Croydon · TR19 Grease
We degrease the canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan for Croydon restaurants, takeaways and pubs - so the system pulls properly, runs cooler and holds a current TR19 certificate.
Croydon
Croydon fries across the borough - the South End and Surrey Street cooklines cook from open to close, and the North End and Thornton Heath kitchens run alongside.
The settings vary, the grease does not. Across Boxpark, South Norwood and the suburban strips, the takeaways and grill houses run the single hardest test an extraction canopy faces. Croydon rates around 3,000 food premises, most of them frying in a tight footprint.
We degrease the part of the system the Boxpark and South Norwood 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 Croydon 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 Boxpark 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 South Norwood 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 Croydon 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 Croydon's residential streets; cleaned or changed so the downstream stages are not overwhelmed.
Fire
A Croydon 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 Boxpark 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 Boxpark 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 South Norwood system that a quick canopy wipe misses.
On the ground in Croydon
We are under Croydon's canopies every week. Real jobs, not stock shots.
A shopping-centre food court in Croydon had dense grease layered through the communal extraction run serving several units at once. We installed new access points along the run and scraped it down in full, bringing the shared system back to the TR19 standard for communal safety. The work was slotted into the centre's annual deep-clean window.
Why it pays
Extraction cleaning is a fire-risk job first - but it pays back every Croydon service.
With the canopy and fan clean, heat and steam clear off a hard Boxpark 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 South Norwood takeaways need it more often than a daytime cafe - and the certificate sets the next date.
Inspect the Croydon 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 Croydon 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 Boxpark or South Norwood kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime cafe.
Yes - from Boxpark, South Norwood and the city centre out to the suburbs, and across the wider Greater London.
Yes. The takeaways and grill houses around South Norwood and Surrey 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.
Yes. Beyond restaurants, Croydon has campus catering at the London South Bank University Croydon campus, production kitchens at Croydon University Hospital, and stadium and hotel kitchens - high-volume systems we clean and certify alongside the hospitality work.
Every clean finishes with a dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs and a condition report - the evidence a Boxpark operator's insurer or fire risk assessor expects to see.
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 South Norwood takeaway canopies that have run hot for years.
Yes. Most venues we clean around Boxpark and South Norwood are busy through the evening, so we work overnight, early mornings or on closing days, at no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
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