Cafés — Kitchen Extract Cleaning in the Midlands
TR19 extract cleaning quotes for cafés across Birmingham, the Black Country, Solihull, Coventry, Warwickshire, Nottingham, Derby and Leicester.
Café kitchens are easy to underestimate. The hours may be shorter than a restaurant's, but a breakfast grill, a fryer or a flat-top used every day still sends grease into the canopy and duct. We arrange TR19 extract cleaning quotes for cafés, coffee shops and tea rooms across Birmingham, the Black Country, Warwickshire, Nottingham, Derby and Leicester. An independent specialist provider does the work and issues the certificate.
Birmingham has been serving hot drinks to the public for a long time. On 4 March 1824 John Cadbury began selling tea, coffee and drinking chocolate on Bull Street, seven years before he moved into making cocoa and drinking chocolate himself. Today a village tea room carries the same fire safety duties as a busy city-centre coffee shop.
Which TR19 frequency band cafés fall into
TR19 Grease sets minimum cleaning intervals by daily cooking hours: every twelve months for 2 to 6 hours a day, every six months for 6 to 12 hours and every three months for 12 to 16 hours. A café cooking breakfasts and lunches for a few hours usually sits in the light, annual band. One serving hot food from early morning into the afternoon is moderate use and six-monthly. If you fry, the provider's grease readings may justify a shorter interval than hours alone suggest. The TR19 compliance guide explains more.
Fire risk assessment, insurance and hygiene
The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, enforced by your local fire and rescue service, requires the responsible person to assess and reduce fire risk, and a greasy canopy and duct is a hazard that assessment should cover. Insurers may refuse a claim if a fire is traced to a poorly maintained system. Your food hygiene rating is set separately, under the scheme councils run with the Food Standards Agency. Officers look at how food is handled and at the condition of the premises, including cleanliness and ventilation, and rate the business from 0 to 5. In England you are encouraged, but not legally required, to display the sticker. Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service also lists restaurants and cafés among the places where laundry can catch fire on its own, because tea towels, aprons and cloths soaked in cooking oil can self-heat if they are stored before they have cooled.
What a full clean covers
Even a small café extract has the same parts. The provider cleans the canopy and filters, the full ductwork run to the discharge and the extract fan, with access panels fitted where needed. Grease depth is measured before and after against the mean limit of 200 microns that TR19 Grease sets between cleans, and you receive a certificate with before-and-after photographs. BESA advises cleaning canopy filters daily or as the manufacturer instructs, which your staff can do between professional cleans, but no filter stops all the grease.
Fitting the clean around opening hours
If you close by late afternoon, an evening clean is straightforward and costs no trading time. If you trade from a listed building, a shopping arcade, a garden centre or a museum, tell us when you enquire so the provider can plan access to the roof or rear yard. In Stratford-upon-Avon, a town full of cafés and tea rooms that welcomes visitors from around the world, pick the quietest day of your week and the provider will work to it. If you are not sure of the duct route, an inspection report will map it.
Café groups and several sites
If you run more than one café, we can arrange one quote for all of them. Each site gets its own certificate, and dates are spread so no two sites are affected at once. The cost guide shows what affects the price.
Cafés we arrange quotes for
In Birmingham we arrange quotes for cafés in the Jewellery Quarter, Moseley, Kings Heath and Harborne. In Warwickshire we cover Stratford-upon-Avon, Leamington Spa and Kenilworth. In the East Midlands we cover West Bridgford, Belper, Market Harborough and Melton Mowbray, which is sometimes promoted as Britain's Rural Capital of Food. The Melton Mowbray pork pie was given Protected Geographical Indication status in 2008, and the town is home to one of only six dairies licensed to make Stilton.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Does a small café need TR19 cleaning?
If you have a commercial canopy and extract duct, the same fire risk applies whatever the size of the kitchen. A café cooking 2 to 6 hours a day falls in TR19's light band, which means a clean at least once a year, and more often if frying leaves heavy deposits in the duct.
Can kitchen staff clean the filters between professional cleans?
Yes. BESA advises cleaning and degreasing canopy filters daily or as the manufacturer instructs. That does not replace a full clean of the duct and fan, because no filter is 100 per cent effective and some grease always passes through into the rest of the system.
Do we have to display our food hygiene rating?
Not in England. Councils rate businesses from 0 to 5 under the scheme they run with the Food Standards Agency, and display is encouraged but voluntary here. The TR19 certificate is separate and relates to fire risk, although officers do look at cleanliness and ventilation when they inspect.
When would the clean take place?
Usually after you close, so no trading time is lost. If you shut by late afternoon, the evening is normally free for the work. Mention access to the roof, yard, arcade or shared building when you enquire, so the provider can plan the visit and bring the right access equipment.
Do you do the cleaning?
No. We arrange TR19 extract cleaning quotes and pass your enquiry to an independent specialist provider, who does the work and issues the certificate. You deal with the provider directly on the day, and the certificate is issued in the provider's name for your fire risk assessment file.
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