Crawley · TR19 Grease
We degrease the canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan for Crawley restaurants, takeaways and pubs - so the system pulls properly, runs cooler and holds a current TR19 certificate.
Crawley
Crawley fries around the clock - the Gatwick and airport-hotel kitchens cook 24 hours, and the Queens Square and County Mall cooklines run alongside.
The settings vary, the grease does not. Across Three Bridges, Northgate and the suburban strips, the takeaways and grill houses run the single hardest test an extraction canopy faces. Crawley rates around 940 food premises, most of them frying in a tight footprint.
We degrease exactly what the Three Bridges and Northgate 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 Crawley 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 Three Bridges 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 Northgate 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 Crawley 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 Crawley's residential streets; cleaned or changed so the downstream stages are not overwhelmed.
Fire
A Crawley 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 Three Bridges 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 Three Bridges 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 Northgate system that a quick canopy wipe misses.
On the ground in Crawley
We are under Crawley's canopies every week. Real jobs, not stock shots.
A community theatre backstage kitchen in Crawley had high-volume frying residue building up in narrow ceiling-void trunking that was awkward to reach. We fed a compact steam-cleaning lance into the restricted ductwork and cleaned it through, bringing the system back to a fire-safe standard. The work was slotted around the theatre's event schedule so nothing on the programme was disrupted.
Why it pays
Extraction cleaning is a fire-risk job first - but it pays back every Crawley service.
A clean canopy and fan pull heat and steam off a hard Three Bridges 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 Northgate takeaways far more than a daytime cafe - and your certificate fixes the interval.
Inspect the Crawley 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 Crawley 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 Three Bridges or Northgate kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime cafe.
Yes. Beyond restaurants, Crawley has 24-hour catering across the Gatwick terminals and airport hotels, campus catering at Crawley College, and hospital kitchens - high-volume systems we clean and certify alongside the hospitality work.
Yes. Most venues we clean around Three Bridges and Northgate 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 Northgate takeaway canopies that have run hot for years.
Yes - from Three Bridges, Northgate and the city centre out to the suburbs, and across the wider West Sussex.
Every clean finishes with a dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs and a condition report - the evidence a Three Bridges operator's insurer or fire risk assessor expects to see.
Yes. The takeaways and grill houses around Northgate and Boulevard 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.
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