Didcot · TR19 Grease
We degrease the canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan for Didcot restaurants, takeaways and pubs - so the system pulls properly, runs cooler and holds a current TR19 certificate.
Didcot
Didcot fries across the town - the Broadway and Station Road cooklines cook from open to close, and the Wantage Road and Mereland Road kitchens run alongside.
The venues change but the grease does not. From Mereland Road to Cockcroft Road and the suburban parades, the takeaways and grill houses set the toughest test any extraction canopy meets. Didcot rates hundreds of food premises, most of them frying hard in a tight footprint.
We degrease exactly what the Mereland Road and Cockcroft Road 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 Didcot 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 Mereland Road 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 Cockcroft Road 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 Didcot 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 Didcot's residential streets; cleaned or changed so the downstream stages are not overwhelmed.
Fire
A Didcot 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 Mereland Road 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 Mereland Road 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 Cockcroft Road system that a quick canopy wipe misses.
On the ground in Didcot
We are under Didcot's canopies every week. Real jobs, not stock shots.
An Orchard Centre food unit in Didcot had grease on the extract fan letting cooking smells drift into the mall. We degreased the fan blades and housing, rebalanced the impeller and restored the pull, clearing the smells and returning the air quality. The centre's facilities team signed the fire-safety record.
Why it pays
Extraction cleaning is a fire-risk job first - but it pays back every Didcot service.
A clean canopy and fan pull heat and steam off a hard Mereland Road 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 Cockcroft Road takeaways far more than a daytime cafe - and your certificate fixes the interval.
Inspect the Didcot 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 Didcot 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 Mereland Road or Cockcroft Road kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime cafe.
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 Mereland Road kitchen - we clean the full run to TR19 and certify it together.
Yes. Most venues we clean around Mereland Road and Cockcroft Road 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. Beyond restaurants, Didcot has campus catering at the local college, works catering across the science campuses, and centre and hotel kitchens - high-volume systems we clean and certify alongside the hospitality work.
Yes. The takeaways and grill houses around Cockcroft Road and Station Road 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.
Every clean finishes with a dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs and a condition report - the evidence a Mereland Road operator's insurer or fire risk assessor expects to see.
Yes - from Mereland Road, Cockcroft Road and the city centre out to the suburbs, and across the wider Oxfordshire.
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