Pubs & Bars — Kitchen Extract Cleaning in Swansea
TR19 commercial kitchen extract cleaning quotes for pubs & bars across Swansea and the Gower.
Most Swansea pubs now earn a large share of their takings from food, and a pub kitchen is a commercial kitchen in every sense that matters to an insurer or a fire officer. From the Wind Street bars in the city centre to the coastal inns of Gower, the valley pubs around Clydach and Pontarddulais and the locals in every suburb, the kitchen extract system carries the same duty as it would in a restaurant — and the building above it is often older, with more timber and more people upstairs.
We arrange TR19-focused extract cleaning quotes for pubs, bars, inns and clubhouses across Swansea Bay, through a specialist provider who issues the certification your brewery, insurer and licensing officer will want to see.
Pub kitchens and the TR19 frequency bands
A pub serving food from noon to nine is moderate use under TR19 and should have a full extract clean every six months. Bars cooking a short lunch menu or weekend-only food may be light use and annual. Sports bars and late-night venues frying through to closing time drift into the heavy band. Your actual cooking hours, not the pub's opening hours, decide the frequency.
Tenants, leaseholders and the brewery
If you are a tied tenant or lease a pub from a pubco, your agreement almost certainly puts extract cleaning on you, and the landlord may ask for evidence at rent review or inspection. A documented six-monthly clean with photographs is the simplest way to answer that question — and to avoid a dilapidations claim for a grease-caked system when you hand the keys back.
Older buildings, higher stakes
Many Swansea pubs are pre-war buildings with living accommodation over the kitchen and duct runs threaded through voids nobody has looked in for years. A fire in that ductwork travels through the building, not just the kitchen. That is why fire-risk assessors treat pub extract systems seriously, and why a full duct clean with access hatches fitted where needed matters more here than almost anywhere.
What is included
A TR19-standard clean covers the canopy, plenum and filters, the complete ductwork run to the discharge point and the extract fan and housing, with grease-depth readings before and after. You receive a certificate, photographs and a next-service date — the pack your insurer's loss adjuster asks for after a fire, and the one your fire-risk assessment should reference.
Booking around trade
Pub kitchens are quietest mid-morning, and most single-canopy pub kitchens are cleaned in a few hours before the lunch service. Seasonal coastal pubs on Gower and around Mumbles often take a full clean in the off-season and a lighter check before the summer.
Clubhouses and function kitchens
Rugby and social clubs from Dunvant to Waunarlwydd cook in bursts — quiet midweek, heavy on match days and function nights — which loads a canopy unevenly and is easy to under-service. The same TR19 logic applies, and the same certificate protects the club's insurance and committee.
Pubs and bars across Swansea Bay
We arrange quotes for licensed kitchens throughout Swansea, Gower, Neath, Skewen, the Swansea Valley, Loughor and Gowerton and eastern Carmarthenshire. See all areas covered.
Areas where we arrange this: Swansea City Centre · Landore · Cwmbwrla · Bishopston · Pennard · Gowerton · Loughor · Pontarddulais · Clydach · Neath · Skewen · Glynneath · Resolven · Llangennech · all areas
Related services: Canopy Cleaning · TR19 Extract Cleaning · Duct Cleaning · TR19 Compliance Guide
Guides: Tied and leased pubs — who pays? · How long a clean takes · What it costs
Frequently Asked Questions
Do pub kitchens need TR19 cleaning?
Yes. Any pub cooking on a commercial extract system needs TR19-standard cleaning to stay insured and compliant — typically every six months for a pub serving food through the day, annually for light weekend-only food, and quarterly for late-night frying.
Our pubco says extract cleaning is our responsibility — is that normal?
Very. Most tied and leased pub agreements place kitchen extract cleaning on the tenant, and landlords increasingly ask for certificates at inspection or rent review. A documented clean with photographs answers that and protects you at the end of the lease.
We only do food at weekends. Do we still need it?
Yes, but less often. Light-use kitchens under TR19 are typically cleaned annually. The provider will confirm from your hours and grease readings.
Can it be done before we open?
Usually. Most pub kitchens are cleaned mid-morning before lunch service, and a single-canopy system takes a few hours.
Who does the work?
We arrange and manage your enquiry and connect you with a specialist commercial kitchen extract provider covering Swansea Bay, who carries out the clean to TR19 standard and issues the certificate. You get one quote and one point of contact.
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