Truro · TR19 Grease
We degrease the canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan for Truro restaurants, takeaways and pubs - so the system pulls properly, runs cooler and holds a current TR19 certificate.
Truro
Truro fries hard along Kenwyn Street, River Street and around Victoria Square, where takeaways, curry houses, cafes and chip shops run their extraction flat out through every service.
The settings vary, the grease does not. Across Kenwyn Street, River Street and the suburban strips, the takeaways and grill houses run the single hardest test an extraction canopy faces. Truro rates hundreds of food premises, most of them frying in a tight footprint.
We degrease exactly what the Kenwyn Street and River 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 Truro 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 Kenwyn Street cookline that does the work and shows the grease first.
We strip and degrease the canopy inside and out, clean or replace the baffle filters, and degrease the extractor fan and its housing - the part that quietly loses performance as grease loads the blades over a hard River Street service. Cleaned to the TR19 Grease standard, with before-and-after evidence and a certificate, so the system pulls properly and your Truro fire risk assessment and insurer have the record 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 Truro's residential streets; cleaned or changed so the downstream stages are not overwhelmed.
Fire
A Truro 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 Kenwyn 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 Kenwyn 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 River Street system that a quick canopy wipe misses.
On the ground in Truro
We are under Truro's canopies every week. Real jobs, not stock shots.
A local school canteen in Truro had baked grease over the canopy, filters and plenum, well beyond a safe level above the griddle. We took the canopy, filters and plenum back to clean metal, cleared the fan and reset the filters. Grease was down to TR19 with the fan pulling freely again, and a certificate went into the file. The site's resident cat supervised the whole job from a sunny windowsill.
Why it pays
Extraction cleaning is a fire-risk job first - but it pays back every Truro service.
A clean canopy and fan pull heat and steam off a hard Kenwyn 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 River Street takeaways far more than a daytime cafe - and your certificate fixes the interval.
Inspect the Truro 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 Truro 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 Kenwyn Street or River Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime cafe.
Yes - from Kenwyn Street, River Street and the city centre out to the suburbs, and across the wider Cornwall.
It can. An inspection covers the physical condition of the premises, ventilation included, so a grease-laden canopy or fan over a Boscawen 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 Kenwyn Street kitchen - we clean the full run to TR19 and certify it together.
Yes. Most venues we clean around Kenwyn Street and River 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.
Yes. The takeaways and grill houses around River Street and Pydar 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. Beyond restaurants, Truro has the hospital, college and city-centre kitchens we clean and certify - high-volume systems we clean and certify alongside the hospitality work.
Local knowledge
The Georgian merchants who prospered on tin and the port lined Lemon Street and Walsingham Place with elegant townhouses, and today many of those frontages house Truro's restaurants, alongside the Pannier Market off Lemon Quay that has traded for generations. As Cornwall's dining capital the city runs busy kitchens that coat their canopies and extract systems in grease every service. Left in place it feeds flame and starves airflow, so we strip, degrease and certify extraction from the filter to the fan to the TR19 grease standard.
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