Leicester · TR19 Grease
We degrease the canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan for Leicester restaurants, takeaways and pubs - so the system pulls properly, runs cooler and holds a current TR19 certificate.
Leicester
Leicester fries hard - the Golden Mile along Belgrave Road cooks from open to close, and Narborough Road, one of the UK's most diverse high streets, runs takeaway cooklines the length of it.
The settings vary, the grease does not. Across Belgrave Road, Narborough Road and the suburban strips, the takeaways and grill houses run the single hardest test an extraction canopy faces. Leicester rates around 3,275 food premises, most of them frying in a tight footprint.
What the Belgrave Road and Narborough 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 Leicester 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 Belgrave Road 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 Narborough Road service. The work meets the TR19 Grease standard, with before-and-after evidence and a certificate, so the system pulls properly and your Leicester 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 Leicester's residential streets; cleaned or changed so the downstream stages are not overwhelmed.
Fire
A Leicester 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 Belgrave Road 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 Belgrave Road 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 Narborough Road system that a quick canopy wipe misses.
On the ground in Leicester
We are under Leicester's canopies every week. Real jobs, not stock shots.
A shopping-centre food court in Leicester had dense grease built up in the shared extraction ducting from constant high-volume use. We installed access panels, deep-scraped the grease out and sanitised the extraction fan housings, working overnight so the centre's footfall was never affected. The whole food-court system came back fire-safe and compliant.
Why it pays
Extraction cleaning is a fire-risk job first - but it pays back every Leicester service.
A clean canopy and fan clear the heat and steam off a hard Belgrave Road 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 Narborough Road takeaways need it more often than a daytime cafe - and your certificate sets the interval.
Inspect the Leicester 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 Leicester 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 Belgrave Road or Narborough Road 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 Belgrave Road cookline can count against your score.
Every clean finishes with a dated TR19 certificate, before-and-after photographs and a condition report - the evidence a Belgrave Road operator's insurer or fire risk assessor expects to see.
Yes. Beyond restaurants, Leicester has campus catering at two universities, production kitchens at the Royal Infirmary, and stadium and hotel kitchens - high-volume systems we clean and certify alongside the hospitality work.
Yes. Most venues we clean around Belgrave Road and Narborough 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.
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 Belgrave Road kitchen - we clean the full run to TR19 and certify it together.
Yes. The takeaways and grill houses around Narborough Road and London Road 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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