We're an Ulverston-based commercial cleaning specialist with over 20 years of experience keeping food businesses compliant, safe, and inspection-ready. Trusted by restaurants, hotels, schools, and care homes across the Northwest.
Hy5 Commercial Cleaning exists to give food business owners confidence: confidence that their kitchen is compliant, their extraction system is safe, and their documentation will hold up to scrutiny when an inspector arrives unannounced.
We don't treat compliance as a checkbox exercise. Every clean we carry out is backed by proper documentation, trained technicians, and the kind of quality assurance that comes from years of working alongside EHOs, fire safety officers, and food safety auditors. When you work with Hy5, you're working with a team that genuinely understands what's at stake.
Every member of our team is trained to COSHH standards and holds current method statements for the chemicals and equipment we use. Safety isn't an afterthought. It's our starting point.
Our work is fully documented and signed off to industry standards. Every TR19 clean produces a grease deposit report; every deep clean produces a written post-clean sign-off. No verbal assurances, only paper evidence.
We're based in Ulverston and have built our reputation on repeat business from clients across Cumbria. We know our clients personally, we show up on time, and we do what we say we'll do.
Hy5 Commercial Cleaning was founded in 2007 in Ulverston, Cumbria. Having spent years working in commercial kitchens, our founder saw first-hand how difficult it was for busy food businesses to find reliable, qualified cleaning contractors in the region. Too often, local pubs and restaurants were relying on general cleaners with no specialist knowledge of extraction systems, TR19 requirements, or grease trap compliance.
Starting with a single van and a focus on doing the job properly, Hy5 grew steadily through word of mouth. Within a few years we had earned our first industry accreditation and were regularly working with hotels, school kitchens, and care facilities across the county. Each new sector brought new compliance demands, and our team trained specifically to meet them.
Today, Hy5 employs a team of trained technicians covering the whole of Cumbria and wider Northwest. We hold multiple active accreditations, carry full insurance, and maintain a 100% compliance record across all client documentation. Our founding principle, do the job right and document it properly, hasn't changed since day one.
Hy5 Commercial Cleaning established in Ulverston, Cumbria, focusing on commercial kitchen and extraction cleaning for food businesses across the region.
Earned BESCA certification, formally qualifying our team to carry out TR19 extraction system cleaning and certification to industry standards.
Achieved CHAS Elite accreditation, the highest tier of the Contractors Health and Safety Assessment Scheme, recognising our safety management systems and processes.
Extended our service coverage to Lancashire, Greater Manchester, and Merseyside, adding new technicians and vehicles to support the growing client base.
Our accreditations are not just certificates on a wall. They are evidence of the training, systems, and standards our team maintains every day.
BESCA accreditation qualifies our technicians to carry out TR19 extraction cleaning and issue the grease deposit certification required by fire insurers and EHOs. Without this, TR19 certification documents are not legally valid.
CHAS Elite is the premium tier of health and safety contractor assessment. It gives public-sector clients, local authorities, and NHS facilities confidence that our safety management systems exceed baseline requirements.
We clean and certify extraction systems in full accordance with the TR19 standard published by BESA. This is the benchmark referenced by UK fire insurers and building regulations when assessing extraction system maintenance.
Safe Contractor accreditation provides clients with an independent, third-party verification of our health and safety policies, method statements, and risk assessment processes. This matters to many large hospitality groups.
We've built long-term relationships with food businesses across Cumbria and the Northwest.
"I can actually hear the kitchen extract system working and the extract above the dishwash nearly pulled the sheet of blue roll out my hand when I was showing the management team how effective the clean was! The lads grafted the entire time, and the job has made a huge difference to the guys working in the kitchen. I am over the moon with the results!"
"Great guys to work with. Does our 5 sites across the north west and have no complaints!"
"We were truly delighted with the deep clean undertaken by Hy5 Commercial Cleaning. The team were very professional and provided an excellent service."
Ready to get your kitchen compliant and your documentation in order? Get in touch with Hy5 today for a free, no-obligation quote.
