Dudley · TR19 Grease
We degrease the canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan for Dudley restaurants, takeaways and pubs - so the system pulls properly, runs cooler and holds a current TR19 certificate.
Dudley
Dudley fries across the borough - the takeaway strips of Brierley Hill and Kingswinford cook from open to close, and the Stourbridge and Halesowen cooklines run alongside.
The venues change but the grease does not. From Stourbridge to Kingswinford and the suburban parades, the takeaways and grill houses set the toughest test any extraction canopy meets. Dudley rates around 2,600 food premises, most of them frying hard in a tight footprint.
We degrease the part of the system the Stourbridge and Kingswinford 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 Dudley 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 Stourbridge cookline that does the work and shows the grease first.
Canopy inside and out, baffle filters cleaned or replaced, and the extractor fan and housing degreased - that last part loses performance quietly as grease builds on the blades through a hard Kingswinford service. The work meets the TR19 Grease standard, with before-and-after evidence and a certificate, so the system pulls properly and your Dudley fire risk assessment and insurer have the paperwork 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 Dudley's residential streets; cleaned or changed so the downstream stages are not overwhelmed.
Fire
A Dudley 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 Stourbridge 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 Stourbridge 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 Kingswinford system that a quick canopy wipe misses.
On the ground in Dudley
We are under Dudley's canopies every week. Real jobs, not stock shots.
An industrial-park staff canteen in Dudley had fine metallic dust mixing with cooking vapour in the extract ducts. We HEPA-vacuumed the dust out and degreased the cooking-vapour pathways, decontaminating the system and taking the fire risk out - in the right PPE for the metallic dust.
Why it pays
Extraction cleaning is a fire-risk job first - but it pays back every Dudley service.
A clean canopy and fan pull heat and steam off a hard Stourbridge 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 Kingswinford takeaways far more than a daytime cafe - and your certificate fixes the interval.
Inspect the Dudley 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 Dudley 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 Stourbridge or Kingswinford kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime cafe.
Yes - from Stourbridge, Kingswinford and the city centre out to the suburbs, and across the wider West Midlands.
Yes. Beyond restaurants, Dudley has campus catering at Dudley College, production kitchens at Russells Hall Hospital, and shopping-centre 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 Stourbridge 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 Kingswinford takeaway canopies that have run hot for years.
Yes. Most venues we clean around Stourbridge and Kingswinford 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 Stourbridge cookline can count against your score.
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