Caerphilly · TR19 Grease
We degrease the canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan for Caerphilly restaurants, takeaways and pubs - so the system pulls properly, runs cooler and holds a current TR19 certificate.
Caerphilly
Caerphilly fries hard along Cardiff Road, Clive Street and Pentrebane Street, where fish bars, kebab houses and cafes run their extraction flat out through every service.
Different kitchens, same grease. Around Clive Street, Pentrebane Street and the outlying strips, the grill houses and takeaways put an extraction canopy through the hardest work it will ever do. With hundreds of food premises rated across Caerphilly, most are frying in a cramped space.
The kit the Clive Street and Pentrebane Street 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 Caerphilly 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 Clive Street cookline that does the work and shows the grease first.
The canopy is stripped inside and out, the baffle filters cleaned or renewed, and the extractor fan and housing degreased - it is the fan that slips quietly as grease weighs its blades through a hard Pentrebane Street service. All of it is taken to the TR19 Grease standard, with before-and-after evidence and a certificate, so the system draws as designed and your Caerphilly fire risk assessment and insurer hold the record they expect.
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 Caerphilly's residential streets; cleaned or changed so the downstream stages are not overwhelmed.
Fire
A Caerphilly 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 Clive 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 Clive 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 Pentrebane Street system that a quick canopy wipe misses.
On the ground in Caerphilly
We are under Caerphilly's canopies every week. Real jobs, not stock shots.
A traditional bar and grill in Caerphilly had a heavy grease layer coating the canopy and the first bend of its duct, a real fire risk over the frying range. We degreased the canopy and fan housing back to bare metal, cleaned the fan and reset the filters. The grease was cleared to TR19 with much better draw across the canopy, and the paperwork went over for their file, the resident office cat keeping an eye on us from the top of the stairs.
Why it pays
Extraction cleaning is a fire-risk job first - but it pays back every Caerphilly service.
Clear the canopy and fan of grease and a hard Clive Street 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 Pentrebane Street takeaways well beyond a daytime cafe - and your certificate names the next date.
Inspect the Caerphilly 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 Caerphilly 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 Clive Street or Pentrebane Street 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 Cardiff Road cookline can count against your score.
Yes. Most venues we clean around Clive Street and Pentrebane 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.
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 Clive Street 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 Pentrebane 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 Clive Street operator's insurer or fire risk assessor expects to see.
Yes. The takeaways and grill houses around Pentrebane Street and Castle Street 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
Caerphilly cheese, the crumbly white cheese that carries the town's name, was first made to feed the coalfield's miners - its thick rind, moist crumb and high salt built to survive a long shift underground and to be eaten with dirty hands. The town lives by food more than mining now, and busy kitchens coat their canopies and extract systems in grease every service. Left in place it feeds flame and starves airflow, so we strip, degrease and certify extraction from the filter to the fan to the TR19 grease standard. Every clean is logged with before-and-after photographs of each accessible run.
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