Eltham · TR19 Grease
We degrease the canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan for Eltham restaurants, takeaways and pubs - so the system pulls properly, runs cooler and holds a current TR19 certificate.
Eltham
Eltham fries across the district - the High Street and Court Yard cooklines cook from open to close, and the Passey Place and Well Hall Road kitchens run alongside.
The settings vary, the grease does not. Across Mottingham, Westmount Road and the suburban strips, the takeaways and grill houses run the single hardest test an extraction canopy faces. Eltham rates around 2,300 food premises, most of them frying in a tight footprint.
We degrease exactly what the Mottingham and Westmount 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 Eltham 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 Mottingham 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 Westmount 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 Eltham 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 Eltham's residential streets; cleaned or changed so the downstream stages are not overwhelmed.
Fire
An Eltham 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 Mottingham 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 Mottingham 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 Westmount Road system that a quick canopy wipe misses.
On the ground in Eltham
We are under Eltham's canopies every week. Real jobs, not stock shots.
A restaurant in Eltham had heavy grease inside the fan housing and along the main extraction line, a clear combustion risk. We worked a heavy-duty industrial degreaser through to break the carbonised deposits down, followed with a high-pressure steam clean back to bare metal, and re-checked the run. We had to fabricate an access panel where the run had none before we could reach the worst of it.
Why it pays
Extraction cleaning is a fire-risk job first - but it pays back every Eltham service.
A clean canopy and fan clear the heat and steam off a hard Mottingham cookline faster, so the kitchen runs cooler and the fan draws less to move the same air. A greased system is a fire risk, a failed inspection point and a comfort problem at once. Frequency tracks how hard you cook - the Westmount Road takeaways need it more often than a daytime cafe - and your certificate sets the interval.
Inspect the Eltham 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 Eltham 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 Mottingham or Westmount Road kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime cafe.
It can. An inspection covers the physical condition of the premises, ventilation included, so a grease-laden canopy or fan over a High Street cookline can count against your score.
Every clean finishes with a dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs and a condition report - the evidence a Mottingham operator's insurer or fire risk assessor expects to see.
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 Mottingham kitchen - we clean the full run to TR19 and certify it together.
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 Westmount Road takeaway canopies that have run hot for years.
Yes. The takeaways and grill houses around Westmount Road and Passey Place 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 - from Mottingham, Westmount Road and the city centre out to the suburbs, and across the wider Greater London.
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