Selby · 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 Selby, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Selby
Selby 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.
From Micklegate to Millgate and Barlby, the town's cooklines vent through long hidden ducting that climbs to a roof fan. We clean it end to end to the TR19 Grease standard - not just the canopy, but the flat and rising sections where grease really collects.
The same crews clean dry ventilation and air-handling ductwork in offices, schools and civic buildings, plus the combustible lint runs behind hotel and care-home dryers. High-turnover sites - care-home kitchens, college refectories, pub and hotel kitchens and the busy town-centre takeaways - build grease fastest in the concealed lengths where flame spreads.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Selby 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 Micklegate and Barlby, wiping the canopy and filters leaves the ductwork - the long concealed sections that gather grease and carry fire - untouched. We open the full Selby 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 Selby hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Selby
We are in Selby's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
The communal bin chute at a town-centre Selby sheltered-housing block was lined with sticky waste residue and throwing a strong odour into the stairwell. I washed the chute from the top with a rotary jet, then disinfected and deodorised the bin store. The smell and build-up were cleared, the chute left clean and disinfected, and I finished with a tidy hand-over. A worn part got flagged to the concierge for their maintenance records.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Selby kitchen these are the tells.
Smells pushing back into the dining room, a canopy that drips onto a Micklegate cookline, extraction that no longer clears the steam, visible grease at the filter edges, or a Selby insurer or fire risk assessment asking for a TR19 certificate you cannot produce. Cleaning frequency tracks use - a hard-frying Millgate 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 Selby 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 Barlby 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 Selby fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Selby 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 Selby 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 Micklegate 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 Selby 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. When North Yorkshire Council carries out a food hygiene inspection it judges the physical state of the premises, and ventilation is part of that. A grease-choked extract can pull down the rating an Environmental Health Officer gives, on top of the odour and the weakening airflow your staff put up with.
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 Micklegate kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Millgate cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Micklegate and Millgate kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
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 Barlby conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Yes - from Micklegate and Millgate kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Selby and the wider North Yorkshire.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Selby run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Millgate cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Barlby 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 Micklegate operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Local knowledge
Joseph Watson bought land on the Barlby riverside in 1909 and raised the Olympia Oil and Cake Mills there to crush oilseed and produce animal feed, on a site that had milled feed since about 1850, its air thick with grain and oilseed dust. 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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