Brighton · TR19 Grease
We degrease the canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan for Brighton restaurants, takeaways and pubs - so the system pulls properly, runs cooler and holds a current TR19 certificate.
Brighton
Brighton fries across the board - Preston Street's restaurant row, the North Laine and Kemptown cooklines, and the seafront and St James's Street takeaways cook from open to close.
The settings vary, the grease does not. Across St James's Street, Preston Street and the suburban strips, the takeaways and grill houses run the single hardest test an extraction canopy faces. Brighton rates around 2,960 food premises, most of them frying in a tight footprint.
We degrease exactly what the St James's Street and Preston Street cooks stand under - the canopy, the baffle filters and the extractor fan. Cleaned properly the system draws as designed, clearing heat and steam, carrying a current TR19 Grease certificate, and running cooler, since a clean Brighton fan is not straining against grease to shift the same air.
The system
Extraction cleaning is the accessible heart of the system - the kit above a hard-frying St James's Street 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 Preston Street service. The work meets the TR19 Grease standard, with before-and-after evidence and a certificate, so the system pulls properly and your Brighton 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 Brighton's residential streets; cleaned or changed so the downstream stages are not overwhelmed.
Fire
A Brighton 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 St James's Street 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 St James's Street 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 Preston Street system that a quick canopy wipe misses.
On the ground in Brighton
We are under Brighton's canopies every week. Real jobs, not stock shots.
A seafront pier restaurant in Brighton had salt-laden air hardening the grease fast in its ducts. We worked heavy-duty degreasers and manual scrapers through to lift the hardened grease off, keeping to salt-resistant cleaners suited to the exposed location. The ductwork came back clean and working.
Why it pays
Extraction cleaning is a fire-risk job first - but it pays back every Brighton service.
With the canopy and fan clean, heat and steam clear off a hard St James's Street 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 Preston Street takeaways need it more often than a daytime cafe - and the certificate sets the next date.
Inspect the Brighton 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 Brighton 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 St James's Street or Preston Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime cafe.
Yes. Most venues we clean around St James's Street and Preston Street are busy through the evening, so we work overnight, early mornings or on closing days, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
Yes - from St James's Street, Preston Street and the city centre out to the suburbs, and across the wider East Sussex.
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 Preston 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 St James's Street operator's insurer or fire risk assessor expects to see.
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 St James's Street kitchen - we clean the full run to TR19 and certify it together.
Yes. The takeaways and grill houses around Preston Street and Church Road 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.
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