Torquay · 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 Torquay, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Torquay
Torquay rates around 1,500 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.
From Harbourside to Fleet Street and Brixham, the town's cooklines vent through long hidden ducting that climbs to a roof fan. We clean it end to end to the TR19 Grease standard - not just the canopy, but the flat and rising sections where grease really collects.
It is not only kitchens: we also clean the dry supply and extract ductwork in Torquay offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-packed laundry runs behind its hotel and care-home dryers. The busiest kitchens - South Devon College, Torbay Hospital, the seafront hotels and Plainmoor - coat their hidden ducting in grease quickest, and that is the very path a fire follows.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Torquay insurers and fire risk assessors expect - measured across the whole extract run, not just the visible mouth of the canopy.
The standard is written in film thickness: once grease reaches a set depth the run has to be cleaned and proven again. In the crowded roof voids off Harbourside and Brixham, a wipe of the canopy and filters never reaches the ductwork behind them, where the grease that carries fire quietly gathers. We work the whole Torquay run through hatches already in place and others we cut, bring it back to bright metal, note grease depths at fixed stations before and after, and certify to TR19 Grease with the closing figures logged.
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 Torquay hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Torquay
We are in Torquay's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A harbourside seafood restaurant in Torquay had salt-laden coastal damp combining with fryer grease into a heavy, corrosive film through the extract runs. We hand-scraped the accessible duct, ran a degreaser through the sealed lengths and treated the interior with a corrosion inhibitor, restoring the extraction and guarding the metal against the sea-air tarnishing. It was worked after the last harbour-front covers so no trade was lost.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Torquay kitchen these are the tells.
Smells pushing back into the dining room, a canopy that drips onto a Harbourside cookline, extraction that no longer clears the steam, visible grease at the filter edges, or a Torquay insurer or fire risk assessment asking for a TR19 certificate you cannot produce. Cleaning frequency tracks use - a hard-frying Fleet 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 Torquay 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 Brixham 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 Torquay fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Torquay 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 Torquay 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 Harbourside 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 Torquay 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. When Torbay 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 Harbourside kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Fleet Street cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
Yes - from Harbourside and Fleet Street kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Torquay and the wider Devon.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the Harbourside and Fleet Street kitchens, and around shift patterns at commercial and production sites, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
A dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs of each section, and an access report for your fire logbook - the evidence a Harbourside operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Brixham 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 Harbourside and Brixham where the runs are long and awkward.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Torquay offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Devon hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
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