Cheltenham · TR19 Grease
We degrease the canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan for Cheltenham restaurants, takeaways and pubs - so the system pulls properly, runs cooler and holds a current TR19 certificate.
Cheltenham
Cheltenham fries across the spa town - the Montpellier and Bath Road cooklines cook from open to close, and the Brewery Quarter and Promenade kitchens run alongside.
The kitchens differ, the grease is the same. Along Promenade, Suffolks and the parades beyond, the grill houses and takeaways put an extraction canopy through the roughest work it will ever take. Of the around 1,000 food premises rated in Cheltenham, most are frying in a cramped back kitchen.
The kit the Promenade and Suffolks 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 Cheltenham 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 Promenade 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 Suffolks 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 Cheltenham 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 Cheltenham's residential streets; cleaned or changed so the downstream stages are not overwhelmed.
Fire
A Cheltenham 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 Promenade 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 Promenade 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 Suffolks system that a quick canopy wipe misses.
On the ground in Cheltenham
We are under Cheltenham's canopies every week. Real jobs, not stock shots.
A spa and wellness centre restaurant in Cheltenham had a grease film building unevenly along the canopy length, throwing the air extraction out. We ran a cold-foaming degrease with a targeted sanitising spray, evening out the canopy airflow and clearing the grease, and kept the disruption off the wellness centre environment.
Why it pays
Extraction cleaning is a fire-risk job first - but it pays back every Cheltenham service.
A clean canopy and fan clear the heat and steam off a hard Promenade 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 Suffolks takeaways need it more often than a daytime cafe - and your certificate sets the interval.
Inspect the Cheltenham 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 Cheltenham 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 Promenade or Suffolks kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime cafe.
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 Promenade kitchen - we clean the full run to TR19 and certify it together.
Every clean finishes with a dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs and a condition report - the evidence a Promenade operator's insurer or fire risk assessor expects to see.
Yes - from Promenade, Suffolks and the city centre out to the suburbs, and across the wider Gloucestershire.
Yes. Most venues we clean around Promenade and Suffolks 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. The takeaways and grill houses around Suffolks and Bath 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.
Yes. Beyond restaurants, Cheltenham has campus catering at the University of Gloucestershire, production kitchens at Cheltenham General Hospital, and racecourse and hotel kitchens - high-volume systems we clean and certify alongside the hospitality work.
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