Ashford · TR19 Grease
We degrease the canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan for Ashford restaurants, takeaways and pubs - so the system pulls properly, runs cooler and holds a current TR19 certificate.
Ashford
Ashford fries across the town - the High Street and Designer Outlet cooklines cook from open to close, and the Lower High Street and Park Mall kitchens run alongside.
The kitchens differ, the grease is the same. Along County Square, Tenterden and the parades beyond, the grill houses and takeaways put an extraction canopy through the roughest work it will ever take. Of the around 1,250 food premises rated in Ashford, most are frying in a cramped back kitchen.
The kit the County Square and Tenterden cooks work beneath - canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan - is what we degrease. Done right it pulls the way it should, clearing heat and steam, backed by a current TR19 Grease certificate, and it runs cooler too, because a clean Ashford fan is not working against a greased one to move the same air.
The system
Extraction cleaning is the accessible heart of the system - the kit above a hard-frying County Square 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 Tenterden service. The work meets the TR19 Grease standard, with before-and-after evidence and a certificate, so the system pulls properly and your Ashford 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 Ashford's residential streets; cleaned or changed so the downstream stages are not overwhelmed.
Fire
An Ashford 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 County Square 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 County Square 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 Tenterden system that a quick canopy wipe misses.
On the ground in Ashford
We are under Ashford's canopies every week. Real jobs, not stock shots.
A golf clubhouse restaurant in Ashford had heavy grease-sludge built up at the duct junctions, choking the exhaust flow. We ran an industrial solvent flush with mechanical agitation to break the semi-solid deposits down, clearing the fire hazard and getting the airflow back. It passed the subsequent health-inspector audit with no further action.
Why it pays
Extraction cleaning is a fire-risk job first - but it pays back every Ashford service.
With the canopy and fan clean, heat and steam clear off a hard County Square cookline faster, the kitchen runs cooler, and the fan works less to move the same air. Leave it greased and you have a fire risk, a failed inspection point and an uncomfortable kitchen together. Frequency follows the cooking load - the Tenterden takeaways need it more often than a daytime cafe - and the certificate sets the next date.
Inspect the Ashford 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 Ashford 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 County Square or Tenterden kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime cafe.
It can. An inspection covers the physical condition of the premises, ventilation included, so a grease-laden canopy or fan over a High Street cookline can count against your score.
Yes. Most venues we clean around County Square and Tenterden are busy through the evening, so we work overnight, early mornings or on closing days, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
Extraction cleaning covers the canopy, filters and fan; where the concealed duct run behind them is also loaded - as it often is in a tight County Square kitchen - we clean the full run to TR19 and certify it together.
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 Tenterden takeaway canopies that have run hot for years.
Yes. Beyond restaurants, Ashford has campus catering at Ashford College, production kitchens at the William Harvey Hospital, and outlet and hotel kitchens - high-volume systems we clean and certify alongside the hospitality work.
Yes - from County Square, Tenterden and the city centre out to the suburbs, and across the wider Kent.
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