Wilmslow · 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 Wilmslow, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Wilmslow
Wilmslow 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 Grove Street to Water Lane and Styal, 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.
Kitchens are only half the work - we also strip the dry supply and extract ductwork of Wilmslow schools, offices and civic buildings, and the lint-choked dryer runs behind its hotels and care homes. It is the hardest-pressed kitchens - restaurant and gastropub kitchens, corporate staff restaurants, hotel kitchens and the busy town-centre takeaways - that glaze their hidden ducting quickest, and that coating is the road a fire takes.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Wilmslow 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 Grove Street and Styal, 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 Wilmslow 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 Wilmslow hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Wilmslow
We are in Wilmslow's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A cafe kitchen in Wilmslow had a firm layer of grease built up through the extract ductwork behind the canopy. We installed inspection hatches along the run, hand-scraped the carbon off and degreased through to the fan. Grease and carbon were gone from the run, meeting TR19 with certification for the client's file. The manager kept us going with fresh coffee through the morning.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Wilmslow kitchen these are the tells.
The tells are plain: steam that lingers, odours drifting back over the diners, drips off the canopy onto a Grove Street line, a rim of grease at the filters, or a Wilmslow insurer or fire assessment wanting a TR19 certificate you cannot show. Frequency tracks the cooking load - a hard-frying Water Lane 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 Wilmslow 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 Styal 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 Wilmslow fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Wilmslow 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 Wilmslow 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 Grove 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 Wilmslow 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 Cheshire East 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 Grove Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Water Lane cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Wilmslow run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Water Lane cookline is back in service for the next shift.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Grove Street operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Wilmslow offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Cheshire hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Yes - from Grove Street and Water Lane kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Wilmslow and the wider Cheshire.
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 Grove Street and Styal where the runs are long and awkward.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Grove Street and Water Lane kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
Local knowledge
Samuel Greg built Quarry Bank Mill beside the River Bollin at Styal in 1784, and it grew into one of the best-preserved cotton mills of the Industrial Revolution, its spinning rooms once thick with airborne cotton lint worked by pauper apprentices from the mill's own Apprentice House. Modern premises hide their dust 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, then hand over photographic before-and-after evidence of every run.
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