Duct Cleaning · Chester
Chester runs grease ductwork behind its historic frontages - the Rows restaurants, the Hoole independents and the riverside kitchens all pushing hot, grease-laden air up concealed runs to the roof. We clean and certify the whole system to TR19 Grease, canopy to fan.
Answer a few quick questions about your Chester canopy, filters and ducting for a guide price on stripping and degreasing the extract system - no measuring, no site visit.
Try the cost calculatorChester cooks for a city that draws visitors the year round. The restaurants tucked into the two-tier Rows along Eastgate Street and Bridge Street, the independents of Hoole and Faulkner Street, the riverside kitchens at the Groves and Handbridge and the hotels around the walls all run extract ductwork that climbs, hidden, from the canopy to the roof - much of it threaded through listed and historic buildings.
Inside a Cheshire West and Chester food economy of 2,956 rated premises, the concealed run is where the fire risk sits, and a historic frontage makes it no less real. Grease in a boxed-in riser or a long horizontal duct is out of sight until a fire risk assessor or an insurer asks for evidence, or until a flame finds it. We clean and certify commercial grease, dry and laundry ductwork across Chester to TR19 Grease, fit access panels where the run is sealed, and leave the photographs and certificate your file needs.
Insurers and fire risk assessors work to TR19 Grease because it measures the whole extract system rather than the visible canopy. It grades grease by depth and fixes the point at which a run has to be cleaned again - so the interval is a measurement, not a guess.
Across Chester we work to that one standard, whether the run climbs out of a busy restaurant kitchen or a care-home laundry.
The greasy extract from a cookline is the run that carries real fire risk. We clean it canopy to fan, down to bare metal, and log grease-depth readings at set points.
Dry ventilation ductwork chokes on dust and debris, so it works harder and moves less air. We clean and inspect it so airflow and air quality come back.
Lint-packed dryer and laundry ducting is among the most flammable build-ups on any site. We clear it and check it, before it becomes the ignition source.
Real jobs, described by sector and area - never by a client's name.
At a restaurant in the Rows on Eastgate Street, a concealed extract run climbed through a listed structure to a hidden roof outlet. We surveyed it carefully, cut access panels where the run allowed, and cleaned it from canopy to fan, leaving a certificate and photo record for the file.
A Faulkner Street kitchen in Hoole had a vertical riser to a roof fan packed with grease after years of service. We fitted compliant panels, cleaned the run back to bare metal, and set a next-due date matched to its hours.
We trace the whole run, locate the sealed and concealed sections and set the scope and a cleaning interval to your cooking hours.
Compliant inspection hatches go in wherever the ductwork is boxed in, and the kitchen or plant area is sheeted and protected.
The full run is cleaned to bare metal from canopy to fan, with grease-depth readings taken at set points as we work.
You receive a dated certificate, the readings, photographs and a next-due date for the fire logbook.
The building. The Fire Safety Order puts the duty on the responsible person to control fire risk, and concealed grease is where a kitchen fire spreads fastest and least visibly.
The claim. Insurers expect a current certificate; a fire claim on a neglected system can be cut or refused - a costly surprise after a loss.
The day-to-day. A clean run pulls better, smells better and stands up when the environmental health officer visits.
Hoole, just across the railway from the centre, has become Chester's independent food quarter - Faulkner Street a run of cafes, delis and restaurants that fills every evening. Those kitchens push grease up concealed runs like any other, and a fire risk in a tight parade is quickly a problem for the neighbours too. We survey, clean and certify the whole system so a Hoole kitchen stays fire-safe as well as busy.
Yes. We work throughout Chester and the wider Cheshire, including the city centre and the Rows on Eastgate and Bridge Street, the riverside at Handbridge and the Groves, the independents of Hoole and Faulkner Street, out to Boughton, and the Sealand Road and Chester Gates units. Call 07961 915018 or use the contact form and we will confirm and quote.
The whole run - from the canopy through the concealed horizontal and vertical ductwork to the roof fan. The hidden sections are exactly where the grease and the fire risk sit.
We fit compliant access panels where the run is sealed or boxed in, so every internal section can be reached, cleaned, inspected and certified.
It depends on use. TR19 Grease sets kitchen extract frequency by daily cooking hours - roughly every three months for heavy use, six for moderate and twelve for light - and we set your interval and next-due date on the survey.
Yes. Dry supply and extract ductwork clogs with dust and can spread contamination, and laundry and dryer ducting packs with highly flammable lint. We clean and certify all three.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings, weekends and closing days to keep your kitchen or site running.
We have cleaned and certified commercial ductwork since 2001, the length of the Cheshire coast and across the UK. Whatever the run - a grease riser, a dry office system or a care-home laundry duct - the work ends the same way: bare metal, a photo record and a certificate that stands up to a fire risk assessment.
Send us your site details and cooking hours and we will survey, quote and certify - across Cheshire.
