Chatham · TR19 Grease
We degrease the canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan for Chatham restaurants, takeaways and pubs - so the system pulls properly, runs cooler and holds a current TR19 certificate.
Chatham
Chatham fries across the Medway towns - the Chatham High Street and Railway Street cooklines cook from open to close, and the Military Road and Dock Road kitchens run alongside.
The kitchens differ, the grease is the same. Along Chatham Maritime, Rochester High Street and the parades beyond, the grill houses and takeaways put an extraction canopy through the roughest work it will ever take. Of the around 2,000 food premises rated in Chatham, most are frying in a cramped back kitchen.
We degrease exactly what the Chatham Maritime and Rochester High 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 Chatham 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 Chatham Maritime 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 Rochester High 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 Chatham 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 Chatham's residential streets; cleaned or changed so the downstream stages are not overwhelmed.
Fire
A Chatham 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 Chatham Maritime 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 Chatham Maritime 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 Rochester High Street system that a quick canopy wipe misses.
On the ground in Chatham
We are under Chatham's canopies every week. Real jobs, not stock shots.
A leisure-pool bistro in Chatham had high-temperature grease carbonising on the extraction intake from its proximity to the grills. We used a hot-liquid chemical flush to break the stubborn carbonised deposits down, sanitising the plenum chamber and updating the unit's fire-safety certification for the venue safety officer.
Why it pays
Extraction cleaning is a fire-risk job first - but it pays back every Chatham service.
Clear the canopy and fan of grease and a hard Chatham Maritime 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 Rochester High Street takeaways well beyond a daytime cafe - and your certificate names the next date.
Inspect the Chatham 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 Chatham 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 Chatham Maritime or Rochester High Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime cafe.
Yes - from Chatham Maritime, Rochester High Street and the city centre out to the suburbs, and across the wider Kent.
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 Rochester High 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 Chatham Maritime operator's insurer or fire risk assessor expects to see.
Yes. Most venues we clean around Chatham Maritime and Rochester High 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 Chatham Maritime kitchen - we clean the full run to TR19 and certify it together.
Yes. Beyond restaurants, Chatham has campus catering at the Universities at Medway, production kitchens at Medway Maritime Hospital, and dockyard and stadium kitchens - high-volume systems we clean and certify alongside the hospitality work.
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