Gillingham · TR19 Grease
We degrease the canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan for Gillingham restaurants, takeaways and pubs - so the system pulls properly, runs cooler and holds a current TR19 certificate.
Gillingham
Gillingham fries across the Medway towns - the Canterbury Street and High Street cooklines cook from open to close, and the Watling Street and Rainham kitchens run alongside.
The kitchens differ, the grease is the same. Along Twydall, Hempstead Valley and the parades beyond, the grill houses and takeaways put an extraction canopy through the roughest work it will ever take. Of the hundreds of food premises rated in Gillingham, most are frying in a cramped back kitchen.
The kit the Twydall and Hempstead Valley cooks work beneath - canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan - is what we degrease. Done right it pulls the way it should, clearing heat and steam, backed by a current TR19 Grease certificate, and it runs cooler too, because a clean Gillingham fan is not working against 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 Twydall 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 Hempstead Valley service. The work meets the TR19 Grease standard, with before-and-after evidence and a certificate, so the system pulls properly and your Gillingham 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 Gillingham's residential streets; cleaned or changed so the downstream stages are not overwhelmed.
Fire
A Gillingham 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 Twydall 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 Twydall 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 Hempstead Valley system that a quick canopy wipe misses.
On the ground in Gillingham
We are under Gillingham's canopies every week. Real jobs, not stock shots.
A shopping-centre carvery in Gillingham had grease saturating the canopy interior and drawing a pest concern from the food-court management. We deep-cleaned the canopy and its hidden corners behind the light fittings with solvent and manual scraping, leaving it bright and residue-free for the hygiene standard. A fresh fire-safety certificate was issued to the centre office.
Why it pays
Extraction cleaning is a fire-risk job first - but it pays back every Gillingham service.
A clean canopy and fan pull heat and steam off a hard Twydall 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 Hempstead Valley takeaways far more than a daytime cafe - and your certificate fixes the interval.
Inspect the Gillingham 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 Gillingham 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 Twydall or Hempstead Valley kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime cafe.
Yes. Most venues we clean around Twydall and Hempstead Valley 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 Twydall, Hempstead Valley and the city centre out to the suburbs, and across the wider Kent.
It can. An inspection covers the physical condition of the premises, ventilation included, so a grease-laden canopy or fan over a Canterbury Street cookline can count against your score.
Yes. The takeaways and grill houses around Hempstead Valley and Watling 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.
Yes. Beyond restaurants, Gillingham has campus catering at the Universities at Medway, production kitchens at the Medway Maritime Hospital, and stadium and hotel kitchens - high-volume systems we clean and certify alongside the hospitality work.
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 Hempstead Valley takeaway canopies that have run hot for years.
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