Sandbach · 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 Sandbach, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Sandbach
Sandbach 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 Sandbach work out of tight, mixed premises - Hightown, Welles Street, Bradwall Road - 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.
Kitchens are only half the work - we also strip the dry supply and extract ductwork of Sandbach schools, offices and civic buildings, and the lint-choked dryer runs behind its hotels and care homes. It is the hardest-pressed kitchens - the local college, Leighton Hospital in nearby Crewe, the Market Square and the town hotels - that glaze their hidden ducting quickest, and that coating is the road a fire takes.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Sandbach 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 Hightown and Bradwall Road, 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 Sandbach 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 Sandbach hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Sandbach
We are in Sandbach's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A High Street restaurant in Sandbach had a heavy grease film through the horizontal extract and up the riser above a busy cook line. We fitted new access panels, hand-scraped the accessible lengths and ran an enzyme degreaser through the sealed sections, returning the ductwork to clean metal for the fire and insurance standard. It was worked overnight so the market-town trade lost no covers, and we flagged the neighbouring unit off the cobbled square by the Saxon Sandbach Crosses, whose cook line vented through the same sealed riser to a shared roof outlet. The kitchen sat near the old Foden and ERF truckworks quarter that once built lorries known across the world, and we left a marked-up riser plan and grease-depth readings for the file.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Sandbach kitchen these are the tells.
Smells pushing back into the dining room, a canopy that drips onto a Hightown cookline, extraction that no longer clears the steam, visible grease at the filter edges, or a Sandbach insurer or fire risk assessment asking for a TR19 certificate you cannot produce. Cleaning frequency tracks use - a hard-frying Welles 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 Sandbach 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 Bradwall Road 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 Sandbach fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Sandbach 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 Sandbach 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 Hightown 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. Your Sandbach insurer expects a current TR19 Grease certificate as proof the duct is clean. Without one, a fire claim can be cut back or turned down altogether - a costly thing to find only after a fire.
Hygiene and environmental health. A food hygiene visit from Cheshire East 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 Hightown kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Welles Street 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 Hightown operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Sandbach run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Welles Street cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Sandbach offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Cheshire hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Hightown and Welles Street kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
Yes - from Hightown and Welles Street kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Sandbach and the wider Cheshire.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Bradwall Road 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.
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