Duct Cleaning · Manchester
From the Northern Quarter gyms and Ancoats kitchens to the Openshaw works and the university halls, Manchester runs on ductwork you never see - grease extract, dry ventilation and laundry runs where the dirt, and the fire risk, sit concealed above the ceiling.
Answer a few quick questions about your Manchester canopy, filters and ducting for a guide price on stripping and degreasing the extract system - no measuring, no site visit.
Try the cost calculatorManchester runs an enormous amount of ductwork the city never sees. The restaurants and bars of the Northern Quarter, Ancoats and Deansgate, and the length of Rusholme's Curry Mile, push grease-laden air up through kitchen extract; the offices of Spinningfields, the boutique gyms and studios, the university buildings and the hospitals depend on dry supply and extract air-handling; and the hotels and launderettes run laundry ducting that packs with lint.
Behind a great share of those kitchens sits an extract system a canopy wipe never touches. Manchester falls under Manchester City Council, whose remit takes in 6,423 rated premises across the city - and grease ductwork is a fire matter as much as a hygiene one. Under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 the responsible person has to keep it clean to a standard a certificate can show, whether the run climbs out of an Ancoats kitchen or an Openshaw works.
We clean and certify the whole system - grease, dry and laundry - right across Manchester: from the Northern Quarter and Ancoats to Rusholme's Curry Mile, Deansgate and the Openshaw industrial belt. We survey the full route, fit compliant access where a sealed run has none, and clean every internal metre back to bare metal.
TR19 Grease is the benchmark insurers and fire risk assessors expect for kitchen extract systems. It covers the whole system, measured, not just the parts you can see. Grease is assessed by thickness, and the standard sets the level at which a system must be cleaned and re-tested.
Across Manchester 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 boutique fitness studio in the Northern Quarter, the air-handling ductwork over the packed studio floor had silted and lost draw, leaving the room heavy through a full class. We brushed and vacuumed the branch runs, cleared and reseated the diffusers, and renewed the tired panel filters, so the ventilation came back over the floor and the paperwork reflected the whole system - air quality being the whole point in a room full of hard breathing.
At a restaurant on the Rusholme Curry Mile, a heavy-frying kitchen ran its grease extract up a long concealed riser to a rooftop fan, access reaching only the first length. We cut compliant hatches into the boxed sections, cleaned the full run from canopy to fan back to bare metal, and logged grease-depth readings before and after. The system came back clean and certified, with a photo record for the fire file.
We inspect the full run, find the access gaps in the concealed sections and agree scope and a cleaning frequency for your usage.
We fit compliant inspection hatches where the ductwork is sealed, and protect the kitchen or plant area.
Canopy to fan, down to bare metal, with before-and-after evidence at set measuring points.
You get a dated certificate, grease-depth record, photographs and your next-due date.
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.
Manchester made itself Cottonopolis in the mills of Ancoats, where by the 1850s more than a hundred spinning mills packed the streets off the Rochdale Canal - many now converted to the bars and apartments of the city's coolest quarter. The kitchens that filled those shells cook flat out today, and the grease their extract carries banks unseen in the concealed run. We work around service so a Manchester kitchen is cleaned, certified and back in action without losing covers.
Yes. We work throughout Manchester and the wider Greater Manchester, including the Northern Quarter and Ancoats to Rusholme's Curry Mile, Deansgate and the Openshaw industrial belt. 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 Greater Manchester 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 Greater Manchester.
