Totnes · TR19 Grease
We degrease the canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan for Totnes restaurants, takeaways and pubs - so the system pulls properly, runs cooler and holds a current TR19 certificate.
Totnes
Totnes fries along the hill - the Fore Street and High Street cooklines run through the day, and the riverside kitchens at The Plains cook alongside.
The settings vary, the grease does not. Across Castle Street, South Street and the suburban strips, the takeaways and grill houses run the single hardest test an extraction canopy faces. Totnes rates dozens of food premises, most of them frying in a tight footprint.
We degrease the part of the system the Castle Street and South Street 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 Totnes 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 Castle 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 South 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 Totnes 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 Totnes's residential streets; cleaned or changed so the downstream stages are not overwhelmed.
Fire
A Totnes 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 Castle 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 Castle 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 South Street system that a quick canopy wipe misses.
On the ground in Totnes
We are under Totnes's canopies every week. Real jobs, not stock shots.
A nursery kitchen in Totnes had the canopy, filters and plenum caked in grease from steady service on the cook line. We degreased the filters and extract duct back to bare metal, cleaned the fan and reset the filters, so the canopy passed its grease-depth check with noticeably stronger extraction across the system. 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 Totnes service.
A clean canopy and fan pull heat and steam off a hard Castle Street cookline faster, so the kitchen sits cooler and the fan draws less to shift the same air. A greased system is a fire risk, a failed inspection point and a comfort problem all at once. How often it is needed follows how hard you cook - the South Street takeaways far more than a daytime cafe - and your certificate fixes the interval.
Inspect the Totnes 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 Totnes 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 Castle Street or South Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime cafe.
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.
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 Castle Street kitchen - we clean the full run to TR19 and certify it together.
Yes - from Castle Street, South Street and the city centre out to the suburbs, and across the wider Devon.
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 South Street takeaway canopies that have run hot for years.
Yes. Most venues we clean around Castle Street and South 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.
Every clean finishes with a dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs and a condition report - the evidence a Castle Street operator's insurer or fire risk assessor expects to see.
Local knowledge
The 2021 census counted 8,241 residents in a town famous for its independent shops, organic food and Tudor Butterwalk market. That appetite fills the cafes and kitchens of Fore Street, High Street and The Plains, and every fryer and grill among them throws grease into the canopy above. Left there it bakes onto the duct walls and feeds any flare-up. We clear the whole extraction path, from filter to fan to roof cowl, and measure the airflow so the system pulls as it was designed to.
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