Royton · 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 Royton, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Royton
Royton 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 Royton work out of tight, mixed premises - Sandy Lane, Dogford Road, Thorp - 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.
It is not only kitchens: we also clean the dry supply and extract ductwork in Royton offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-packed laundry runs behind its hotel and care-home dryers. The busiest kitchens - care-home kitchens, pub and restaurant kitchens, school canteens and the busy town-centre takeaways - coat their hidden ducting in grease quickest, and that is the very path a fire follows.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Royton insurers and fire risk assessors expect - measured across the whole extract run, not just the visible mouth of the canopy.
Because the standard is written around film thickness, it sets the depth that triggers a clean and re-test. In the mixed roof spaces around Sandy Lane and Thorp, a canopy-and-filter wipe leaves the duct interior - where grease piles up and a fire runs - completely alone. We reach the whole Royton run through existing hatches and new ones we cut, clean back to bright metal, take before-and-after grease-depth figures at set points, and certify it to TR19 Grease with those depths on the 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 Royton hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Royton
We are in Royton's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
At a sheltered-housing block in Royton, food-waste residue had turned to a slimy coating down the communal refuse chute and the smell had crept into the stairwell. We power-washed the chute, cleared the hopper doors and ran an antibacterial treatment through it. The residue and the stench were gone and the chute was hygienic again, all left neat behind us. The concierge signed up for a yearly visit there and then.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Royton kitchen these are the tells.
The tells are plain: steam that lingers, odours drifting back over the diners, drips off the canopy onto a Sandy Lane line, a rim of grease at the filters, or a Royton insurer or fire assessment wanting a TR19 certificate you cannot show. Frequency tracks the cooking load - a hard-frying Dogford Road 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 Royton 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 Thorp 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 Royton fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Royton 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 Royton 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 Sandy Lane 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 Royton 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. Food hygiene inspections by Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council take in the condition of the building, ventilation included, so a grease-laden system can cost you on the rating an Environmental Health Officer awards - never mind the smell and the dropping extraction your kitchen team works under.
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 Sandy Lane kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Dogford Road cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Royton offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Greater Manchester hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Sandy Lane operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
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 Sandy Lane and Thorp where the runs are long and awkward.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Thorp 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 Royton run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Dogford Road 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 Thorp conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Local knowledge
At its height Royton packed some forty cotton mills into a small Pennine-edge town - among the densest clusters of spinning anywhere in the world - and the last of that cotton was not spun until 2002. Where the old mill air hung thick with lint, modern premises hide their dust and grease inside sealed ductwork instead, building unseen until airflow fails or fire finds a path. We clean and inspect ventilation and extract ductwork across Sandy Lane, Dogford Road and the older streets around Thorp, then hand over photographic before-and-after evidence of every run.
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