Gravesend · TR19 Grease
We degrease the canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan for Gravesend restaurants, takeaways and pubs - so the system pulls properly, runs cooler and holds a current TR19 certificate.
Gravesend
Gravesend fries across the town - the High Street and Windmill Street cooklines cook from open to close, and the Parrock Street and Queen Street kitchens run alongside.
The settings vary, the grease does not. Across Northfleet, Perry Street and the suburban strips, the takeaways and grill houses run the single hardest test an extraction canopy faces. Gravesend rates around 800 food premises, most of them frying in a tight footprint.
We degrease the part of the system the Northfleet and Perry 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 Gravesend 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 Northfleet 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 Perry Street 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 Gravesend 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 Gravesend's residential streets; cleaned or changed so the downstream stages are not overwhelmed.
Fire
A Gravesend 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 Northfleet 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 Northfleet 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 Perry Street system that a quick canopy wipe misses.
On the ground in Gravesend
We are under Gravesend's canopies every week. Real jobs, not stock shots.
A High Street cafe in Gravesend had severe grease saturation on the extract fan blades, causing excessive noise and intermittent extraction failures. We ran precision manual degreasing on the fan components, keeping the motor and balance weights intact, dropping the noise sharply and returning the system to a constant, optimal speed. The owner booked a recurring quarterly service off the back of it.
Why it pays
Extraction cleaning is a fire-risk job first - but it pays back every Gravesend service.
A clean canopy and fan clear the heat and steam off a hard Northfleet 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 Perry Street takeaways need it more often than a daytime cafe - and your certificate sets the interval.
Inspect the Gravesend 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 Gravesend 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 Northfleet or Perry 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 Perry Street takeaway canopies that have run hot for years.
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 Northfleet kitchen - we clean the full run to TR19 and certify it together.
It can. An inspection covers the physical condition of the premises, ventilation included, so a grease-laden canopy or fan over a Windmill Street cookline can count against your score.
Yes. Beyond restaurants, Gravesend has campus catering at the North Kent College Gravesend campus, production kitchens at Gravesham Community Hospital, and riverside and hotel kitchens - high-volume systems we clean and certify alongside the hospitality work.
Yes. The takeaways and grill houses around Perry Street and Parrock 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 - from Northfleet, Perry Street and the city centre out to the suburbs, and across the wider Kent.
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