Whitehaven · 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 Whitehaven, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Whitehaven
Whitehaven 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.
From Lowther Street to Tangier Street and Kells, the town's cooklines vent through long hidden ducting that climbs to a roof fan. We clean it end to end to the TR19 Grease standard - not just the canopy, but the flat and rising sections where grease really collects.
It is not only kitchens: we also clean the dry supply and extract ductwork in Whitehaven offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-packed laundry runs behind its hotel and care-home dryers. The busiest kitchens - harbourside pub and hotel kitchens, town-centre takeaways, works canteens and cafe kitchens - coat their hidden ducting in grease quickest, and that is the very path a fire follows.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Whitehaven 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 Lowther Street and Kells, 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 Whitehaven 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 Whitehaven hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Whitehaven
We are in Whitehaven's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A Whitehaven bakery's oven extract ducting was lined with grease and carbon that had cut the pull over the fryers. We fitted inspection hatches along the run, hand-scraped the carbon out and degreased through to the fan. The run met TR19 with the grease and carbon gone, backed by a full photo report and certificate. We fitted the visit around the school run so the regulars weren't disturbed.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Whitehaven kitchen these are the tells.
Watch for steam that hangs in the room, cooking smells creeping back over the tables, a canopy weeping onto a Lowther Street line, grease crusting at the filter rims, or a Whitehaven insurer or fire assessor calling for a TR19 certificate you do not hold. How often it needs doing rides on the cooking load - a hard-frying Tangier Street kitchen far more than a quiet daytime cafe - and the certificate fixes that interval, so the next clean is planned, not chanced.
How it runs
Inspect the full Whitehaven 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 Kells 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 Whitehaven fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Whitehaven 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 Whitehaven 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 Lowther 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. A current TR19 Grease certificate is the evidence your Whitehaven 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 Cumberland 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 Lowther Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Tangier Street cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Lowther Street and Tangier 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 Lowther Street and Kells where the runs are long and awkward.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Whitehaven offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Cumbria hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
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 Kells 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 Lowther Street operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Yes - from Lowther Street and Tangier Street kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Whitehaven and the wider Cumbria.
Local knowledge
Whitehaven's coal was won from pits whose workings ran for miles out under the Irish Sea, and in 1910 the Wellington Pit explosion at the cliff edge killed 136 men and boys in one of the worst disasters in British mining. What the miners once cut in the dark, four miles beneath the waves, modern premises now hide inside sealed ductwork instead, where grease and debris build unseen until airflow fails or fire finds a path. We clean and inspect ventilation and extract ductwork across the town, from the harbour to the Kells and Hensingham streets above it. Every run is handed over with photographic before-and-after evidence.
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