Ripley · 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 Ripley, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Ripley
Ripley 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 Ripley work out of tight, mixed premises - Grosvenor Road, Oxford Street, Waingroves - 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.
The same crews clean dry ventilation and air-handling ductwork in offices, schools and civic buildings, plus the combustible lint runs behind hotel and care-home dryers. High-turnover sites - pub and hotel kitchens, care-home and school kitchens and the busy town-centre takeaways - build grease fastest in the concealed lengths where flame spreads.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Ripley 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 Grosvenor Road and Waingroves, 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 Ripley 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 Ripley hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Ripley
We are in Ripley's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
Lint had narrowed the dryer extract ducting at a town-centre Ripley gym and spa to a fraction of its bore, and the dryers were tripping their overheat cut-outs as a result. We vacuumed out the exhaust line, cleaned the lint screens and made sure the outside vent flap was swinging freely. The system ran cooler and cleaner, with faster turnarounds by the end of the week and a difference that was obvious straight away. We handed the manager a short photo report for their insurance file.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Ripley kitchen these are the tells.
Smells pushing back into the dining room, a canopy that drips onto a Grosvenor Road cookline, extraction that no longer clears the steam, visible grease at the filter edges, or a Ripley insurer or fire risk assessment asking for a TR19 certificate you cannot produce. Cleaning frequency tracks use - a hard-frying Oxford 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 Ripley 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 Waingroves 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 Ripley fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Ripley 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 Ripley 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 Grosvenor 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. A live TR19 Grease certificate is what a Ripley insurer treats as evidence the system is maintained. Miss it and a fire claim may be reduced or refused - an expensive surprise once the damage is done.
Hygiene and environmental health. A food hygiene visit from Amber Valley 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 Grosvenor Road kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Oxford Street cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Grosvenor Road and Oxford Street 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 Grosvenor Road operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Ripley offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Derbyshire hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Ripley run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so an Oxford Street cookline is back in service for the next shift.
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 Waingroves conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Yes - from Grosvenor Road and Oxford Street kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Ripley and the wider Derbyshire.
Local knowledge
Ripley grew rich on coal, and the Butterley Company sank pits all round the town, from Ripley and Ormonde collieries to the workings at Waingroves, Hartshay and Denby Hall. Brickworks and the salt-glazed potteries at nearby Denby added their own dust to air already thick with coal and ironstone. Modern premises hide that grime inside sealed ductwork instead, where grease and debris gather unseen until airflow drops 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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