Taunton · 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 Taunton, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Taunton
Taunton rates around 1,480 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 Taunton work out of tight, mixed premises - East Street, North Street, Orchard Centre - 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.
It is not only kitchens: we also clean the dry supply and extract ductwork in Taunton offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-packed laundry runs behind its hotel and care-home dryers. The busiest kitchens - the University Centre Somerset, Musgrove Park Hospital, the County Ground and the town hotels - coat their hidden ducting in grease quickest, and that is the very path a fire follows.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Taunton 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 East Street and Orchard Centre, wiping the canopy and filters leaves the ductwork - the long concealed sections that gather grease and carry fire - untouched. We open the full Taunton 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 Taunton hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Taunton
We are in Taunton's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A high-rise residential block in Taunton had cardboard boxes and refuse bags jammed between floors in its communal chute, fully blocking it and breeding a foul smell. We cleared the obstruction with flexible breakdown poles and ran a full hot-water sanitising flush, restoring the gravity transit to the ground-floor compactor and clearing the odour. We fitted a new heavy rubber draft-exclusion flap at the base to seal the bin-store smells out.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Taunton kitchen these are the tells.
Smells pushing back into the dining room, a canopy that drips onto an East Street cookline, extraction that no longer clears the steam, visible grease at the filter edges, or a Taunton insurer or fire risk assessment asking for a TR19 certificate you cannot produce. Cleaning frequency tracks use - a hard-frying North 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 Taunton 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 Orchard Centre 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 Taunton fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Taunton 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 Taunton 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 East 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. To a Taunton insurer a current TR19 Grease certificate is the proof the extract has been kept up. Let it lapse and a fire claim can be scaled back or declined outright - the kind of gap nobody wants to find with the kitchen already gutted.
Hygiene and environmental health. A food hygiene visit from Somerset Council weighs the physical state of the premises, ventilation counted within it. A grease-blocked extract can pull down the rating an Environmental Health Officer sets, quite apart from the stale smell and the tired airflow your staff work beneath all shift.
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 East Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime North Street cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Taunton run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a North Street cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Yes. The fan at the top of an Orchard Centre 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 clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Taunton offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Somerset hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
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 East Street and Orchard Centre where the runs are long and awkward.
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 Orchard Centre conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Yes - from East Street and North Street kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Taunton and the wider Somerset.
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