Skipton · 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 Skipton, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Skipton
Skipton rates dozens 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.
The city's kitchens sit in tight, mixed stock - High Street, Sheep Street, Jerry Croft - 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.
It is not only kitchens: we also clean the dry supply and extract ductwork in Skipton offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-packed laundry runs behind its hotel and care-home dryers. The busiest kitchens - pubs, hotels, care-home kitchens and school canteens - coat their hidden ducting in grease quickest, and that is the very path a fire follows.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Skipton 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 High Street and Jerry Croft, a canopy-and-filter wipe leaves the duct interior - where grease piles up and a fire runs - completely alone. We reach the whole Skipton 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 Skipton hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Skipton
We are in Skipton's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A Victorian assembly rooms in Skipton had its plenum-fed supply dumping cold draughts at one end and nothing at the other, the balancing dampers seized open. We freed and re-set the dampers, cleaned the attenuator baffles clogged with felt-like dust and renewed the pre-filters. The throw evened out across the hall, and the whistle at the diffusers stopped once the baffles were clear.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Skipton kitchen these are the tells.
Smells pushing back into the dining room, a canopy that drips onto a High Street cookline, extraction that no longer clears the steam, visible grease at the filter edges, or a Skipton insurer or fire risk assessment asking for a TR19 certificate you cannot produce. Cleaning frequency tracks use - a hard-frying Sheep 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 Skipton 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 Jerry Croft 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 Skipton fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Skipton 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 Skipton 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 High 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. A live TR19 Grease certificate is what a Skipton insurer treats as evidence the system is maintained. Miss it and a fire claim may be reduced or refused - an expensive surprise once the damage is done.
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 High Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Sheep Street cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Skipton run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Sheep Street cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Skipton offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the North Yorkshire hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Jerry Croft 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 Jerry Croft conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the High Street and Sheep Street kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
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 High Street and Jerry Croft where the runs are long and awkward.
Local knowledge
The Leeds and Liverpool Canal threads through the centre, and its short Springs Branch was cut up towards the castle to carry limestone down from Haw Bank quarry to waiting barges. Ductwork moves air the way that branch moved stone, quietly and out of sight until it silts up. We survey, clean and report on ducting so grease, dust and debris cannot build unseen and choke a system.
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