Tavistock · 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 Tavistock, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Tavistock
Tavistock 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 Tavistock work out of tight, mixed premises - Bedford Square, Duke Street, Plymouth 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 Tavistock schools, offices and civic buildings, and the lint-choked dryer runs behind its hotels and care homes. It is the hardest-pressed kitchens - pub carveries, takeaways and the busy cafe kitchens off Bedford Square - that glaze their hidden ducting quickest, and that coating is the road a fire takes.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Tavistock 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 Bedford Square and Plymouth Road, wiping the canopy and filters leaves the ductwork - the long concealed sections that gather grease and carry fire - untouched. We open the full Tavistock 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 Tavistock hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Tavistock
We are in Tavistock's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A busy primary school in Tavistock had its fresh-air ducting thick with settled dust behind the grilles, giving poor air movement through the rooms. We isolated the zones, brushed out the internal ducting and washed the fan coil unit. Airflow came back up to spec and the system was left visibly clean throughout.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Tavistock kitchen these are the tells.
A canopy dripping onto a Bedford Square cookline, cooking smells forced back to the tables, extraction that no longer clears the steam, grease showing at the filter edges, or a Tavistock insurer or fire risk assessor wanting a TR19 certificate you have not got. How often it needs doing follows how hard you cook - a fast-frying Duke Street kitchen far more than a daytime cafe - and the certificate names the interval, so the next visit is booked, not guessed.
How it runs
Inspect the full Tavistock 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 Plymouth 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 Tavistock fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Tavistock 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 Tavistock 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 Bedford Square 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 Tavistock 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 West Devon Borough 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 Bedford Square kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Duke Street cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Bedford Square and Duke Street kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Plymouth 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.
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 Bedford Square and Plymouth Road where the runs are long and awkward.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Bedford Square operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Tavistock offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Devon hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Tavistock run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Duke Street cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Local knowledge
The Tavistock Canal, cut by 1817 with much of the labour done by French prisoners of war, carried copper ore down to Morwellham Quay on the Tamar. It was a feat of moving material cleanly through a fixed channel, which is exactly what ductwork does in a modern kitchen or workshop. We survey and clean extract ducting to the grease-deposit standard, so that what should flow to the outside air does not build up and feed a fire.
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