Bristol · TR19 Grease
We degrease the canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan for Bristol restaurants, takeaways and pubs - so the system pulls properly, runs cooler and holds a current TR19 certificate.
Bristol
Bristol fries across the board - St Nicholas Market's Glass Arcade street-food stalls, the container units at Cargo on Wapping Wharf, and the takeaways of Gloucester Road and Stokes Croft cook from open to close.
The venues change but the grease does not. From St Nicholas Market to Gloucester Road and the suburban parades, the takeaways and grill houses set the toughest test any extraction canopy meets. Bristol rates around 4,470 food premises, most of them frying hard in a tight footprint.
We degrease exactly what the St Nicholas Market and Gloucester Road 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 Bristol 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 Nicholas Market cookline that does the work and shows the grease first.
We strip and degrease the canopy inside and out, clean or replace the baffle filters, and degrease the extractor fan and its housing - the part that quietly loses performance as grease loads the blades over a hard Gloucester Road service. Cleaned to the TR19 Grease standard, with before-and-after evidence and a certificate, so the system pulls properly and your Bristol fire risk assessment and insurer have the record 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 Bristol's residential streets; cleaned or changed so the downstream stages are not overwhelmed.
Fire
A Bristol 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 Nicholas Market 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 Nicholas Market 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 Gloucester Road system that a quick canopy wipe misses.
On the ground in Bristol
We are under Bristol's canopies every week. Real jobs, not stock shots.
A museum visitor cafe in Bristol had historic building dust mixing with cooking vapour inside the extract ducting. We HEPA-vacuumed the ductwork and deep-degreased the extract fan units, and checked in with the conservation team before we started so nothing near the collection was disturbed. It came back sanitised, with the fire risk and the drift of dusty air both dealt with.
Why it pays
Extraction cleaning is a fire-risk job first - but it pays back every Bristol service.
Clear the canopy and fan of grease and a hard St Nicholas Market cookline sheds its heat and steam faster, so the kitchen keeps cooler and the fan works less to move the same air. Leave it caked and you carry a fire risk, a failed inspection point and an uncomfortable kitchen at once. How often it is due tracks the cooking - the Gloucester Road takeaways well beyond a daytime cafe - and your certificate names the next date.
Inspect the Bristol 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 Bristol 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 Nicholas Market or Gloucester Road kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime cafe.
Yes. Most venues we clean around St Nicholas Market and Gloucester Road 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 Nicholas Market, Gloucester Road and the city centre out to the suburbs, and across the wider West of England.
Yes. The takeaways and grill houses around Gloucester Road and Whiteladies 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.
It can. An inspection covers the physical condition of the premises, ventilation included, so a grease-laden canopy or fan over a Wapping Wharf cookline can count against your score.
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 Nicholas Market kitchen - we clean the full run to TR19 and certify it together.
Yes. Beyond restaurants, Bristol has campus catering at two universities, production kitchens at Southmead and the BRI, and stadium and hotel kitchens - high-volume systems we clean and certify alongside the hospitality work.
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