Weston-super-Mare · 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 Weston-super-Mare, and certify it to the TR19 Grease standard your insurer expects.
Weston-super-Mare
Weston-super-Mare rates around 1,650 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 High Street to Marine Parade and Sovereign Centre, 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 Weston-super-Mare offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-packed laundry runs behind its hotel and care-home dryers. The busiest kitchens - Weston College, Weston General Hospital, the Grand Pier and the seafront hotels - coat their hidden ducting in grease quickest, and that is the very path a fire follows.
The standard
TR19 Grease is the benchmark Weston-super-Mare insurers and fire risk assessors expect - measured across the whole extract run, not just the visible mouth of the canopy.
Because the standard is written around film thickness, it sets the depth that triggers a clean and re-test. In the mixed roof spaces around High Street and Sovereign Centre, a canopy-and-filter wipe leaves the duct interior - where grease piles up and a fire runs - completely alone. We reach the whole Weston-super-Mare run through existing hatches and new ones we cut, clean back to bright metal, take before-and-after grease-depth figures at set points, and certify it to TR19 Grease with those depths on the 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 Weston-super-Mare hotels, care homes and gyms.
On the ground in Weston-super-Mare
We are in Weston-super-Mare's ductwork and plant every week. The proof is the jobs, not the stock photos.
A coastal retirement apartment block in Weston-super-Mare had fluffy laundry lint and wet cloth fibre choking the primary vertical extraction riser where the condensation had built up. We ran pneumatic air whips down the riser to knock the damp lint into a high-filtration vacuum, dropping the backpressure back to normal so the dryers stopped overheating. We sourced an inline condensation trap to protect the lower collection chambers from moisture.
When it is due
Ductwork rarely warns you politely. In a busy Weston-super-Mare kitchen these are the tells.
A canopy dripping onto a High Street cookline, cooking smells forced back to the tables, extraction that no longer clears the steam, grease showing at the filter edges, or a Weston-super-Mare 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 Marine Parade 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 Weston-super-Mare 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 Sovereign 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 Weston-super-Mare fire logbook.
Why it matters
Three duties push every Weston-super-Mare 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 Weston-super-Mare 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 High 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. A live TR19 Grease certificate is what a Weston-super-Mare insurer treats as evidence the system is maintained. Miss it and a fire claim may be reduced or refused - an expensive surprise once the damage is done.
Hygiene and environmental health. When North Somerset 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 High Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime Marine Parade cafe. We measure the grease load and confirm your interval.
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 High Street and Sovereign Centre where the runs are long and awkward.
Yes - from High Street and Marine Parade kitchens to the offices, schools and industrial units across Weston-super-Mare and the wider Somerset.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings and closing days for the High Street and Marine Parade 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 High Street operator's insurer and fire risk assessor expect.
Yes. We clean the dry ductwork and air-handling in Weston-super-Mare offices, schools and public buildings, and the lint-heavy laundry ducts in the Somerset hotels and care homes, alongside kitchen grease ducts.
Yes. The fan at the top of a Sovereign 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.
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