Ulverston · 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 Ulverston, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Ulverston
Ulverston rates dozens 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 Ulverston work out of tight, mixed premises - Market Street, King Street, Soutergate - 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 Ulverston schools, offices and civic buildings, and the lint-choked dryer runs behind its hotels and care homes. It is the hardest-pressed kitchens - chip shops, takeaways, pub kitchens and school and works canteens - that glaze their hidden ducting quickest, and that coating is the road a fire takes.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Ulverston 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 Market Street and Soutergate, a canopy-and-filter wipe leaves the duct interior - where grease piles up and a fire runs - completely alone. We reach the whole Ulverston 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 Ulverston hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Ulverston
We are in Ulverston's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A launderette in Ulverston had a season's worth of matted fluff built through its dryer exhaust ducting, pushing drying times right up. We cleared the exhaust ductwork of fluff, checked the run for damage and tested the airflow at the discharge louvre, dropping the drying times and clearing the fire risk. Lint is highly combustible, so the full run was proven clear before we left.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Ulverston kitchen these are the tells.
A canopy dripping onto a Market Street cookline, cooking smells forced back to the tables, extraction that no longer clears the steam, grease showing at the filter edges, or an Ulverston 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 King Street 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 Ulverston 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 Soutergate 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 Ulverston fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Ulverston 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 an Ulverston 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 Market 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 an Ulverston 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. A food hygiene visit from Westmorland and Furness Council weighs the physical state of the premises, ventilation counted within it. A grease-blocked extract can pull down the rating an Environmental Health Officer sets, quite apart from the stale smell and the tired airflow your staff work beneath all shift.
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 Market Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime King Street 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 Soutergate conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Market 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 Market Street and Soutergate where the runs are long and awkward.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Ulverston 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 Ulverston offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Cumbria hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Soutergate 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
The Hoad Monument, a 100-foot replica of the Eddystone lighthouse, has stood over the town since 1850 in tribute to the Ulverston-born Admiralty man Sir John Barrow. It draws the eye upward; ductwork does the opposite, hiding grease and dust where nobody looks. Kitchen extract ducts and industrial LEV runs collect deposits that feed fire and throttle airflow, so we clean the full run to the TR19 Grease standard and leave access panels and photographic evidence behind.
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