Clitheroe · TR19 Grease
We degrease the canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan for Clitheroe restaurants, takeaways and pubs - so the system pulls properly, runs cooler and holds a current TR19 certificate.
Clitheroe
Clitheroe fries the length of Castle Street, Moor Lane and Lowergate, from the Castle Chippy to the takeaways down towards the station.
Different kitchens, same grease. Around Wellgate, Castlegate and the outlying strips, the grill houses and takeaways put an extraction canopy through the hardest work it will ever do. With dozens of food premises rated across Clitheroe, most are frying in a cramped space.
The kit the Wellgate and Castlegate 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 Clitheroe 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 Wellgate cookline that does the work and shows the grease first.
We strip and degrease the canopy inside and out, clean or replace the baffle filters, and degrease the extractor fan and its housing - the part that quietly loses performance as grease loads the blades over a hard Castlegate service. Cleaned to the TR19 Grease standard, with before-and-after evidence and a certificate, so the system pulls properly and your Clitheroe fire risk assessment and insurer have the record 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 Clitheroe's residential streets; cleaned or changed so the downstream stages are not overwhelmed.
Fire
A Clitheroe 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 Wellgate 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 Wellgate 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 Castlegate system that a quick canopy wipe misses.
On the ground in Clitheroe
We are under Clitheroe's canopies every week. Real jobs, not stock shots.
A High Street bakery in Clitheroe had thick grease through the filters and extract duct, cutting the pull over its pizza oven. We cleaned the canopy and the first bend of the duct back to metal, degreased the fan housing and refitted the cleaned filters, so the kitchen cleared its smoke quickly again. The work was scheduled for the weekly closed day, and we issued the certificate for the file.
Why it pays
Extraction cleaning is a fire-risk job first - but it pays back every Clitheroe service.
With the canopy and fan clean, heat and steam clear off a hard Wellgate 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 Castlegate takeaways need it more often than a daytime cafe - and the certificate sets the next date.
Inspect the Clitheroe 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 Clitheroe 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 Wellgate or Castlegate 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 Castlegate takeaway canopies that have run hot for years.
Yes. Most venues we clean around Wellgate and Castlegate 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 Castle Street cookline can count against your score.
Yes. Beyond restaurants, Clitheroe has the school, hospital and works-canteen kitchens we clean and certify - high-volume systems we clean and certify alongside the hospitality work.
Yes. The takeaways and grill houses around Castlegate and Moor Lane 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 Wellgate kitchen - we clean the full run to TR19 and certify it together.
Local knowledge
Holmes Mill, a former cotton mill off Greenacre Street, reopened as a beer hall and food hall whose Bowland bar runs one of the longest hand-pull counters in Britain. Hospitality on that scale means grills, fryers and ranges worked hard through service, and each one drives grease-laden vapour up into its canopy and duct. Left there it hardens into fuel; extracted, degreased and certified to TR19 Grease, it keeps both the insurer and the fire risk assessment satisfied.
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