Yeadon · 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 Yeadon, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Yeadon
Yeadon 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.
Right across Yeadon, from Kirk Lane through Ivegate to Nunroyd, cooklines share tight roof space and vent through concealed ducting few operators ever see inside. We clean that entire path to the TR19 Grease standard, canopy through to fan, taking in the level pulls and the risers where grease settles thickest and a fire would run.
The same crews clean dry ventilation and air-handling ductwork in offices, schools and civic buildings, plus the combustible lint runs behind hotel and care-home dryers. High-turnover sites - airport terminal kitchens, pub and hotel kitchens, care-home caterers and the busy town-centre takeaways - build grease fastest in the concealed lengths where flame spreads.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Yeadon 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 Kirk Lane and Nunroyd, 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 Yeadon 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 Yeadon hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Yeadon
We are in Yeadon's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
At a well-known Yeadon sheltered-housing scheme, years of spilled bin liquids had coated the refuse chute and left the communal corridors unpleasant to use. We cleared the chute with a hot-wash spinning head and applied a sanitising treatment along the full length. The chute finished clean and sanitised, the odour in the stairwell lifted, and the space was left clean and ready to use. The job went in over a bank holiday to suit the building manager.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Yeadon kitchen these are the tells.
Smells pushing back into the dining room, a canopy that drips onto a Kirk Lane cookline, extraction that no longer clears the steam, visible grease at the filter edges, or a Yeadon insurer or fire risk assessment asking for a TR19 certificate you cannot produce. Cleaning frequency tracks use - a hard-frying Ivegate 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 Yeadon 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 Nunroyd 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 Yeadon fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Yeadon 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 Yeadon 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 Kirk Lane 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 Yeadon 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. Food hygiene inspections by Leeds City 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 Kirk Lane kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Ivegate cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Kirk Lane and Ivegate kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Yeadon run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so an Ivegate cookline is back in service for the next shift.
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 Kirk Lane and Nunroyd where the runs are long and awkward.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Yeadon offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the West Yorkshire hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Nunroyd 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 Kirk Lane operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Local knowledge
Yeadon grew from a farming village into a mill town on woollen cloth, and between 1868 and 1877 five steam-powered woollen mills went up here, among them Green Lane Mill, built in 1868 by the clothier Thomas Pratt on land bought from Rawdon Baptist Church. Their spinning and weaving sheds filled the air with wool dust and fibre from morning to night. 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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