Richmond · 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 Richmond, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Richmond
Richmond rates dozens 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 - Market Place, Frenchgate, Victoria Road - 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 Richmond schools, offices and civic buildings, and the lint-choked dryer runs behind its hotels and care homes. It is the hardest-pressed kitchens - high-volume pub kitchens, garrison messes and takeaway ranges - that glaze their hidden ducting quickest, and that coating is the road a fire takes.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Richmond insurers and fire risk assessors expect - measured across the whole extract run, not just the visible mouth of the canopy.
Grease is measured by thickness, and the standard sets the depth at which a system must be cleaned and re-tested. Around Market Place and Victoria Road, where the concealed runs thread through mixed roof voids, a canopy-and-filter wipe leaves the ductwork itself - the long hidden sections where grease accumulates and a fire travels - untouched. We access the full Richmond run through existing and newly fitted inspection hatches, clean to bare metal, record before-and-after grease-depth readings at set points, and issue a TR19 Grease certificate with a post-clean depth 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 Richmond hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Richmond
We are in Richmond's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A local nursery kitchen in Richmond had grease pooling at the low points of the grease extract duct, a real fire hazard over the canopy. We fitted access panels, scraped the kitchen extract run back and degreased through to bare metal. The duct was cleaned to the TR19 grease standard throughout, with photos, report and certificate handed over.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Richmond kitchen these are the tells.
The tells are plain: steam that lingers, odours drifting back over the diners, drips off the canopy onto a Market Place line, a rim of grease at the filters, or a Richmond insurer or fire assessment wanting a TR19 certificate you cannot show. Frequency tracks the cooking load - a hard-frying Frenchgate 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 Richmond 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 Victoria Road 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 Richmond fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Richmond 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 Richmond 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 Market Place 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 Richmond 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. When North Yorkshire 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 Market Place kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Frenchgate cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Victoria Road 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 Victoria Road conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
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 Market Place and Victoria Road where the runs are long and awkward.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Market Place operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Yes - from Market Place and Frenchgate kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Richmond and the wider North Yorkshire.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Richmond offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the North Yorkshire hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Local knowledge
The Georgian Theatre Royal opened in 1788 and survives as the most complete Georgian playhouse in Britain still in its original form. Behind any working interior, though, the ductwork that moves air runs out of sight and is easily forgotten. Grease, dust and debris build inside extract runs until airflow falls and fire risk climbs. Ductwork cleaning to the TR19 Grease standard restores the system, and a post-clean report records the verified result for your insurer.
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