Caterham · TR19 Grease
We degrease the canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan for Caterham restaurants, takeaways and pubs - so the system pulls properly, runs cooler and holds a current TR19 certificate.
Caterham
Caterham fries hard along Croydon Road, Church Walk and out towards Whyteleafe, where the Indian restaurants, Thai kitchens, pizzerias, grills and chip shops run their extraction flat out through every service.
The venues change but the grease does not. From Church Walk to Whyteleafe and the suburban parades, the takeaways and grill houses set the toughest test any extraction canopy meets. Caterham rates hundreds of food premises, most of them frying hard in a tight footprint.
We degrease exactly what the Church Walk and Whyteleafe 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 Caterham 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 Church Walk 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 Whyteleafe service. The work meets the TR19 Grease standard, with before-and-after evidence and a certificate, so the system pulls properly and your Caterham 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 Caterham's residential streets; cleaned or changed so the downstream stages are not overwhelmed.
Fire
A Caterham 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 Church Walk 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 Church Walk 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 Whyteleafe system that a quick canopy wipe misses.
On the ground in Caterham
We are under Caterham's canopies every week. Real jobs, not stock shots.
A traditional school canteen in Caterham carried a heavy grease load on the plenum and filters from the range. We cleaned the canopy and first bend of the duct until the metal showed, degreased the fan housing and refitted the filters. The grease was cleared to TR19 and the system drawing properly again. We sent the paperwork over by email once we'd finished, and the head chef kept a steady supply of brews going through the morning.
Why it pays
Extraction cleaning is a fire-risk job first - but it pays back every Caterham service.
A clean canopy and fan clear the heat and steam off a hard Church Walk 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 Whyteleafe takeaways need it more often than a daytime cafe - and your certificate sets the interval.
Inspect the Caterham 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 Caterham 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 Church Walk or Whyteleafe kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime cafe.
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 Whyteleafe takeaway canopies that have run hot for years.
Yes. The takeaways and grill houses around Whyteleafe and Church Hill 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.
Every clean finishes with a dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs and a condition report - the evidence a Church Walk operator's insurer or fire risk assessor expects to see.
Yes. Most venues we clean around Church Walk and Whyteleafe are busy through the evening, so we work overnight, early mornings or on closing days, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
It can. An inspection covers the physical condition of the premises, ventilation included, so a grease-laden canopy or fan over a Chaldon Road cookline can count against your score.
Yes. Beyond restaurants, Caterham has the school, pub and town-centre kitchens we clean and certify - high-volume systems we clean and certify alongside the hospitality work.
Local knowledge
Caterham Valley is a Victorian creation, thrown up around the railway that reached the town from Purley in 1856, and its shopping parades along Croydon Road and Church Walk have fed the town ever since. Today those streets carry Indian and Thai restaurants, pizzerias, grills, cafes and chip shops, and every service coats their canopies and extract systems in grease. 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.
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