Alnwick · TR19 Grease
We degrease the canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan for Alnwick restaurants, takeaways and pubs - so the system pulls properly, runs cooler and holds a current TR19 certificate.
Alnwick
From Carlo's to the takeaways off Bondgate Within, Narrowgate and Clayport Street, Alnwick fries at volume most nights of the week.
The venues change but the grease does not. From Market Place to Clayport Street and the suburban parades, the takeaways and grill houses set the toughest test any extraction canopy meets. Alnwick rates dozens of food premises, most of them frying hard in a tight footprint.
What the Market Place and Clayport Street cooks labour under - canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan - is exactly what we degrease. Cleaned right it draws as it was meant to, clearing heat and steam, carrying a current TR19 Grease certificate and running cooler, since a clean Alnwick fan no longer battles a greased one to shift the same air.
The system
Extraction cleaning is the accessible heart of the system - the kit above a hard-frying Market Place cookline that does the work and shows the grease first.
Canopy inside and out, baffle filters cleaned or replaced, and the extractor fan and housing degreased - that last part loses performance quietly as grease builds on the blades through a hard Clayport Street service. The work meets the TR19 Grease standard, with before-and-after evidence and a certificate, so the system pulls properly and your Alnwick fire risk assessment and insurer have the paperwork they ask for.
Filters
The standard for commercial cooklines: they trap grease and slow flame spread. Cleaned, or replaced when warped or corroded.
Common on older or lighter setups; they clog fast and pass grease through if neglected. We flag where a baffle upgrade is overdue.
On the odour and emission-controlled systems near Alnwick's residential streets; cleaned or changed so the downstream stages are not overwhelmed.
Fire
An Alnwick cookline's extraction and its fire protection are one system - and a clean is the moment to check the join.
Nozzles aimed at the canopy and cooking points; grease build-up around them on a busy Market Place line is exactly what they exist to fight. We clean around them without disturbing the system.
Where the gas shuts off if extraction fails on a Market Place line, we work without tripping it - and flag it if it is not behaving.
Checked for the grease that would stop them closing - a quiet failure point on a Clayport Street system that a quick canopy wipe misses.
On the ground in Alnwick
We are under Alnwick's canopies every week. Real jobs, not stock shots.
A kebab shop in Alnwick had the canopy and first bend of the duct caked in grease from steady service on the frying range. We soaked the filters, scraped the canopy and fan housing and washed the duct down to the fan, clearing the system to the TR19 Grease standard with a much better draw across the canopy. We left before-and-after images and a certificate.
Why it pays
Extraction cleaning is a fire-risk job first - but it pays back every Alnwick service.
A clean canopy and fan clear the heat and steam off a hard Market Place cookline faster, so the kitchen runs cooler and the fan draws less to move the same air. A greased system is a fire risk, a failed inspection point and a comfort problem at once. Frequency tracks how hard you cook - the Clayport Street takeaways need it more often than a daytime cafe - and your certificate sets the interval.
Inspect the Alnwick canopy, filters and fan, agree scope and frequency.
Remove filters and access panels, protect the cookline.
Canopy, filters and fan to bare metal, with before-and-after evidence.
TR19 Grease certificate and next-due date for your Alnwick fire logbook.
Questions
It depends how hard the kitchen runs. Under TR19 Grease, heavy use of 12 to 16 hours a day points to roughly every three months, moderate to every six, light to every twelve. A busy Market Place or Clayport Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime cafe.
Yes - from Market Place, Clayport Street and the city centre out to the suburbs, and across the wider Northumberland.
Yes. Where a filter is warped, corroded or a mesh type that keeps passing grease, we say so and swap it - common on the older Clayport Street takeaway canopies that have run hot for years.
Every clean finishes with a dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs and a condition report - the evidence a Market Place operator's insurer or fire risk assessor expects to see.
It can. An inspection covers the physical condition of the premises, ventilation included, so a grease-laden canopy or fan over a Bondgate Within cookline can count against your score.
Yes. Beyond restaurants, Alnwick has the pub, hotel and takeaway kitchens we clean and certify - high-volume systems we clean and certify alongside the hospitality work.
Yes. The takeaways and grill houses around Clayport Street and Narrowgate run a canopy, filters and a fan and often carry a heavy grease load for their size. We clean and certify them the same way as a full restaurant system.
Local knowledge
The Hotspur Tower, the fifteenth-century gate that still spans Bondgate Within, has funnelled Alnwick's traffic since around 1450, and the cobbled streets behind it are lined with fish bars and takeaways. Every one of those kitchens builds grease inside its canopy, filters and extract duct - the exact fuel a canopy fire needs. We strip extraction systems back to bare metal, clear the ductwork and the fan, and certify the work to TR19 Grease.
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