Chepstow · TR19 Grease
We degrease the canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan for Chepstow restaurants, takeaways and pubs - so the system pulls properly, runs cooler and holds a current TR19 certificate.
Chepstow
Chepstow fries along the High Street, Moor Street and Beaufort Square, where takeaways and cafes run canopies over hot ranges.
The kitchens differ, the grease is the same. Along St Mary Street, Beaufort Square and the parades beyond, the grill houses and takeaways put an extraction canopy through the roughest work it will ever take. Of the dozens of food premises rated in Chepstow, most are frying in a cramped back kitchen.
The kit the St Mary Street and Beaufort Square 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 Chepstow 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 St Mary 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 Beaufort Square 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 Chepstow 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 Chepstow's residential streets; cleaned or changed so the downstream stages are not overwhelmed.
Fire
A Chepstow 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 Mary 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 St Mary 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 Beaufort Square system that a quick canopy wipe misses.
On the ground in Chepstow
We are under Chepstow's canopies every week. Real jobs, not stock shots.
A burger bar in Chepstow had thick grease through the canopy and fan housing, cutting the pull over the griddle. We removed the filters for a soak, hand-scraped the canopy and fan housing and degreased through to the extract fan, bringing the canopy and duct up clean and safe with airflow over the range restored. We left photos and a certificate for the file.
Why it pays
Extraction cleaning is a fire-risk job first - but it pays back every Chepstow service.
A clean canopy and fan pull heat and steam off a hard St Mary Street cookline faster, so the kitchen sits cooler and the fan draws less to shift the same air. A greased system is a fire risk, a failed inspection point and a comfort problem all at once. How often it is needed follows how hard you cook - the Beaufort Square takeaways far more than a daytime cafe - and your certificate fixes the interval.
Inspect the Chepstow 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 Chepstow 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 Mary Street or Beaufort Square kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime cafe.
Yes. Most venues we clean around St Mary Street and Beaufort Square 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. Where a filter is warped, corroded or a mesh type that keeps passing grease, we say so and swap it - common on the older Beaufort Square takeaway canopies that have run hot for years.
Yes - from St Mary Street, Beaufort Square and the city centre out to the suburbs, and across the wider Monmouthshire.
Yes. Beyond restaurants, Chepstow has the busy High Street kitchens we clean and certify - high-volume systems we clean and certify alongside the hospitality work.
It can. An inspection covers the physical condition of the premises, ventilation included, so a grease-laden canopy or fan over a High Street cookline can count against your score.
Every clean finishes with a dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs and a condition report - the evidence a St Mary Street operator's insurer or fire risk assessor expects to see.
Local knowledge
From 1917 Chepstow built ships on the Wye at National Shipyard No.1, and the works that followed - Fairfield, later Fairfield-Mabey - fabricated the steel for the Severn Bridge and other major structures. Heavy fabrication throws grease, fume and grime, and so does a busy kitchen range. Left on canopy and duct surfaces, cooking grease is a fire load. Our extraction cleaning strips it from filters, plenum and ducting to TR19 Grease standard, cutting the fire risk and keeping airflow where it should be.
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