Restaurants — Kitchen Extract Cleaning in Leeds

Restaurant kitchens push more grease into the extract system than most trades. Long services, high-heat grills, woks and tandoor ovens all put fat into the airstream, and only part of it stops at the filters. We arrange TR19 extract cleaning quotes for restaurants across Leeds, Bradford, Harrogate and York. Each enquiry goes to an independent specialist provider, who carries out the work and issues the certificate.

What you get is a clean that covers the whole system, paperwork your insurer and fire risk assessor will recognise, and a date that does not cost you a service.

Which TR19 frequency band restaurants fall into

TR19 Grease is the BESA specification for kitchen extract, and it sets minimum intervals by daily cooking hours. Heavy use of 12 to 16 hours a day means cleaning every three months. Moderate use of 6 to 12 hours means every six months, and light use of 2 to 6 hours means every twelve months. A restaurant serving lunch and dinner is usually in the six-monthly band. A kitchen open from breakfast until late is in the quarterly band, and charcoal or open-flame cooking can justify a shorter interval than hours alone suggest. These are minimums, and the provider's grease readings decide whether your interval should be shorter. Our TR19 compliance guide explains the bands in more detail.

Insurance and your fire risk assessment

The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 requires the responsible person to assess and reduce fire risk in non-domestic premises. Grease in the ductwork is a hazard your fire risk assessment should name. BESA warns that insurers may refuse a claim when a fire is traced back to poor maintenance. West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service cites figures showing that 70% of fires in pubs, restaurants and takeaways are caused by dirt and grease building up inside extractor or ventilation fan systems.

In March 2014 firefighters were called to a restaurant on Albert Street, Harrogate, after a fire started in the kitchen extraction ducting. The fire spread through the ducting to other floors of the building, and around 18 fire vehicles attended at its peak.

What a full clean covers

A TR19 clean covers far more than the filters. The provider cleans the canopy and filters and the full ductwork run from canopy to discharge. Access panels are fitted where a section cannot otherwise be reached, and the extract fan is cleaned too. Grease-depth readings (wet film thickness tests) are taken before and after. TR19 Grease uses a mean of 200 microns as the limit between cleans. You receive a certificate with before-and-after photographs taken from matching positions.

Scheduling around service

Cleans can be booked after close or before opening, so you lose no covers. Tell us your quietest night and any fixed events, and the provider will plan roof or riser access around them. If nobody is sure what state the system is in, start with an inspection report.

Restaurant groups with several sites

If you run more than one restaurant, we can arrange a single quote covering every site. Each kitchen gets its own interval and its own certificate, and dates are staggered so two kitchens are never down on the same night. The cost guide shows what drives the price.

Restaurants we arrange quotes for across the patch

In Leeds city centre we arrange quotes for kitchens from Briggate and the Victoria Quarter to Kirkgate Market on Vicar Lane, the largest covered market in Europe. We also cover Headingley, Chapel Allerton and Roundhay. A 2017 Welcome to Yorkshire feature said Bradford had been crowned Curry Capital of Britain six years running and counted over 200 Asian restaurants in the city. We arrange quotes for curry houses of every size there. We also cover Harrogate, York, Wakefield, Huddersfield and Ilkley.

Where we see these kitchens most

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