Taunton · TR19 Grease
We degrease the canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan for Taunton restaurants, takeaways and pubs - so the system pulls properly, runs cooler and holds a current TR19 certificate.
Taunton
Taunton fries across the county town - the East Street and Bath Place cooklines cook from open to close, and the North Street and Bridge Street kitchens run alongside.
The settings vary, the grease does not. Across Station Road, Corporation Street and the suburban strips, the takeaways and grill houses run the single hardest test an extraction canopy faces. Taunton rates around 1,480 food premises, most of them frying in a tight footprint.
The kit the Station Road and Corporation Street 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 Taunton 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 Station Road cookline that does the work and shows the grease first.
Canopy inside and out, baffle filters cleaned or replaced, and the extractor fan and housing degreased - that last part loses performance quietly as grease builds on the blades through a hard Corporation Street service. The work meets the TR19 Grease standard, with before-and-after evidence and a certificate, so the system pulls properly and your Taunton fire risk assessment and insurer have the paperwork they ask for.
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 Taunton's residential streets; cleaned or changed so the downstream stages are not overwhelmed.
Fire
A Taunton 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 Station 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 Station 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 Corporation Street system that a quick canopy wipe misses.
On the ground in Taunton
We are under Taunton's canopies every week. Real jobs, not stock shots.
A county council office canteen in Taunton had severely neglected ductwork, with grease restricting the air balance across the building. We ran an intensive cleaning cycle focused on the main junctions where the worst blockages had built up, re-establishing the air balance and running the extraction far more efficiently. A summary report went to the building maintenance team.
Why it pays
Extraction cleaning is a fire-risk job first - but it pays back every Taunton service.
A clean canopy and fan clear the heat and steam off a hard Station Road 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 Corporation Street takeaways need it more often than a daytime cafe - and your certificate sets the interval.
Inspect the Taunton 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 Taunton 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 Station Road or Corporation Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime cafe.
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 Corporation Street takeaway canopies that have run hot for years.
Yes. Beyond restaurants, Taunton has campus catering at the University Centre Somerset, production kitchens at Musgrove Park Hospital, and cricket-ground and hotel kitchens - high-volume systems we clean and certify alongside the hospitality work.
Yes. Most venues we clean around Station Road and Corporation Street are busy through the evening, so we work overnight, early mornings or on closing days, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
It can. An inspection covers the physical condition of the premises, ventilation included, so a grease-laden canopy or fan over an East Street 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 Station Road 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 Station Road kitchen - we clean the full run to TR19 and certify it together.
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