Chichester · TR19 Grease
We degrease the canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan for Chichester restaurants, takeaways and pubs - so the system pulls properly, runs cooler and holds a current TR19 certificate.
Chichester
Chichester fries hard along St Pancras, The Hornet and South Street, where the city's takeaways, curry houses and cafes run their extraction flat out through every service.
The settings vary, the grease does not. Across St Pancras, The Hornet and the suburban strips, the takeaways and grill houses run the single hardest test an extraction canopy faces. Chichester rates hundreds of food premises, most of them frying in a tight footprint.
We degrease the part of the system the St Pancras and The Hornet cooks work under - the canopy, the baffle filters and the extractor fan. Done properly it pulls the way it was designed to, clearing heat and steam, holding a current TR19 Grease certificate, and running cooler, because a clean Chichester fan is not fighting 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 Pancras cookline that does the work and shows the grease first.
We strip and degrease the canopy inside and out, clean the baffle filters or swap them where needed, and degrease the extractor fan and its housing - the piece that quietly sheds performance as grease weighs down the blades over a hard The Hornet service. It is cleaned to the TR19 Grease standard, with before-and-after evidence and a certificate, so the system draws as it should and your Chichester fire risk assessment and insurer get the record they want.
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 Chichester's residential streets; cleaned or changed so the downstream stages are not overwhelmed.
Fire
A Chichester 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 Pancras 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 Pancras 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 The Hornet system that a quick canopy wipe misses.
On the ground in Chichester
We are under Chichester's canopies every week. Real jobs, not stock shots.
A small school canteen in Chichester had its canopy and fan housing caked in grease from steady use of the pizza oven. We degreased the plenum and filters back to bare metal, cleaned the fan and reset the filters. The extract was left clean and fire-safe with the fan pulling freely again, and the paperwork followed for their file. We also set up a recurring quarterly clean to keep on top of it.
Why it pays
Extraction cleaning is a fire-risk job first - but it pays back every Chichester service.
With the canopy and fan clean, heat and steam clear off a hard St Pancras cookline faster, the kitchen runs cooler, and the fan works less to move the same air. Leave it greased and you have a fire risk, a failed inspection point and an uncomfortable kitchen together. Frequency follows the cooking load - the The Hornet takeaways need it more often than a daytime cafe - and the certificate sets the next date.
Inspect the Chichester 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 Chichester 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 Pancras or The Hornet kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime cafe.
Yes. Beyond restaurants, Chichester has the hospital, college and city-centre kitchens we clean and certify - high-volume systems we clean and certify alongside the hospitality 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 The Hornet 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 St Pancras operator's insurer or fire risk assessor expects to see.
It can. An inspection covers the physical condition of the premises, ventilation included, so a grease-laden canopy or fan over a North Street cookline can count against your score.
Yes. The takeaways and grill houses around The Hornet and East 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.
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 St Pancras kitchen - we clean the full run to TR19 and certify it together.
Local knowledge
A mile west of the city sits Fishbourne Roman Palace, the largest known Roman residence north of the Alps, its floors laid with mosaics and once warmed by hypocaust systems that moved heated air beneath the rooms. Chichester's trade turns on food now, and its 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.
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