Takeaways — Kitchen Extract Cleaning in Manchester

Fryers, grills and woks running from lunchtime until late send a steady stream of grease into a takeaway's extract, and Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service has found people sleeping in rooms and flats above businesses in many cases. We arrange TR19 extract cleaning quotes for takeaways across Greater Manchester. An independent specialist provider carries out the clean and issues the certificate, the record that insurers and fire safety officers look for.

Which TR19 band a takeaway falls into

TR19 Grease sets the minimum interval from daily cooking hours. A kitchen cooking 12 to 16 hours a day needs a clean at least every 3 months, 6 to 12 hours means at least every 6 months, and 2 to 6 hours means at least every 12 months. A shop open from late morning to around midnight is usually cooking for 12 hours or more, which puts it in the quarterly band. An evenings-only takeaway may be six-monthly. BESA adds that more frequent cleaning may be needed depending on the type of cooking and the condition of the system, so the grease readings taken at each visit decide whether your interval holds. The TR19 compliance guide has the full breakdown.

Flats above the shop: the GMFRS warning

GMFRS says there have been a number of recent fires in Greater Manchester in fast food outlets, takeaways, cafes and restaurants where upper floors are used for sleeping accommodation. Those rooms are often reached by a single unprotected staircase from the public or kitchen area, and GMFRS says such exit routes are often blocked with combustible materials. It asks owners to fit a suitable fire alarm, provide enough fire resistance to stop a fire spreading and keep a safe escape route. In the same guidance it warns that grease, fats and dust in uncleaned extraction ducts can stop ventilation working and help fire spread rapidly, and that most insurers require duct cleaning as a condition of building insurance.

Your duties under the Fire Safety Order

Fire safety law here is the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, and the person it holds responsible, normally the employer, must make sure a fire risk assessment has been done and is kept up to date. GMFRS explains that since 1 October 2023 every fire risk assessment must be written down and must record who carried it out. Where the flat is let separately, more than one responsible person is likely to be involved, and a business in multi-occupied premises must take steps to identify the others, including the landlord. A TR19 certificate with photographs and grease readings shows that the extract part of the assessment has been acted on.

Scope of a takeaway clean

A full clean covers the canopy, the filters, the ductwork right through to the discharge and the extract fan. Access panels are fitted where a run cannot otherwise be reached. Grease depth is measured against the TR19 Grease limit of a mean 200 microns, and BESA says any area at 500 microns or more needs immediate spot cleaning. You get before and after photographs from matching positions and a certificate. Our TR19 kitchen extract cleaning page sets out the scope.

Food hygiene ratings and long trading hours

Food hygiene is rated separately. A food safety officer from your borough council inspects and rates the business under the Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, run by the Food Standards Agency in partnership with local authorities, and the gap between inspections ranges from six months for the highest risk businesses to two years for lower risk ones. Across Greater Manchester's ten councils the agency's open data lists more than 25,000 food businesses. Display of the rating is encouraged in England but not compulsory. On the Curry Mile in Rusholme, known for its restaurants, takeaways and kebab houses and busy into the early hours, trading hours alone can put a kitchen in the heaviest band.

Booking around opening hours

An early morning slot or your closed day keeps the shop trading. When you enquire, say which day is quietest and where the fan sits, for example on the roof, in a yard or reached through the flat, so access can be planned. Owners of several shops can have every unit on one quote, each with its own certificate. Pricing factors are covered in the cost guide. We arrange quotes in Manchester city centre, Oldham, Rochdale, Bury, Bolton, Ashton-under-Lyne, Stretford and Stockport. Request a quote.

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