Godalming · TR19 Grease
We degrease the canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan for Godalming restaurants, takeaways and pubs - so the system pulls properly, runs cooler and holds a current TR19 certificate.
Godalming
Godalming fries hard along Wharf Street, Ockford Road and the High Street, where takeaways, pubs and riverside restaurants run their extraction flat out through every service.
The kitchens differ, the grease is the same. Along Wharf Street, Ockford Road 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 Godalming, most are frying in a cramped back kitchen.
What the Wharf Street and Ockford Road 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 Godalming 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 Wharf Street cookline that does the work and shows the grease first.
We strip and degrease the canopy inside and out, clean the baffle filters or swap them where needed, and degrease the extractor fan and its housing - the piece that quietly sheds performance as grease weighs down the blades over a hard Ockford Road service. It is cleaned to the TR19 Grease standard, with before-and-after evidence and a certificate, so the system draws as it should and your Godalming fire risk assessment and insurer get the record they want.
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 Godalming's residential streets; cleaned or changed so the downstream stages are not overwhelmed.
Fire
A Godalming 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 Wharf 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 Wharf 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 an Ockford Road system that a quick canopy wipe misses.
On the ground in Godalming
We are under Godalming's canopies every week. Real jobs, not stock shots.
An independent village pub carvery in Godalming had grease and carbon across the filters and extract duct above the frying range. We cleaned the filters and duct until the metal showed, degreased the fan housing and refitted the filters. The extract was left fire-safe and the fan pulling freely, with full documentation for their records. We finished it over two evenings after closing to keep disruption down.
Why it pays
Extraction cleaning is a fire-risk job first - but it pays back every Godalming service.
With the canopy and fan clean, heat and steam clear off a hard Wharf Street cookline faster, the kitchen runs cooler, and the fan works less to move the same air. Leave it greased and you have a fire risk, a failed inspection point and an uncomfortable kitchen together. Frequency follows the cooking load - the Ockford Road takeaways need it more often than a daytime cafe - and the certificate sets the next date.
Inspect the Godalming 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 Godalming 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 Wharf Street or Ockford Road kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime cafe.
Yes - from Wharf Street, Ockford Road and the city centre out to the suburbs, and across the wider Surrey.
It can. An inspection covers the physical condition of the premises, ventilation included, so a grease-laden canopy or fan over a Meadrow 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 Wharf Street kitchen - we clean the full run to TR19 and certify it together.
Yes. Most venues we clean around Wharf Street and Ockford Road 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. Beyond restaurants, Godalming has the school, college and town-centre kitchens we clean and certify - 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 Wharf Street operator's insurer or fire risk assessor expects to see.
Local knowledge
The Godalming Navigation opened the town to barge traffic in 1764, carrying timber, corn and coal to the wharf that still gives Wharf Street its name, and that riverside now draws diners to the pubs and restaurants along the water. Charterhouse School, which moved from London to its hill above the town in 1872, adds hundreds more covers a day to the trade. Busy kitchens like these coat their canopies and extract systems in grease every service, and left in place it feeds flame and starves airflow. We strip, degrease and certify extraction from the filter to the fan to the TR19 grease standard.
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