Gateshead · TR19 Grease
We degrease the canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan for Gateshead restaurants, takeaways and pubs - so the system pulls properly, runs cooler and holds a current TR19 certificate.
Gateshead
Gateshead fries across the borough - the Quayside and Jackson Street cooklines cook from open to close, and the Low Fell and MetroCentre kitchens run alongside.
The settings vary, the grease does not. Across Ochre Yards, Quayside and the suburban strips, the takeaways and grill houses run the single hardest test an extraction canopy faces. Gateshead rates around 1,650 food premises, most of them frying in a tight footprint.
What the Ochre Yards and Quayside cooks labour under - canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan - is exactly what we degrease. Cleaned right it draws as it was meant to, clearing heat and steam, carrying a current TR19 Grease certificate and running cooler, since a clean Gateshead fan no longer battles a greased one to shift the same air.
The system
Extraction cleaning is the accessible heart of the system - the kit above a hard-frying Ochre Yards 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 Quayside 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 Gateshead 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 Gateshead's residential streets; cleaned or changed so the downstream stages are not overwhelmed.
Fire
A Gateshead 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 Ochre Yards 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 an Ochre Yards 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 Quayside system that a quick canopy wipe misses.
On the ground in Gateshead
We are under Gateshead's canopies every week. Real jobs, not stock shots.
A retail-park diner in Gateshead had its internal vertical extract shaft coated in sticky grease with the fire-retardant protection long gone. We ran automated vertical-shaft cleaning equipment to degrease the full pipe internally, clearing it and certifying the system for safe operation. The shaft was reached via secure rooftop access routes.
Why it pays
Extraction cleaning is a fire-risk job first - but it pays back every Gateshead service.
A clean canopy and fan clear the heat and steam off a hard Ochre Yards 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 Quayside takeaways need it more often than a daytime cafe - and your certificate sets the interval.
Inspect the Gateshead 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 Gateshead 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 Ochre Yards or Quayside 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 Jackson Street cookline can count against your score.
Yes. Beyond restaurants, Gateshead has campus catering at Gateshead College, production kitchens at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, and stadium and shopping-centre kitchens - high-volume systems we clean and certify alongside the hospitality work.
Yes. Most venues we clean around Ochre Yards and Quayside 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 - from Ochre Yards, Quayside and the city centre out to the suburbs, and across the wider Tyne and Wear.
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 Ochre Yards kitchen - we clean the full run to TR19 and certify it together.
Yes. The takeaways and grill houses around Quayside and High 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.
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