St Austell · TR19 Grease
We degrease the canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan for St Austell restaurants, takeaways and pubs - so the system pulls properly, runs cooler and holds a current TR19 certificate.
St Austell
St Austell fries hard around Biddicks Court, Fore Street and up through Mount Charles, where chip shops, takeaways and cafes run their extraction flat out through every service.
The kitchens differ, the grease is the same. Along Biddicks Court, Mount Charles 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 St Austell, most are frying in a cramped back kitchen.
The kit the Biddicks Court and Mount Charles 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 St Austell 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 Biddicks Court cookline that does the work and shows the grease first.
The canopy is stripped inside and out, the baffle filters cleaned or renewed, and the extractor fan and housing degreased - it is the fan that slips quietly as grease weighs its blades through a hard Mount Charles service. All of it is taken to the TR19 Grease standard, with before-and-after evidence and a certificate, so the system draws as designed and your St Austell fire risk assessment and insurer hold the record they expect.
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 St Austell's residential streets; cleaned or changed so the downstream stages are not overwhelmed.
Fire
A St Austell 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 Biddicks Court 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 Biddicks Court 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 Mount Charles system that a quick canopy wipe misses.
On the ground in St Austell
We are under St Austell's canopies every week. Real jobs, not stock shots.
The canopy and first bend of the duct at a town-centre St Austell bakery were caked in grease from steady service on the fryers. We cleaned them back to metal, degreased the fan housing and refitted the cleaned filters. The extract was left clean and fire-safe with the kitchen clearing smoke quickly again, all captured in a full photo report and certificate. We gave the owner a few tips on keeping things clear between visits.
Why it pays
Extraction cleaning is a fire-risk job first - but it pays back every St Austell service.
A clean canopy and fan clear the heat and steam off a hard Biddicks Court cookline faster, so the kitchen runs cooler and the fan draws less to move the same air. A greased system is a fire risk, a failed inspection point and a comfort problem at once. Frequency tracks how hard you cook - the Mount Charles takeaways need it more often than a daytime cafe - and your certificate sets the interval.
Inspect the St Austell 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 St Austell 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 Biddicks Court or Mount Charles kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime cafe.
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 Biddicks Court kitchen - we clean the full run to TR19 and certify it together.
It can. An inspection covers the physical condition of the premises, ventilation included, so a grease-laden canopy or fan over a Fore Street cookline can count against your score.
Yes. Beyond restaurants, St Austell has the hospital, college and harbourside kitchens we clean and certify - high-volume systems we clean and certify alongside the hospitality work.
Yes. The takeaways and grill houses around Mount Charles and Aylmer Square 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.
Yes. Most venues we clean around Biddicks Court and Mount Charles 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. Where a filter is warped, corroded or a mesh type that keeps passing grease, we say so and swap it - common on the older Mount Charles takeaway canopies that have run hot for years.
Local knowledge
Charlestown was built from nothing in the late eighteenth century when Charles Rashleigh cut a harbour to ship china clay, and its Georgian quays are so well preserved that the tall ships and cobbles have stood in for Poldark and countless other productions. The port still handles a little clay, but the harbourside now turns on food, and its pubs, restaurants and cafes coat their canopies and extract systems in grease every service. Left in place that grease feeds flame and starves airflow, so we strip, degrease and certify extraction from the filter to the fan. Every clean is worked to the TR19 grease standard and signed off with photographic evidence.
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