Thornton Cleveleys · 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 Thornton Cleveleys, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Thornton Cleveleys
Thornton Cleveleys 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.
The city's kitchens sit in tight, mixed stock - Victoria Road West, Rossall Road, Marsh Mill - 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.
Beyond the kitchens, we clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in hotels and care homes. High-output kitchens - seafront cafes, hotel and pub kitchens, care-home kitchens and the busy town-centre takeaways - lay grease down fast in exactly the concealed sections where a fire travels.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Thornton Cleveleys 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 Victoria Road West and Marsh Mill, a canopy-and-filter wipe leaves the duct interior - where grease piles up and a fire runs - completely alone. We reach the whole Thornton Cleveleys 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 Thornton Cleveleys hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Thornton Cleveleys
We are in Thornton Cleveleys's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
Staff at a long-established Thornton Cleveleys primary school had been complaining of a dusty smell whenever the supply system ran, and the ductwork was coated in dust and debris. We worked the runs with brushes and HEPA extraction, then cleaned and refitted the AHU. Air through the open-plan space felt noticeably fresher straight away and the complaints stopped. The receptionist kept us going with cups of tea through the morning.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Thornton Cleveleys kitchen these are the tells.
Smells pushing back into the dining room, a canopy that drips onto a Victoria Road West cookline, extraction that no longer clears the steam, visible grease at the filter edges, or a Thornton Cleveleys insurer or fire risk assessment asking for a TR19 certificate you cannot produce. Cleaning frequency tracks use - a hard-frying Rossall Road 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 Thornton Cleveleys 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 Marsh Mill 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 Thornton Cleveleys fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Thornton Cleveleys 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 Thornton Cleveleys 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 Victoria Road West 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 Thornton Cleveleys 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. When Wyre 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 Victoria Road West kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Rossall Road cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Marsh Mill 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 Victoria Road West operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Thornton Cleveleys run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Rossall Road cookline is back in service for the next shift.
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 Marsh Mill conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Thornton Cleveleys offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Lancashire hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
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 Victoria Road West and Marsh Mill where the runs are long and awkward.
Local knowledge
Marsh Mill, the tower windmill that still stands over Thornton, was raised in 1794 by the millwright Ralph Slater for the landowner Bold Hesketh and ground the Fylde's corn until the 1920s, its stones and sacks thick with grain dust. Modern premises hide their dust and grease inside sealed ductwork instead, where it builds 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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