Saltash · 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 Saltash, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Saltash
Saltash rates dozens 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 Saltash work out of tight, mixed premises - Fore Street, Lower Fore Street, North Road - 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.
Kitchens are only half the work - we also strip the dry supply and extract ductwork of Saltash schools, offices and civic buildings, and the lint-choked dryer runs behind its hotels and care homes. It is the hardest-pressed kitchens - pub kitchens, takeaways and school and workplace canteens - that glaze their hidden ducting quickest, and that coating is the road a fire takes.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Saltash insurers and fire risk assessors expect - measured across the whole extract run, not just the visible mouth of the canopy.
Grease is measured by thickness, and the standard sets the depth at which a system must be cleaned and re-tested. Around Fore Street and North Road, where the concealed runs thread through mixed roof voids, a canopy-and-filter wipe leaves the ductwork itself - the long hidden sections where grease accumulates and a fire travels - untouched. We access the full Saltash run through existing and newly fitted inspection hatches, clean to bare metal, record before-and-after grease-depth readings at set points, and issue a TR19 Grease certificate with a post-clean depth 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 Saltash hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Saltash
We are in Saltash's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
An office suite in Saltash had fine settled dust built up through its dry supply ductwork and the air-handling unit, holding the airflow down. We cleaned the ductwork with air whips under negative pressure and renewed the dirty panel filters, bringing the airflow back to spec and leaving the system visibly clean. The work was fitted into a quiet bank holiday to suit the office.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Saltash kitchen these are the tells.
Smells pushing back into the dining room, a canopy that drips onto a Fore Street cookline, extraction that no longer clears the steam, visible grease at the filter edges, or a Saltash insurer or fire risk assessment asking for a TR19 certificate you cannot produce. Cleaning frequency tracks use - a hard-frying Lower Fore 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 Saltash 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 North Road 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 Saltash fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Saltash 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 Saltash 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 Fore 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 Saltash 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. When Cornwall Council carries out a food hygiene inspection it judges the physical state of the premises, and ventilation is part of that. A grease-choked extract can pull down the rating an Environmental Health Officer gives, on top of the odour and the weakening airflow your staff put up with.
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 Fore Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Lower Fore Street cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes. The fan at the top of a North Road 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.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Saltash run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Lower Fore 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 North Road conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
The full run, canopy through the concealed horizontal and vertical ductwork to the roof fan - the hidden sections a canopy-only clean leaves loaded, which matters in the tight stock around Fore Street and North Road where the runs are long and awkward.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Saltash offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Cornwall hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Yes - from Fore Street and Lower Fore Street kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Saltash and the wider Cornwall.
Local knowledge
When the Tamar road bridge opened alongside Brunel's rail crossing in 1961, it ended centuries of reliance on the ferry and gave Saltash a direct road link to Plymouth. A bridge deck needs its hidden cables and joints inspected to stay safe, and ductwork is no different. Grease and dust settle unseen inside kitchen and LEV ducting, and only opening, cleaning and inspecting the full run to the TR19 standard shows what has really built up out of sight.
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