Salford · 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 Salford, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Salford
Salford rates around 2,000 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 - Chapel Street, MediaCityUK, Crescent - 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 - the University of Salford, Salford Royal Hospital, the AJ Bell Stadium and the Lowry Outlet - lay grease down fast in exactly the concealed sections where a fire travels.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Salford 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 Chapel Street and Crescent, 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 Salford 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 Salford hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Salford
We are in Salford's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A high-rise apartment block in Salford had slime from split bin bags and liquid food waste staining the lower drop section and hopper hatches of its refuse chute. We lowered a high-pressure hot-wash spinning nozzle from the tenth floor and treated the chute with an industrial deodoriser, leaving it clean and stopping the odour leaking into the residential lobbies. The wash-down was set with the estate team for their bulk-waste collection day.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Salford kitchen these are the tells.
Watch for steam that hangs in the room, cooking smells creeping back over the tables, a canopy weeping onto a Chapel Street line, grease crusting at the filter rims, or a Salford insurer or fire assessor calling for a TR19 certificate you do not hold. How often it needs doing rides on the cooking load - a hard-frying MediaCityUK kitchen far more than a quiet daytime cafe - and the certificate fixes that interval, so the next clean is planned, not chanced.
How it runs
Inspect the full Salford 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 Crescent 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 Salford fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Salford 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 Salford 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 Chapel 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. To a Salford 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. Salford 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 Chapel Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime MediaCityUK cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Salford run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a MediaCityUK cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Salford offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Greater Manchester hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Yes - from Chapel Street and MediaCityUK kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Salford and the wider Greater Manchester.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Crescent 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 Crescent conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Chapel Street operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
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