Stretford · 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 Stretford, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Stretford
Stretford 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.
Right across Stretford, from Chester Road through King Street to Gorse Hill, cooklines share tight roof space and vent through concealed ducting few operators ever see inside. We clean that entire path to the TR19 Grease standard, canopy through to fan, taking in the level pulls and the risers where grease settles thickest and a fire would run.
It is not only kitchens: we also clean the dry supply and extract ductwork in Stretford offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-packed laundry runs behind its hotel and care-home dryers. The busiest kitchens - stadium and hospitality kitchens, hotel and pub kitchens, college refectories and the busy town-centre takeaways - coat their hidden ducting in grease quickest, and that is the very path a fire follows.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Stretford insurers and fire risk assessors expect - measured across the whole extract run, not just the visible mouth of the canopy.
The standard is written in film thickness: once grease reaches a set depth the run has to be cleaned and proven again. In the crowded roof voids off Chester Road and Gorse Hill, a wipe of the canopy and filters never reaches the ductwork behind them, where the grease that carries fire quietly gathers. We work the whole Stretford run through hatches already in place and others we cut, bring it back to bright metal, note grease depths at fixed stations before and after, and certify to TR19 Grease with the closing figures logged.
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 Stretford hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Stretford
We are in Stretford's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A sheltered-housing block in Stretford had a greasy film of spilled bin liquids coating the inside of its communal refuse chute from top to bottom. We ran a high-pressure rotating wash head down the full length of the chute, then disinfected and deodorised the run. The chute was sanitised top to bottom and the refuse room was pleasant to use again, and the caretaking team were glad to have it sorted. We kept things low-key so residents barely noticed the work.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Stretford kitchen these are the tells.
The tells are plain: steam that lingers, odours drifting back over the diners, drips off the canopy onto a Chester Road line, a rim of grease at the filters, or a Stretford insurer or fire assessment wanting a TR19 certificate you cannot show. Frequency tracks the cooking load - a hard-frying King Street kitchen needs it far more often than a quiet cafe - and your certificate sets the date, so nothing is left to chance.
How it runs
Inspect the full Stretford 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 Gorse Hill 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 Stretford fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Stretford 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 Stretford 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 Chester 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. To a Stretford 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 Trafford Metropolitan Borough 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 Chester Road kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime King Street cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Chester Road and King 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 Chester Road and Gorse Hill 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 Gorse Hill conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Stretford run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a King Street cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Stretford offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Greater Manchester hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Gorse Hill 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.
Local knowledge
Trafford Park drew more than a hundred factories within twenty years of opening, and in 1938 Kellogg's built what grew into its largest cereal plant here, its air heavy with grain and flour dust. Modern premises seal that dust inside ductwork instead, where grease and debris gather unseen until airflow fails or fire finds a path. We clean and inspect ventilation and extract ductwork across Stretford and Trafford Park, then hand over photographic before-and-after evidence of every run.
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