Cwmbran · TR19 Grease
We degrease the canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan for Cwmbran restaurants, takeaways and pubs - so the system pulls properly, runs cooler and holds a current TR19 certificate.
Cwmbran
The town fries hard, from the takeaways around the Town Centre to the chip shops of Croesyceiliog and Fairwater.
Different kitchens, same grease. Around St Dials, Oakfield and the outlying strips, the grill houses and takeaways put an extraction canopy through the hardest work it will ever do. With hundreds of food premises rated across Cwmbran, most are frying in a cramped space.
We degrease exactly what the St Dials and Oakfield cooks stand under - the canopy, the baffle filters and the extractor fan. Cleaned properly the system draws as designed, clearing heat and steam, carrying a current TR19 Grease certificate, and running cooler, since a clean Cwmbran fan is not straining against grease to shift the same air.
The system
Extraction cleaning is the accessible heart of the system - the kit above a hard-frying St Dials cookline that does the work and shows the grease first.
We strip and degrease the canopy inside and out, clean the baffle filters or swap them where needed, and degrease the extractor fan and its housing - the piece that quietly sheds performance as grease weighs down the blades over a hard Oakfield service. It is cleaned to the TR19 Grease standard, with before-and-after evidence and a certificate, so the system draws as it should and your Cwmbran fire risk assessment and insurer get the record they want.
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 Cwmbran's residential streets; cleaned or changed so the downstream stages are not overwhelmed.
Fire
A Cwmbran 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 St Dials 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 St Dials 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 an Oakfield system that a quick canopy wipe misses.
On the ground in Cwmbran
We are under Cwmbran's canopies every week. Real jobs, not stock shots.
A tea room kitchen extract system in Cwmbran had a heavy grease layer over the plenum and filters, a real fire risk over the fryers. We stripped and soaked the filters, scraped the canopy and first bend of the duct back and degreased the accessible duct to the fan. The canopy and duct came up clean and safe with much better draw across the canopy, and we left a certificate and photos for the file.
Why it pays
Extraction cleaning is a fire-risk job first - but it pays back every Cwmbran service.
With the canopy and fan clean, heat and steam clear off a hard St Dials cookline faster, the kitchen runs cooler, and the fan works less to move the same air. Leave it greased and you have a fire risk, a failed inspection point and an uncomfortable kitchen together. Frequency follows the cooking load - the Oakfield takeaways need it more often than a daytime cafe - and the certificate sets the next date.
Inspect the Cwmbran 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 Cwmbran 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 St Dials or Oakfield kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime cafe.
Every clean finishes with a dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs and a condition report - the evidence a St Dials operator's insurer or fire risk assessor expects to see.
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 St Dials kitchen - we clean the full run to TR19 and certify it together.
Yes. Beyond restaurants, Cwmbran has the shopping-centre, pub and care-home kitchens we clean and certify - high-volume systems we clean and certify alongside the hospitality work.
Yes - from St Dials, Oakfield and the city centre out to the suburbs, and across the wider Torfaen.
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 Oakfield takeaway canopies that have run hot for years.
Yes. The takeaways and grill houses around Oakfield and Croesyceiliog run a canopy, filters and a fan and often carry a heavy grease load for their size. We clean and certify them the same way as a full restaurant system.
Local knowledge
Llantarnam Abbey, a Cistercian house founded in 1179, still stands on the town's southern edge, nine centuries older than the New Town around it. Today Llantarnam is better known for its business park and biscuit factory. Wherever there is a commercial fryer, from that estate to the takeaways off the Town Centre, hot grease coats the canopy, filters and duct. We strip and degrease the whole extraction run so airflow stays honest and the fire risk stays low.
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