Tavistock · TR19 Grease
We degrease the canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan for Tavistock restaurants, takeaways and pubs - so the system pulls properly, runs cooler and holds a current TR19 certificate.
Tavistock
Tavistock fries the length of Brook Street, Duke Street and Market Street.
Different kitchens, same grease. Around Market Street, Bannawell Street and the outlying strips, the grill houses and takeaways put an extraction canopy through the hardest work it will ever do. With dozens of food premises rated across Tavistock, most are frying in a cramped space.
We degrease exactly what the Market Street and Bannawell Street cooks stand under - the canopy, the baffle filters and the extractor fan. Cleaned properly the system draws as designed, clearing heat and steam, carrying a current TR19 Grease certificate, and running cooler, since a clean Tavistock fan is not straining against grease to shift the same air.
The system
Extraction cleaning is the accessible heart of the system - the kit above a hard-frying Market Street 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 Bannawell Street 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 Tavistock 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 Tavistock's residential streets; cleaned or changed so the downstream stages are not overwhelmed.
Fire
A Tavistock 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 Market 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 Market 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 Bannawell Street system that a quick canopy wipe misses.
On the ground in Tavistock
We are under Tavistock's canopies every week. Real jobs, not stock shots.
A fish and chip shop in Tavistock had baked-on grease over the filters and extract duct, well past a safe level above the chargrill. We stripped and soaked the filters, scraped the canopy and fan housing back and degreased the accessible duct to the fan, clearing the system to the TR19 Grease standard with the kitchen clearing smoke quickly again. We left a report and photos for their file.
Why it pays
Extraction cleaning is a fire-risk job first - but it pays back every Tavistock service.
With the canopy and fan clean, heat and steam clear off a hard Market Street cookline faster, the kitchen runs cooler, and the fan works less to move the same air. Leave it greased and you have a fire risk, a failed inspection point and an uncomfortable kitchen together. Frequency follows the cooking load - the Bannawell Street takeaways need it more often than a daytime cafe - and the certificate sets the next date.
Inspect the Tavistock 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 Tavistock 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 Market Street or Bannawell Street 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 Market Street operator's insurer or fire risk assessor expects to see.
Yes. The takeaways and grill houses around Bannawell Street and Duke Street 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. Where a filter is warped, corroded or a mesh type that keeps passing grease, we say so and swap it - common on the older Bannawell Street takeaway canopies that have run hot for years.
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 Market Street 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 Bedford Square cookline can count against your score.
Yes - from Market Street, Bannawell Street and the city centre out to the suburbs, and across the wider Devon.
Local knowledge
When Devon Great Consols opened at Blanchdown in the 1840s it became for a time the richest copper mine in Europe, and Tavistock boomed on the ore hauled from the Tamar Valley. That heavy trade left a town used to hard, greasy work. Today the grease is in the extraction canopies above its kitchen ranges, and we strip it back to bare metal so the run to the fan cannot catch light.
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