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Practical guidance on commercial kitchen compliance, extraction cleaning, fire safety, and hygiene regulations from Cumbria's specialist cleaning team.

2. Your Report Is Your Evidence
Commercial Cleaning

Your Report Is Your Evidence

Post-clean reporting is a key part of managing extraction systems properly. Under TR19 Grease, reports should clearly confirm: • whether the system has been fully cleaned• any areas…

1. What Is The Vent Hygiene Register
Commercial Cleaning

What Is the Vent Hygiene Register?

The Vent Hygiene Register (VHR) is a recognised scheme that records post-clean verification of kitchen extraction systems. It provides a clear record that cleaning has been carried out…

3. Clean Is Expected. Compliance Is Required
Commercial Cleaning

Clean is Expected. Compliance is Required.

Most sites are cleaned regularly. But not every site can demonstrate compliance. For responsible persons, the challenge is not arranging cleaning. It is ensuring that: • systems are…

2. Care Environments Need More Than Routine Cleaning
Care Homes

Care Environments Need More Than Routine Cleaning

In residential care environments, safety and hygiene are part of daily responsibility. Kitchen extraction systems and high-level areas play a key role in maintaining safe conditions, yet they…

1. We Work Where Standards Matter
Commercial Cleaning

We Work Where Standards Matter

We work in environments where cleaning is not just expected. It is monitored, reviewed and often inspected. Our clients include: • healthcare settings• residential care homes• commercial kitchens•…

3. Could You Evidence Compliance Here
Commercial Cleaning

Could You Evidence Compliance?

For responsible persons, cleaning is only part of the picture. You also need to be able to evidence that your extraction system has been cleaned properly and maintained…

2. What Does TR19 Actually Mean
TR19 Grease

What Does TR19 Actually Mean?

TR19 Grease is the recognised specification for managing grease accumulation within kitchen extraction systems. It provides guidance on how systems should be inspected, tested and cleaned to help…

1. We Clean What You Cannot See
Commercial Kitchen

We Clean Where You Cannot See

Most cleaning focuses on what is visible. Our work focuses on what is not. Extraction systems, ducting and high-level areas collect grease, dust and contaminants over time. These…

2. Could You Evidence Compliance Here
Commercial Kitchen

Could You Evidence TR19 Compliance

TR19 Grease provides guidance for managing fire risk within kitchen extraction systems. For responsible persons, compliance is not only about cleaning. It is about being able to demonstrate…

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Commercial Kitchen

Maintaining Kitchen Ventilation Systems Helps To

TR19 Grease is the recognised specification for managing fire risk from grease accumulation within kitchen extraction systems. During normal cooking processes, grease and oil vapours enter the ventilation…

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