Swansea · TR19 Grease
We degrease the canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan for Swansea restaurants, takeaways and pubs - so the system pulls properly, runs cooler and holds a current TR19 certificate.
Swansea
Swansea fries across the bay - the St Helen's Road cooklines, the Wind Street strip, and the marina and Mumbles kitchens cook from open to close.
The venues change but the grease does not. From Mumbles to St Helen's Road and the suburban parades, the takeaways and grill houses set the toughest test any extraction canopy meets. Swansea rates around 2,400 food premises, most of them frying hard in a tight footprint.
We degrease the part of the system the Mumbles and St Helen's Road cooks work under - the canopy, the baffle filters and the extractor fan. Done properly it pulls the way it was designed to, clearing heat and steam, holding a current TR19 Grease certificate, and running cooler, because a clean Swansea fan is not fighting 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 Mumbles 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 St Helen's Road 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 Swansea 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 Swansea's residential streets; cleaned or changed so the downstream stages are not overwhelmed.
Fire
A Swansea 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 Mumbles 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 Mumbles 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 St Helen's Road system that a quick canopy wipe misses.
On the ground in Swansea
We are under Swansea's canopies every week. Real jobs, not stock shots.
A seaside restaurant kitchen in Swansea had salt-air corrosion combining with grease build-up in the ducting. We worked anti-corrosive degreasing agents through the duct interior and polished the stainless components, restoring the extraction to full capacity with better protection against the coastal moisture. We fitted it into the quiet low-tide period.
Why it pays
Extraction cleaning is a fire-risk job first - but it pays back every Swansea service.
Clear the canopy and fan of grease and a hard Mumbles 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 St Helen's Road takeaways well beyond a daytime cafe - and your certificate names the next date.
Inspect the Swansea 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 Swansea 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 Mumbles or St Helen's Road kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime cafe.
Yes - from Mumbles, St Helen's Road and the city centre out to the suburbs, and across the wider South Wales.
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 St Helen's Road takeaway canopies that have run hot for years.
Yes. Beyond restaurants, Swansea has campus catering at the universities, production kitchens at Morriston Hospital, and stadium and hotel kitchens - high-volume systems we clean and certify alongside the hospitality work.
It can. An inspection covers the physical condition of the premises, ventilation included, so a grease-laden canopy or fan over a St Helen's Road cookline can count against your score.
Every clean finishes with a dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs and a condition report - the evidence a Mumbles operator's insurer or fire risk assessor expects to see.
Yes. Most venues we clean around Mumbles and St Helen's Road are busy through the evening, so we work overnight, early mornings or on closing days, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
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