Melksham · TR19 Grease
We degrease the canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan for Melksham restaurants, takeaways and pubs - so the system pulls properly, runs cooler and holds a current TR19 certificate.
Melksham
Melksham fries hard along Bank Street, King Street and Market Place, where the Chinese takeaways, curry houses and cafes run their extraction flat out through every service.
The kitchens differ, the grease is the same. Along Bank Street, Market Place and the parades beyond, the grill houses and takeaways put an extraction canopy through the roughest work it will ever take. Of the hundreds of food premises rated in Melksham, most are frying in a cramped back kitchen.
What the Bank Street and Market Place cooks labour under - canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan - is exactly what we degrease. Cleaned right it draws as it was meant to, clearing heat and steam, carrying a current TR19 Grease certificate and running cooler, since a clean Melksham fan no longer battles a greased one to shift the same air.
The system
Extraction cleaning is the accessible heart of the system - the kit above a hard-frying Bank Street 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 Market Place 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 Melksham 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 Melksham's residential streets; cleaned or changed so the downstream stages are not overwhelmed.
Fire
A Melksham 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 Bank 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 Bank 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 Market Place system that a quick canopy wipe misses.
On the ground in Melksham
We are under Melksham's canopies every week. Real jobs, not stock shots.
A small kebab shop in Melksham had grease caked across its canopy and fan housing from constant work on the fryers. We lifted the filters out to soak, hand-scraped them and the extract duct and degreased right through to the fan. With the grease cleared to TR19 the kitchen was clearing smoke quickly again, and the certification went into the client's file. We slotted the work into the shop's weekly closed day to suit the manager.
Why it pays
Extraction cleaning is a fire-risk job first - but it pays back every Melksham service.
A clean canopy and fan pull heat and steam off a hard Bank 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 Market Place takeaways far more than a daytime cafe - and your certificate fixes the interval.
Inspect the Melksham 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 Melksham 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 Bank Street or Market Place kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime cafe.
Yes. Beyond restaurants, Melksham has the takeaway, restaurant and factory-canteen 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 Bank 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 Union Street cookline can count against your score.
Yes. Most venues we clean around Bank Street and Market Place are busy through the evening, so we work overnight, early mornings or on closing days, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
Yes - from Bank Street, Market Place and the city centre out to the suburbs, and across the wider Wiltshire.
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 Market Place takeaway canopies that have run hot for years.
Local knowledge
Melksham's name was built as much on food as on rubber - the Bowyers pork pies and Wiltshire sausages that made the district famous, and the wharves of the old canal trade that carried its goods away. The town turns on food again now, and busy kitchens coat their canopies and extract systems in grease every service. Left in place it feeds flame and starves airflow, so we strip, degrease and certify extraction from the filter to the fan to the TR19 grease standard.
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