Port Talbot · TR19 Grease
We degrease the canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan for Port Talbot restaurants, takeaways and pubs - so the system pulls properly, runs cooler and holds a current TR19 certificate.
Port Talbot
Port Talbot fries across the steel town - the Station Road and Water Street cooklines cook from open to close, and the Talbot Road and Commercial Road kitchens run alongside.
Different kitchens, same grease. Around Commercial Road, Bethany Square 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 Port Talbot, most are frying in a cramped space.
What the Commercial Road and Bethany Square 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 Port Talbot 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 Commercial Road 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 Bethany Square 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 Port Talbot 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 Port Talbot's residential streets; cleaned or changed so the downstream stages are not overwhelmed.
Fire
A Port Talbot 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 Commercial Road 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 Commercial Road 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 Bethany Square system that a quick canopy wipe misses.
On the ground in Port Talbot
We are under Port Talbot's canopies every week. Real jobs, not stock shots.
An Aberafan Shopping Centre food unit in Port Talbot had grease on the extract fan letting cooking smells drift into the mall. We degreased the fan blades and housing, rebalanced the impeller and restored the pull, clearing the smells and returning the air quality. The centre's facilities team signed the fire-safety record.
Why it pays
Extraction cleaning is a fire-risk job first - but it pays back every Port Talbot service.
Clear the canopy and fan of grease and a hard Commercial Road cookline sheds its heat and steam faster, so the kitchen keeps cooler and the fan works less to move the same air. Leave it caked and you carry a fire risk, a failed inspection point and an uncomfortable kitchen at once. How often it is due tracks the cooking - the Bethany Square takeaways well beyond a daytime cafe - and your certificate names the next date.
Inspect the Port Talbot 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 Port Talbot 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 Commercial Road or Bethany Square 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 Commercial Road operator's insurer or fire risk assessor expects to see.
Yes. Beyond restaurants, Port Talbot has campus catering at Neath Port Talbot College, works catering across the steelworks, and centre and hotel kitchens - high-volume systems we clean and certify alongside the hospitality work.
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 Bethany Square takeaway canopies that have run hot for years.
Yes - from Commercial Road, Bethany Square and the city centre out to the suburbs, and across the wider South Wales.
It can. An inspection covers the physical condition of the premises, ventilation included, so a grease-laden canopy or fan over a Station Road cookline can count against your score.
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 Commercial Road kitchen - we clean the full run to TR19 and certify it together.
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