloughfold and Newchurch Road kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Rawtenstall and the wider Lancashire.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Waterfoot 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.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Rawtenstall run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Newchurch Road 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 Cloughfold and Waterfoot where the runs are long and awkward.
Local knowledge
Hardman Brothers ran New Hall Hey Mills with nearly sixteen thousand cotton spindles and three hundred looms by 1891, part of the wave of mills that filled the Irwell valley with cotton lint and felt fibre. 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, from the New Hall Hey units to the converted mills at Hardmans and Ilex, then hand over photographic before-and-after evidence of every run.
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