Spennymoor · 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 Spennymoor, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Spennymoor
Spennymoor 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 Spennymoor work out of tight, mixed premises - Cheapside, Clyde Terrace, Middlestone Moor - 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 Spennymoor schools, offices and civic buildings, and the lint-choked dryer runs behind its hotels and care homes. It is the hardest-pressed kitchens - care-home kitchens, works canteens, pub and hotel kitchens and the busy town-centre takeaways - that glaze their hidden ducting quickest, and that coating is the road a fire takes.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Spennymoor 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 Cheapside and Middlestone Moor, 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 Spennymoor 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 Spennymoor hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Spennymoor
We are in Spennymoor's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A season's worth of dryer fluff had built up through the vent line at a popular Spennymoor care home laundry, and the energy bills had been climbing with it. We brushed and vacuumed the tumble-dryer exhaust run end to end and confirmed the discharge louvre was opening fully. Airflow through the line was restored and the louvre sat fully open again, with a difference you could see straight away. We left comparison images and a hygiene certificate for their health and safety folder.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Spennymoor kitchen these are the tells.
A canopy dripping onto a Cheapside cookline, cooking smells forced back to the tables, extraction that no longer clears the steam, grease showing at the filter edges, or a Spennymoor insurer or fire risk assessor wanting a TR19 certificate you have not got. How often it needs doing follows how hard you cook - a fast-frying Clyde Terrace kitchen far more than a daytime cafe - and the certificate names the interval, so the next visit is booked, not guessed.
How it runs
Inspect the full Spennymoor 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 Middlestone Moor 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 Spennymoor fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Spennymoor 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 Spennymoor 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 Cheapside 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 Spennymoor 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. Food hygiene inspections by Durham County Council take in the condition of the building, ventilation included, so a grease-laden system can cost you on the rating an Environmental Health Officer awards - never mind the smell and the dropping extraction your kitchen team works under.
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 Cheapside kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Clyde Terrace cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
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 Middlestone Moor conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
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 Cheapside and Middlestone Moor where the runs are long and awkward.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Cheapside operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Spennymoor offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the County Durham hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Yes - from Cheapside and Clyde Terrace kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Spennymoor and the wider County Durham.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Spennymoor run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Clyde Terrace cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Local knowledge
When Thorn Lighting opened its plant on Merrington Lane it became one of Spennymoor's largest employers, turning out lamps and fittings on a scale that put the town back to work after the pits and ironworks had closed. Where colliery and factory air once carried visible dust, modern premises hide theirs inside sealed ductwork, where grease and debris build unseen until airflow fails or fire finds a path. Those runs rarely get opened until an inspection or a blocked fan forces the issue. 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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