Rothwell · 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 Rothwell, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Rothwell
Rothwell 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.
The city's kitchens sit in tight, mixed stock - Commercial Street, Marsh Street, Butcher Lane - 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.
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 kitchens, school canteens and the busy town-centre takeaways - lay grease down fast in exactly the concealed sections where a fire travels.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Rothwell 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 Commercial Street and Butcher Lane, 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 Rothwell 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 Rothwell hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Rothwell
We are in Rothwell's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A long-established GP surgery in Rothwell had a heavy blanket of fine grey dust settled through the air supply ducting serving the main rooms. We worked through the fresh-air ducting with brushes and HEPA extraction, then cleaned and refitted the ceiling diffusers. Airflow came back up to spec and the system was left visibly clean, with a tidy hand-over at the end. The office manager booked a regular six-monthly visit on the spot.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Rothwell kitchen these are the tells.
The tells are plain: steam that lingers, odours drifting back over the diners, drips off the canopy onto a Commercial Street line, a rim of grease at the filters, or a Rothwell insurer or fire assessment wanting a TR19 certificate you cannot show. Frequency tracks the cooking load - a hard-frying Marsh Street 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 Rothwell 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 Butcher Lane 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 Rothwell fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Rothwell 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 Rothwell 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 Commercial 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. A current TR19 Grease certificate is the evidence your Rothwell 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. Leeds City Council food hygiene inspections assess the physical condition of premises, ventilation included. A grease-clogged system can count against the rating an Environmental Health Officer awards, quite apart from the smell and the falling extract performance your staff have to work in.
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 Commercial Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Marsh Street cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
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 Commercial Street and Butcher Lane where the runs are long and awkward.
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 Butcher Lane conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Commercial Street and Marsh Street kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
Yes - from Commercial Street and Marsh Street kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Rothwell and the wider West Yorkshire.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Butcher Lane 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.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Commercial Street operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Local knowledge
Rothwell Colliery, the Fanny Pit to the men who worked it, raised coal from 1867 until the last of its shafts closed on 9 December 1983, having brought more than seventy-five million tons to the surface. Pit air was thick with coal dust, and most of the six hundred and fifty men who worked it transferred to the new Selby field when it shut. 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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