Burnham-on-Sea · 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 Burnham-on-Sea, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Burnham-on-Sea
Burnham-on-Sea 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 Abingdon Street to College Street and Adam Street, 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.
It is not only kitchens: we also clean the dry supply and extract ductwork in Burnham-on-Sea offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-packed laundry runs behind its hotel and care-home dryers. The busiest kitchens - seafront cafe kitchens, holiday-park food courts, pub and hotel kitchens and the busy town-centre takeaways - coat their hidden ducting in grease quickest, and that is the very path a fire follows.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Burnham-on-Sea insurers and fire risk assessors expect - measured across the whole extract run, not just the visible mouth of the canopy.
Because the standard is written around film thickness, it sets the depth that triggers a clean and re-test. In the mixed roof spaces around Abingdon Street and Adam Street, a canopy-and-filter wipe leaves the duct interior - where grease piles up and a fire runs - completely alone. We reach the whole Burnham-on-Sea run through existing hatches and new ones we cut, clean back to bright metal, take before-and-after grease-depth figures at set points, and certify it to TR19 Grease with those depths on the 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 Burnham-on-Sea hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Burnham-on-Sea
We are in Burnham-on-Sea's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
An established Burnham-on-Sea cafe had thick, sticky grease running the length of the horizontal duct run from the cook line. We opened up the run, lifted the grease out by hand and pressure-degreased the whole way to the fan. It finished cleaned to a TR19 standard throughout, with the images, report and certificate handed over. We timed the work for the Christmas shutdown while the kitchen was quiet.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Burnham-on-Sea kitchen these are the tells.
Smells pushing back into the dining room, a canopy that drips onto an Abingdon Street cookline, extraction that no longer clears the steam, visible grease at the filter edges, or a Burnham-on-Sea insurer or fire risk assessment asking for a TR19 certificate you cannot produce. Cleaning frequency tracks use - a hard-frying College Street 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 Burnham-on-Sea 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 Adam Street 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 Burnham-on-Sea fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Burnham-on-Sea 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 Burnham-on-Sea 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 an Abingdon 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. Your Burnham-on-Sea insurer expects a current TR19 Grease certificate as proof the duct is clean. Without one, a fire claim can be cut back or turned down altogether - a costly thing to find only after a fire.
Hygiene and environmental health. Food hygiene inspections by Sedgemoor District 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 Abingdon Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime College Street cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Burnham-on-Sea offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Somerset hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence an Abingdon Street operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Abingdon Street and College Street 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 Burnham-on-Sea run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a College Street cookline is back in service for the next shift.
We fit compliant access panels where the ductwork has none, so every internal section can be reached, cleaned, inspected and certified - common in the older Adam Street conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Yes - from Abingdon Street and College Street kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Burnham-on-Sea and the wider Somerset.
Local knowledge
The railway reached Highbridge in 1841, and the town became a wharf and works town where the Somerset and Dorset line ran its own locomotive and carriage shops beside the River Brue. Industry here has always moved its air through hidden channels, and modern premises are no different, sealing their dust and grease inside ductwork where it builds unseen until airflow fails or fire finds a path. We clean and inspect ventilation and extract ductwork across Burnham and Highbridge, then hand over photographic before-and-after evidence of every run. What the eye never sees is exactly where the risk collects.
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