Newton Abbot · 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 Newton Abbot, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Newton Abbot
Newton Abbot 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.
Kitchens across Newton Abbot work out of tight, mixed premises - Wolborough Street, Courtenay Street, Bank Street - their extract snaking through concealed voids to roof-mounted fans. We take the whole run to the TR19 Grease standard, hood to fan, reaching the horizontal legs and vertical risers a canopy wipe never touches.
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 - hospital kitchens, racecourse catering, pub and hotel kitchens and the busy town-centre takeaways - build grease fastest in the concealed lengths where flame spreads.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Newton Abbot insurers and fire risk assessors expect - measured across the whole extract run, not just the visible mouth of the canopy.
The standard works in grease-film thickness, fixing the depth at which a run must be cleaned and re-tested. In the shared roof voids around Wolborough Street and Bank Street, wiping the canopy and filters leaves the ductwork - the long concealed sections that gather grease and carry fire - untouched. We open the full Newton Abbot run through existing and newly cut inspection hatches, strip it to bare metal, log grease-depth readings at fixed points before and after, and issue a TR19 Grease certificate with the post-clean depths recorded.
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 Newton Abbot hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Newton Abbot
We are in Newton Abbot's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
The reading-room supply ducting at a long-established Newton Abbot library was thick with settled dust behind the grilles, leaving staff with dry eyes and stale air through the rooms. We worked the dry runs with brushes and HEPA extraction, then cleaned and refitted the fan coil unit. Air through the main rooms came back noticeably fresher and the dust complaints stopped. Staff were setting up and happily worked around us, and we handed over tidily at the end.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Newton Abbot kitchen these are the tells.
The tells are plain: steam that lingers, odours drifting back over the diners, drips off the canopy onto a Wolborough Street line, a rim of grease at the filters, or a Newton Abbot insurer or fire assessment wanting a TR19 certificate you cannot show. Frequency tracks the cooking load - a hard-frying Courtenay Street kitchen needs it far more often than a quiet cafe - and your certificate sets the date, so nothing is left to chance.
How it runs
Inspect the full Newton Abbot 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 Bank 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 Newton Abbot fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Newton Abbot 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 Newton Abbot 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 Wolborough 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 Newton Abbot 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. Teignbridge District Council food hygiene inspections assess the physical condition of premises, ventilation included. A grease-clogged system can count against the rating an Environmental Health Officer awards, quite apart from the smell and the falling extract performance your staff have to work in.
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 Wolborough Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Courtenay Street cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Wolborough Street operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Yes - from Wolborough Street and Courtenay Street kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Newton Abbot and the wider Devon.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Newton Abbot offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Devon hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Bank Street 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.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Wolborough Street and Courtenay Street kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
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 Bank Street conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Local knowledge
Two miles north-west of the town lies the Bovey Basin, the centre of Britain's ball-clay industry, where the pits around Kingsteignton have been worked since Devon clay was being shipped from Teignmouth around 1700 and later carried out on the Stover Canal. Clay dust once hung in the drying sheds and pottery works at Kingsteignton, Bovey Tracey and Aller Vale, but modern premises hide their dust inside sealed ductwork instead, where grease and debris build unseen until airflow fails or fire finds a path. We clean and inspect ventilation and extract ductwork across the town. Then we hand over photographic before-and-after evidence of every run.
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