Exeter · TR19 Grease
We degrease the canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan for Exeter restaurants, takeaways and pubs - so the system pulls properly, runs cooler and holds a current TR19 certificate.
Exeter
Exeter fries across the city - the Fore Street and Quayside cooklines, and the Sidwell Street and Magdalen Road kitchens cook from open to close.
The settings vary, the grease does not. Across Fore Street, Sidwell Street and the suburban strips, the takeaways and grill houses run the single hardest test an extraction canopy faces. Exeter rates around 1,050 food premises, most of them frying in a tight footprint.
We degrease the part of the system the Fore Street and Sidwell Street 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 Exeter 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 Fore Street 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 Sidwell Street service. The work meets the TR19 Grease standard, with before-and-after evidence and a certificate, so the system pulls properly and your Exeter 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 Exeter's residential streets; cleaned or changed so the downstream stages are not overwhelmed.
Fire
An Exeter 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 Fore Street 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 Fore Street 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 Sidwell Street system that a quick canopy wipe misses.
On the ground in Exeter
We are under Exeter's canopies every week. Real jobs, not stock shots.
A regional cargo-airport kitchen in Exeter had its high-efficiency filters badly blocked, letting air bypass into the kitchen. We fully disassembled the system, chemical-soaked all the components and reassembled it, restoring the baseline for high-volume service - to the airport's security and safety compliance.
Why it pays
Extraction cleaning is a fire-risk job first - but it pays back every Exeter service.
A clean canopy and fan pull heat and steam off a hard Fore Street 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 Sidwell Street takeaways far more than a daytime cafe - and your certificate fixes the interval.
Inspect the Exeter 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 Exeter 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 Fore Street or Sidwell Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime cafe.
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 Sidwell Street takeaway canopies that have run hot for years.
Yes. The takeaways and grill houses around Sidwell Street and Queen 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.
It can. An inspection covers the physical condition of the premises, ventilation included, so a grease-laden canopy or fan over a Fore Street cookline can count against your score.
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 Fore Street kitchen - we clean the full run to TR19 and certify it together.
Yes - from Fore Street, Sidwell Street and the city centre out to the suburbs, and across the wider Devon.
Yes. Beyond restaurants, Exeter has campus catering at the university, production kitchens at the Royal Devon and Exeter, and stadium and hotel kitchens - high-volume systems we clean and certify alongside the hospitality work.
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