Scarborough · 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 Scarborough, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Scarborough
Scarborough 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 Scarborough work out of tight, mixed premises - Foreshore Road, Newborough, Harbour - 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 Scarborough schools, offices and civic buildings, and the lint-choked dryer runs behind its hotels and care homes. It is the hardest-pressed kitchens - CU Scarborough, Scarborough Hospital, the Flamingo Land Stadium and the seafront hotels - that glaze their hidden ducting quickest, and that coating is the road a fire takes.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Scarborough insurers and fire risk assessors expect - measured across the whole extract run, not just the visible mouth of the canopy.
The standard works in grease-film thickness, fixing the depth at which a run must be cleaned and re-tested. In the shared roof voids around Foreshore Road and Harbour, wiping the canopy and filters leaves the ductwork - the long concealed sections that gather grease and carry fire - untouched. We open the full Scarborough run through existing and newly cut inspection hatches, strip it to bare metal, log grease-depth readings at fixed points before and after, and issue a TR19 Grease certificate with the post-clean depths recorded.
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 Scarborough hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Scarborough
We are in Scarborough's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A South Bay seafront hotel kitchen in Scarborough had salt-laden sea air combining with grease into a heavy, corrosive film through the extract runs and up the roof stack. We hand-scraped the accessible duct, ran a degreaser through the sealed lengths and treated the interior with a corrosion inhibitor, restoring the extraction and guarding the metal against the coastal tarnishing. It was worked around the seasonal changeover so the dining room stayed open.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Scarborough kitchen these are the tells.
Smells pushing back into the dining room, a canopy that drips onto a Foreshore Road cookline, extraction that no longer clears the steam, visible grease at the filter edges, or a Scarborough insurer or fire risk assessment asking for a TR19 certificate you cannot produce. Cleaning frequency tracks use - a hard-frying Newborough 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 Scarborough 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 Harbour 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 Scarborough fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Scarborough 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 Scarborough 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 Foreshore Road 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 Scarborough 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. A food hygiene visit from North Yorkshire 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 Foreshore Road kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Newborough cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Harbour 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.
Yes - from Foreshore Road and Newborough kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Scarborough and the wider North Yorkshire.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Foreshore Road and Newborough kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Scarborough run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Newborough cookline is back in service for the next shift.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Foreshore Road 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 Foreshore Road and Harbour where the runs are long and awkward.
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