Ripon · 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 Ripon, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Ripon
Ripon 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.
From Kirkgate to Allhallowgate and Bondgate, the town's cooklines vent through long hidden ducting that climbs to a roof fan. We clean it end to end to the TR19 Grease standard - not just the canopy, but the flat and rising sections where grease really collects.
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 - hotel and pub kitchens, care-home and school kitchens, and the busy city-centre takeaways - lay grease down fast in exactly the concealed sections where a fire travels.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Ripon 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 Kirkgate and Bondgate, 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 Ripon 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 Ripon hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Ripon
We are in Ripon's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A thick mat of dryer fluff had packed into the vent line at an established Ripon launderette, and the energy bills had been creeping up with it. I brushed and vacuumed the exhaust run from end to end and checked the discharge louvre was opening fully. Drying times came down noticeably and the fire risk was cleared, and the client was really pleased with how it went. The manager kept us in cups of tea through the morning.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Ripon kitchen these are the tells.
Smells pushing back into the dining room, a canopy that drips onto a Kirkgate cookline, extraction that no longer clears the steam, visible grease at the filter edges, or a Ripon insurer or fire risk assessment asking for a TR19 certificate you cannot produce. Cleaning frequency tracks use - a hard-frying Allhallowgate 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 Ripon 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 Bondgate 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 Ripon fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Ripon 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 Ripon 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 Kirkgate 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 Ripon 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 Kirkgate kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Allhallowgate 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 Kirkgate operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Ripon run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so an Allhallowgate cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Kirkgate and Allhallowgate 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 Ripon offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the North Yorkshire hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
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 Bondgate conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Bondgate 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 Ripon Canal opened in 1773 to carry the city's corn, lime and stone down to the Ure and the wider waterways, and the mills and works it served filled their air with dust and grit. Modern premises hide that grime inside sealed ductwork instead, where grease and debris build unseen until airflow drops or fire finds a path. From the units at Ripon Business Park to the workshops off Bondgate, that hidden run is where trouble gathers. We clean and inspect ventilation and extract ductwork across the city, then hand over photographic before-and-after evidence of every length.
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