Ledbury · TR19 Grease
We degrease the canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan for Ledbury restaurants, takeaways and pubs - so the system pulls properly, runs cooler and holds a current TR19 certificate.
Ledbury
Ledbury fries across the market town - the High Street and Homend cooklines cook from open to close, and the Bye Street and New Street kitchens run alongside.
The kitchens differ, the grease is the same. Along New Street, Market Street and the parades beyond, the grill houses and takeaways put an extraction canopy through the roughest work it will ever take. Of the dozens of food premises rated in Ledbury, most are frying in a cramped back kitchen.
We degrease the part of the system the New Street and Market 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 Ledbury 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 New Street cookline that does the work and shows the grease first.
We strip and degrease the canopy inside and out, clean or replace the baffle filters, and degrease the extractor fan and its housing - the part that quietly loses performance as grease loads the blades over a hard Market Street service. Cleaned to the TR19 Grease standard, with before-and-after evidence and a certificate, so the system pulls properly and your Ledbury fire risk assessment and insurer have the record 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 Ledbury's residential streets; cleaned or changed so the downstream stages are not overwhelmed.
Fire
A Ledbury 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 New 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 New 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 Market Street system that a quick canopy wipe misses.
On the ground in Ledbury
We are under Ledbury's canopies every week. Real jobs, not stock shots.
A sandwich shop in Ledbury had baked-on grease over the canopy and first bend of the duct, well past a safe level above the pizza oven. We removed the filters for a soak, hand-scraped the filters and extract duct and degreased through to the extract fan, so the canopy passed its grease-depth check with the fan pulling freely again. We left before-and-after photos and a certificate.
Why it pays
Extraction cleaning is a fire-risk job first - but it pays back every Ledbury service.
Clear the canopy and fan of grease and a hard New Street cookline sheds its heat and steam faster, so the kitchen keeps cooler and the fan works less to move the same air. Leave it caked and you carry a fire risk, a failed inspection point and an uncomfortable kitchen at once. How often it is due tracks the cooking - the Market Street takeaways well beyond a daytime cafe - and your certificate names the next date.
Inspect the Ledbury 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 Ledbury 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 New Street or Market Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime cafe.
Yes. The takeaways and grill houses around Market Street and Homend 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.
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 New Street kitchen - we clean the full run to TR19 and certify it together.
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 Market Street takeaway canopies that have run hot for years.
Yes - from New Street, Market Street and the city centre out to the suburbs, and across the wider Herefordshire.
It can. An inspection covers the physical condition of the premises, ventilation included, so a grease-laden canopy or fan over a High Street cookline can count against your score.
Yes. Beyond restaurants, Ledbury has campus catering at John Masefield High School, works catering at the cider works, and town-centre and hotel kitchens - high-volume systems we clean and certify alongside the hospitality work.
Local knowledge
The Feathers Hotel has fronted the High Street since the sixteenth century, a timber-framed coaching inn whose black-and-white facade is one of the most photographed in Herefordshire. A building of that age lived in fear of fire. Grease-laden extraction carries the same risk over a busy range today: a canopy and duct coated in fat is a genuine fire hazard, which is why we strip, degrease and certify extraction from filter to fan to the TR19 Grease standard and leave a clear photographic record behind.
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