Brecon · TR19 Grease
We degrease the canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan for Brecon restaurants, takeaways and pubs - so the system pulls properly, runs cooler and holds a current TR19 certificate.
Brecon
Brecon fries on the Struet, High Street and Free Street, from the fish bars to the takeaways.
The settings vary, the grease does not. Across Free Street, Bulwark and the suburban strips, the takeaways and grill houses run the single hardest test an extraction canopy faces. Brecon rates dozens of food premises, most of them frying in a tight footprint.
The kit the Free Street and Bulwark cooks work beneath - canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan - is what we degrease. Done right it pulls the way it should, clearing heat and steam, backed by a current TR19 Grease certificate, and it runs cooler too, because a clean Brecon fan is not working against a greased one to move the same air.
The system
Extraction cleaning is the accessible heart of the system - the kit above a hard-frying Free Street cookline that does the work and shows the grease first.
We strip and degrease the canopy inside and out, clean or replace the baffle filters, and degrease the extractor fan and its housing - the part that quietly loses performance as grease loads the blades over a hard Bulwark service. Cleaned to the TR19 Grease standard, with before-and-after evidence and a certificate, so the system pulls properly and your Brecon fire risk assessment and insurer have the record they ask for.
Filters
The standard for commercial cooklines: they trap grease and slow flame spread. Cleaned, or replaced when warped or corroded.
Common on older or lighter setups; they clog fast and pass grease through if neglected. We flag where a baffle upgrade is overdue.
On the odour and emission-controlled systems near Brecon's residential streets; cleaned or changed so the downstream stages are not overwhelmed.
Fire
A Brecon cookline's extraction and its fire protection are one system - and a clean is the moment to check the join.
Nozzles aimed at the canopy and cooking points; grease build-up around them on a busy Free Street line is exactly what they exist to fight. We clean around them without disturbing the system.
Where the gas shuts off if extraction fails on a Free Street line, we work without tripping it - and flag it if it is not behaving.
Checked for the grease that would stop them closing - a quiet failure point on a Bulwark system that a quick canopy wipe misses.
On the ground in Brecon
We are under Brecon's canopies every week. Real jobs, not stock shots.
A garden centre cafe in Brecon had the canopy and fan housing carrying a heavy grease load from the pizza oven. We cleaned the canopy and fan housing back to bare metal, degreased the fan housing and refitted the cleaned filters, leaving the extract clean and fire-safe with airflow over the range restored. We left photos and a certificate for the maintenance log.
Why it pays
Extraction cleaning is a fire-risk job first - but it pays back every Brecon service.
A clean canopy and fan pull heat and steam off a hard Free Street cookline faster, so the kitchen sits cooler and the fan draws less to shift the same air. A greased system is a fire risk, a failed inspection point and a comfort problem all at once. How often it is needed follows how hard you cook - the Bulwark takeaways far more than a daytime cafe - and your certificate fixes the interval.
Inspect the Brecon canopy, filters and fan, agree scope and frequency.
Remove filters and access panels, protect the cookline.
Canopy, filters and fan to bare metal, with before-and-after evidence.
TR19 Grease certificate and next-due date for your Brecon fire logbook.
Questions
It depends how hard the kitchen runs. Under TR19 Grease, heavy use of 12 to 16 hours a day points to roughly every three months, moderate to every six, light to every twelve. A busy Free Street or Bulwark kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime cafe.
Yes. Where a filter is warped, corroded or a mesh type that keeps passing grease, we say so and swap it - common on the older Bulwark takeaway canopies that have run hot for years.
Yes. Beyond restaurants, Brecon has the town-centre and canal-side kitchens we clean and certify - high-volume systems we clean and certify alongside the hospitality work.
Every clean finishes with a dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs and a condition report - the evidence a Free Street operator's insurer or fire risk assessor expects to see.
It can. An inspection covers the physical condition of the premises, ventilation included, so a grease-laden canopy or fan over a High Street cookline can count against your score.
Yes. Most venues we clean around Free Street and Bulwark are busy through the evening, so we work overnight, early mornings or on closing days, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
Extraction cleaning covers the canopy, filters and fan; where the concealed duct run behind them is also loaded - as it often is in a tight Free Street kitchen - we clean the full run to TR19 and certify it together.
Local knowledge
The Brecon Jazz Festival has filled the town's streets and venues every August since 1984, and Theatr Brycheiniog on the canal wharf has anchored its indoor stages since 1997. Crowds like these are fed by kitchens running flat out for days. Every hour a range hood works, grease settles in the canopy, filters and extract duct, and that layer is a fire load, so it is degreased back to bare metal and the airflow proven.
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