Tynemouth · 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 Tynemouth, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Tynemouth
Tynemouth rates around 1,470 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 Tynemouth work out of tight, mixed premises - Front Street, Fish Quay, Station Market - 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.
It is not only kitchens: we also clean the dry supply and extract ductwork in Tynemouth offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-packed laundry runs behind its hotel and care-home dryers. The busiest kitchens - the local college, the North Tyneside General Hospital, Tynemouth Priory and the seafront hotels - coat their hidden ducting in grease quickest, and that is the very path a fire follows.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Tynemouth insurers and fire risk assessors expect - measured across the whole extract run, not just the visible mouth of the canopy.
The standard works in grease-film thickness, fixing the depth at which a run must be cleaned and re-tested. In the shared roof voids around Front Street and Station Market, wiping the canopy and filters leaves the ductwork - the long concealed sections that gather grease and carry fire - untouched. We open the full Tynemouth run through existing and newly cut inspection hatches, strip it to bare metal, log grease-depth readings at fixed points before and after, and issue a TR19 Grease certificate with the post-clean depths recorded.
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 Tynemouth hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Tynemouth
We are in Tynemouth's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A primary school in Tynemouth had its air extraction lines completely choked with dust and loose lint, leaving zero measurable airflow across the washrooms. We took the ceiling grilles down for a deep clean, brushed the internal lines out and cleared the fan impeller, bringing the extraction back to the building-regulation rate. We found an old bird's nest in the external discharge louver, cleared it and fitted a new protective mesh bird screen.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Tynemouth kitchen these are the tells.
The tells are plain: steam that lingers, odours drifting back over the diners, drips off the canopy onto a Front Street line, a rim of grease at the filters, or a Tynemouth insurer or fire assessment wanting a TR19 certificate you cannot show. Frequency tracks the cooking load - a hard-frying Fish Quay 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 Tynemouth 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 Station Market 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 Tynemouth fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Tynemouth 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 Tynemouth 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 Front 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. To a Tynemouth 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. North Tyneside 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 Front Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Fish Quay cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Tynemouth run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Fish Quay cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Yes - from Front Street and Fish Quay kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Tynemouth and the wider Tyne and Wear.
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 Front Street and Station Market where the runs are long and awkward.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Station Market 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 Station Market conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Tynemouth offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Tyne and Wear hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
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