Tiverton · 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 Tiverton, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Tiverton
Tiverton 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 Tiverton work out of tight, mixed premises - Gold Street, Bampton Street, Westexe - 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, college refectories, hotel and pub kitchens and the busy town-centre takeaways - build grease fastest in the concealed lengths where flame spreads.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Tiverton 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 Gold Street and Westexe, 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 Tiverton 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 Tiverton hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Tiverton
We are in Tiverton's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
Years without a clean had left the air handling unit and supply ductwork of a busy dental practice in Tiverton heavy with dust and debris. We worked the supply ductwork over with brushes and HEPA extraction, then cleaned and refitted the ceiling diffusers. Airflow returned to spec and the system was left visibly clean, with the difference obvious the moment it fired back up. We booked it for a Sunday while reception was shut.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Tiverton kitchen these are the tells.
The tells are plain: steam that lingers, odours drifting back over the diners, drips off the canopy onto a Gold Street line, a rim of grease at the filters, or a Tiverton insurer or fire assessment wanting a TR19 certificate you cannot show. Frequency tracks the cooking load - a hard-frying Bampton 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 Tiverton 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 Westexe 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 Tiverton fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Tiverton 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 Tiverton 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 Gold 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 Tiverton 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. A food hygiene visit from Mid Devon District 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 Gold Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Bampton Street cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Gold Street and Bampton 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 Westexe conversions where the run was boxed in with no hatches.
Little, if it is planned. We survey the Tiverton run first, agree a slot overnight or on a close day, sheet off the kitchen and clean section by section, so a Bampton Street cookline is back in service for the next shift.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Tiverton 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 Westexe 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.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Gold Street operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Local knowledge
Tiverton grew rich on the wool and kersey cloth trade, its weavers turning out the twelve-yard 'Devonshire dozen' that Peter Blundell shipped to London and endowed his 1604 school upon. From those cloth halls to Heathcoat's lace mill, the town's air has always carried fibre and lint, and modern premises hide that dust inside sealed ductwork instead. There it builds unseen until airflow fails or fire finds a path along the run. We clean and inspect ventilation and extract ductwork across the town, then hand over photographic before-and-after evidence of every length.
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