Southport · 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 Southport, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Southport
Southport rates around 2,300 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 - Lord Street, Chapel Street, Promenade - 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.
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 - Southport College, Southport and Formby District General Hospital, the pier and the seafront hotels - build grease fastest in the concealed lengths where flame spreads.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Southport 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 Lord Street and Promenade, a canopy-and-filter wipe leaves the duct interior - where grease piles up and a fire runs - completely alone. We reach the whole Southport 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 Southport hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Southport
We are in Southport's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A seafront retirement apartment block in Southport had hardened organic residue, grease and dropped refuse bags jamming the vertical chute between the second and third storeys. We cleared the jam hydraulically with flexible breakdown tools, then ran a full hot-water sanitising flush, leaving the chute smooth and clear and stopping cross-contamination between the storeys. The work was done quietly over a single afternoon to keep the disruption off the elderly residents.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Southport kitchen these are the tells.
Smells pushing back into the dining room, a canopy that drips onto a Lord Street cookline, extraction that no longer clears the steam, visible grease at the filter edges, or a Southport insurer or fire risk assessment asking for a TR19 certificate you cannot produce. Cleaning frequency tracks use - a hard-frying Chapel 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 Southport 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 Promenade 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 Southport fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Southport 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 Southport 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 Lord 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. Your Southport 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. Sefton 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 Lord Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Chapel Street cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Lord Street and Chapel Street kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Lord Street 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 Lord Street and Promenade where the runs are long and awkward.
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 Promenade conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Yes - from Lord Street and Chapel Street kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Southport and the wider Merseyside.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Promenade 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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